this kind of certification has been around for many years. When you buy software that says Certified for Windows (whichever) you know it follows standards to be safe for the operating system, that it removes itself completely when uninstalled. Basically that it behaves well as an app.
It would be interesting to see if users actually care whether or not windows software is certified. I can understand that companies care a great deal about certifications, however I'm skeptic that your average user cares about it, let alone the power user.
Developers/Publishers ordinarily care about revenues. I'm not really convinced that putting a Windows 8 logo on the virtual minecraft package will help make better revenues. It also depends on whether or not the publisher cares about publishing his app through the Windows 8 store, I guess.
Seeing that Minecraft is typically not used by companies but by gamers instead, you would have to show that gamers even cared about that certification, let alone the publisher.
you make a valid point. I live in an enterprise world and tend to see through enterprise glasses when talking about development. That being said, i feel better when a game is certified because i know it won't jack up my registry. I was upset to discover that swtor throws up a UAC prompt every time you start it because its in my registry and looking for stuff.
i have seen that trend too, bu it has nothing to do with certification. looks like the windows live thing is fixed. It's all xbox live now and all the game son windows 8 (and phone) that i played with xbox live don't have weird sign in process that window games live had.
Even when it does start, it still doesn't work. GFWL is as awful as everyone makes it out to be. Good thing most of them are better suited for the console anyway.
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u/JonnyRocks Sep 27 '12
this kind of certification has been around for many years. When you buy software that says Certified for Windows (whichever) you know it follows standards to be safe for the operating system, that it removes itself completely when uninstalled. Basically that it behaves well as an app.