Notch Won't Certify Minecraft for Windows 8
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson refused to "certify" the popular PC game for Windows 8.
While Microsoft is corralling college students to help fill its new Windows Store app marketplace, numerous developers are sticking to their guns and refusing change. Microsoft sees Windows 8 as the launch of a new era, but many developers, consumers and critics like things just the way they are.
Even more, there's an industry-wide fear that Microsoft may lean more towards a closed platform thanks to the desktop marketplace, that it will be managed like Xbox Live. Valve Software, id Software and Blizzard have openly revealed their distaste for the blocky OS and its built-in storefront, and now Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has dished out his own two cents, speaking directly to the Redmond company.
"Got an email from Microsoft, wanting to help 'certify' Minecraft for Win 8," Persson tweeted. "I told them to stop trying to ruin the PC as an open platform." Ouch. He goes on to admit on Twitter that he'd "rather have Minecraft not run on Win 8 at all than to play along."
"Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way.. " he added.
As pointed out by Shacknews, this doesn't mean Minecraft won't be available for Windows 8. It only means that Notch won't have anything to do with it heading over to the new OS. Remember that Dundee, Scotland-based 4J Studios handled the Xbox Live Arcade version that was released on the console's closed network back in May.
Valve Software's Gabe Newell has been one of the more vocal game developers in the industry in regards to Windows 8. He recently called it a "catastrophe for everybody in the PC space," that it will offer features like the built-in store and Xbox Live integration. This storefront is viewed as a threat to Valve given that it offers Windows-based games on Steam.

I'm truly glad that Persson did that.
The way I see it (and use it) is that the Store is just a place to go to get programs that offer a more fluid touch experience. It's just Windows 7 with a great touch experience. People need to calm down.
It's all about their new windows app market place.
Microsoft's policies and charges for certifying became expensive on the store. Thus affecting indie developers. It's fear for business. cutting off the middlemen. Steam move to linux was a smart move but games being build on OpenGL isn't really that productive when compare to DirectX and windows isn't porting that to linux any time soon.
Razer, Nvidia, AMD or who isn't in the distribution service isn't complaining. (yet) But i hope Microsoft works something out.
Plus, even M$'s own people and inhouse testers are complaining about Windows 8 Server (the few I know, this is what they test. They hate it absolutely.)... They are not listening to even their own personnel. The stupidity is almost mind boggling.
Kudos to developers putting a foot down!
I was not talking about metro (or whatever). "windows app marketplace" is called the Store. I realize this is a closed system but it is strictly for metro style apps. Applications made for touch screen devices that have no real advantage or sometimes no use at all on a pc. The Store has no effect on the desktop OS itself.
sorry about that, i was implying to the 1st comment at the time.
I'm truly glad that Persson did that.
As much as I thought that it was the superior product, the Zune against the iPod would imply otherwise.
Windows 7 will be supported for almost another decade. Windows 8 can do everything that Windows 7 can do as far as gaming is concerned and will be supported for a few years longer than Windows 7. That's hopefully enough time to convince MS not to be a dick about this.
As has already been stated, Windows Store is for METRO apps only. If you install Windows 8 on a non-tablet machine, you might as well just remove the Store from the metro screen. You don't need it and you would be silly to use it because you'll be installing all of your software the exact same way you did in Windows 7.
If he doesn't want to sell his software to RT/tablet users, that's his business I guess. It's also his loss, since tablet gaming is becoming huge and Microsoft is about to become the defacto king of tablet gaming over the next year due to ease of porting and DirectX.
You guys might as well get over it now, because it's going to happen and you're all going to feel pretty foolish as you're installing Windows 8.
I beg to differ. When Micro$oft sees that they only had a couple million sales for Windows 8 and out of nowhere Steam's Hardware & Software Surveys show that the percentage of people running a Linux client exploded past 50% and Windows 8 is a measly 5% then we'll see a better OS the next time around.
It's already too late for me, already dual booting with Ubuntu and Windows 7, when Steam is successfully ported and supported with a good amount of games on Linux I'll no longer have to install Windows ever again, in the future this will save me around $100 with a free OPEN SOURCE OS.