GamersNexus: "With the impending launch of GRID 2 (detailed here), Codemasters' upcoming racing game, I decided to revisit DiRT 3 and other racing games to tide me over. Excited to get back behind the wheel of a WRX, I soon found my dreams smashed as I became embroiled in about 2 hours of troubleshooting. This quick post is just a series of ways to fix your problems with Games for Windows Live crashing upon launching your games (via Steam or otherwise)."
Kevin Unangst, senior director for PC gaming in the Xbox group, was more forthright in his assessment of Games for Windows than expected when we caught up with him at Gamescom today.
Yeah Because Pc gamers are not dumb enough to pay to play online , if we as console gamers refused to use it , Xbox live and PSN would not be paid online
Jeez ya think Microsoft? Trying to get PC gamers to pay for online multiplayer on an open platform like console gamers would on a closed platform was one of their worst ideas.
Codemasters has announced DiRT 3 has ditched Games for Windows live for Steamworks. All who own the game on PC will be upgraded to the Complete Edition, which includes all DLC at no extra cost.
Got mine installed and could not be happier.
I was so pissed that i lost my purchased DLC from windows live and i could not get them back in the game when it was demised.
Fyi: For those who see it listed on steam as something they need ti purchase even if they already bought the game.
You need to Un-install the game from your library go back to the store page and once in there you will the PLAY NOW button and you can install it.
With Dark Souls having scraped the last remnants of Games for Windows Live from its shoe, there aren't many non-Microsoft games left still using the deservedly maligned service. Here's one: DiRT 3. Codemasters had previously suggested they would be moving the rally racer to Steamworks, but, as of this very moment, that hasn't happened.
They have said that 1 year ago. And still they did nothing.
I wish GFWL would just die!
Color me, not shocked at all, by this.
GFWL is garbage.