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angular graphics · Jan 17, 2014

http://www.joystiq.com/2014/01/17/games-for-windows-live-is-dying-we-check-the-life-support-of-ga/

However, a large number of developers remained quiet about what the future held for their games, so Joystiq reached out to get the official word on what the future may hold for their games past July.

Planned
Super Street Fighter IV / Arcade Edition (Steamworks)
DiRT 3 (Steamworks)
F1 2010 (Steamworks)
F1 2011 (Steamworks)
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition (Exploring options, but no set plans yet.)
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (Exploring options, but no set plans yet.)
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Will strip GFWL. May replace with an existing service or develop its own.)
Ms. Splosion Man (Steamworks. No timeline.)

No plans
Dark Void (No plans.)
Dead Rising 2 (No plans.)
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (No plans.)
Lost Planet 2 (No plans.)
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition (No plans.)
Resident Evil 5 (No plans.)
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (No plans.)
Street Fighter X Tekken (No plans.)
DiRT 2 (No Comment.)
Fuel (No Comment. Delisted from Steam.)
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (No Comment.)
Operation Flashpoint: Red River (No Comment.)
Iron Brigade (No plans.)
Fable 3 (No plans.)
Gears of War (No plans.)
Halo 2 (No plans.)
Microsoft Flight (No plans.)
Shadowrun (No plans.)
Tinker (No plans.)
Viva Piñata (No plans.)
Blacklight: Tango Down (No plans.)

And there are some titles that the publishers have not yet responded to Joystiq's inquiry.

Dammit Capcom!!

Hellsing321 · Jan 17, 2014

Dark Souls is the only GFLW game I have that I still give a shit about so great news!

joe2187 · Jan 17, 2014

Surprise! capcom games with no support!

Deadbeat · Jan 17, 2014

RFG is good news. Ill probably wait for that patch before I play it.

LOL at capcom.

Not surprised about gears. Epic already expressed their opinion on PC gaming many times.

JaseC · Jan 17, 2014

Dirt 2 and Fuel are likely having GFWL removed as they've been in quite a few bundles semi-recently, even after being pulled from Steam, and each have a new app in the registry.

antitrop · Jan 17, 2014

Praise the Sun!

BPoole · Jan 17, 2014

How will online work for Dark Souls work without GFWL?

komplanen · Jan 17, 2014

I want to replay Dark Souls for the third time (1st Xbox 360, 2nd PS3) and I have been waiting for them to remove GFWL so this news makes me happy. I just hope it's before Dark Souls 2 comes out or it'll be for naught.

Stumpokapow · Jan 17, 2014

"Will strip GFWL. May replace with an existing service or develop its own.)"

yeah, that's right, nordic games is going to release a total beast-mode social gaming service, launching with red faction guerrilla. great plan guys. totally ignore the free and easy to implement game service used by 75 million gamers on an active basis. write your own. great move.

Revolutionary · Jan 17, 2014

Both Microsoft and Capcom are doing nothing about it... go figure.

scitek · Jan 17, 2014

Wow at RF:G Didn't think that had any chance of seeing an update. Glad it is, though! Maybe the online will pick up a bit if it becomes Steamworks. Shit's fun.

Maedhros · Jan 17, 2014

DARK SOULS!! YES! YESSS!!!!!

angular graphics · Jan 17, 2014

Deadbeat said:
RFG is good news. Ill probably wait for that patch before I play it.

LOL at capcom.

Not surprised about gears. Epic already expressed their opinion on PC gaming many times.

They asked Microsoft about it, not Epic. Regarding the other Epic PC game with GFWL, Bulletstorm, EA didn't get back to them.

Anoregon · Jan 17, 2014

antitrop said:
Praise the Sun!

Hell Yes. I picked this up on steam sale but embarrassingly have not played it that much. GFWL removal may be the kick in the ass that gets me to dive into it.

WillyFive · Jan 17, 2014

JaseC said:
Dirt 2 and Fuel are likely having GFWL removed as they've been in quite a few bundles semi-recently, even after being pulled from Steam, and each have a new app in the registry.

Nice!

Alienups · Jan 17, 2014

Orayn · Jan 17, 2014

Hellsing321 · Jan 17, 2014

BPoole said:
How will online work for Dark Souls work without GFWL?

If they're smart they'd just use Steamworks matchmaking.

Zushin · Jan 17, 2014

Excellent news about Dark Souls.

mnannola · Jan 17, 2014

Hope this doesn't screw up my Dark Souls saved game, or at least give me time to make a backup that is compatabile with the new service.

Dictator93 · Jan 17, 2014

Maedhros said:
DARK SOULS!! YES! YESSS!!!!!

A similar reaction here.

JaseC · Jan 17, 2014

angular graphics said:
They asked Microsoft about it, not Epic. Regarding the other Epic PC game with GFWL, Bulletstorm, EA didn't get back to them.

Epic said it's discussing internally what to do with the game.

Edit: Bulletstorm, that is. Gears is in Microsoft's court.

Dolor · Jan 17, 2014

Hope when they patch those that they also patch in cards. Would love some Dark Souls and RFG cards/backgrounds...

Megasoum · Jan 17, 2014

Ah crap, forgot about Dirt 2... Dammit Cody, fix the best game in the Dirt franchise! Come on.

Duress · Jan 17, 2014

The only one I really care about is Street Fighter IV. I don't plan on buying a new stick and console any time soon.

An-Det · Jan 17, 2014

Interesting that EA was contacted about Bulletstorm and not Epic. I thought the game was published under EA Partners and that they didn't own the rights to it, but I guess not. That's a shame, since I'm playing it right now and it's awesome, and it looks like in a few months no one will anymore. Hopefully that changes.

SparkTR · Jan 17, 2014

RFG is the main one I wanted. The MP should be somewhat revived if it's Steamworks.

antitrop · Jan 17, 2014

Bulletstorm was too great to die.

Tecl0n · Jan 17, 2014

Did they really reach out to the developers/publishers? AFAIK SSFIV AE has been confirmed time and time again that it is not getting GFWL removed, you either pay for the Ultra update (Ultra will be steamworks) or be stuck with an offline profile.

kadotsu · Jan 17, 2014

Weird that the Capcom titles won't get an update. Didn't Capcom PR state that almost all titles would have GFWL patched out (on the other hand, it's Capcom).

Ysiadmihi · Jan 17, 2014

Did not expect this to happen with Dark Souls. Very pleased.

jim-jam bongs · Jan 17, 2014

Oh yes, Dark Souls forever and ever. My boner is crying tears of joy.

Sentenza · Jan 17, 2014

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (Will update, but no set plans yet.)
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Will strip GFWL. May replace with an existing service or develop its own.)

I can declare myself happy to see GFWL die with ABSOLUTELY NO RELEVANT DOWNSIDES, at this point.

BPoole said:
How will online work for Dark Souls work without GFWL?

Hellsing321 said:
If they're smart they'd just use Steamworks matchmaking.

They are already implementing Steamworks in DS2, apparently, so it would make a lot of sense.

antitrop · Jan 17, 2014

GFWL will be remembered always as a miserable blight on PC gaming.

Archaix · Jan 17, 2014

Have all games with GFWL removals caused save data loss? I had to restart Arkham City after the update and with a lot of these games I'd rather keep my save data and find a crack if it's an option than bothering with an update to remove GFWL.

Linkark07 · Jan 17, 2014

There are two games I didn't see on that list: Warhammer Dawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising.

Stumpokapow · Jan 17, 2014

Also I bet Joystiq got the Dark Souls info from that fake facebook screenshot people posted claiming Dark Souls would have GFWL removed.

morningbus · Jan 17, 2014

TucoBenedictoPacifico said:
I can declare myself happy to see GFWL die with ABSOLUTELY NO RELEVANT DOWNSIDES, at this point.

But my gamerscore, bro. *

* Please read in the most pathetic nerd voice you can imagine.

Stumpokapow said:
Also I bet Joystiq got the Dark Souls info from that fake facebook screenshot people posted claiming Dark Souls would have GFWL removed.

YianGaruga did the leg work in the Steam thread:

YianGaruga said:
Got an answer from joystiq on twitter that it is an official reply from Namco Bandai.

PRAISE THE SUN

Dictator93 · Jan 17, 2014

antitrop said:
GFWL will be remembered always as a miserable blight on PC gaming.

Are you sure you actually did not love waiting for your game to restart multiple times to install multiple GFWL updates?

Tagyhag · Jan 17, 2014

Great news about Dark Souls, though I wish games like Halo 2 and Gears also followed suit. (To show that there might be support in the future)

Stitch · Jan 17, 2014

JaseC said:
Epic said it's discussing internally what to do with the game.

Man I wish it would be easy to just code some kind of wrapper that redirects all the GFWL stuff to the Steam servers :-/

JaseC · Jan 17, 2014

Linkark07 said:
There are two games I didn't see on that list: Warhammer Dawn of War 2 and Chaos Rising.

Dawn of War 2 is mentioned in the article. The OP didn't include the games from published that refused to respond.

Lunar15 · Jan 17, 2014

Praise the Sun!

Mohasus · Jan 17, 2014

I'm hoping to get an upgrade on my Dirt 3 vanilla.

blackMamba1187 · Jan 17, 2014

It's pretty scummy to be selling some of these titles if they will become un-playable at a future date. Microsoft really needs to release a statement of intention in regards to GFWL. Digital distribution sites and the affected publishers need to get on them about this.

angular graphics · Jan 17, 2014

Stumpokapow said:
Also I bet Joystiq got the Dark Souls info from that fake facebook screenshot people posted claiming Dark Souls would have GFWL removed.

They claim they reached out to publishers though.

Stumpokapow · Jan 17, 2014

morningbus said:
YianGarguga did the leg work in the Steam thread:

Good to hear. Not that I doubted it given the game's continued commercial viability, but nice to know they got an affirmative.

Omega · Jan 17, 2014

you're not Grief. what is this

JaseC · Jan 17, 2014

Stumpokapow said:
Also I bet Joystiq got the Dark Souls info from that fake facebook screenshot people posted claiming Dark Souls would have GFWL removed.

The article states that Joystiq "reached out" to developers/publishers itself and this was re-affirmed in a very recent tweet (I wouldn't say the Dark Souls Facebook page is "direct from Namco Bandai").

Edit: Beaten.

ab.aeterno · Jan 17, 2014

This is fantastic news. Hopefully Capcom and others get on board.

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