22nd June 2010, 11:43 PM
It sounded like you were defending it. Anyway, I'm confused. On the one hand you seem to argue MS has no reason to woo 3rd parties because they don't make money from the sales, but on the other hand you aren't saying they are wasting their time developing DirectX. So, what is DirectX if not an attempt to woo third parties to make games? Clearly there's SOME incentive to get more people to make games on Windows.
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