Angry Birds Space won't land on Windows Phone, Redmond gets no stars - Engadget
Now I couldn't care less about the actual game. I think it is a remarkably stupid game and label people who play it stupid unless they prove otherwise.
What I find interesting in this news is the reason the drug addicts (their boss said they were the ones driving innovation in gaming at GDC and this statement can only be result of drug use) that run the company gave. They said that they would have to rewrite the game completely. First of all their game is pretty simple to rewrite (considerring the number of sales it gets). Second if the versions for Android and iOS are not different they should be written in C++ and we know that MS will allow native code Angry Birds on the platform simply because it is so popular.
My theory is that this is extortion. I believe MS paid them to port the original Angry Birds and they are going in public declaring that it is a lot of work to port their abomination to WP in order to make MS pay them again to port Angry Birds Space. I hope MS do not bend.
What do you think about this?
Now I couldn't care less about the actual game. I think it is a remarkably stupid game and label people who play it stupid unless they prove otherwise.
What I find interesting in this news is the reason the drug addicts (their boss said they were the ones driving innovation in gaming at GDC and this statement can only be result of drug use) that run the company gave. They said that they would have to rewrite the game completely. First of all their game is pretty simple to rewrite (considerring the number of sales it gets). Second if the versions for Android and iOS are not different they should be written in C++ and we know that MS will allow native code Angry Birds on the platform simply because it is so popular.
My theory is that this is extortion. I believe MS paid them to port the original Angry Birds and they are going in public declaring that it is a lot of work to port their abomination to WP in order to make MS pay them again to port Angry Birds Space. I hope MS do not bend.
What do you think about this?