Scare story or reality?

#1 I read that last night. Just give it time to be worked out.

I am gonna wait before I upgrade. Or setup a 2nd pc just for Vista game sandbox first.

#2 My initial reaction is that Wildtangent behaves like spyware. I'll believe this when GG or Popcap or some similar start complaining.

#3 Wow it must be nice to get a great big artcle with your company's name plastered all over the place based one's speculations.

What this article says to me though is that Wild Tangent didn't do enough to ensure compatability with Vista. They are a big company, its not only smart but prudent on them to run the Vista alphas and betas to see whats working and what isnt with the products they sell and then see what the fuck it takes to make it compatible. But instead they've sat back and cried to a reporter who was too eager looking for a negative story about Vistas launch about how they did nothing to ensure compatability on their own and now want Microsoft to go forth and fix it.

I agree with Vashner that all this stuff will be sorted out in time, likely when we all actually start to move towards Vista in masses in the coming year or two.

#4 It's not surprising that these complaints are coming from Wildtangent... I bet they're going to lose quite a few users now that windows forces you to be aware of (and explicitly accept) any hidden network connections.
Also, iirc wildtangent had its own games menu, which they used to sell games because people would find it somewhat useful. It's totally useless now with vista's game menu, and that explains quite a few things.

I have been able to play any game I've tried on Vista so far, even indie games.
Absolutely no problems if parental control is not enabled (and i guess it usually isn't). Even if it is, there are ways around it, i.e. you could release your product as an application, rather than a game. It wouldn't be in the games menu, but it's not such a big problem, is it?

#5 Agreed, that was my impression as soon as I saw the name of the company.

#6 Wild tangent uses a Browser embedded version of genesis3D

And its also the basis for reality factory



I'm not really surprised at this.

#7 This is FUD!

When the parental locks are turned on so only ESRB rated games are allowed, these games wont work as they dont have a rating.

Now instead of saying "our games don't run with parent controls turned on and 'ESRB-rated games only' lock turned on" they simply say "9 of 10 games on Vista do not work".
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#8 What's considered a "game" by Vista standards?

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What's considered a "game" by Vista standards?

I believe anything registered with the "Games Explorer" see:
Windows Game Explorer for Game Developers for details on how to do that.
Also see:
Simply Great Gaming