Outside Steam and Facebook (which are themselves "closed platforms" technically), PC gaming isn't exactly bustling if you're not Blizzard.  

Also, EA didn't say this.  Trip Hawkins did, and he hasn't worked for EA since 1991 iirc.  He left to found 3DO.

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lol at trip complaining about the appstore.. in 1 year his company digital chocalte released about 70 games on it... 90% all the same.. and with pricey in app purchases...

I like EA,but Trip Hawkins needs to shut the hell up. 

Left to found a company that made a lot of bad business decisions you say?  Interesting how this man has never made a true name for himself unlike your Miyamotos, Kojimas, or infamously like Bobby Koticks, no he's just some guy who used to be relevant 20 years ago

Basically he's whining he used to work during the "wild west" days as the article put it, he liked spewing crap then (on a console) and now he's mad that he can't do it anymore so he's spewing crap from his mouth hoping someone will listen, and of course news sites will

The easiest way out is to always blame someone else.

I bet all the complaining was done by struggling or companies losing money - similar to EA who lost another 322m last quarter.

If they were more important people complaining then their remarks would have made this news, not Trips.

If Trips current company was raking it in hand over fist I doubt he would have cared.

Massively successful companies like Apple or Nintendo ain't gonna change because some nobodies  made some comments.

Nintendo has always been cutthroat in the way they license games.  Apple has also had a lot of restrictions with their devolpers since the first Apple computer was intoduced.  I am really not suprised that people are still complaining about it. 

Envious people will alway be envious.

the Apple part is right, though.

Which part? The part where they complained that Apple should raise more barriers to the App Store or the part where they complained that Apple should reduce barriers to the App Store? You didn't even notice that they want it both ways...

Developers want everything handed to them on a silver platter. They want unrestricted access to all hardware with no license agreement or fees, free dev tools and support, and they'd appreciate it if you would arbitrarily block out competing developers while you're at it. Oh, and please quadruple your hardware resources while you subsidize the price, we'd rather not have to go through the trouble of optimizing code. Also, the customers need to please keep handing over money on a monthly basis without worrying too much about whether they actually enjoy the product we make.

I'm sick of the crybabies. Nintendo and Apple aren't killing gaming fast enough.