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Microsoft's plans for the future of GFWL

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:29 pm
by TronFAQ

Re: Microsoft's plans for the future of GFWL

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:00 am
by win3k
<headdesk>
I cannot comprehend how Microsoft get things so badly wrong. Why do they think that all gamers want this kind of experience? I know that the Farmville/mafia wars shut-ins get off on this kind of horsecrap, but all I want to do is play the game I've paid for (and I always pay) with the minimum of fuss.

This whole gamer profile nonsense is just a pain in the arse.

win3k

Re: Microsoft's plans for the future of GFWL

Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 6:24 pm
by zook_one
GFWL is poop. I can not believe GFWL makes you pay to change your user name! What a load of crap!

Re: Microsoft's plans for the future of GFWL

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:04 pm
by TronFAQ
Well, it seems that Games for Windows Live is becoming Xbox Live for the PC.

http://www.winrumors.com/microsoft-reve ... windows-8/

I don't even know where to begin . . . does this mean that we'll get an identical experience on the PC, with all the same features? Instead of the crippled, nearly useless version we have now?

Does it mean they're going to bring back a subscription fee? Which they tried before, and it failed?

And, hello? Anti-trust regulation? Microsoft just went through this with Internet Explorer. Now they're bundling another application with Windows that will give Microsoft an unfair advantage over their competitors.

No matter how you look at it, though: bringing the "Xbox console experience" to Windows is not exactly what people who still game on the PC have been asking for.

Re: Microsoft's plans for the future of GFWL

Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 2:41 pm
by xistence
Yeah, i read this news as well, and i was thinking if this news was more valuable then the story about this bag of rice in china, that one that dropped down. I decided that not, bag of rice won the challenge.
MarcoHard missed the train, when it was about setting up a good platform for selling and distributing games/software. They should get this, instead of bothering gamers/users with their crap. And if they should try the same stupid thing, as with the Internet Explorer... well as soon they want to ship this in Europe, the lawyers will be happy. They already kicked MacroHard's ass about that once.