Not "defending anything Microsoft does", in fact if you search my name and "Microsoft" on these forums you'll find a lot of rather acerbic posts regarding decisions they have made in the past (Esp. at W10 launch), I *still* don't have an Xbox One, in fact if you go back to my Xbox One pre and post-launch posts you'd have me down as an anti-MS, PS4-loving zealot
However whilst being acidic and anti-MS, I suffered a small amount of cognitive dissonance when confronted with some of the moves they seemed to be making, those moves were in contradiction to my beliefs of what I thought they would do.
So I did my research, stopped ranting without knowing what I was talking about and started watching and listening to what they are doing and saying with a filter of "maybe I don't fucking know everything because of my own bias" instead.
You know what I found, and what has changed and is changing?
Microsoft, and, as a hobbiest dev, my respect for a lot of the moves they are making towards openness (Just look at the .Net Core initiative, go look at Microsofts github presense, look at how they handled the Xamarin acquisition), MS are embracing the OSS mindset,not to embrace, extend and extinguish as they had in the past, but actually just embracing it, period. Even if die-hard haters don't recognise it yet.
Developing UWP applications is fun for me, I like the model's potential, even if I'm not 100% happy where it is now, but the changes they have make speak to an inertia that goes against the MS-must-control-all bias I viewed everything through.
Unlike others I'm willing to give credit where it is due and re-examine my own biases.
It's refreshing.
Lol, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
My computing environment is malware-free without being feature- and modding-free. Personal responsibility.
I still can't comprehend how that's a good trade-off. For no malware a user just has to take notice where they're downloading stuff. Taking away the ability of a user to modify a software that's on their machine because someone somewhere may have done something malicious to it just doesn't make sense to me. Just take a look at Durante's tags, all there games (and more) that would be a worse experience for everyone because some company decided their users can't be trusted.It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make, it's one you are not and that is fine.
It's not company fanboyism either, I don't even own an Xbox, and you can't count the number of MS game titles I own on on even one hand, too many fingers.
(Go find a single post from me about an MS published game on this forum, or even MS platform, lets hear how much enthusiasm I have expressed here for their games shall we?, before throwing out the fanboy line...)
But a malware-free environment and future?, now that is something I personally would applaud.
Well, the 30 minutes last year that Steam was down due to a DDOS attack sure makes up for the 500 hours I used and enjoyed the Steam controller and PC game mods.
Actually, we just got confirmation from a UWP fan that it, by design (not by some "missing feature" or "wait for build"), prevents features used and enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of PC gamers.
UWP.
That made some pretty disturbing imagery to appear in my head.
On the contrary, it's more about the "Give MS another chance, Steam was the same, nobody uses mods anyway" arguments, with no regards to the reasons why many people dislike the very concept of UWAs.
Even if we assume that they want to fully lock users to a sand box, they will always have a simple setting that you can activate that let's you run whatever you want in your pc.
How exactly they are pushing towards locking everything down?
It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make, it's one you are not and that is fine.
It's not company fanboyism either, I don't even own an Xbox, and you can't count the number of MS game titles I own on on even one hand, too many fingers.
(Go find a single post from me about an MS published game on this forum, or even MS platform, lets hear how much enthusiasm I have expressed here for their games shall we?, before throwing out the fanboy line...)
But a malware-free environment and future?, now that is something I personally would applaud.
.It's a tradeoff I'm willing to make, it's one you are not and that is fine.
It's not company fanboyism either, I don't even own an Xbox, and you can't count the number of MS game titles I own on on even one hand, too many fingers.
(Go find a single post from me about an MS published game on this forum, or even MS platform, lets hear how much enthusiasm I have expressed here for their games shall we?, before throwing out the fanboy line...)
But a malware-free environment and future?, now that is something I personally would applaud.
It's a bad way. Very bad. How can anyone like this restriction to UWP?
A lot of outrage over nothing in the end.
So I was incorrect in my last post. Game Mode does give the game top priority. In the latest Insider Preview it shows it in the settings. Glad we have actual confirmation of what it is.
(I have no problem being wrong, I go by what the articles give...I like more concrete info)
