Microsoft denies letting GFWL die, says they still support the core PC gamer with ‘Age of Empires On
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How about instead of just talking about how awful GFWL is compared to Steam, since everyone knows that already, let's compare it to Origin.
[QUOTE=DrKoeniginator;35633888]How about instead of just talking about how awful GFWL is compared to Steam, since everyone knows that already, let's compare it to Origin.[/QUOTE]
I'd take Origin any day, at least it works.
No mention of Dead Rising in this thread?
If they kill GFWL they'd better hand over online support for [I]all[/I] games to Steam.
[QUOTE=MaxOfS2D;35631818]If that's what "core PC gamer" means for Microsoft, no wonder they're so out-of-phase with reality[/QUOTE]
No kidding. Has anyone else found it odd that they seem to be operating under the business plan that the Xbox is a competitor to the PC...even though Microsoft owns the OS that 99.9% of PC games run on? You'd think they would be working together.
Basically, It's like Steam except it doesn't sell you cheap games and restricts from stuff.
Hell, even Origin is better than GfWL. And Origin is shit.
[QUOTE=TDocter;35632508]I love Steam to no end, but they really should make it possible to play offline without having to be online first. Sort of defeats the purpose of having a offline mode in the first place.[/QUOTE]
The big problem of offline mode is that, if Steam doesn't exit properly (and god knows it does — crashing, freezing, etc.), then it "loses" the authorization that you've got in your client registry.
(from what I gather, every time you launch Steam when your previous session was online and exited properly, a 30-day offline authorization is given to you)
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