BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Good shit. Hope they relist it all.
Capcom has removed GFWL from a bunch of old delisted Steam releases
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Good shit. Hope they relist it all.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
Remember this next time people are calling PC bros whiners for complaining about logins.
jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Games for Windows Live - aka Microsoft's DRM circa Windows 7, it was shut down ages ago
MiguelItUp
Member
Kacho
Member
Games for Windows Live which was like an Xbox 360 overlay on PC. Once the servers went down it made all the games unplayable. Fallout 3 and Dawn of War 2 had this among others.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
2D Yoshimitsu was so fun. I wonder if we'll ever get Tekken X Street Fighter like they said a decade ago.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Games For Windows LIVE
was awesome to get achievements for your Xbox profile, and the UI was blades for a while.
diffusionx
Gold Member
SFxT never got the recognition it deserved, thanks to the stupid gems.
Kacho
Member
Sadly not. Harada don't care.
Kacho
Member
That and DLC characters being on the disc. Those CAPCPOM years were something else.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
George Rail Road Martin
Games For the love of God change your name Live
Games For the love of God change your name Live
GHG
Member
Imagine the worst DRM ever created, and then imagine something 100x worse, that's what it was.
It was originally introduced because they wanted to make people pay for online gaming on PC and got all these 3rd party publishers on board with the idea. Their games were basically going to be used as leverage to get PC gamers to pay for online gaming.
Needless to say, PC gamers rejected it and it fell flat on its face.
Here was the initial announcement:
Microsoft Announces Games For Windows-LIVE Details - IGN
Microsoft Announces Games For Windows-LIVE Details PC and 360 gamers soon to be united within months.
And then when they eventually shut it down they quietly made it so that customers can no longer download any games purchased through them:
So this is why most long time PC gamers don't give a shit when they talk about the current windows store/xbox app, play anywhere or any of the other crap that they try and tempt people back to them with.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
never experienced any issues with GFWL personally, and getting extra achievements was great, but they definitely should've removed it from all the games when MS sunsetted it.
willothedog
Member
Imagine the worst DRM ever created, and then imagine something 100x worse, that's what it was.
It was originally introduced because they wanted to make people pay for online gaming on PC and got all these 3rd party publishers on board with the idea. Their games were basically going to be used as leverage to get PC gamers to pay for online gaming.
Needless to say, PC gamers rejected it and it fell flat on its face.
Here was the initial announcement:
Microsoft Announces Games For Windows-LIVE Details - IGN
Microsoft Announces Games For Windows-LIVE Details PC and 360 gamers soon to be united within months.www.ign.com
And then when they eventually shut it down they quietly made it so that customers can no longer download any games purchased through them:
So this is why most long time PC gamers don't give a shit when they talk about the current windows store/xbox app, play anywhere or any of the other crap that they try and tempt people back to them with.
StarForce was much worse.
Calverz
Member
It was officially cancelled I believe. I cant remember the bullshit reason as to why.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Yeah, they were couple really terrible DRM schemes back in the day. Most made by same people who made Denuvo.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
I believe it was Chaos Theory w/ starforce that killed DVD drives.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
True. Activation limits were the craziest shit ever.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
especially when those activation limits became permanent after it destroyed your drive.
GHG
Member
I don't remember StarForce attempting to force me to pay for online gaming or making it impossible to download and play my purchased games.
I do remember it fucking up windows installs though, was probably trying to do us all a favour.
Icymanipulator
Member
I would love to pick this up again.
Retrofluxed
Member
Microsoft should take a page from Capcom's example and fix Fable 3.
Mr Hyde
Gold Member
Imagine the worst DRM ever created, and then imagine something 100x worse, that's what it was.
It was originally introduced because they wanted to make people pay for online gaming on PC and got all these 3rd party publishers on board with the idea. Their games were basically going to be used as leverage to get PC gamers to pay for online gaming.
Needless to say, PC gamers rejected it and it fell flat on its face.
Here was the initial announcement:
Microsoft Announces Games For Windows-LIVE Details - IGN
Microsoft Announces Games For Windows-LIVE Details PC and 360 gamers soon to be united within months.
And then when they eventually shut it down they quietly made it so that customers can no longer download any games purchased through them:
So this is why most long time PC gamers don't give a shit when they talk about the current windows store/xbox app, play anywhere or any of the other crap that they try and tempt people back to them with.
Interesting bit of history. I'm fairly new in the PC space so I never knew any of this. I thought some of their initiatives like Play Anywhere and PC game pass are kinda good and consumer friendly but MS is such a nefarious company that it's difficult to trust them not having a shitty agenda behind it. And I don't really want to be locked down in their eco system even if it's on PC. And the Xbox app is terrible. So I just play most of their games through Steam and GoG.
Aretak
Member
That actually isn't true despite the reports in the media. The Games for Windows Live store was shut down a long time ago, but the actual service is still up and running (the same as the Xbox 360 in both respects). It's a slight hassle to get it up and running these days, but it works just fine even on Windows 11 once you get it installed correctly. You can log in, play online and do everything with it that you always could - including redeeming keys, from physical copies of games or otherwise, despite the marketplace closure. I would expect the core functionality of GfWL to be up and running until the day that the Xbox 360's online services are finally turned off completely.
forsakkenSoul
Member
I remember this program/service in GTA IV and Resident Evil 5, I never liked it. It would either cause problems with the game's saves or, in some cases, prevent the game from opening.
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
It'd be nice if we got a GOG release of them, then. GFWL was such a fucking blight.