DDL on 20/8/2013 at 11:00
Oh thank fucking god.
I still haven't gotten around to playing DS yet, but I have to say: if never experiencing the full DS experience is the price to pay for the death of GFWL, I'd pay it gladly.
Volitions Advocate on 20/8/2013 at 12:30
Interesting.
I have 2 copies of Fallout 3. A Retail copy, and then I bought the GOTY edition on steam. When I went to activate my steam version I didn't have to because my retail key was linked with my GFWL account. My steam key still has not been used. Even though I launch the game from steam.
I wonder if somebody else could use my steam key in GFWL and get themselves a nice copy of Fallout 3 before next July.
Also. YES!!
Sulphur on 20/8/2013 at 12:55
Interesting. This is the initial phase of whatever plan Jason Holtman has for Microsoft's gaming division. I suppose it's a full-fledged absorption of GfWL into Xbox Live with no compromises, the better to present a unified gaming ecosystem for the PC and the various Xboxen. That would seem to make the most strategic sense.
faetal on 20/8/2013 at 13:56
But Dark Souls man :(
I hope 2 things:
1) Dark Souls 2 is so good that I can live with the loss of Dark Souls
2) Some Durante-esque game-lovin' muthafucka makes a patch which connects it up to some kind of multiplayer servers, or failing that, Fromsoft manage to transpose it to Steamworks (there is currently a hoax rumour going round that this is happening - it's not. Yet.)
ZylonBane on 20/8/2013 at 14:06
Quote Posted by Sulphur
I suppose it's a full-fledged absorption of GfWL into Xbox Live with no compromises
Much like Windows 8 merged the desktop and Metro with no compromises, no doubt.
TTK12G3 on 21/8/2013 at 03:05
Weren't they planning on revitalizing the service or something?
icemann on 21/8/2013 at 08:18
Be better yet if all games that use GFWL reverted to using steam only.
sNeaksieGarrett on 22/8/2013 at 15:27
They'd be fools if they didn't have the various games that require the service patched to not include gfwl anymore. I can see a shitstorm of complaints if they don't do this.
That said, I bet very few people are actually angry that GFWL as a service is going away. Personally, I felt it was an unnecessary addition to my games, especially for example Dead Rising 2 which is the steam version so it's twice the services rolled into one.:erg: Not only that, sometimes it had problems and was overall just a poor service in my opinion.
twisty on 23/8/2013 at 00:07
I can only hope that ubiplay goes in the same direction.
