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MS previews Games for Windows Live

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Microsoft hopes the May launch of a gaming platform that ties together Windows pcs and Xbox 360 will give PC gaming a boost in Japan.

Categories : PC Gaming

25 Comments

1

If you have a PC. Boycott GFWL / LIVE games. For one things. Its terrible to play compared to proper PC games networks. For a second thing, you may have paid thousands for a PC which gives you a much better machine than a 200/300 Xbox. Shadowrun is a good example. Massive complaints to consumer direct (UK) when MS charged people to play on a monthly basis before backing down. MS have made it clear that they are working towards and ASP model. Pay as you play? More like pay and pay forever.

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THANK YOU MICROSOFT!!!! i cant play Red faction guerrilla now becouse i live in Poland! Thank you bitches

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i love live, its more fun to play with achievements

4

GFWL is terrible. I hate MS now.

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i have to thank Microsoft to make alot of games that we loved in PC

6

pc gaming is awsome

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now my PC is linked to my LCD TV and i have a wireless xbox pad, I don’t think I’ll buy another console ever again :-)

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you can, u can use ur gamertag from xbox and use it on windows and get more gamerscore :D

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GFWL is awesome an so in GFW. But 90% of all the pc GWF players wish that all the games had achievements and could connect to their gamercards and have DLC for there games

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i wish all games for windows had achievements not just the live ones

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Why do peopel prefer playing more on consols you got to pay to downlaod new maps ewry year 50$ to play online + annoying assholes that keep saying ther 1337 and shit but they suck on PC you dont need to pay for DLC such as the new cod maps and no need to pay to play + even more players in games liek in cod 4 ther cna be 50 palyers in one server

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they already do..just no advertisement

13

LIVE for Xbox and PC are the best online gaming service ever

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MasterChiefAgent007
February 18th, 2010 at 1:18 PM

if microsoft want to have PC gaming market then they need to bring more xbox titles and more games over all which are compatible with LIVE and have achievements.

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it is

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SHADOWRUN is GOD

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Each has its own advantages. I use Steam for most games, but for Microsoft oriented games such as Gears of War, Halo 2, Shadowrun, etc, I use GFWL. I also play Fallout 3 on GFWL because of achievements and DLC. However, when it comes to other games, I find Steam a preferable platform.

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Actually Fallout 3 also has mods

19

Fair enough.

20

Then we shall agree to disagree

21

There are plenty of games (such as Final Fantasy 11) which have had crossplatform gaming long before GFWL/XBL, and that cross platform feature isn’t even present in most GFWL titles (in fact most games for windows titles dont even have live enabled). So you can say what you want but Live is not at all the best service and GFWL is shit compared to steam and gamespy and will never have nearly as many people as other services that are out there.

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I was actually unaware of that feature of Gamespy. On the matter of crossplatform matches I will say that GFWL truely has it down compared any other program because there are more games out for gfwl that support xplatform then gamespy has. I also will add that steam has copied many things off of gfwl and xbox…but I will say that gfwl has copied some things from steam as well. I’ll call it a mutual relationship.

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GFWL is not the only program you can do cross platform gameplay with, Gamespy just did that with Unreal Tournament 3 and are planning on doing that with other games, there are also certain MMOs which have allowed people do have cross platform gameplay and there are also more on the way such as The Agency (Star Wars the Old Republic might do the same thing as well), so you obviously don’t know what your talking about, no offense.

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I was backing up my old friend GFWL. 1. Fallout 3 supports mods 2. I am very active on the actual GFWL Forums and there are so many people that have no problem with live 3. The online really isnt bad, its just most people dont give it a try. I know for a fact that no other computer program can let you do cross platform so gfwl is a first on that one. and I also might add that it is really fun doing crossplatform

25

I agree with KevKos180. I have bad exprience about GFWL

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