Do not put this game on steam!

[Konstantin Fomenko]

might wanna approach impulse too as thats a little like steam!

Already done http://impulsedriven.com/dof

And while I agree with above posts about Steam - their community is growing every day - and lets face it - they are the biggest online retailer of PC games. Although I heard rumors Windows 8 might screw up their business model. But either way - few more days till Greenlight goes live, can`t wait to get DoF up there!

[Novakiller]

How so? whats wrong with windows 8 that it affects how Steam works?

I'll be sticking to windows 7 anyway, no need to upgrade, or change, Windows 8 just seems like an upgraded version of whats on the windows smart phones, it also seems like its more built to be around touchscreen monitors rather then your traditional screens in the way that it works, the tiles system ect.... naaaa not for me...

[buddhist23]

if Gabe hates it, you might as well hate it too.

[Konstantin Fomenko]

How so? whats wrong with windows 8 that it affects how Steam works?

You can Google Windows 8 + Steam and you`ll find some articles and interviews with Steam executives. But in a nutshell - Windows 8 comes with it`s own Game Store, and the main screen will actually show the shortcut for this game store - so Microsoft is directly taking on Steam with this move, and from what I heard so far they`ll have quite an impressive line up.

[Gruber12]

as long as EA doesnt come near you, everything should be alright

[buddhist23]

GFWL turns off everyone already.

[Novakiller]

Originally Posted by Konstantin Fomenko

You can Google Windows 8 + Steam and you`ll find some articles and interviews with Steam executives. But in a nutshell - Windows 8 comes with it`s own Game Store, and the main screen will actually show the shortcut for this game store - so Microsoft is directly taking on Steam with this move, and from what I heard so far they`ll have quite an impressive line up.

I had not heard of that, I shall look into this further, but for me Windows 8 is just an upgrade of their Windows smart phone OS, cant stand the tiles stuff, looks ugly and a bit rectro for me... To make windows look like windows you gotta do bit a of tweaking, just to even find windows explorer, terrible lol... I'll stay with win7 untill im forced to change because of DX12 only being on windows 8 or something bs like that

They'll never be able to compete with steam because steam has such an established user-base now, thats like thinking you can take on WoW, which is impossible because it has millions of an established user base you just cant heh... Microsoft is way to restrictive on anything, even more so then that god awful EA origin..

[buddhist23]

They'll make windows 9 to make up for the failure of 8 just like they did with windows 7 for vista.

[Sunleader]

That depends on Viewpoint
for me Windows Vista is by far the Superior System

Problem on Windows 7 is that it is TOO EASY
the System Decides anything for you and altering that decision is allways complicatet and annoying

Vista is much more Free and allows the User to Decide for himself
but that also means that you got trouble using it when your not familiar with Computers



Good example is the usage of your Network Systems
in Windows 7 nearly everything is set automaticly which is a fine thing for someone who doesnt know how to properly
but getting Win7 running for Lan and other stuff which is not in the basic protocolls is a real pain in the ass

Vista is much easyr to handle here because it is expecting you to configure stuff yourself and thus making it easy for you to adjust things the way you want and get it working
of course only if you actually know what your doing and what parameters you need to set here




So honestly said
Win7 in my eyes is something to apologize for
it removed lot of freedom from the System
Vista is not as well programmed but its allowing for much more Freedom


Greetz

[buddhist23]

or you could just use Linux if you're looking for freedom