[casual_games] Slow death for the current generation ofcasualgames? (Bugs, Parental Controls & Game Explorer)

[Joe Pantuso]

Vista has a 'games' menu that is different from the typical program menu.
The preferred (by MS) behavior for games is to install your program
shortcuts there only and not install like a regular app.  The problem being
that they expect you to have shelled out (many) thousands of dollars for
ESRB rating and digital signing of your game.

Looks like this; http://cache.kotaku.com/gaming/Games.jpg


On 12/19/06, Christopher Natsuume <natsuume at boomzap.com> wrote:

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> I just wonder about the whole world of shareware aps - and how they will

> respond to this. Not just casual games, but little programs like the thing

> that adds international clocks to my toolbar, or the little freeware ap I

> use to bulk-transform WAV files to MP3s - I mean, my computer doesn't know

> a

> game from a spreadsheet plugin - they are all .exe files as far as my

> computer knows, no?

>

> It can't be that setting that one setting will void all of that freeware -

> it would generate a mountain of "bugs" for MSFT to deal with as a million

> programs suddenly don't work... This just can't be right.

>

> What am I missing?

> Cn

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