WingedKagouti on 23/8/2013 at 09:27
Quote Posted by N'Al
Another n00b question: I assume this means you won't be able to earn achievements after that date any more either?
Just thinking of my half-finished DoW2 campaign here...
Since GfWL game achievements are tied to your GfWL (and XBL)
account I'd have to go with the "No more achievements" stance here.
twisty on 23/8/2013 at 09:31
Quote Posted by Slasher
And what could possibly be wrong with Uplay?????!
It has no value to me personally and just adds hoops that I need to jump through each time I want to play a game with uPlay enabled. Is it any better than gfwl?
N'Al on 23/8/2013 at 09:32
@ WingedKagouti
Yeah, that's what I thought.
The internet's not been particularly helpful in providing a definite answer either way so far, though.
Well, I'd better get cracking on that DoW2 campaign (as well as Chaos Rising, really), then.
june gloom on 23/8/2013 at 09:37
UPlay ruined Anno 2070.
Slasher on 23/8/2013 at 16:16
Quote Posted by twisty
It has no value to me personally and just adds hoops that I need to jump through each time I want to play a game with uPlay enabled. Is it any better than gfwl?
I don't know if uPlay is the reason Far Cry 3's save files are keyed to a specific user account, but I don't think we would even
have user accounts if it wasn't for uPlay in the first place. I can't think of a good reason why they would need to encrypt a freaking save game file to begin with. :mad:
As for a comparison, if I had to rate Origin, Rockstar Social Club, GFWL, and uPlay on a scale of 1 to 10 I would give them all zeros. Maybe I'm just getting cranky in my old age.
Jason Moyer on 23/8/2013 at 18:00
I see very little, aside from the quality of their actual storefronts, to differentiate between Steam, Origin, and uPlay. GFWL and Rockstar Social Club are entirely different sorts of things though. Neither of them really serve as proper DRM - most GFWL and RSC games still use either disk-based or store-based DRM depending on where you bought them (although, to be fair to Rockstar, the last 2 of their games I purchased were LA Noire and Max Payne 3 on DVD, and neither uses a disk-check). I don't really care about RSC, as far as I can tell it's just an in-game social thing that you can basically ignore. GFWL is a goddamn plight on humanity, though.
DarkForge on 23/8/2013 at 19:53
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Bulletstorm uses GfWL's DRM, or did at least the last time I booted it up. It won't let you continue with the game until it's signed in to GfWL.
Edit: though you can use an offline profile, I think. But it still needs the profile linked to the activation key, and that's gonna be a bugger to get going in 2014 unless it's patched.
Quote Posted by Al_B
I just tried it with no network connection and it signed me in to GfWL in offline mode and allowed me to continue my game.
Thanks for the responses guys. So GFWL has an offline mode, which I guess is somewhat like Steam's, so as long as I stayed in that presumably I'd be dandy. Bulletstorm is one game that I had been wanting to pick up some point soon and give it a go, so I should be able to get it all activated and running long before the shutdown.
I probably should have also mentioned before that I'm not really a multiplayer guy, nor do I ever bother about achievements or anything like that. As long as I can start up and save a single player game anytime I want, that's all I care about.
Zerker on 23/8/2013 at 21:27
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Supposedly BioShock 2 and the Arkham games are going to have GFWL patched out of them in the relatively near future. Haven't heard a peep about any other games, though.
Does this mean I'll be able to pick up Minerva's Den some way OTHER than GFWL, or should I pick it up now before it's unavailable forever?
june gloom on 23/8/2013 at 21:48
Why you haven't gotten it beforehand is beyond me. It's pretty much a condensed form of BS2's brilliance.
Zerker on 23/8/2013 at 21:57
Two simple reasons:
1) Too many other great games to play
2) Didn't feel like jumping through hoops with GFW Marketplace at the time
