GFWL is to be discontinued

[czc]

Yep, it's happening. GFWL is closing down. Announcement on the AoEO page:

“Games for Windows Live will be discontinued on July 1, 2014. Although it is available through Steam, Age of Empires Online requires features of the Games for Windows Live service. You can continue to enjoy all the features of Age of Empires Online as the service will remain 100% operational until July 1, 2014 when the server will shut down.”

So where does that leave all the other games that require GFWL like Dirt and GTA 4, and many others I guess. Are people that bought these games about to be royalty screwed?

Info sourced from RPS

[MetalSoup]

Yep, it's happening. GFWL is closing down. Announcement on the AoEO page:


So where does that leave all the other games that require GFWL like Dirt and GTA 4, and many others I guess. Are people that bought these games about to be royalty screwed?

Info sourced from RPS

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I just hope they offer a solution for existing games that already use it, or that the developers patch it out themselves, otherwise that's going to be a huge hassle.

[oltman]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. I just hope they offer a solution for existing games that already use it, or that the developers patch it out themselves, otherwise that's going to be a huge hassle.

yeah, some games like GTA IV and Batman Arkham City still use this... will this be replaced by XBOX Live?

[Snare]

I seriously doubt that there is a single human being on planet earth who is upset about GFWL being cancelled. How often have we had to struggle to play the games that we paid for just because their service is buggy, full of nonsense or just flat out doesn't work.
Say what you want about origin and uPlay but at least you can play the games you own the day you get them

[Totempole]

I seriously doubt that there is a single human being on planet earth who is upset about GFWL being cancelled. How often have we had to struggle to play the games that we paid for just because their service is buggy, full of nonsense or just flat out doesn't work.
Say what you want about origin and uPlay but at least you can play the games you own the day you get them

I am... somewhat. Mainly because I'm worried about my existing GFWL games becoming useless. Other than that, I don't really care. I think I hate steam more.

Steam has a huge variety of games, but a crappy, clunky, frustrating interface that needs to be updated all the time.

I love how they "sell" it to you by telling you it's only a 1MB download. Then you realize you got screwed
when the 100MB update gets applied.

[Snare]

I am... somewhat. Mainly because I'm worried about my existing GFWL games becoming useless. Other than that, I don't really care. I think I hate steam more.

Steam has a huge variety of games, but a crappy, clunky, frustrating interface that needs to be updated all the time.

I love how they "sell" it to you by telling you it's only a 1MB download. Then you realize you got screwed
when the 100MB update gets applied.

I dislike Steam as well but it's still light-years ahead of GFWL. Well I highly doubt your games will become useless. But if worst comes to worst there's always cracks.

[Glordit]

I dislike Steam as well but it's still light-years ahead of GFWL. Well I highly doubt your games will become useless. But if worst comes to worst there's always cracks.

I disliked steam as well, then I got uncapped.

[Neo]

This is probably the best news I've heard in a long, long time. What they could do is add the serial numbers for the games you own to the STEAM database, and then you can just install your game using Steam. For example, both GTA IV and Batman Arkham Asylum are GFWL, but you cannot add them as products to STEAM. All they would need to do is add those serials to the STEAM DB

[ViperGTI]

+1 to all the above. I just hope Microsoft never attempts something like this again.

[HavocXphere]

+1 to all the above. I just hope Microsoft never attempts something like this again.

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