No no no no no no
Nope, no, no thanks, nope.
Windows 10 to MELT YOUR BRAIN and TAKE OVER YOUR LIFE
Microsoft has announced that Candy Crush Saga will be bundled with Windows 10. Redmond has revealed a deal with the game's developer, King, to bring the mega-hit to its new operating system. Other King games will also appear on the platform. That's good news for King, which is finding it hard to satisfy investors. It's bad …
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Friday 15th May 2015 08:30 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: No no no no no no
In all seriousness, I did for a while have that experience with 2048. I was finding it like that episode of star trek TNG, when they all get addicted to that game you strap onto your head. Except Wesley. Who's hair was so weirdly rigid at the time, the games kept snapping as he tried to put them on. Or something.
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Friday 15th May 2015 08:03 GMT Khaptain
Not just Eye Candy then
Is this indicative of how Microsoft consider their latest offering.... Nothing very interesting to offer so here have a free game of Candy Pop.....
This is how to take a professional product and reduce it to the rank of pathetic amateur......
An OS should sell on its simplicity of use, invisibility, integration, ergonomics, etc etc but no, here we have an OS selling by including a game for children.....( and bored commuting adults)
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Friday 15th May 2015 12:39 GMT Spanners
Re: Not just Eye Candy then
I have an anecdote.
Some years ago, I was working for a firm in Northamptonshire that makes accounting software.
I was dealing with an engineer from Microsoft and I asked if it was a true rumour. He confirmed it to me that they were specifically to teach point & click with Minesweeper and Drag & Drop with Solitaire.
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Friday 15th May 2015 09:47 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Not just Eye Candy then
No different to solitaire on Win 3.1 and onwards, and how many times have you walked in on the CEO to find it minimised to the task bar! This is just Microsoft tempting those who do not care what an OS is into thinking it is no different to iOS. I’m sure you can locate the uninstall or better still on your custom install don’t include it to begin with.
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Friday 15th May 2015 08:40 GMT RyokuMas
So many possibilities...
... for response posts here, but I guess I'll settle for this one:
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Friday 15th May 2015 10:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: crap to uninstall...
yes, it really, really, REALLY hard to uninstall apps from Windows 8+. You find the icon you normally use to launch it, right click on it, and now the tricky bit....click on "Uninstall".
If using a touch screen, just to make it confusing, you have to press onthe icon and hold for a few seconds, move your finger a short distance and press on uninstall.
I know a little technical for many here, used to going into menu after menu, or running lines of code, but there you go.
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Friday 15th May 2015 10:46 GMT Jimmy2Cows
Missing the point...?
yes, it really, really, REALLY hard to uninstall apps from Windows 8+...
Dude I know how to uninstall stuff. Are you being deliberately obtuse?
I am daring to suggest MS may decide to not permit uninstallation of certain bundled software, especially if payment to MS from (say) King is contingent on their bundled software remaining installed.
It'll turn into the typical bundled bloatware shit on smartphones, put there by manufacturers and network operators that you can't uninstall without rooting the phone. Except rooting won't be an option on Windows. Not if you want to keep Windows.
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Friday 15th May 2015 12:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Missing the point...?
In the Windows 10 betas with each build a little more was uninstallable. Windows Store, OneDrive, apparently being built into the system like Internet Explorer was. You know, things that at the start weren't, and that don't need to be. Last build I ran you could no longer uninstall Skype. It fits exactly their apparent plan for Windows 10 that what they really want you to use they remove the option for you to remove. And if CCS is really addictive and Microsoft will get ongoing income from it frankly I'd expect them to make it hard to uninstall.
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Friday 15th May 2015 10:18 GMT Jimmy2Cows
Re: @beast666
Then you will never know anything my friend.
Open your mind and you will be free!
I have a pretty open mind already mate.
I can happily spend the rest of my life never knowing anything about candy crush and never sending micro (and not so micro) payments to King, thankyouverymuch
Somehow I don't think my life will be poorer for that.
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Friday 15th May 2015 10:41 GMT Reginald Marshall
Re: notoriously addictive?
Play it.
Report back here in xxx months.
Did that for a while. I have two hard rules for free-to-play games:
1. Make it possible to advance by skill and/or moderate amount of luck if you choose not to spend money.
2. Don't be blatantly in-my-face with suggestions for purchasing gems/coins/whatever.
(Along with a meta-rule: I won't spend a farthing on your game.) CCS violated both and got uninstalled.
Go thou and do likewise.
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Friday 15th May 2015 10:52 GMT Jimmy2Cows
Re: notoriously addictive?
1. Make it possible to advance by skill and/or moderate amount of luck if you choose not to spend money.
2. Don't be blatantly in-my-face with suggestions for purchasing gems/coins/whatever.
^^^^ this ^^^^
Precisely why I flat refuse to buy any game that is "free" and then demands micro payments for even incremental progress.
If the game is good, if I want it, and if you want to charge me a reasonable up-front fee, I will buy it.
If you try to tell me it's free when it blatantly isn't, and progress - never mind completion - can only be achieved with lots of in-game purchases, fuck off.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
