What makes you think the store won't be closing ? What if the market change ? Heck, do we even know how they handle removed downloads ? Will we be able to redownload games removed from the store ?
It's not GFWL, it's worse. What's with all the apologism ? Multi billion company retired its old service, is launching a new one two years later without getting the situation fix, and we should all smile and say "mistake happens ! " ?
At this point, I understand why people don't want to buy on the Windows Store, considering the one who bought on Steam their GFWL games can still play and download them while those who trust Microsoft with the store can't anymore. I understand why people wants to buy these games on a reliable store/service.
Because Microsoft sure isn't. I'm tired of people calling others with an agenda when they don't trust MS on their service. Yes, I have an agenda. It's called a consumer agenda. I'm pro-consumer, and I don't accept that multi billion companies kill services and launch same one without bringing solutions to their past mistakes.
Again, GFWL was primarily a gaming service. The Win10 store is not. They are really two immensely different concepts, the latter of which the company is betting the entirety of its OS profitability on (which they gave away over 200million copies of for free.
If you can look at the scope of these two project, and walk away with the notion that this is 'just another attempt at GFWL, then I don't know what else to say...
Games really aren't the end goal here...
And I'm far from an apologist...I'm just choosing to look at the situation objectively rather than emotionally.