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Steam Versions Batman:AA/AC & Bioshock 2 Adding Achievements, Removing GFWL/Securom?
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Madrugador
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Batman games are already a daily though.
No updates yet.
I've been waiting on playing AC and Bioshock 2 for a long time now.
Dark Souls has essentially never been updated.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Dark Souls did get one update, significant enough to break Dsfix for s little while.
It hasn't been updated since and will probably never be updated again.
It hasn't been updated since and will probably never be updated again.
Guess I'll keep playing it on PS3 then
DodgyGeezerFella
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Would be nice, and Relic have essentially already done something like this for Company of Heroes (from the Quazal system to steamworks, which they also did lots of other improvements, like a smaller install for all expansions, removes the annoying CD check if offline, everything just feels much better in the steamworks version).
Technically they did one, albeit minor, update to fix stereo sound mixing issues and apparently improve CPU perf. Not sure the exact details beyond that, but there ya go.
Back on topic, this is all very interesting and I'm curious what MS's role is in all of this. Just a theory, but if they were somehow contractually obligated to maintain GFWL for some of these games, that may explain these updates and who's paying for it. Why else would 2K go through all the trouble to update Bioshock 2 now when they've had lackluster DLC support on PC and other linger bugs? And I doubt Batman:AC or Dark Souls would go with GFWL if they knew MS would kill it so soon after release.
If indeed MS is sunsetting GFWL earlier than expected, that would leave Dark Souls in an awkward position having come out just last year. Perhaps From will perform similar updates for Dark Souls once they develop whatever solution will take GFWL's place in Dark Souls 2? Considering the presence of the Steam logo on darksouls2.com, I would guess Steamworks.
DodgyGeezerFella
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Im not certain, but didn't From make it so retail CD keys could be registered on Steam ? Could it be they have it planned to swap to Steamworks at some point ?
Like an ancient neogaf theorist, believes ....
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Too?
oh boy
ShinobiFist
Banned
While going through my list of games, I notice the Steam achievements for Batman AC are unlock now on my profile. It was grayed out before(Last week, was going to boot the game, but got distracted). I haven't played the game since I got it during the Winter Sale(And I'm playing AA first)If this was already mentioned, my bad. Or, was it always like this, and I'm bugging out?
Madrugador
Member
Batman AA getting achievements means I need to play the game again. People can't think I haven't finished it.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
While going through my list of games, I notice the Steam achievements for Batman AC are unlock now on my profile. It was grayed out before(Last week, was going to boot the game, but got distracted). I haven't played the game since I got it during the Winter Sale(And I'm playing AA first)If this was already mentioned, my bad. Or, was it always like this, and I'm bugging out?
Yeah, Arkham City's achievements have been there from the start.
ShinobiFist
Banned
Thank you for confirming that I am insane.
While going through my list of games, I notice the Steam achievements for Batman AC are unlock now on my profile. It was grayed out before(Last week, was going to boot the game, but got distracted). I haven't played the game since I got it during the Winter Sale(And I'm playing AA first)If this was already mentioned, my bad. Or, was it always like this, and I'm bugging out?
Did a double take on this, but Morningbus is correct, AC achievements have been available from the start for the Steam version.
They are not unlocked just quite yet, so save your play through for a little while longer.
oipic
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From a backlog management perspective, I'm hopeful they take their time unlocking them... not sure where I'll fit in a replay of AA, but I've held off on starting AC until such time as I gone through AA again to get the achievements first (as silly as that may be).
Having said that, I'm still watching this thread like a hawk, though. Keep on snooping, Grief.
Finding all of those collectibles for the fourth time.
That's going to be a tough one to motivate yourself.
ive started playing AC a while back because i ended up buying the game when green man gaming tweeted the game was not gonna use GFWL and to my disappointment it did, is just a fucking disaster man, game is so fun but having to sign in on that service just to play it totally kills the experience so thanks to that i haven't finish the game
It's worth it for the hilarious bit between Batman and Riddler once you do it, though.
Look's like AA was updated again on Steamdb yesterday. Hopefully if they are gonna pull the trigger on this they do it soon. I wanna play!
Yeah I've been putting off a rerun of both Batman AA and Bio2+MD for this. Wish they'd hurry up >.>
There haven't been any updates to the app and no test beta builds, but I have a hard time believing they would leave customers out to dry.
Once they get everything working, it should be easy to apply the updates to the regular version.
Big update today for Batman: AC GOTY
They added in a mac beta portion for testing as well. The Mac version of Arkham City already exists, and is available right now on the Mac App Store.
This version looks to be added on for Steamplay functionality.
And, of course, the Mac version is free of GFWL.
They added in a mac beta portion for testing as well. The Mac version of Arkham City already exists, and is available right now on the Mac App Store.
This version looks to be added on for Steamplay functionality.
And, of course, the Mac version is free of GFWL.
alexandros
Banned
I really can't wait for the death of GFWL.
Sentenza
Member
Putting aside any wishful thinking, let's say this has nothing to do with removing GFWL; what else do you think they could be working to?
I've been thinking about other things they could be doing, and it just doesn't add up.
They've been consistently working on both of these games for months. Combine that with the lack of ulterior evidence of GFWL in the OP, and there really can be no other explanation.
I can't think of anything else they could possibly doing, the Mac versions for both Arkham games already exist.
hardcastlemccormick
Banned
We may be disappointed by the degree that GFWL is removed (just the DLC is moved into Steam) but it's the only common factor that makes sense.
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Deleted member 144138
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I hope they also remove GFWL from Dark Souls soon
Dr Stabbingworth
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Probably a lot less likely, considering the dev.
In other not likely things, has there been any update on the Steam listings for Halo PC?
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Try re-installing Steam. Just go into your control panel, uninstall it, and re-install.
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Deleted member 144138
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Microsoft deleted the APP.
Valve has gotten much more careful about games on the registry, they have really locked it down comparatively to a few months ago.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'll lay it out with minimal glib and we can proceed from here:
1) No games discussed in this thread have been updated for Steam users yet. We are just discussing recent activity in the Steam registry, basically the behind-the-scene infrastructure that supports the Steam store.
2) Arkham City has always had both GFWL and Steam achievements on Steam.
3) Everything in this thread is speculation with absolutely nothing hard or definitive about it yet. We are currently speculating that Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Bioshock 2 will be updated to remove GFWL and swap in Steamworks.