Finally, this poor system is going to be shut down soon. GFWL had gave me nothing but trouble for the past few years.

- Forcing me to have GFWL accounts in different regions due to poorly documented registration and strange region locks.
- Killing many competitive multiplayer games with poor netcode and slow patching approval.
- Save files are either non transferable or corrupted for no reason. Lost my Dirt 2 100% profile due to corruption. And my Arkham Asylum profile too. Seriously, why do you need to encrypt save files? To protect your useless gamer points? It is even more useless than some random internet points.
- Unnecessarily region locking games because many countries are unsupported to the point people have to depend on sellers or use VPN. At the same time, developers has lower revenue due to region locking from customers in many countries.
- The client is awful in almost every way. The interface, the VOIP, the laggy netcode, even login in takes an eternity. On top of the fact that Microsoft rarely updates this piece of crap.

I am glad that this shit is finally dead. Definitely a good thing for everyone and hopefully Microsoft will come out with a better and more useful system.

If they want to, they can if they get their heads out of their butts and think properly. They just recently hired someone from Valve to rejuvenate PC gaming on Windows. Not to forget that there are some strange entries like Halo 1, 2 and 3 on the Steam database, alongside with Rise of Nations Gold. That was the leak that the latest King of Fighters and AoE2 HD on Steam appeared and eventually they revealed to be an actual game on Steam so there is a chance that RoN and Halo Trilogy might be true too.

I do want Halo 3 on PC and to be honest, I think PC gaming can coexist with Xbox One. You can keep all the more niche games like Flight Simulator and Age of Empires on PC or even bring your old back catalog like GoW2 or Forza 4 to PC, then, have Xbox One for all the latest shooters and racing games. At the end, PC gamers are happy with new versions of AoE and Flight Simulator while Xbox fans can continue to play Halo on Xbox One. Thats if Microsoft has a brain left.

We definitely need a competitor to Steam. Origin is still trying to catch up.

This post has been edited by Cheesenium: Aug 20 2013, 05:30 PM

That will never happen to be honest as much as i want it to.

I think from business standard point, it makes sense as Microsoft still have a strong foothold on PC while games on console are usually obsolete when the new one comes out, so since Microsoft owns older iteration of Gears of War, Halo or Forza, why not bring it to PC considering even Japanese publishers like Atlus, Sega and even bloody Konami are throwing everything they have to PC? It makes no sense that Microsoft doesnt want to port their older games to PC due to their idiotic pride or some nonsense. Those old games are either hard to find or nobody plays anymore on console so whats the point of keeping it there whien porting to windows are getting easier. Alan Wake managed to recoup back their 6 months investments in a few days, even the shitty Dark Souls port managed to wake up FROM to put more effort in Dark Souls 2. On top of that, there is no secondhand market with high cuts from each sale, Microsoft is dumb for not putting their back catalog games on PC.

Throw their idiotic pride away and toss their old games up on Steam or make another DD on PC that isnt half assed like GFWL, PC gamers will still buy and play them for years to come. You get PC gamers less butthurt about console exclusives while Microsoft still makes money from older games. Win Win for everyone.

I am not saying that porting games is as easy as pressing a button but the thing is there is always a demand for console exclusives on PC. At the same time, if the porting efforts isnt worth it, why did Konami literally bringing all their upcoming games to PC after Dark Souls PC? Or how Sega is so focused on PC now? Or more and more console indie devs from Spelunky, Alan Wake, Castle Crashers and the list goes on are porting their games to PC? At the same time, Microsoft games are made on Windows and I doubt that porting Xbox games to Windows is gonna be prohibitively expensive for Microsoft to handle. The is the question of whether Microsoft to port their old games while wanting to keep their so called pride.

Porting costs money but as far as I can see, it is worth doing so as porting allows your game to sell on a different audience. There will always be horrible ports, regardless its indie or AAA but developers can see that it is worth bringing their stuff to PC. On top of that, the publishing deal that Humble gives are said to be attractive to devs as Humble only takes 10% as opposed to 30% on Steam or any DD.

PC games has no generations or massive changes in hardware like what consoles have,which once you port it over, you'll probably able to play the game for at least the next 10 years while PC gamers are so entrenched in digital distribution, the developers and Microsoft will earn some money in the long run if they put it on some DD. Rather than leaving it on consoles and mostly abandoned when the next gen hits.