Neowin reports that Rob Pardo, the Executive Vice President at Blizzard Entertainment, apparently agrees with Valve's Gabe Newell and his harsh assessment of Windows 8, calling it "not awesome for Blizzard either."

Pardo was the lead game designer for Blizzard's World of Warcraft when it launched in 2004 and that game went on to grab over 10 million monthly subscribers; Rob is now the executive vice-president of game design for all of Blizzard's games.

Again, it's not clear as to why Newell and Pardo think that Windows 8 will be such a disaster. Newell did hint that his views about Windows 8 were part of the reason why the company has been trying to port their Steam PC game download service to the Linux platform.

  Blizzard's Rob Pardo: Windows 8 is "not awesome" for the company