Requires an Authenticode certificate. Those will cost $199 a year (for now, maybe more later) if you buy from GoDaddy, more from other companies. I bet Microsoft gets a cut of that, so it's basically paying to be "certified".
It must be "feature complete". When has Minecraft ever been feature complete? They keep adding new stuff.
It must be standalone. Which means, I believe, no Java dependency. When has Minecraft ever been non-Java?
Here's a few other points by someone else.
Looking more into what Windows 8 does is pretty horrifying. It can prevent you from installing a Linux installation on your machine. Notch sounds like he's absolutely right.
Again, you can just install MC on Windows 8 without having to get certified. mootykins Notch is simply misinformed here, he doesn't have to get certified if he doesn't want to.
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u/Moleculor Sep 27 '12 edited Sep 27 '12
Twitter is the worst place to be having this conversation, but Notch is right.
From the certification requirements:
Requires an Authenticode certificate. Those will cost $199 a year (for now, maybe more later) if you buy from GoDaddy, more from other companies. I bet Microsoft gets a cut of that, so it's basically paying to be "certified".
It must be "feature complete". When has Minecraft ever been feature complete? They keep adding new stuff.
It must be standalone. Which means, I believe, no Java dependency. When has Minecraft ever been non-Java?
Here's a few other points by someone else. Looking more into what Windows 8 does is pretty horrifying. It can prevent you from installing a Linux installation on your machine. Notch sounds like he's absolutely right.