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

[Aleksey Linetskiy]

I don't think that it's correct to assume that all casual gamers are
"non computer-savvy". And in my opinion, the computer-savvy customers are
very important: they produce the majority of buzz, and they can create
powerful negative publicity for the game. Just imagine popular
bloggers and reviewers writing about the game that it requires
"additional 25 meg bloatware from micro$oft".

Not that I'm saying that .NET is bad - I just think that
its time didn't come yet.

-- Aleksey Linetskiy
-- E-mail: aleksey at funostra.com
-- Blog: http://grumpytech.blogspot.com/

Thursday, October 6, 2005, 11:56:19 PM, you wrote:

> On 10/6/05, Jonas Beckeman <list at jobe.nu> wrote:
 >> (Strange DLL's that float around my machine aren't so wonderful either,
>> by the way.)

> You may consider them strange, but I think the casual gamer couldn't care
> less if there's a new folder in their Windows folder (which they often even
> can't see the contents of) that contains .NET dlls.

>  That's also assuming that the .NET dll's would be installed to the
> GAC, which most game dll's wouldn't anyway. One of the great things
> about .net is that there is no com registration needed for dlls to
> work. As long as they are in the same directory as the parent
> executable, .net programs run just fine. Naturally this makes
> deployment and uninstalls much easier and nearly painless for the
> end user. Definitely an improvement from the COM/COM+ days of DLL hell.
>   

>> It's one thing to imagine how easy it will be to download
>> apps and runtime environments, and another to convince spyware-shy 
>> people to do it.

> Also, I don't think most casual gamers think of Microsoft components as
> spyware, they're probably one of few sources they trust.

>  agreed. Even with all the anti-MS sentiment floating around out
> there, most non computer-savvy people will still download anything MS offers them.
>  
>  Chris

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