By them you mean Rockstar right? It's their responsibility.
Should have said amazon does a decent job with prices/sales. That's what people are worried about, right? Because Steam has no shortage of peripheral features.
It will all be okay people. You're not going to lose access to your games.
I'm with you, but there seems to be panic setting in around here with this. Now, all of a sudden GFWL was a good thing because it presented a service competitor to Steam.
It's as if the last 5 years where no one cared about GFWL as a service, or actively detested it, never happened.
Yes. Rockstar doesn't have the greatest record with supporting GTAIV on PC, that's why I worry.
All GFWL games:
- Achievements fail
- Matchmaking fails and online features are permanently broken
GFWL games that require sign-in for initial activation:
- Permanently unplayable
GFWL games that require sign-in / user profile access for saving:
- Permanently unplayable
All GFWL games:
- Achievements fail
- Matchmaking fails and online features are permanently broken
GFWL games that require sign-in for initial activation:
- Permanently unplayable
GFWL games that require sign-in / user profile access for saving:
- Permanently unplayable
well that will kill off Dark Souls PC. hopefully folks can still play it single player
All GFWL games:
- Achievements fail
- Matchmaking fails and online features are permanently broken
GFWL games that require sign-in for initial activation:
- Permanently unplayable
GFWL games that require sign-in / user profile access for saving:
- Permanently unplayable
Games are going to fast become "you had to be there" experiences with so much "always online" stuff creeping in.
I guess Dark Souls hacked player shit meant I wouldnt miss that online interaction, but still.
So what happens to fallout 3?
How much faith should I have that the PC community will solve these problems if the devs/pubs don't step up?
Hm?
Sounds like Dark Souls will go kaput to me, unless Namco/From pulls a miracle and updates the game, which is incredibly unlikely.
All GFWL games:
- Achievements fail
- Matchmaking fails and online features are permanently broken
GFWL games that require sign-in for initial activation:
- Permanently unplayable
GFWL games that require sign-in / user profile access for saving:
- Permanently unplayable
So lets see how many gamesi own that this is going to fuck me over on..
GOW
Fallout 3
Batman AA/AC
Dark Souls
Bioshock 2
Resident Evil 5
...god fucking dammit they better make those games available offline before they shit the bed for the last time.
So lets see how many gamesi own that this is going to fuck me over on..
GOW
Fallout 3
Batman AA/AC
Dark Souls
Bioshock 2
Resident Evil 5
...god fucking dammit they better make those games available offline before they shit the bed for the last time.
Isn't it confirmed that Bioshock 2 and the Batman games are being patched officially?
Microsoft will probably issue one last patch before the system goes down in order to close down that authentication.
All GFWL games:
- Achievements fail
- Matchmaking fails and online features are permanently broken
GFWL games that require sign-in for initial activation:
- Permanently unplayable
GFWL games that require sign-in / user profile access for saving:
- Permanently unplayable
at least i hope Steam does it themselves for all games on their store or else they're basically selling broken shit.
between this and the original xbox microsoft has a pretty shitty track record
Microsoft will probably issue one last patch before the system goes down in order to close down that authentication.
Hey, I love my OG Xbox. Thing is a tank and has a great library. Don't hate on OG Xbox.
Hey, I love my OG Xbox. Thing is a tank and has a great library. Don't hate on OG Xbox.
Problem solved. Chill out everyone.
Probably might be a little far. I think I'll settle on a maybe.
Right, because Namco won't want to achieve any more revenue from Dark Souls through Steam sales or any other distribution, forever.
They're happy with what they have, and are just going to put that sales forecast to "0" because GFWL is going away.
Yep, that will happen. Because Namco can't be bothered to make any more money from a game that seems to have done pretty well on PC.
Sure. It's over.
Games that will no longer be available for digital purchase in 3 days:
AFL Live
Battle vs. Chess - Not purchasable on Steam, Publisher is essentially defunct
CarneyVale: Showtime - Independent title
Crash Time 4: The Syndicate - Other series installments are on Steam
Game Room - Many constituent titles are available sans-GFWL
Gears of War for Windows
Halo 2 for Windows Vista
Hour of Victory
Quantum of Solace - Game no longer for sale on Steam
Shadowrun - Servers are no longer running for this, right?
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Mahjong Wisdom -- MS has a free Mahjong game on W8, "replacement"?
Rugby League Live
Tinker - Free, download right now if you ever want to play
Tron: Evolution
Vancouver 2010
Viva Piñata for Windows
Wheres Waldo? The Fantastic Journey
Games whose online facilities and achievements will die July 1, 2014--some of these may no longer be able to be activated at this point and thus will be DEAD DEAD:
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Enhanced Edition
Blacklight: Tango Down
Bulletstorm
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
DiRT 2
Dirt 3
F1 2010
F1 2011
Fable III
Fallout 3
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
FUEL
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Iron Brigade
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Lost Planet 2
Microsoft Flight
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
Ms. Splosion Man
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Section 8
Section 8: Prejudice
Star Wars: The Clone Wars Republic Heroes
Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Virtua Tennis 4
Windows 8 doesn't use GFWL at all.
Problem solved. Chill out everyone.
This is awful tbh, I'd rather not lose these games, plus the completitionist in me is going to be bothered everytime I see them on my list
well it sounds like the batman games, bioshock2, and insanely twisted will all be replacing gfwl with steamworks
if a company still makes long tail money off of their pc release it would be in their best interest to remove gfwl
Right, because Namco won't want to achieve any more revenue from Dark Souls through Steam sales or any other distribution, forever.
They're happy with what they have, and are just going to put that sales forecast to "0" because GFWL is going away.
Yep, that will happen. Because Namco can't be bothered to make any more money from a game that seems to have done pretty well on PC.
Sure. It's over.
I don't think Microsoft has issued a patch for GFWL for.... ages. Saying that they will issue a patch to allow offline play on these games is a leap of faith.
@LiK, thanks
That just leaves the Batman SP games I have on Steam
Maybe those can be played offline I dunno
Dark Souls on pc preformed well and 2 is Steamworks, seemingly anyway. I could see Namco patchibg it over, sure why not.
Think this through... so all the companies that used GFWL for their PC products all of a sudden cannot sell another copy due to Microsoft.
Major publishers and developers we're talking about here.
You really think that those companies are going to say "Microsoft, it's cool. You don't want to disable online authentication? We'll just not sell any more PC versions of GTA or Dark Souls or Fallout 3? Okay, sure. That sounds good to us!"
Come on people, you're smarter than this.
yeah you can still play it online huh
I meant the fact that Microsoft shut down the XBL servers and made all DLC for games unreachable (although there wasn't a ton during the OG Xbox days).