No, you can still run games on Win 8 that you can run on Win 7. Gabe is stating that for Valve and their digital distribution platform Steam, Windows 8 is a 'h

No, you can still run games on Win 8 that you can run on Win 7. Gabe is stating that for Valve and their digital distribution platform Steam, Windows 8 is a 'hostile' environment. They could potentially be blocked/forbidden from deploying steam on Win8 (or future version of windows) as the Windows App store could take it's place as well as any steam updates/game updates would have to go through Microsoft which would cause unnecessary delays/overhead.