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Not too long ago, Valve owner Gabe Newell caused a stir when he said Windows 8 is a “catastrophe”. That’s because Newell Believes with Windows 8 Microsoft is employing a new Apple-like strategy that would see all its devices communicating seamlessly, but in the process closing the Windows platform and forcing developers to pay tens of thousands of dollars in certification fees. It would also demand, just like Xbox Live games, that Microsoft screen all game updates, and that’s gotten not only Gabe Newell, but many players in the development community a bit perturbed.
“We would say to Microsoft, we understand all these frustrations about the challenges to your business, but trying to copy Apple will accelerate, not slow, Microsoft’s decline,” Newell told the New York Times. He was also paraphrased as saying the closed approach had been pretty successful for Apple.
Rob Pardo, the executive vice president of game design at Blizzard, recently echoed Gabe’s sentiments.
