Susan Arendt
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Epic Finds Games for Windows Live "Unappealing"

On the most recent episode of 1UP Yours, Epic’s Mark Rein and Tim Sweeney talked about cross-platforming Games for Windows, and why they’re not huge fans of it. Sweeney summed it up thusly: The key problem with the service right now is that any feature that Microsoft implements and charges for, the developer can’t implement […]

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On the most recent episode of 1UP Yours, Epic's Mark Rein and Tim Sweeney talked about cross-platforming Games for Windows, and why they're not huge fans of it. Sweeney summed it up thusly:

The key problem with the service right now is that any feature that
Microsoft implements and charges for, the developer can’t implement themselves. As a PC developer, we’re used to having complete freedom and defining our feature set—what we can give gamers and what they can do in our game. That’s a big change, quite a huge change, for PC developers to now have features that we simply can’t do.

Kind of hard to argue with that kind of logic, but it's still kind of a drag that PC gamers won't be able to take on their 360 pals when Unreal Tournament 3 comes out.

1UP Yours Podcast 4/6/07 [1UP, via Next-Gen]