Stardock’s Brad Wardell: "If GFW takes over, I'm done"

Stardock’s Brad Wardell has lashed out at Games For Windows Live, and says that if the service decides to "screw things up", he refuses to make more PC games.

Speaking with Shacknews, Wardell discussed how he started off as a "big Games for Windows Live advocate,” and wishes that "Microsoft would do a lot more in making the PC better as a gaming platform."

“I intended for Elemental to be on Games for Windows Live, but then as we got closer, the Xbox group took it over more and more," said Wardell. "And they have things where, oh, if you want to use Games for Windows Live to update your game, you have to go through [their] certification. And if you do it more than X number of times, you have to pay money. It's like, ‘My friends, you can't do that on the PC.’

“On the console, I don't have to update my game because an anti-virus program got an update and is now identifying my VB scripts as viruses and I have to apply an emergency patch. That would just add insult to injury. We've had to upgrade our games plenty of times over the years, not because we found some bug, but because some third-party program, or driver, or whatever screwed it up.

"If Games for Windows Live maintains that strategy and they take over, I'm done. I'm not making PC games. I would be done.”

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Thanks, Maximum PC.