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Grief.exe · Oct 20, 2014

UPDATE 2:

Grief.exe said:
We are very excited to announce that next month it will be possible for players to migrate their Dark Souls: Prepare to Die games, saves and achievements from the Games for Windows Live platform to Steam.

Games for Windows Live users will be able to redeem their Games for Windows Live Tokens on Steam to get Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition at no additional cost. (To find your Games for Windows Live Token, please head to the support webpage.)

In the month of November, there will be a period by which Games for Windows Live Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition users will be able to transfer their Save Data (characters + progress) and Achievements over to their Steam accounts.

Players will still be able to use their Games for Windows Live Tokens to redeem the Steam version of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition at no additional cost even after the migration period ends; but game Save Data and Achievements transfer functions may not be available.

Games for Windows Live Rankings will not be transferred to Steam.

The specific migration start and end dates will be available soon; however the migration period will begin sometime in November 2014 with more specific dates to come.

We will be sharing more information soon regarding the migration process soon, so stay tuned!

Join the Bandai Namco Games America Community!

http://bandainamcous.tumblr.com/post/100546461401/we-are-very-excited-to-announce-that-next-month-it

UPDATE 1:

That was the confirmation I was waiting for. Dark Souls will have GFWL removed.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/Grief_exe/stats/211420/?tab=achievements

http://steamcommunity.com/stats/211420/achievements (Global Page is not currently working)

It's strange that From/Namco haven't been working on a beta branch for Dark Souls. Hopefully, they have been developing something internally and just need to push the patch to /public.

Sami+ · Oct 20, 2014

FUCKING FINALLY

(I don't even care about the achievements, I just want to be able to actually PLAY without jumping through a million hoops)

Sephzilla · Oct 20, 2014

Next step is to make Durante's patch official

TwistedSyn · Oct 20, 2014

PRAISE THE SUN!

Mohasus · Oct 20, 2014

My body is ready.

Joey Ravn · Oct 20, 2014

That's great. I already S-Ranked the game on GFWL... but given how much I disliked DSII, I might give Dark Souls another go.

GoodCoffeeJoey · Oct 20, 2014

itshappening.gif

MillionStabs · Oct 20, 2014

EDIT: fuck, now I gotta be original.

This is such great news, hopefully the online will be a lot better now.

Freedom = $1.05 · Oct 20, 2014

Just finished the game this weekend. Half the times I tried to summon someone the game failed to do so. Wonder if this will fix that

Kiru · Oct 20, 2014

GoodCoffeeJoey said:
itshappening.gif

MillionStabs said:
itshappening.gif

I see. My work is already done.

MUnited83 · Oct 20, 2014

Hopefully it recognizes the achievements you got on GFWL and unlock them automatically.

MRORANGE · Oct 20, 2014

They should call it: Dark Souls: Prepare to Durante Edition

RecursiveFault · Oct 20, 2014

Fuck yeah!

This is awesome!

Mr. Poolman · Oct 20, 2014

I hope the patch helps with the multiplayer.

Invaders and summons are like 1-2 seconds behind everything on my area!

Banana Aeon · Oct 20, 2014

LET'S BEAT DARK SOULS AGAIN!

Pls don't break DSfix

Yoshichan · Oct 20, 2014

I don't know if I should be happy or angry

Pyramid head · Oct 20, 2014

GFWL rendered my copy of Dark Souls completely unusable. I will raise a glass to its removal.

Goodbye and good riddance.

Nyoro SF · Oct 20, 2014

Might come back to this to wash away the taste of DS2. Especially if the online becomes more functional.

aember · Oct 20, 2014

God damn it I'm happy about all the games that are getting GFWL removed, but every time there's news like this and it doesn't include Lost Planet 2 - I lose a piece of my heart.

xplicitone · Oct 20, 2014

Nice! Wonder if achievements will transfer, one can hope!

Mr Git · Oct 20, 2014

Oh gods please. I can finally play the PC version.

Deadstar · Oct 20, 2014

Will the supposed patch ruin my save?

Saroyan · Oct 20, 2014

Thats cool if its doing away with GFWL, the online seemed to be working ok last saturday, I got invaded twice in about 20 mins

fantomena · Oct 20, 2014

Nethaniah · Oct 20, 2014

Deadstar said:
Will the supposed patch ruin my save?

Probably.

BennyBlanco · Oct 20, 2014

Will run through this for the millionth time to get me hyped for Bloodborne and cleanse my pallet from DS2.

Madrugador · Oct 20, 2014

YES!! Been waiting for this for more than a year. Great news.

Snacks the sober sea lion · Oct 20, 2014

GFWL hasn't been working well with logging in lately. If this goes well then that's good.

If it goes anything like SSFIV Arcade Edition's transition did and is still going, I will be thoroughly displeased.

Vitor711 · Oct 20, 2014

Deadstar said:
Will the supposed patch ruin my save?

Yeah, GFWL sucks but the fact that my save is in their cloud was super useful. Not sure I'll be too happy if this means I lose that progress.

NoCryingUntilTheEnd · Oct 20, 2014

hopefully I don't get hotlink'ed

dugdug · Oct 20, 2014

Pretty sure this'll be the first game I buy when I get my Alpha next month. And then, I'll have had it on all three platforms.

Because I'm a masochist, I guess.

kadotsu · Oct 20, 2014

Only Lost Planet and Bulletstorm remain.

The Reloader · Oct 20, 2014

Curse lifted.

papercamm · Oct 20, 2014

I would be thrilled for this to happen. So many more people would be able to play it easily without the BS of windows live.

Molemitts · Oct 20, 2014

Please. I can't even get GFWL to work.

JaseC · Oct 20, 2014

Re: Save concerns: Hex editing should make GFWL saves compatible with the Steamworks update, but this won't confer achievements in addition to general game progress.

kadotsu said:
Only Lost Planet and Bulletstorm remain.

Neither are happening. Capcom announced the titles it intends to patch and Bulletstorm was actually pulled from sale for several weeks, only returning because MS delayed GFWL's execution.

MrBenchmark · Oct 20, 2014

If it screws up saves like when they converted batman I'd be pretty pissed.

TheRagnCajun · Oct 20, 2014

It's been a long time coming, but I am ready to double-dip on this game if true...

Banana Aeon · Oct 20, 2014

MrBenchmark said:
If it screws up saves like when they converted batman I'd be pretty pissed.

It would give me another excuse to beat the game for the 70th plus time.

I love this game.

JustinBB7 · Oct 20, 2014

Can't wait, hope I can keep my saves though, I will replay it regardless.

SargerusBR · Oct 20, 2014

Pyramid head · Oct 20, 2014

Snacks the sober sea lion said:
GFWL hasn't been working well with logging in lately. If this goes well then that's good.

If it goes anything like SSFIV Arcade Edition's transition did and is still going, I will be thoroughly displeased.

Since I upgraded to a new PC, I've been unable to log into GFWL when starting up Dark Souls. It just fails to download my profile. SSFIV was working fine for me last I tried though.

VariantX · Oct 20, 2014

Good, I can actually play it now.

madjoki · Oct 20, 2014

Very excited for this.

MrBenchmark said:
If it screws up saves like when they converted batman I'd be pretty pissed.

Didn't Namco release patcher for Ace Combat, they might do same for Dark Souls? (Or it might be because of devs).

Else we might get unofficial converted like for Batmans (assuming format stays the same).

Snacks the sober sea lion · Oct 20, 2014

Pyramid head said:
Since I upgraded to a new PC, I've been unable to log into GFWL when starting up Dark Souls. It just fails to download my profile. SSFIV was working fine for me last I tried though.

Arcade Edition/ Ultra on PC is a stuttery broken mess. You can get decent endless with friends, but that's it. And Capcom's handling of it has been abysmal.

Krusenstern · Oct 20, 2014

MEGATON.

Now give that abomination that is GFWL the rest.

Grief.exe · Oct 20, 2014

Deadstar said:
Will the supposed patch ruin my save?

GFWL actually encrypts its save and config files, so they likely won't work out of the box unless From/Namco specifically allow them to.

Even if they don't, there will probably be a fan-made patcher available.

Snacks the sober sea lion said:
GFWL hasn't been working well with logging in lately. If this goes well then that's good.

If it goes anything like SSFIV Arcade Edition's transition did and is still going, I will be thoroughly displeased.

Snacks the sober sea lion said:
Arcade Edition/ Ultra on PC is a stuttery broken mess. You can get decent endless with friends, but that's it. And Capcom's handling of it has been abysmal.

Have you upgraded to the Beta patch?

kadotsu said:
Only Lost Planet and Bulletstorm remain.

Microsoft still has a few titles attached to the format that I would love to see on Steam.

Gears of War
Halo 2
Viva Pinata
Fable III
Shadowrun

anddo0 · Oct 20, 2014

Good, because I can't even log into the damn thing.

Lain · Oct 20, 2014

I'd prefer having Durante's fix become baseline to be completely honest but it's a step in the right direction if anything.

Snacks the sober sea lion · Oct 20, 2014

Grief.exe said:
Have you upgraded to the Beta patch?

The beta didn't do anything, dude. It worked for a couple days and then was trash. The beta has now also been replaced by 1.03, which did literally nothing to fix the online issues that have been persisting for months, and instead "fixed" an issue that never existed before Ultra by not allowing people to join endless lobbies with games in progress.

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