The future of GFWL games.

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Found a useful article on the status of games that use GFWL:

Green = GFWL has been removed.
Blue = GFWL will be removed.
Red = No plans.
Purple = We've reached out but are still awaiting response.

2K Games
BioShock 2 (Steamworks)

Bethesda
Fallout 3 (None. GFWL CD key requirement removed by Steam. Instructions are available for downloading and archiving DLC purchased through GFWL.)

Capcom
Dark Void (No plans.)
Dead Rising 2 (No plans.)
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record (No plans.)
Lost Planet 2 (No plans.)
Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition (No plans.)
Resident Evil 5 (No plans.)
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (No plans.)
Street Fighter X Tekken (No plans.)
Super Street Fighter IV / Arcade Edition (Steamworks)

Codemasters
DiRT 2 (No Comment.)
DiRT 3 (Steamworks)
F1 2010 (Steamworks)
F1 2011 (Steamworks)
Fuel (No Comment. Delisted from Steam.)
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (No Comment.)
Operation Flashpoint: Red River (No Comment.)

Double Fine Productions
Iron Brigade (No plans.)

EA
Bulletstorm

Microsoft
Fable 3 (No plans.)
Gears of War (No plans.)
Halo 2 (No plans.)
Microsoft Flight (No plans.)
Shadowrun (No plans.)
Tinker (No plans.)
Viva Piñata (No plans.)

Namco Bandai
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Enhanced Edition (Exploring options, but no set plans yet.)
Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition (Exploring options, but no set plans yet.)

Update: Namco Bandai descriptions altered from "will update" to "exploring options."

Nordic Games
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Will strip GFWL. May replace with an existing service or develop its own.)

Rockstar Games
Grand Theft Auto IV + Episodes From Liberty City

Sega
The Club
Stormrise
Universe at War: Earth Assault
Virtua Tennis 4
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War 2

Shadow Planet Productions
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Steamworks)

Signal Studios
Toy Soldiers (Can choose between GFWL or Steamworks)

Strategy First
Flatout: Ultimate Carnage

Square Enix
Kane & Lynch: Dead Men

Twisted Pixel
Ms. Splosion Man (Steamworks. No timeline.)

Warner Bros
Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY (Steamworks)
Batman: Arkham City GOTY (Steamworks)
Gotham City Impostors (Steamworks)
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection

Zombie Studios / Ignition Entertainment
Blacklight: Tango Down (No plans.)


The following games are extremely unlikely to be updated:

Activision
Quantum of Solace (Delisted. Publisher no longer has rights to franchise.)

Disney Interactive
Star Wars: Clone Wars - Republic Heroes (Original publisher [Lucasarts] Closed)
Tron: Evolution (Studio Closed)

Timegate Studios
Section 8 (Studio Closed)
Section 8: Prejudice (Studio Closed)

Nice to see that at least a few developers are working on it, though I think most will agree they shouldn't have used it in the first place. It's very concerning how many of them just don't seem to care about it, though. We may never be able to play some of those games again without "third party patches".
 
Nice find i own half of those games but now how would this be skipped by a patch or will the game by itself jsut not ask for activation anymore, or as soon as it does it will just skip right past it?
 
Great find.

Fallout 3 (None. GFWL CD key requirement removed by Steam. Instructions are available for downloading and archiving DLC purchased through GFWL.)
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Does this mean that I'll be able to active my retail copy on Steam some time?
 
So will we need to crack games like Lost Planet? I still haven't played it but have it on disc. I sometimes think that Microsoft goes out of their way to alienate their customers.
 
Eugene said:

Warner Bros
Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY (Steamworks)
Batman: Arkham City GOTY (Steamworks)
Gotham City Impostors (Steamworks)
Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection
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Doh! Does this mean you can activate the keys from the retail game on Steam now? I'm curious because I have the Collector's Edition and I'm wondering if I should've waited instead of buying it again through a Humble Bundle deal. :confused:

Then again I suppose I didn't lose out since the CE doesn't have Harley Quinn's Revenge and I basically paid less than what that DLC costs alone for the Humble Bundle, best of all I opted to give nothing to WB for opting to go with GFWL in the first place! :D
 
Xiphan said:
Doh! Does this mean you can activate the keys from the retail game on Steam now? I'm curious because I have the Collector's Edition and I'm wondering if I should've waited instead of buying it again through a Humble Bundle deal. :confused:

Then again I suppose I didn't lose out since the CE doesn't have Harley Quinn's Revenge and I basically paid less than what that DLC costs alone for the Humble Bundle, best of all I opted to give nothing to WB for opting to go with GFWL in the first place! :D
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I think only if you have the Steam DRM version.
 
Solitude said:
So will we need to crack games like Lost Planet? I still haven't played it but have it on disc. I sometimes think that Microsoft goes out of their way to alienate their customers.
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This is Microsofts official stance to PC gamers:

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VirtualForce said:
This is Microsofts official stance to PC gamers:

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This.

Also they seem intent on maintaining that official stance as long as humanly possible

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Solitude said:
So will we need to crack games like Lost Planet? I still haven't played it but have it on disc. I sometimes think that Microsoft goes out of their way to alienate their customers.
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Yeah literally all my GFWL games i had to crack to play even when the servers were still up. Really was a kak service
 
Just so you guys know, the original Batman Arkham Asylum does not work the same as Arkham City. If you enter your Arkham Asylum GFWL CD key into STEAM it fails to recognise it - as far as I know, it's an ongoing issue and it's supposed to give you the collectors edition on STEAM.

However, with Arkham City, if you enter your GFWL CD key into STEAM, it gives you the collectors edition of the game on STEAM, no problems.
 
Neo said:
Just so you guys know, the original Batman Arkham Asylum does not work the same as Arkham City. If you enter your Arkham Asylum GFWL CD key into STEAM it fails to recognise it - as far as I know, it's an ongoing issue and it's supposed to give you the collectors edition on STEAM.

However, with Arkham City, if you enter your GFWL CD key into STEAM, it gives you the collectors edition of the game on STEAM, no problems.
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Luckily I bought them both on Steam to begin with, so I have no issues, aside from the fact that they're both now listed twice in my library, because they didn't bother to remove the old ones. :rolleyes:
 
Eugene said:
Luckily I bought them both on Steam to begin with, so I have no issues, aside from the fact that they're both now listed twice in my library, because they didn't bother to remove the old ones. :rolleyes:
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At least it adds to your "number of owned games" count in your Steam library ;)
 
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