No GFWL for Batman: Arkham Origins & GFWL Ends Next Year???

Technology and Gaming
#1

As reported on the Blue’sNews website on Aug. 19, 2013, evening.

Batman: Arkham Origins will not use Games for Windows Live, reports IGN, saying WBIE has confirmed that the new installment in the stealth/action series uses Steamworks for achievements and multiplayer support. There was no multiplayer in the first two games in the Arkham series, but they both used GFWL for achievement tracking. This news comes shortly after news that the Xbox.com PC Marketplace (formerly the Games for Windows LIVE Marketplace) will close this week, and word from Capcom that Ultra Street Fighter IV will likewise drop Games for Windows Live after using this on previous games including Super Street Fighter IV. On the heals of all this, Polygon reports on a now-removed support update from Microsoft that announced the Games for Windows Live service will end on July 1, 2014.

#2

This is the best version of this thread, for it has three question marks instead of one or none.

Seriously, what was wrong with the other two threads? Is your OCD really that bad?

#3

That deserves a 3 day ban

#4

I’d be tempted to stretch it longer just because it’s Dadster.

I’m a terrible person, I know.

#5

how will play those having a game that was made to play with gfwl [only] ?
i have dirt2 that is on steam too , the game was logging to gfwl to start playing…

may be a good game using unreal3 engine is coming today : the bureau xcom
the story is in area51 with some roswell dudes that should be very cool if they done it funnuy

#6

wow, how random lol

#7

I thought GFWL was dead already.a

#8

I think what sixcentgeorge was trying to ask is:

When GFWL does get taken offline, how do we play any games that rely on it to access the game’s content? Resident Evil 5, for instance, requires a GFWL login to play anything other than the graphical benchmark.

#9

Only the GFWL marketplace will be taken offline. The online infrastructure will still work but MS won’t be supporting it anymore and no more games will use it in the future.

#10

the more i read that , the more i doubt . delivery of game by the web is working well , steam makes a tons of $$.
at the same time nvidia just made his 360xbox and a marketplace to sell games , steam is making one xbox too . M$ should want to renegociate and will try to kill nvidia and steam ’ s boxes

#11

This guys is a genius. Listen to him.

#12

just get a xlive.dll from google and put it in C:\Windows\System32\

no more need for games for windows live

[COLOR=‘Black’]disclaimer: if you get the files from a website that is non-trustworthy and your computer gets infected by malware, I shall not be held responsible in this case or any other[/size]

#13

I know that for GTAIV you put it in the folder. I’ve never had it work for other games that way though. Putting it in System32 will get rid of it in every game?

#14

some games require it to be registered using regsvr32, steam games might not run that way, but most should run just fine

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