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Steam Versions Batman:AA/AC & Bioshock 2 Adding Achievements, Removing GFWL/Securom?
- Thread starter Grief.exe
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It looks like just the GOTY edition will roll out first.
I don't know if they will then go back and update the regular versions of both AC and AA, but whatever studio is working on the update hasn't updated either of those apps at all.
They may leave them behind, but updates to those versions should be trivial after the GOTY version is finished, and DLC could be put up for individual sale again so they would be motivated for that reason.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
We don't know yet. Common sense and basic decency would make you think, of course. But then you look at the registry and literally none of these changes are going into the non-goty version.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I think they'd just rather sell you another Steam entry that reads Batman (R): Arkham City (tm): Game of the Year Edition and charge you 5 dollars for the pleasure.
XOMTOR
Member
More than likely. Wouldn't be such a bitter pill to swallow except for seeing 2 entries for the same game on my Steam profile (one being broken) and the fact that save files aren't compatible between versions.
When you upgrade, it will remove the regular edition of Arkham City or Arkham Asylum from your library and replace the entry with the GOTY edition.
neoism
Member
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well I'm glad i got so excited for nothing.. got the regular edition with the skin and Harley dlc ...:/ will not rebuy....
Madrugador
Member
Same. I have the vanilla version of AC :/
XOMTOR
Member
Well that's a bit better then, thanks. It also appears that it may be possible to hack GFWL saves between versions but it sounds a bit convoluted. Don't know if it's possible to hack a previous online save to an offline one. Luckily, I've always used offline since I don't care about gamerscore or whatever it's called.
It would be strange for them to leave people out in the cold, I think they will get to it eventually.
They do have a limited amount of time before GFWL shuts down entirely.
matrix-cat
Member
I've been hoping they'd give vanilla owners some kind of upgrade option for a while now. I have vanilla AC, with all the DLC bought separately, so it's the GOTY version in everything but name. Drives me mad every time I look at my Steam library and see Batman: Arkham City sitting right underneath Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition 
RealDeadOne
Member
Arkham City is one of my favorite games of all time, even though I already have all the DLC including Harley's Revenge from the GFWL store, I would gladly pay to upgrade to a version without GFWL and with Steamworks.
But only if there were some way to transfer my saves and Steam achievements. Though honestly 100%ing the game again on Hard wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing, but I'd prefer to just have it as an option.
Luckily I already have the GOTY edition of Asylum, and already got all the cheevos.
But only if there were some way to transfer my saves and Steam achievements. Though honestly 100%ing the game again on Hard wouldn't necessarily be the worst thing, but I'd prefer to just have it as an option.
Luckily I already have the GOTY edition of Asylum, and already got all the cheevos.
Can't wait for Minerva's Den
Dark Souls could be getting a GFWL removal patch as well, too early to tell right now
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Do the following From:
Contact Durante, add DDFix to the install folder.
Insert menu options that directly edit the DSFix ini file, but leave out the options that affect the game's compatibility like 60fps (leave it in the ini, though).
Remove GFWL. Insert Steamworks.
Contact Durante, add DDFix to the install folder.
Insert menu options that directly edit the DSFix ini file, but leave out the options that affect the game's compatibility like 60fps (leave it in the ini, though).
Remove GFWL. Insert Steamworks.
Deaf Spacker
Memb
My copy of Bioshock 2 had an update on Monday I think, could that be connected to the GFWL removal and controller support?
Felix Lighter
Member
Be still my beating heart.
You can activate it now, or you can wait. The game will still be valid after the update.
The update on Monday was just to Redist and DirectX. So nothing big yet.
AcceptableGhost
Member
It would be so fucking great if GFWL got replaced with Steamworks in that game specifically. I think it has the most to gain from the change.
Steamworks has a P2P matchmake option built in, the infrastructure is already in place. Just on From to follow through.
I would personally prefer a RE4 HD edition PC port.
I bought the Gold Edition on PS3, and then got it free from PS+.
I'd still pay
USD 5
ashecitism
Member
This. Never had a chance to play it.
I played it back in the day on PS2, would love to play through it again with M/KB controls and a great port.
Interestingly enough, if you own the Wii version you can play on Dolphin with the M/KB.
Madrugador
Member
GFWL isn't obligatory since like... forever (or at least since we got the GOTY edition).
I thought you had to mod it to disable GFWL before?
BoosterDuck
Banned
bengraven
Member
Last time I played I needed it...? This was about a year or so ago though.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
You realize you can just download RE4 PC and use a bunch of mods that give you everything RE4 HD edition(which is not much considering it was just a simple upres port) and more along with KB+M right? No need for a RE4 HD pc port when the community already made a better HD version than capcom already can.
Only cons are the cutscenes.
Mod or use FOSE. Disabling live does not impact the dlc
DodgyGeezerFella
Member
And lighting, and also models (unless there is a mod to replace them with the GameCube ones) ?
If you really want a concrete answer you might wanna go raise a ruckus over on the unity forums under the "Ask Capcom" section.
I can't find the post, but they said not to long ago RE5 DLC for PC was never greenlighted for development or budgeted (obviously), which implies it wasn't worth the cost to port. They pretty much put the idea to bed. There's probably even less money to be made now, even if they do strip out GFWL.
Your friend is just confused, Fallout 3 was never very pushy about its GFWL integration in the first place. I guarantee it is installed on his system.
The argument is pointless, the app hasn't been updated in months, and those updates were just house keeping.
Except that the models and geometry are from the PS2 version of the game, M/KB controls are seriously fucked, and the lighting is still not right.
This is currently the best way to experience RE4 on PC.
Actually I believe the real reason was, according to sven, that the team had already disbanded and Capcom didn't want to waste the time pulling people from several different currently on-going projects in order to reassemble the team and "port" (I use the marks because with MT framework it isn't really porting to PC as much as it is optimizing, because with MT framework everything is dev'd on PC first anyways) the content. Sven said he threw quite a big fit about it, and made it clear to the head honchos over in Japan that it was unacceptable, and damaged their reputation with PC gamers. And while I know gaf likes to shit on the man for perceived lies, I tend to think this is true because ever since then I think every piece of DLC for any capcom game that has a PCv eventually made its way to PC.
Keep the hope alive!
Seriously though, I do wonder what kind of effort it would take. The size of those DLCs isn't exactly huge, just push the work to couple junior programmers and gain some brownie points with the community by doing right by them, even if it's a little late.
Found it (from Jan 2013):
http://www.capcom-unity.com/ask_cap...pc-just-like-revelations?post_num=7#528477975
Sven said:
He's answered that same topic on RE5's dlc over a dozen times, so the fact you found one that didn't match exactly what I said isn't that surprising.
That isn't even getting into if you read between the lines of that particular post you'll find sorta what I said in that particular answer ("the team wasn't available"). And I'm sorry, no budget existing in 2013 to port the DLC =/= the content wasn't ported because they didn't think it would sell enough to turn a profit when the content actually launched. It means they don't think it would turn a profit if they broke down and ported it today, which is probably true at this point.
Yeah, that's just the most recent response on the status before he left. I think that's the gist of it at this point now, unfortunately.