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GFWL marketplace purchases ending Aug 22, 2013.
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
You can't spell "god-awful" without GFWL.
Until someone claims otherwise, I'm taking credit for the creation of this phrase.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
dead
morningbus
Member
(08-02-2013, 10:00 AM)
Edit: I quoted the wrong timestamp. Fixed!
You can't spell "god-awful" without G, F, W and L!
JaseC
Member
(07-20-2013, 02:20 AM)
This is there part where Gears and Viva Pinata come to Steam, right?
Azure Dream
Member
Trellisaze
Member
Almost but not quite.
The Web store is dead as an always-online-policy so no new purchases obviously. For any individual games that have a marketplace, however, you can still buy DLC with MS points via their in-game store. So for anyone that doesn't mind buying content that's guaranteed to get Xboned in less than a year there's still a chance (for now anyway.)
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
morningbus
Member
(08-02-2013, 10:00 AM)
Edit: I quoted the wrong timestamp. Fixed!
JaseC
Member
(07-20-2013, 02:20 AM)
On any other day I'd argue time travel, but today I simply lack the wherewithal to front an argument.
I sit corrected.
legacyzero
Banned
Just bring Gears of War to Steam, Microsoft. You know, so it can actually SELL.
Well, when the store, and the company running it isn't complete crap, then sure. I mean, look at all the celebration in this entire thread.
Well, when the store, and the company running it isn't complete crap, then sure. I mean, look at all the celebration in this entire thread.
Tangent, but it's sad when the PC market is like this. People won't buy a game for their PC from a PC store unless it's a specific PC store.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It's almost like they're worried a certain store will close up shop and leave them high and dry.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
I think the MSP->Cash conversion firmware update is going out today or tomorrow, so no one will have any MSP after that point
Considering that the GFWL Marketplace wasn't avaiable in a lot of places, and Steam is available everywhere, I'd say it's not sad at all but an actually valid issue.
For example, I'd buy Gears of War if it where available in Steam (with GFWL removed), because I'd be actually ABLE to buy it.
Was Gears 1 available for digital download at all to begin with?
ashecitism
Member
there's just leaving money on the table. Hilarious (or sad), really.
Yeah, through GFWL store.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Gears was also originally available only through Gametap, I believe.
The PC version has a weird history.
The PC version has a weird history.
Color me surprised.
I'm still bitter that Halo 1 and 2 weren't purchasable online, though. Would probably help the communities of those games a lot.
Sentenza
Member
What's baffling to me is that they even had the nerve to complain about it not being particularly successful on PC, at the time.
I wonder if you can get a digital copy of Gears of War PC somewhere else.
Not to mention CliffyB's little nugget on why Gears 2 would be an X360-exclusive:
I mean, on a primordial level, he wasn't wrong, but he was painting with a very broad brush.
Edit: Battle vs Chess returned to Steam quite some time ago, though in select territories it sported a new title: Check vs Mate. The two are actually separate apps despite being the same game (I own both).
Sentenza
Member
I'm going to guess you will, at some point.
Oh, and on a side note, since during my unfortunate 2-weeks ban I wasn't able to comment on that, let me just say that unlike many other GAFffers I'm quite confident at some point Namco will patch GFWL out of Dark Souls.
The whole "they didn't make a good port so they won't bother" holds little ground, in my opinion. Sure, they didn't put much faith an money on the PC port, but it proved quite successful despise their skepticism and it is showing solid long tail sales every time it gets a discount on Steam, so I think they will patch it.
After all, half of the work is already done for the sequel.
From is actually working on a patch for Dark Souls at the moment, but at this juncture it's too early to tell what it pertains to exactly. The timing is awfully suggestive, though.
Sentenza
Member
Good. Very good.From is actually working on a patch for Dark Souls at the moment, but at this juncture it's too early to tell what it pertains to exactly. The timing is awfully suggestive, though.
Except... Why is the first time I'm reading about this? D:
I wonder if beside patching out GFWL (which sounds like a safe bet) they will consider to unlock the resolution and so on.
It's been mentioned before, but there's no thread or even news articles about it due to the distinct lack of information -- literally all we can glean at this stage is that From began working on a patch on the 21st of August.
Ultra Magnus
Member
Why hasn't any developer that has their games on GFWL not come out with an official statement on what will be the status of their game after the service closes?
One has!
Edit:
From should just include DSFix and implement some of the settings into the game's own options menu.
bengraven
Member
This is like the ending of Return of the King, where the Dark Tower falls and everyone cheers, including Gandalf.
Then there's a moment of silence and Gandalf's face suddenly looks upset as he wonders what happened to Frodo.
That's kind of like me right now and Frodo = my games and future games. Yay, it's dead. But, uh, that means the games are dead too...
Then there's a moment of silence and Gandalf's face suddenly looks upset as he wonders what happened to Frodo.
That's kind of like me right now and Frodo = my games and future games. Yay, it's dead. But, uh, that means the games are dead too...
I do expect some titles to be left high and dry:
The problem with the discount coupon approach is that, while catering to existing owners on Steam is painless, Capcom would need to set up some sort of system for those who'd bought a copy at retail or via the GFWL Marketplace.
BoosterDuck
Banned
RIP in Peace v_v
I think it would be in Capcom's best interest to keep Dead Rising on the PC alive if it's planning to eventually release a PC port of Dead Rising 3.
Now Developers/publishers need to start patching out GFWL and also offer alternative for people having retail GFWL discs of the games that not available on steam
Telltale Games asked people who bought the retail TWD discs to take a photo of the disc and code, and they give them steam code for TWD and 400 days (because DLC don't work with the retail version) other publishers should do this.
Telltale Games asked people who bought the retail TWD discs to take a photo of the disc and code, and they give them steam code for TWD and 400 days (because DLC don't work with the retail version) other publishers should do this.
I think this just further hammers in the point of EVER jumping into any microsoft eco-system.
Alternatively, it shouldn't be too difficult to set up a system where a user inputs their GFWL key and is automatically given a Steam key.
Edit: There's the matter of DLC purchases, though, as GFWL assigns keys only to base games. A manual system akin to the one you mentioned would be the only option here, unless Capcom and other publishers would prefer to be particularly kind and just give transitioning owners all the available DLC.
The most important one has to be Dark Souls. No other GFWL game has the kind of depth and replayability that Dark Souls provides.
Capcom's back catalog, Dead Rising 2, Resident Evil 5, Lost Planet: ECCE, I wouldn't describe these titles as necessary plays. I don't see people clamoring to replay these games in 10 years.
Gears of War, Halo 2, and Viva Pinata would be a welcome edition to my Steam library, especially the multiplayer modes from Halo 2 and Gears of War. I could see myself playing many hours of those games.
Halo 3 port easily tops my wishlist though
RIP in Peace v_v
they are trying to cover up the fact that dead rising is amazing at 60 fps
Iron Brigade is GFWL. Figured Double Fine doesn't have resources to spare to go back and fix that, so I'm playing through it right now.
Double Fine is probably nice (dumb?) enough to patch it anyway.
paging Steven Dengler...
I would add:
Red Faction Guerrilla
GTAIV + EFLC
Halo 2 (although the Steam rumor is still bound to happen)
Dog Problems
Banned
They've stated on Twitter that it's out of their hands because Microsoft owns the rights to the game.
And this: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=77830569&postcount=59
CosmicQueso
Member
You want governments to get involved in deeper regulation of the video game market... I see... well, what could go wrong?
Paging Senator Leland Yee...
"Gamers have got to just quiet down," Yee, D-San Francisco, said in an interview Tuesday. "Gamers have no credibility in this argument. This is all about their lust for violence and the industry's lust for money. This is a billion-dollar industry. This is about their self-interest."
There are 9 months until the service shuts down, so you have plenty of time to play it even if Scamco doesn't patch out GFWL -- but as noted earlier in the thread, an update is in the works, and the timing couldn't be more intriguing.
Felix Lighter
Member
I'd say for $7.50, it's worth the risk especially if you are looking to play it soon but that's just me.
oh, didn't read about the update, if that is so then I guess I'll buy it, thanks
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