I feel like something will be introduced by Microsoft to replace Games For Windows.
4) Batman: Arkham Asylum
5) Batman: Arkham City
You guys think that there's just a guy at Microsoft who will just flip the switch without maybe having a business plan to move all current titles away and working that out with the pubs and devs? Really?
Is anything from my PC collection affected?
As I understand it, the version of Lost Planet 1 on Steam has no GFWL--I am not sure what the Colonies content is or if it's available.
Currently have GFWL but it will be patched out
The rest, no.
So what will happen to my Gears of war I bought from GFWL?
Actually, yes. Because the service will go dark next July. That leaves a couple days for it to get figured out.
Also because there's no way a company will agree to just let their products go dark and deliver no more revenue just because an add on service goes dark.
You guys think that there's just a guy at Microsoft who will just flip the switch without maybe having a business plan to move all current titles away and working that out with the pubs and devs? Really?
Wow, you're an optimist. Let me explain something about revenue: it comes from game purchases. Patches don't make money, they cost money. I'm sure the games that are still selling well enough will be put on other stores, but that doesn't guarantee a patch for the old GFWL versions that we've bought.
Now, hopefully, most of these companies will do the right thing, but there's little financial incentive for them to do so. And even then, there are a couple of developers and publishers that don't even exist any more. It's hard to imagine that every game is going to survive this.
As obvious, help would be appreciated.
;_;, I guess.Doesn't Red Faction: Guerilla qualify for "defunct"?
If anything, this to me just means that there will be a much smaller gap between Xbox one games and Windows 8 games. Why have a different service when the current one is better? Hell, i played Halo Spartan Assault on Windows 8, got achievements on my 360. Welcome to the future.
Not to play devil's advocate or anything, but anyone else think this can be interpreted as being bad news in a way? Yes, it's great that GFWL is dead, but this also potentially means that Microsoft is no longer going to be bringing ANY of their Triple-A exclusives to the PC platform at all. Let's look back at Microsoft's history, they have a track record of always wanting to control the user's experience, hence making GFWL a required feature of all their exclusives. With the binning of GFWL though, they can no longer control the user's experience and force them into the Microsoft ecosystem anymore, which would mean they have no incentive to release any of their big-budget exclusives on PC anymore either.
Not to play devil's advocate or anything, but anyone else think this can be interpreted as being bad news in a way? Yes, it's great that GFWL is dead, but this also potentially means that Microsoft is no longer going to be bringing ANY of their Triple-A exclusives to the PC platform at all. Let's look back at Microsoft's history, they have a track record of always wanting to control the user's experience, hence making GFWL a required feature of all their exclusives. With the binning of GFWL though, they can no longer control the user's experience and force them into the Microsoft ecosystem anymore, which would mean they have no incentive to release any of their big-budget exclusives on PC anymore either.
you, uh, haven't paid much attention to MS output on PC in the last decade, have you?
you, uh, haven't paid much attention to MS output on PC in the last decade, have you?
My idea as well. As long as Microsoft provides an offline-only GFWL installer for download on their website, along with some patch files for every individual GFWL-game, we should be fine.The multiplayer portions might be dead (think EA shutting down servers), but I'm fairly certain each of these singleplayer games will either get a patch to work without GFWL or can be... decoupled from GFWL by other means.
Not ideal, but I'm convinced there'll be a way to still play Dark Souls after July 1, 2014.
Come on. Don't you remember Viva Pinata and Halo 3 for PC? Nope? Me neither.
Wow, you're an optimist. Let me explain something about revenue: it comes from game purchases. Patches don't make money, they cost money. I'm sure the games that are still selling well enough will be put on other stores, but that doesn't guarantee a patch for the old GFWL versions that we've bought.
Now, hopefully, most of these companies will do the right thing, but there's little financial incentive for them to do so. And even then, there are a couple of developers and publishers that don't even exist any more. It's hard to imagine that every game is going to survive this.
Well I hate to point out your failing memory, but if you're going to use examples of X360 games that didn't get ported, might want to be 100% sure about your choices. Viva Pinata was ported over to PC.
Kin
Xbox LIVE v1
Zune
Windows Phone 7
Games for Windows LIVE
Sorry if you were using any of this stuff.
But buy Xbox One, please.
Well I have, but I'd still like to see another next-gen Halo or Gears of War on PC is all.
As I understand it, the version of Lost Planet 1 on Steam has no GFWL--I am not sure what the Colonies content is or if it's available.