Gamasutra: Vista Casts a Pall on PC Gaming
Posted by Derek Yu Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:18:00 GMT
This Gamasutra article is claiming that increased “security” and parental controls in Windows Vista could spell doom for downloadable games by throwing obstacles in front of potential gamers.
Is this going to be a real problem, or is this just a case of way-to-early doomsaying?
What I really want to know is if that cute little paperclip from Microsoft Word is going to return. I think he should be in all the apps. He’s so helpful. Someday, I’d like him to be the godmother to my children.
(Thanks, Kornel!)
Add that to this popular Vista analysis by Peter Gutmann and you’ll start to see the number of “real problems” mounting as the Vista launch nears.
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt
I’ve tested various builds of Vista from the early betas all the way up to the RTM. This is just doomsday hype that isn’t a real problem.
WildTangent is as bad as ad/spyware. The security features are an improvement in the OS, in my opinion. Username/Password required for installing software is EXCELLENT in my opinion. Linux does this through package managers, and so does OS X. Microsoft is just following suit and I congratulate them.
I’ve played commercial games on Vista too, it’s not a problem. No one has anything to worry about. (In my opinion). The only downside is all the drivers, such as for graphics cards, are early, so the performance difference between Vista and XP is slightly noticeable.
Zing!
WildTangent as bad as spyware? As far as I know, it is spyware. It’s very malicious. I had a bitch of a time removing it from a family computer. All for a crappy game of Polar Bowler.
The article seems exadurated, but brings up some valid points. I’m all against this kind of rabbid security.
GAH! so he was responsible for DirectX 1! Now I know who to shoot ;-)
As far as i know, you can also forgot all your “starforce” or “securom” protected games, which that many commercial games won’t run on Vista (due to their “rootkit-like” protections…). When you are also aware of many directX 9 game which tend to be slower on Vista, i’m not really sure that this OS is yet “ready for gaming” ;).
About “User Account Proctection”, i bet many people will find it to intrusive, and will disable it…
I think the “ESRB only” rating system, will be a greater problem, because indie games will became “not-rated”, and thus not be avaible to many people with parent protection enabled….