I'm a bit confused about this news article regarding the end of XNA and DirectX?
"The XNA/DirectX expertise was created to recognize community leaders who focused on XNA Game Studio and/or DirectX development. Presently the XNA Game Studio is not in active development and DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology. Given the status within each technology, further value and engagement cannot be offered to the MVP community. As a result, effective April 1, 2014 XNA/DirectX will be fully retired from the MVP Award Program."
I don't fully understand what this means. It sounds like, "We're done spending resources to develop XNA and DirectX." I can't possibly imagine this means they're saying, "Hey, Windows game developers, get out." I would assume they're still going to continue developing certain parts of DirectX (e.g. Direct3D), but not all the APIs that fall under it? Maybe now would be a good time to really start learning OpenGL ...? (I'm sure MHolley would be thrilled if that were the case :-P)
I feel like I'm missing some important detail(s) here. Anyone have some light they can shed on the subject?
"The XNA/DirectX expertise was created to recognize community leaders who focused on XNA Game Studio and/or DirectX development. Presently the XNA Game Studio is not in active development and DirectX is no longer evolving as a technology. Given the status within each technology, further value and engagement cannot be offered to the MVP community. As a result, effective April 1, 2014 XNA/DirectX will be fully retired from the MVP Award Program."
I don't fully understand what this means. It sounds like, "We're done spending resources to develop XNA and DirectX." I can't possibly imagine this means they're saying, "Hey, Windows game developers, get out." I would assume they're still going to continue developing certain parts of DirectX (e.g. Direct3D), but not all the APIs that fall under it? Maybe now would be a good time to really start learning OpenGL ...? (I'm sure MHolley would be thrilled if that were the case :-P)
I feel like I'm missing some important detail(s) here. Anyone have some light they can shed on the subject?