{"id":45122,"date":"2012-09-27T16:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45122"},"modified":"2012-09-27T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:15:29","slug":"minecraft-dev-refuses-to-certify-game-for-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/45122-minecraft-dev-refuses-to-certify-game-for-windows-8","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft dev refuses to certify game for Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in case anybody had forgotten how much he hates Windows 8, Minecraft creator Markus &#8220;Notch&#8221; Persson has refused to certify the game for Microsoft&#8217;s new OS, and then rushed to Twitter to tell everybody about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Got an email from Microsoft, wanting to help &#8216;certify&#8217; Minecraft for Win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the PC as an open platform,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notch\/statuses\/251239807257296897\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>, later <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/notch\/statuses\/251240819892305922\" target=\"_blank\">adding<\/a> that, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather have Minecraft not run on Win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to Win 8 that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notch isn&#8217;t the only developer who&#8217;s not planning to upgrade to Windows 8. John Carmack has said that he&#8217;d be &#8220;<a title=\"John Carmack would be \u201ccompletely happy if Windows 8 didn\u2019t exist\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42548-john-carmack-would-be-completely-happy-if-windows-8-didnt-exist.html\">completely happy if Windows 8 didn&#8217;t exist<\/a>&#8221; and Gabe Newell has called the OS a &#8220;<a title=\"Windows 8 is a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d, says Gabe Newell\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41927-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-says-gabe-newell.html\">catastrophe<\/a>&#8220;, amid concerns that the system is closed with Microsoft having complete control of everything. But how else does anybody expect SkyNet to happen?<\/p>\n<p>Windows 8 launches next month, 26 October, and six months later, nobody will even remember all the controversy about it. Because we&#8217;ll all be dead or enslaved in Terminator gulags.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vg247.com\/2012\/09\/27\/notch-refuses-to-certify-minecraft-for-windows-8-would-rather-it-not-run-on-w8-at-all\/\" target=\"_blank\">VG247<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44050-xbox-live-windows-8-gaming-titles-announced.html\">Xbox LIVE Windows 8 gaming titles announced<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42548-john-carmack-would-be-completely-happy-if-windows-8-didnt-exist.html\">John Carmack would be \u201ccompletely happy if Windows 8 didn\u2019t exist\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42390-windows-8-hits-the-torrents.html\">Windows 8 hits the torrents<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42162-windows-8-launch-date-in-sa.html\">Windows 8 launch date in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/42047-blizzards-rob-pardo-adds-to-concern-over-windows-8.html\">Blizzard\u2019s Rob Pardo adds to concern over Windows 8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/41927-windows-8-is-a-catastrophe-says-gabe-newell.html\">Windows 8 is a \u201ccatastrophe\u201d, says Gabe Newell<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/41465-windows-8-and-gamers.html\">Windows 8 and gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d rather have Minecraft not run on Win 8 at all than to play along,&#8221; says Notch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":45128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1769,333,727,5088],"class_list":["post-45122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-controversy","tag-minecraft","tag-notch","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}