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[YianGaruga]

Why are people happy about this? It means A LOT of games will become completely unplayable.

 

[Neuromancer]

Will I be able to continue to play Flight Simulator? I guess not. =(

 

[Like the hat?]

So what happens to fallout 3?

 

[Sparse]

 

[AcceptableGhost]

So what happens to fallout 3?

i think most of the bigger pubs (that make money off of their pc titles still) will probably patch out gfwl

 

[HiredN00bs]

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.

 

[Symphonic]

So is Microsoft totally switching to Steamworks or what? The whole gaming side of Windows 8 is kinda reliant on GFWL.

 

[Chittagong]

Origin and U-Play next pls!

 

[maniac-kun]

i think most of the bigger pubs (that make money off of their pc titles still) will probably patch out gfwl

Thats a lot of dev time to waste.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Games that will no longer be available for digital purchase in 3 days:
AFL Live
Battle vs. Chess - Not purchasable on Steam, Publisher is essentially defunct
CarneyVale: Showtime - Independent title
Crash Time 4: The Syndicate - Other series installments are on Steam
Game Room - Many constituent titles are available sans-GFWL
Gears of War for Windows
Halo 2 for Windows Vista
Hour of Victory
Quantum of Solace - Game no longer for sale on Steam
Shadowrun - Servers are no longer running for this, right?
Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
Legend of the Galactic Heroes
Mahjong Wisdom -- MS has a free Mahjong game on W8, "replacement"?
Rugby League Live
Tinker - Free, download right now if you ever want to play
Tron: Evolution
Vancouver 2010
Viva Piñata for Windows
Where’s Waldo? The Fantastic Journey

Games whose online facilities and achievements will die July 1, 2014--some of these may no longer be able to be activated at this point and thus will be DEAD DEAD:
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon – Enhanced Edition
Blacklight: Tango Down
Bulletstorm
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition
Dead Rising 2
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
DiRT 2
Dirt 3
F1 2010
F1 2011
Fable III
Fallout 3
FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage
FUEL
Grand Theft Auto IV
Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
Iron Brigade
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
Lost Planet 2
Microsoft Flight
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
Ms. Splosion Man
Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Section 8
Section 8: Prejudice
Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Republic Heroes
Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter X Tekken
Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Virtua Tennis 4

So is Microsoft totally switching to Steamworks or what? The whole gaming side of Windows 8 is kinda reliant on GFWL.

Windows 8 doesn't use GFWL at all.

 

[sk3tch]

I thought competition was good.

Who is going to keep Steam in check? Uplay?

Um...Origin?

 

[Tain]

seriously what about stranglehold god damn

 

[Grief.exe]

I thought competition was good.

Who is going to keep Steam in check? Uplay?

GFWL was not competition to Steam. You actually have to provide a good service in order to be competition.

Origin and Uplay could be considered Steam's competition.

 

[Emitan]

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.

I don't think anyone was using the Kin.

 

[Soulflarz]

Origin and U-Play next pls!

Uplay sure
Origin? We may not like it but thats just a gaming service. I have dead space 3 on there as of a week ago so nty

 

[Symphonic]

Hope at least Rockstar and the Dirt team patches their games, love the online in those.

I feel like Rockstar is totally done with GTAIV PC though.

 

[oVerde]

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.

From that list.. just GFWL I didn't put some care. But yeah.. I feel sad for Zune everytime.
And Kin, no one bought a Kin.

 

[Visualante2]

Why are people happy about this? It means A LOT of games will become completely unplayable.

A lot of people have already played them and are more concerned about future releases being gimped by this shitty platform.

 

[Eusis]

Why are people happy about this? It means A LOT of games will become completely unplayable.

This IS something that's kind of a gamble when you think about it: games like Batman and Bioshock 2 show signs of it getting patched out eventually, so this may be what pushes many games to abandon it and go full Steamworks or whatever and thus be smoother experiences. But if a developer does nothing, yeah, this could be essentially killing games, it's why I went ahead and bought Bulletstorm on 360 despite having it on PC because it seemed there was a high chance either the service would die or at least give me problems, and $5 isn't much for peace of mind.

Ironic that I still have to depend on Microsoft services, but I'm more confident XBL360 will stick around, and perhaps the freedom to play offline indefinitely.

 

[Stumpokapow]

Origin? We may not like it but thats just a gaming service. I have dead space 3 on there as of a week ago so nty

*plays Dead Space 3*
What a pretty game, I'd love to take a screenshots right now

oh wait, origin doesn't support taking screenshots

thank god i'm getting Origin Achievement Points though.

 

[Nabs]

Fuck. I didn't even think of SFxT. Oh well, it's not like anyone played it.

 

[tauke]

I wonder how they will handle existing games that uses GFWL like Fallout 3.

Still it didn't last for at least a decade...

 

[soulassssns]

I just recently purchased Dirt 3 on Steam will it still function?

 

[Palette Swap]

Time to play DoW II coop I guess. I've been meaning to try it for ages.

It's bitter sweet news in the sense that we'll finally be rid of this piece of shit but some games will have diminished functionality. I hope as many devs as possible patch that shit out.

 

[AcceptableGhost]

seriously what about stranglehold god damn

stranglehold isn't gfwl as far as I know?

 

[LQX]

They had the chance to be the most viable competition to Steam but greed, ignorance and a unwillingness to take notice of how different the PC market is from the console market doomed them. They will never learn.

 

[Sullichin]

Fucking Dark Souls fuckkkkkkk

 

[WickedLaharl]

Why are people happy about this? It means A LOT of games will become completely unplayable.

Yeah I'm not really understanding that either. I guess the fear that some odd title just might be crazy enough to include GFWL these days outweights all the existing titles that are getting fucked over.

 

[PaleFolklore]

Thank you based god. The plague of PC Gaming is gone.

 

[Symphonic]

Windows 8 doesn't use GFWL at all.

Er, not reliant I suppose. The whole gaming app in Windows 8 is going to look SUPER empty without GFWL games, though. At least for me. Are they just totally switching to casual games or what?

 

[sk3tch]

*plays Dead Space 3*
What a pretty game, I'd love to take a screenshots right now

oh wait, origin doesn't support taking screenshots

thank god i'm getting Origin Achievement Points though.

There are other apps that can do this...they're free, too!

 

[kadotsu]

Ultimate wall of shame.

Thanks for that. I forgot that some games had GFWL. Adding them to the shortlist of my backlog.

 

[Rabid-Coot]

For you, the day GFWL closed was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

Spoiler

July 1st 2014 is a Tuesday.

 

[TheRagnCajun]

So please tell me that by MS closing down their servers that breaks their publishing contracts with developers. If not, that is one raw deal.

 

[chaosblade]

Most - if not all - GFWL games simply will not let you play without first logging in, which is where the problem is.

I'm hoping we'll get patches for it one way or another. But I probably shouldn't be that confident in publishers or Microsoft caring about these games, since "they got theirs."

 

[Stumpokapow]

Er, not reliant I suppose. The whole gaming app in Windows 8 is going to look SUPER empty without GFWL games, though. At least for me. Are they just totally switching to casual games or what?

Windows 8 Xbox Live games are not Games For Windows Live.

 

[inky]

Good riddance GFWL. You were too fucking awful for this world.

oh wait so they're shutting down AOE online?

lmfao

those in-game transactions were expensive as hell

$15 per Civ, $5+ booster mission packs, $100 launch bundle that they took more than a year to fulfill. Added cosmetic micro-transactions later on, etc etc.

I liked the game (I even bought 2 of the civ packs for like $10 each) but they had no fucking clue of what they were doing. Same deal with Flight. Both stopped receiving support ages ago, so its no surprise.

 

[Diablohead]

This is so microsoft it hurts, try to be a key rival in something, fail to some degree and just bin it completely within a few years, repeat the cycle with something else.

Blows for people like me who enjoy GFWL achievements in games, I have a big backlog to go over now before January.

 

[statham]

I changed my mind on origin after trying to get BF3 to play, GFWL please take it with you.

 

[Mass Effect]

I thought competition was good.

Who is going to keep Steam in check? Uplay?

lol at considering GFWL "competition."

Anyway, Origin, Impulse, Gamefly, GOG. And then you have websites like GMG, Amazon, etc.

 

[Sullichin]

Thank you based god. The plague of PC Gaming is gone.

This is horrible for the games that already use it and probably won't update, like Dark Souls.

 

[hey_it's_that_dog]

I thought competition was good.

Who is going to keep Steam in check? Uplay?

1) No one has provided actual competition to Steam, so nothing is being lost in terms of "competition."

2) On Steam (or any distribution platform) games compete with each other as well. Competition between platforms is secondary and not necessary to keep prices down.

3) Amazon does a decent job of competing with Steam and does so without forcing a bullshit client onto our PCs that offers no useful features other than to force us to create accounts and add extra clicks to the process of launching our games.

 

[Soulflarz]

*plays Dead Space 3*
What a pretty game, I'd love to take a screenshots right now

oh wait, origin doesn't support taking screenshots

thank god i'm getting Origin Achievement Points though.

*plays dead space 3* *pc crashes*
Why is my steam account worth over $2000 (prob only spent a few hundred thank you bundles) when i cant even run a game because of integrated graphics. WHY DO I KEEP BUYING

 

[LiquidMetal14]

Not soon enough.

Agreed. I need that off my PC ASAP.

 

[Curufinwe]

Does this mean that we won't be able to earn Achievements in games like Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II after 7/1/14?

 

[Addnan]

Witch is dead, but it's taking down games with it that I want to play or play again some day.

We need to get Epic to fix Gears and release on Steam

and I have Viva Piñata on their that I always wanted to play, may have got round to it some day and the future.

What about all the Dawn of War stuff :/

 

[yellow submarine]

So much for the power of the cloud.

 

[Tokubetsu]

I'm upset about some of these games going/potentially be dying but sacrifices had to be made. Blood for the blood god.

 

[d00d3n]

So, when lots of games break for people with Steam, who do they blame? Microsoft or Valve?

 

[PFD]

I thought competition was good.

Who is going to keep Steam in check? Uplay?

GFWL wasn't competing with Steam. It was only crippling our games. It's a pos service that needed to die long ago.