'Notch' is planted and will not bring Minecraft to the Windows Store
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To Markus &39;Notch&39; Persson, the main person responsible for the fact that thousands of people have spent hours and hours chopping and stacking blocks in front of a screen, doesn&39;t like Windows 8, doesn&39;t like it at all. Last August he already assured that the new from Microsoft would be very bad for independent developers, thus joining the group of voices from the world of video games that have shown their opposition to the new system. He now he has returned to show his discontent "
From his personal twitter, source of quarrels everywhere, &39;Notch&39; has declined an invitation from Microsoft to certify Minecraft in a way that it might be available in the Windows Store, replying that it won&39;t until they stop ruining the PC as an open platform.He has also promised that there will be no version of his game specifically designed for Windows 8 and that he hopes that in this way he will be able to convince some users not to switch to the new system."
And this is where you get lost. Let's see, Didn't Minecraft have to go through a similar certification process to be on Xbox Live Arcade? And it can be said that it hasn't fared badly, selling more than 3 million copies. What's more, the same developer went so far as to say that he had loved working with Microsoft, although it is true that he described Microsoft as a ">
Is the problem the Windows Store or is it all of Windows 8?
'Notch' may not like Windows 8, may not like the path Microsoft seems to be taking now and all the change it intends to bring to our desktops. Furthermore, you may have some legitimate concern that the operating system may become more closed and controlled.That's how it seems when you think the Redmonds are ruining personal computers as an open platform. But he seems to forget that on our x86 computers we will continue to have the freedom to download and install whatever we want the old-fashioned way, from our browsers, without necessarily having to go through the Windows Store. Nothing will have changed in this.
The statements are even more surprising when similar words are not remembered for Apple and the Pocket edition of Minecraft has been available on iOS for some time iPhone and iPad. 'Notch' does not seem to have had problems with the conditions of the apple company to place its game in the App Store. It is true that it is the Pocket version and the full game is not available in the Mac App Store, but I have no evidence of a similar reaction towards those of Cupertino and that their systems can be considered more closed than those of Microsoft.If you're worried that the personal computer remains an open platform, there's something that doesn't add up to me.
Meanwhile, someone has bothered to try to certify Minecraft as a Desktop App, a category that will include classic desktop programs, to prove that the game can be present in the Windows Store even without meeting Modern UI or other harsher conditions. Rafael Rivera assures that he has managed to do it with small modifications, mainly security, which have not taken him more than four hours of work. It doesn't seem like an insurmountable thing for Mojang, the 'Notch' studio, so if this isn't the problem either, what am I missing?
