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[jond76]

Y'all are weird. Haha.

 

[PassiveObserver]

Candy Crush Saga—the U2 of gaming

 

[chrisPjelly]

pbbbbbbbbbbbbbbt

 

[Ishida]

Bullcrap.

Give me SkiFree Remastered.

 

[Madds]

Fuck you, MS. Not only are you pre-installing crap without my permission, it's crap that I vehemently DO NOT WANT.

 

[Mael]

Third party software buying itself onto an OS really sets a terrible precedent.

That MSFT isn't really the one setting it up.
Although I wonder if the EU can sue them for that...
Would be a good thing.

 

[Quadraphonic]

I don't want your fucking bloatware

It's interesting to note that typically bloatware is something the developers pay the manufacturer to include, to keep costs down.

In this case, MS paid King to develop Candy Crush Saga for Windows 10 and to include it... it's like reverse-bloat.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

whats the name for the opposite of a killer app?

 

[Kriken]

All I ask is not to have that stupid version of minesweeper that's got achievements and powerups. Truly a perversion.

"Achievement unlocked, you died on your first click"

Spoiler

I shudder at the thought of the achievements

 

[xxracerxx]

Well that is dumb.

 

[FinKL]

No way...

I would say lets petition to get this removed, but I'm sure they paid a pretty penny for this to happen.

 

[tim_pkmn89]

Ugh why'd it have to be this shit instead of a real game like Dota 2 /s

This is definitely not a bad move for them.

 

[Xamtheking]

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

 

[CrunchyFrog]

Did they learn nothing from the iTunes Bon Jovi fiasco? Or was it U2 I can't be dicked to google it

 

[Parapraxis]

http://i.imgur.com/eVNrdel.gifv

 

[MetalDeer]

I sure do love bloatware.. Hopefully you can remove it. If not, well, it's not really THAT big of a deal. I mean, unless it has pop-ups telling you to play it or some garbage.

 

[The Cowboy]

WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS

Because CCS is one hell of a popular game, and despite a lot of us not liking it - a heck of a lot more people do like it. Those of us who don't like it can easily remove it, those that do like it have it installed and ready to play as soon as the OS is installed.

Its a crap game IMO (not something i like at all), but i put this as the same level as having minesweeper installed (even if its 3rd party), as long as it doesn't auto start (which it won't) and it can be uninstalled (of course it will be) and takes up very little room (which it will) then there really is no big issue.

 

[stan423321]

I have nothing against a match-3 being installed with Windows... as long as it has no microtransactions.

Yeah, like there're any chances for that.

 

[ngff02]

I really don't see the point in money hatting Candy Crush. The people that were gonna play it were gonna download it anyways... Unless its Candy Crush + unlimited lives.

It should of been Halo/Gears of War/Age of Empires.

 

[draetenth]

No thanks.

All I ask is not to have that stupid version of minesweeper that's got achievements and powerups. Truly a perversion.

Wait... such a thing exists?

 

[zma1013]

Whatever happened to that pinball game they had? I liked that.

 

[LumpOfCole]

Solitaire 2015

 

[panama chief]

Hey look, a thread on GAF with people shunning something popular!!! As if you ever gave a fuck about any of the preinstalled games. Ignore as you ignore spider or solitaire.

 

[LiK]

oh c'mon

 

[Quadraphonic]

Whatever happened to that pinball game they had? I liked that.

Apparently it didn't make the switch well to 64-bit and lazy programmers
http://www.tekrevue.com/windows-pinball/

 

[Drkirby]

Whatever happened to that pinball game they had? I liked that.

The source code was a mess and there was some sort of bug in newer windows versions they couldn't figure out how to fix. Likely only so many man hours were dedicated to get getting the pinball game working again and they just couldn't do it, since its not going to really sell OSes.

 

[fantomena]

King .com can go fuck off after the "Saga" trademark bullcrap they did.

 

[flaxknuckles]

Hey look, a thread on GAF with people shunning something popular!!! As if you ever gave a fuck about any of the preinstalled games. Ignore as you ignore spider or solitaire.

No one with any soul ignores Solitaire though

 

[orochi91]

Wouldn't Minecraft have been a better choice?

whats the name for the opposite of a killer app?

Filler App.

 

[kamineko]

It's better than Metro UI

 

[Crayons]

Microsoft-senpai, doushite are you putting kusoge on boku no computer?

 

[Leafhopper]

Hey look, a thread on GAF with people shunning something popular!!! As if you ever gave a fuck about any of the preinstalled games. Ignore as you ignore spider or solitaire.

I dislike it because I don't like the game or the company behind it.

 

[fertygo]

I don't want this shit MS

 

[Jazzy Network]

More like Candy Trash Saga. As in its going in the trash. As in its being put in the recycle bin. As in its garbage. As in fuck this shit wtf?

 

[killer rin]

No problem, Right Click Icon, Uninstall. Bam. 100% uninstalled from your system

 

[enzo_gt]

My children won't even know what Solitaire is. Thanks Microsoft.

Spoiler

I have no issue with this.

 

[SPDIF]

Look on the bright side. With this being a universal app instead of an old Win32 app uninstalling it will be a simple couple of clicks away, with no messy registry entries or other random files left behind.

 

[Tenebrous]

Because CCS is one hell of a popular game, and despite a lot of us not liking it - a heck of a lot more people do like it. Those of us who don't like it can easily remove it, those that do like it have it installed and ready to play as soon as the OS is installed.

Its a crap game IMO (not something i like at all), but i put this as the same level as having minesweeper installed (even if its 3rd party), as long as it doesn't auto start (which it won't) and it can be uninstalled (of course it will be) and takes up very little room (which it will) then there really is no big issue.

But if CCS can buy it's way onto Windows 10, what's to stop a service like Amazon doing so? They already made a deal with Canonical for Amazon spyware to be enabled as standard in Ubuntu 12.10 onwards, and Microsoft have already taken a huge step backwards with this CCS announcement...

I don't know. It just looks like a big mistake to me... Maybe not for Microsoft, but for consumers. Now that the door has been opened, I can't see Microsoft rushing to close it anytime soon. New offers will come in, and they'll take it. Windows, in ten years time, might even have ads as standard.

 

["God's Beard!"]

How about using that licence money for upgrading to Helvetica like a grown up and stop using Arial?

 

[Falifax]

What about Gears of War PC, Viva Piñata PC and others available digitally, MS?

 

[Shengar]

Shift+Del
Don't even want to bother to removed it properly

 

[Frillen]

...but I have to download solitaire separately?

Nope, it will be included as well.

 

[RM8]

I'll just uninstall it. Crisis averted.

 

[Tovarisc]

Can't hit uninstall fast enough.

 

[brian!]

luv candy crush

 

[panama chief]

[QUOTE="God's Beard!";164001529]How about using that licence money for upgrading to Helvetica like a grown up and stop using Arial?[/QUOTE]

Hahaha. God tier post.

 

[Yagharek]

Eventually ninite will include options to uninstall scamware like candy crush.

 

[Noaloha]

whats the name for the opposite of a killer app?

App of death.

 

[maquiladora]

No thanks!

 

[Yagharek]

whats the name for the opposite of a killer app?

Knack