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Notch refuses to help certify Minecraft for Windows 8
by Steve Watts, Sep 27, 2012 9:30am PDTWindows 8 has already received a fair bit of criticism for its new Windows Store app marketplace, which some developers have interpreted as a move to make Windows PCs a more closed platform. Popular indie developer Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, has now lodged his own complaint -- by refusing to help put Minecraft on the OS.
"Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help 'certify' minecraft for win 8," Persson tweeted. "I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform." He followed up saying he'd "rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along," and hoping that it will keep some users from switching to Windows 8.
Persson's refusal to help doesn't necessarily mean Minecraft will be unavailable on Windows 8 machines, mind you. It could run just fine, but it will do it without its creator's involvement.
This isn't the first time Windows 8 has faced high-profile criticism. John Carmack remarked that it's unexciting. Valve boss Gabe Newell took a harsher turn, calling it a 'catastrophe.' On the bright side, you can get achievements in Minesweeper, and that's something, right?
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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says he refused to help Microsoft certify Minecraft for Windows 8, saying he'd rather not have it run on the new OS at all.
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says he refused to help Microsoft certify Minecraft for Windows 8, saying he'd rather not have it run on the new OS at all. : Shacknews
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The Start Menu isn't "gone", it just looks radically different.
Let's set aside pointless nomenclature for a moment. The thing that appears when you click in the bottom right of your OS still lets you launch all of your applications, still lets you search by typing for the program you want, and still lets you access shit like your control panel. It does all of the same things.
Now, you might find it to be a shitty interface and that's mostly subjective of course and we could debate that until the cows come home. But my point is it's not any more "closed" than the thing that appeared when you execute the same action in Windows 7.
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