criticism of it by people who I consider to be quite knowledgeable have renewed my wariness.
Not Durante, surely? As someone with a CS background, the article you linked before struck me as deliberately misleading drivel from a zealot who hates change.
As for Sweeney, I respect him a lot, but I wish he'd gone through with that awesome Unreal Engine design that, importantly, abandoned C++. Fucking terrible language. :( It was a bit odd that he put out an incredibly aggressive opinion piece on UWP, only to back off when some Microsoft reps basically pointed to some info that was already out there. I still don't think we know enough about the platform for all the uproar it's causing to make sense, and we know the worst that could happen is that we stick to the Win32 API and just don't get a bunch of PC ports of Microsoft-published XBOne games that we're expecting via UWP, anyway, so I don't see what the big deal is. I do get the impression from Sweeney's rant that he saw some technology in UWP that impressed him, though, otherwise I doubt he'd care as much.
I love that this is actually news. I hope that the issues I have with UWP (namely, lack of end-user file access and modification, hardware restrictions and the like) are resolved in a way that's satisfactory to both PC power-users and Microsoft. This may not actually happen, but it'll have to for the Universal Windows Experience to actually take off.
My current hope is that UWP has a default policy that sandboxes the shit out of games, so developers are forced to assume that's in place and hence actually have to follow good development processes and not litter my PC with junk upon uninstall, not rootkit my PC, keep their stuff to a designated location in the filesystem, not build software that breaks as soon as my environment changes slightly, etc; but that users are able to flip a bunch of switches and unlock whatever they like, so modders and whatnot can bring their toys over relatively painlessly. The whole Win32 ecosystem is a mess and needs something like this to clean it up.
The guy who leaked F6 Apex and KI Season 3 has been posting on Reddit (While he's still alive and DLeeazy hasn't implanted a bottle in his skull anyway) that UWP does exactly what you say and is completely moddable as he was able to mod in an unfinished character into KI. So it sounds like UWP does what Tim Sweeney wants it to do but no one is interested in the truth because of faux outrage, site hits and begging and praying Microsoft leaves consoles to justify brand identity on neogaf.
In the year 2015. Nintendo made a game with only a fraction of the content of the N64 original and asked $50 for it. And the original N64 game is a pre-order bonus for this pile of drek instead of available on the VC itself. It's outright insulting. Sega Superstar Tennis had more content than this back in 2008, even (And that game had that Puyo Puyo Minigame which was the bees knees and worth the money alone).
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