{"id":1438,"date":"2012-07-31T19:40:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2012-07-31T19:40:57","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T19:40:57","slug":"garden-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/07\/garden-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Gabe Newell interview is making the rounds these days. Because he said:<\/p>\n

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We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It\u2019s a hedging strategy. I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we\u2019ll lose some of the top-tier PC\/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that\u2019s true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So right, it\u2019s FUD time because Gabe has a lot to lose with the Windows 8 store (also, Xbox Live integration). No one is pointing this out? In the interview he also says that touchscreen is a short term fad<\/strong>. I wish people would debate around this -it\u2019s a big statement and very interesting- but no, people are focusing on Windows 8 being a catastrophe for Valve and everyone else.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you think it\u2019s not that surprising to have digital distribution\u2019s leader talking trash about upcoming competition? Don\u2019t you think that Gabe could have started and invest Linux way<\/em> before store competition forces him to do so? Don\u2019t you think that knowing that Gabe is an ex-Microsoft employee who built his empire on top of Windows, you can take these declarations with a grain of salt?<\/p>\n

Why am I in an industry that wishes new distribution channels to fail? Why wouldn\u2019t you be interested in a new platform, touch more users, when making games is so hard and unpredictable as for the outcome\u2019s success? I don\u2019t get it. More options, what\u2019s so bad about it? Unless they really screw us<\/a>, there\u2019s no need to wish them the worst when they are not even available yet. It just doesn\u2019t seem professional at all.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the news: there is no perfect platform and there will be no perfect one. The only way for platforms to get better for developers is them competing to get us<\/strong>. We, developers need to push them to compete (by doing this<\/a> p 58\/66), this is how we can get leverage. Ouya is on its way to allow us to change the console area and that\u2019s good. I don\u2019t wish them to fail even if I see many obstacles on their road as well if not more than Microsoft\u2019s Windows 8. They\u2019re both shaking competition. That\u2019s good for us. Apple disrupted our world, punched Nintendo\/Sony\u2019s handheld businesses. Now they\u2019re sitting on their ass. Google didn\u2019t change the market as deeply neither Amazon but whatever, let\u2019s encourage players to play shall we? It\u2019s Microsoft\u2019s turn, no need to be a dick we need this competition. For example, it\u2019s great that they included a trial mode in their marketplace for apps and games, a thing still missing in GooglApple ecosystems. That\u2019s good for us. Let\u2019s take advantage of this dynamic.<\/p>\n

Platforms are gardens and we create seeds. No seeds, no garden. No garden, no people. Then, how creating seeds in an overcrowded walled garden where they will slowly die is better than creating seeds in a new, relatively more open environment where they can grow? And when your seed (game, IP) is strong enough port it in a crowded garden (I never thought Minecraft would come on Xbox AND be a massive hit on it).<\/p>\n

At the end, you never know which one will succeed. So keep an eye on all of them and be honest about what they are\/can do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Gabe Newell interview is making the rounds these days. Because he said: We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It\u2019s a hedging strategy. I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we\u2019ll lose […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1439,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}