Stardock boss Brad Wardell has threatened to stop making games, if the role of Games for Windows Live on the platform results in everything being 'screwed up'.

Chatting with US site ShackNews, Wardell says that while he was an initial advocate of the de facto standard, he believes simply don't do enough to support the PC as a viable gaming format.

"I intended for Elemental to be on Games for Windows Live, but then as we got closer, the group took it over more and more. And they have things where, oh, if you want to use Games for Windows Live to update your game, you have to go through [their] certification. And if you do it more than X number of times, you have to pay money. It's like, 'My friends, you can't do that on the PC,'" the gaming boss rails.

"On the console, I don't have to update my game because an anti-virus program got an update and is now identifying my VB scripts as viruses and I have to apply an emergency patch. That would just add insult to injury. We've had to upgrade our games plenty of times over the years, not because we found some bug, but because some third-party program, or driver, or whatever screwed it up."

It is this future Wardell apparently fears, the exec claiming that he will "be done" with the PC if this is the eventual result of Games for Windows Live.

By Luke Guttridge

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