Tim Sweeney’s claims about Microsoft’s plans for the Windows Store and Windows 10 generated quite some controversy earlier this year. His accusations ranged from planning to make other games impossible to develop for PC and shutting down Steam. Brad Wardell, who experimented with his own distribution mini-platform in Stardock’s Impulse, disagrees.
We spoke to Brad Wardell about many other topics in our recent interview.
“I have no idea why he would say that,” says Wardell of Sweeney’s latest claim that Windows 10 will become a closed platform. “There’s no way that could happen. There’s not even the tools built in to do it. If Microsoft could even make the store a viable alternative to Steam that would be really impressive, but they would need to have some pretty amazing games, and it would probably be good if there were other alternatives.”