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

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.

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 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.