Supporting Touch in Windows 7

Windows 7 is going to be released very soon and it supports touch screens.

What I am curious to know is, would this give a huge advantage to users with touch screens, should the game designers decide to support a touch interface in the future?

Discuss.

I don't see how it would really give much of an advantage as touch screens only let you use your finger as a mouse pointer on PC's now, which is a different case for touch screen phones. But I highly doubt GW1 will get an upgrade for touch screens and it's highly unlikely for GW2. Would probably require an immense rework of the UI mechanics. Though, you COULD use a touch screen with GW now. But like I said it would only let you move the pointer or click with just your finger, no right clickin, but you could go tap another area of the screen to instantly move the pointer over there, so I guess if you had lots of practice with one you might be only slightly faster than someone with a mouse.

I always wanted to try playing Guild Wars on a touch screen. But I don't think it'd give you much of an advantage.

Think of fps games and touch screen. just tap the screen at someones head. boomhead shot!

i could see some RTS titles abusing a touch screen!!

that would kind of be sick!

maybe some MMO's would be kind of cool... interesting idea though :-D

Mmm not unless you have the world's pointiest fingers or their head is so big they must be right in front of you anyway. :P

Yes considering that with a mouse pointer, you have to drag it to the spot that you want then click, pointing to something on the screen should be alot faster, plus you have your other fingers and hand to help out clicking (or pointing) from one spot on the screen to another even if they are far apart.

I can easily imagine using that to my advantage in GW. There are things that could be performed much faster and more efficiently this way than with mouse clicks. And all that without getting into what a multi-touch interface could allow!
Need a 3rd hand

Use a stylus

Playing on Windows 7 as we speak. Game is installing right now. Touch controls would be pretty interesting, you have more fingers so you could do more at once.

it would be tiring to your hands and arms after a few minutes I believe this video sums it up....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTR1L_B93Rg

I think the game has to be programmed to support the Touch interface. Otherwise, I dont know how much you can get out from it.

True, going to need a monitor that supports touch as well.

Please, don't.

That's dirty. Fingers should never touch the screen, fingerprints get all over it.

Its not faster, its actually a lot slower and pretty much useless

Sure it is much faster, I bet I can touch all 4 corners of my screen much faster with my 2 hands than you do so with a single mouse pointer.

I don't know if there is much similarity, but I've tried playing GW (and fps games) on windows 7 using a wacom tablet and it's unplayable. The GW interface detects the input alright but as soon as you attempt to rotate the camera it just spins around and near impossible to control. I also tried in CoD 4 and the camera spins even worse

Touchscreens suck. That is all.

As soon as you move your hand across any screen to touch it, you begin to obscure part of the screen. Any advantage you might get from touch control is destroyed by that. One simply never knows what happens beneath your hand. Try it. Touch your screen! Once you move away from the corners, it really gets ridiculous in terms of covering the screen with your hands. Even more stupid than using voice commands "Flare, Flare, Flare, Flare.."

I can immagine quickly tappin on enemies to attack or making my intereface huge for the skill buttons