Comments on: Wow stops now as Vista disrupts online games

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By: cluecastle

cluecastle — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:00:18 +0000

oh, and i need to add, i abhore vista………

By: cluecastle

cluecastle — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:59:14 +0000

maybe vista calls it spyware because it is either loaded or enables spyware…everytime i try to play one of these games i get extensive pop ups until i pull them out of the system….can’t somebody fix this problem….

By: Rubster

Rubster — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:37:27 +0000

so does anyone had a solution for this?

By: Yert

Yert — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:16:29 +0000

Plus quantity is not quality. I could shit out three hundred games, but they’d probably be mostly pong rip offs, and stick figures fighting. If I made one good game, it would actually be worth playing. And who the #$% cares about Vista. If you care enough about gaming, your gonna wait for an actual game to use Direct X 10, because a Windows upgrade is a NICE way to save up money, as most games don’t spec up for a short period of time after one.

By: security first

security first — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:31:05 +0000

The best AntiSpyware programs identify Wild Tangent as SPYWARE.

By: WinXP User

WinXP User — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:54:49 +0000

Before you did your “professional” reporting, did you notice their article date?

Microsoft Vista Failing 70 Million Online Gamers and Developers

WildTangent offers a 100% Windows Vista-Ready Games Console to Ensure Casual Gamers Have a Positive Gaming Experience

Redmond, WA, January 29, 2009 – As Microsoft’s Windows Vista launches, the new operating system is breaking online games and disrupting gameplay, not only its own games on MSN but also at RealArcade, Yahoo Games, and AOL Games. WildTangent offers the only 100% compatible gaming solutions with the WildTangent Vista Ready Console available for free download at WildTangent.com giving gamers access to over 300 popular gaming titles. Vista’s incompatibility with most downloadable casual games, including those on Microsoft’s own gaming portal demonstrates the enormous challenges facing many small game developers with getting their games to work with the new OS.

Alex St. John, CEO and co-Founder of WildTangent, and one of the principal creators of Microsoft’s DirectX technology believes that Microsoft has gone overboard in making Vista so secure that the security restrictions have broken most online games. “WildTangent has spent the last year preparing for Vista. We worked with nearly every major casual game developer to get their games tested and compatible with Vista in our network in anticipation of these problems,” said Alex St. John.

Gamers can download a free fully compatible Vista-ready games console at http://www.wildtangent.com and continue to play games regardless of which operating system they are running. The WildTangent games console will also ship on 25 million new Vista-ready PCs and laptops from Dell, Toshiba, HP and Gateway in 2007 ensuring that popular online games will be available and work on Vista PCs purchased from these OEMs.

In addition to breaking existing games, the security restrictions of the new operating system will rely heavily on ESRB (Electronic Software Ratings Board) ratings to block children from accessing inappropriate games. St. John believes that this represents an additional hurdle for the smaller games developers since most of these games are family appropriate but lack expensive ESRB ratings. “Parents who choose to use Vista’s parental controls are likely to accidentally block access to hundreds of very popular family friendly games that happen not to have ESRB ratings.” WildTangent’s new Vista-ready console includes a parental control solution that ensures parental control over downloaded content without blocking access to family appropriate content that happens to lack an ESRB rating.

By: Staff reporters

Staff reporters — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:33:34 +0000

WinXP User, I almost didn’t quote the 70 million number for that very reason, but that’s the number given by WildTangent — that’s why I put “up to”… yeah I know it’s a stretch

By: WinXP User

WinXP User — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:49:37 +0000

So Microsoft has sold 70 Million Units specificaly to Gamers in 24 hours since release? LOL! Man this article stinks to high heaven!