Enlighten me. What's the problem with GFWL? :|

played blade of darkness before... awesome game, scary, gory...

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Guys... Dark Souls needs to be part of GFWL to increase the difficulty of the game

Dont think i want to get this game on Day 1. Do not want to be frustrated by GFWL again.

Problem 1: Our region not supported by GFWL
Problem 2: You can lose your safe files just like that
Problem 3: You can get dropped out suddenly from a ongoing multiplayer game
Problem 4: The GUI sucks (for me at least)
Problem 5: There could be more problems


Sure there are some workarounds, some users not experiencing these but i personally had a few problems with it so....yea it sucks

"Hurf Durf pirates stealing our gaems! Let's use worst possible DRM to counter them! Hurf Durf"

Haha +1 to this. With GFWL you should definitely prepare to die when playing this game .

Sounds like a perfect fit for this game. I'm on! Masochism here I come.

TROLOLOLOLOL

Guys...pls sign this petition for the sake of our sanity.

https://www.change.org/petitions/namco-band...r-windows-live#

To thread starter, would be good if you could put the petition on the front page.

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alamak lmbt cucuk, was posted a page back.but still, get this to the front page too.

This post has been edited by nightshade_nova: Apr 13 2012, 02:11 AM

They end the petition with "Steam or no sale"? So they want to replace one platform/DRM with another to please some steam fanboys? I mean GFWL is not great for the most part but i think the game will play fine irrespectively.

The reason they're using GFWL is most likely due to the fact that it's coming out in 4 months time and they do not want to rewrite the matchmaking net code from scratch. It would be relatively easy for them to port the net code from xboxlive to GFWL.

Online multiplayer in dark souls does not use your friends list or voice chat, co-op and pvp combat worked really well on xboxlive even when i knew that most of the people i was playing with and against were not local.

However, what's worrying is anti-cheat protection (or the lack of) in GFWL particularly save game hacking.

best post yet

Try buying Batman AC from Malaysia online, and let me know what you think of the problem

Hint: It uses GFWL. Not supported in Malaysia

This post has been edited by Hornet: Apr 13 2012, 12:22 PM

Well it's not available on steam. but what about impulsedriven http://www.impulsedriven.com/batmanac or gamersgate http://www.gamersgate.co.uk/DD-BMAC/batman-arkham-city ? Wouldn't that be steam's fault that it's not available here?

Having said that, I've not actually tried buying from them, all i know is they don't give me the "sorry not available in your area" error. I do actually emphatise, not having malaysia as an actual supported region really does suck, as a gamer, a quick google will tell you how to bypass that.

I'm fine with people complaining about GFWL, a lot of the times it's justified, the end-user experience is rubbish. But saying "I want steam or no buy" instead is just fanboyism.

I'm waiting for confirmation from NB before signing anything. The petition is poorly worded though, yes (Big Mclargehuge? Seriously?).

Its it wrong for me to want to keep all my games under the same library for the purpose of convenience? See its about having options that I can choose from. You may be fine getting your games from a dozen different places, but I don't like doing that, having multiple accounts here and there for a handful of games.
Regardless, the reason why its not on Steam is because GFWL is not available here. If you're in Singapore, you'll be able to see it.

BTW, didn't some users had issues activating their Batman AC cd key?

The fact is, GFWL does NOT support Malaysia. Register an account there and you won't even have the option for that. There's absolutely no reason for this. If you want to push that piece of crap, at least make it available worldwide.

This post has been edited by Hornet: Apr 13 2012, 02:00 PM

I'm not sure what your point is since I'm pretty much in agreement with you here in regards to regional restrictions sucking. Whether it's steam, origin or gfwl, any form of regional restriction is bad for consumer. If you refuse to play a game because it's not on steam, the only person losing out is you.

My main problem with the new petition is still the "steam or no sale", and since this is about choice, what about those of us who don't want to buy the game on steam? I'm not sure how consumers these days have been indoctrinated into accepting monopolies.

GFWL is not great to use, i think most people are in agreement there. The game itself will be fine, if they can prevent hackers and cheats.

I think the main problem with GFWL is that Microsoft isn't really focused on this platform, so it might quietly die away someday. They are mostly devoted to supporting XBL.

That's the thing, they messed up on it in the first place so it has been dying slowly on life support for the longest time. However you're definitely right that they're focusing on xboxlive, particularly windows 8 integration.

Back to the game though, I'm just going to keep harping on the fact that they need to get the anonymous matchmaking right. GFWL can definitely do this, but it would mean having to put up with all the crap that comes along with it.