Relic Entertainment dropping GFWL

[Drakonis]

I cannot stand GFWL

Relic Entertainment, the studio behind the Warhammer series of games, has revealed that they will be dropping Games for Windows Live with the release of Warhammer 40 000 Dawn of War II: Retribution. The newest release in the series will be supported by Steamworks alone

[rustypup]

here's hoping bethesda follows suit... that crud must die... one of my main gripes with fallout 3

[Drakonis]

I believe New Vegas will also only be Steamworks-based. I'll try to confirm if you like?

New Vegas will only be using Steam as its DRM so when you get your copy, it'll install via Steam. FO 3 is going to remain a GFWL title though.

Third edit: Looks like loads of studios are dropping support for GFWL. The only one of note that will use it AFAIK will be Fable 3 on the PC. Makes sense, M$ is releasing it.

[rustypup]

that would rock... but I don't have the steam version

[StarBound]

The more DRM crap is dropped the better. While I hate(d) (I still think I hate it) Steam it's been slowly showing it's uses. I can buy some of the older stuff that I missed or long since lost the discs of and if the connection is fast enough and data cap isnt a problem then it works well. Atm my view of steam is that of an online console. You buy the game, its avalible, but you need to be online to play. I hope everything reverts back to steam as a single drm source rather than multiple sources that no one knows where the hell the problem lies.

[rustypup]

Fable 3 on the PC

and there they were swearing blind this would never happen... glad to hear the publishers are finally catching on...

Atm my view of steam is that of an online console <..> you need to be online to play

no, you don't.... offline mode works rather well...

[StarBound]

no, you don't.... offline mode works rather well...

Losing login details and passwords doesnt classify under "works rather well" in my book. But my internet hasn't failed me for 2 months and counting so far.