Comments on: Gabe Newell: “Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space”

By: abunchofbabyz

abunchofbabyz — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:45:00 +0000

In reply to Ocelotty1. Its like Microsoft are looking for another anti-trust lawsuit.

By: Dan Citriniti

Dan Citriniti — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:51:00 +0000

Windows 8 is “out” essentially if you want to try it. To save you some time, it’s just Windows 7 with a colorful start screen that has iOS-ish store in it(which is very easy to ignore, and you can still click start and type in a program name and launch it just the same, just looks different). I guess Gabe is saying all this crap because he is scared of this store stealing customers from Steam? Really? People who are too dumb to get past this store would not ever even care about Steam in the first place.

By: rhinodog

rhinodog — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:03:00 +0000

I have installed steam on windows 8 and it worked fine. I do not like the windows 8 interface very much and with Microsoft ditching DVD and blu-ray playback. I will not be switching unless A LOT CHANGES.

By: toxicroach

toxicroach — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:39:00 +0000

In reply to Chris Whalley. For real games.

By: tastey freeze

tastey freeze — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:51:00 +0000

the guy is a waste of skin, one he cant give a reason why he dislikes it, if not shut the **** up. its pretty much the same thing just the start menu is different and if people don’t like it they wont get it. they will stick with windows 7 and really alot of mac users like it so it will bring a lot of more users over.

By: Chris Whalley

Chris Whalley — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 20:19:00 +0000

In reply to Ocelotty1. "in reality most people will still use Steam as their game platform of choice"... not trying to be snarky but aren't more people using Facebook as their game platform of choice?

By: HungL

HungL — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:12:00 +0000

Looks like the only thing that was a catastrophe was the pizza bar he left in ruins

By: derp

derp — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:47:00 +0000

GabeN OS, make it happen. We want it, right now!

By: Kevin McCaughey

Kevin McCaughey — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 13:53:00 +0000

In reply to Anon. Have a little think about what you just said... would you really rather have to reach up and over to monitor? It would be great manboob exercise for sure, but very tiring after a while. If you really think about using your monitor like that it doesn't work out, certainly it would not in practice.

By: Ocelotty1

Ocelotty1 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:26:00 +0000

In reply to Really.

It’s not the past that Gabe fears, but the future. At the moment W8 is fully back compatible, but when developers start coding for W8 then programs will start getting locked into that nightmare RT which is designed to bypass the independent developers & vendors, since you can only buy programs directly through the Windows store. If RT takes off (especially since it supports the latest direct X codecs) then he knows that Steam will be on the decline over the next few years, He really has no option but to pursue Linux or Apple.
Naturally this won’t happen overnight and people, such as myself, are incredibly resistant to change, but MSFT are in it for the long haul.

I think he suspects that MSFT are looking to purely Metrofy future iterations of Windows & thus let them have the economic clout of Apple. The little guy will fall by the wayside. Remember Win 8 has been designed to leave Apple in the dust graphically.