[casual_games] If Vista is going to be such a problem...

[Matthew Douglass]

Alex,

I'm not sure why your QA department is seeing the behavior you are - but
it's not what we've seen in testing with Vista RTM.  WE get a much more
normal message that the game has been blocked by parental controls.  I've
attached screenshots from that.

Matthew

 

From: casual_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:casual_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Alex St. John
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 10:32 AM
To: casual_games at igda.org
Subject: [casual_games] If Vista is going to be such a problem...

 

During the break I promised to ask my QA guys to give me a report on the
exact behavior of parental controls in the RTM version of Vista.  I have a
couple interesting screenshots that I'm not sure will make it up in my mail
but they show the error dialogs Vista throws when a user clicks a game that
has had parental controls applied to it.  

 

So IF a game is registered with the Vista game explorer and parental
controls are enabled  to apply to that game Vista throws an error dialog
that offers to delete the LINK to the game from the game explorer.
Interestingly Vista throws a different error for games parental controls
apply to that are supplied with Vista by Microsoft.  The only substantial
change in behavior between the beta and RTM was the change that prevented
Microsoft supplied links from being deleted but continued to offer to delete
Non-Microsoft game links.  I think it would be interesting to ask Microsoft
why they presume to have the OS delete our game links when parental controls
apply to them, but not their own.  

 

Both error messages make no mention of parental controls being enabled as
the reason the game link is broken which is certain to be very confusing to
any consumers who encounter these errors.  

 

-Alex

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