[casual_games] languages... (that's an 's' at the end!)

[Hal Barwood]

dot-NET?  What person, sitting alone at home, has the slightest reason 
to install this Windows component?  Corporate environments are 
different, but requiring customers to install this obscure, forbidding 
piece of software is a huge barrier when it doesn't provide any obvious 
benefits (unlike, say, DirectX).  For downloads, what I want is a small 
standalone package that just works no matter what.  That's what casual 
gaming is all about -- everything must be easy and reliable.  --Hal

Lionel barret De Nazaris wrote:
> Jonas Beckeman wrote:
> 
>> Seems I'm the only one who's gonna stand up for .NET here, so I'd 
>> better do
>> it tall...
>>
>> Before I get off on how great it is, let me state some problems that 
>> may be
>> enough to make you look in other directions:
>> * .NET games need the .NET framework. The 2.0 beta is 25 MB.
>> * You'll probably want to use Managed DirectX. The distribution model is
>> still very unclear to me, I don't know myself how large the add-on is, or
>> even how to obtain it without downloading the DirectX SDK
> 
> A friend told me that the .Net Framework is included in the XP Service 
> Pack 2, if so, the problem of the huge download could be avoided.
> Does anybody could confirm this ? And do we have numbers about the % of 
> penetration of XP Service Pack 2 on the machine of the potential players 
> ? Well, a percentage of machine with XP Service Pack 2 on the global 
> number of windows anyway.
> 
> Lionel
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