Direct UWP Support

[John_Alcatraz]

@Voren

if that hurts third party stores, that’s not a bad thing, I’m tired of installing 10 apps just to download all my other apps every time I setup a new PC.

I think we are on a old slowly sinking ship complaining about the living conditions, when we should be jumping on Microsoft’s new ship that is more foundationally more sound and complain about the living conditions there. If we don’t start using their platform, they are going to stop listening to us because we are no longer their target audience.

I’m trying to look at the bigger picture and I think this is the best thing for windows as a platform. Valve can go back to making games :eek: or make a better desktop platform. Imo that would be a win either way.

Obviously you won’t find many people here that share that opinion, and Epic definitely doesn’t. And I’m happy about that.

When looking at the “bigger picture” its easy: Windows will become irrelevant for private people (not for companies!) because people will move to Linux. UWP is not part of the bigger picture. Theres no good reason why people should continue to use closed source software like Windows in the long term.

For a long time Windows had to be the only relevant desktop platform for gaming due to DirectX, but now with Vulkan becoming more mature that reason will soon no longer exist. I am currently using Windows, but I very much hope I won’t have to use it any more in 10 years.