Microsoft Says It's Not Shutting Down Games for Windows Live

This still exists?

Kill it, kill it with fire!

Oh my.. why on earth would this abomination be continued? Unless Microsoft is clearly making fun of PC gamers.

still cant find a copy of fable 3 for windows, yes i know it sucked but i still want it since no fable 2.

This is bad news. GFWL needs to die in a fire. I don't care if it takes all the games that use it with it, it just needs to die. also that article for dirt 3 is from Nov 2013.codemasters have not said crap about removing it from dirt 3 since than. I wish they would just hurry up and remove it and then remove it from dirt 2 since that is just a better game then put it back up on steam. hell I bought dirt 1 after i played dirt 2 because I wanted more dirt games. I'm sure there are new PC gamers that would do the same with all the old dirt games as well if they even bothered to put them up on steam again.

I just recently built a gaming PC for the first time in my life and I have to say, I absolutely hate GFWL

This is like one those moments when you think you've managed to defeat an awfully tough boss only to see that the b*stard has crawled out of his hole.

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Microsoft. Just stop. Please. When Origin is a more enticing launcher than yours, there's a problem.

Microsoft, are... are you sure?

Microsoft, just kill it already! You will be actually doing us a lot of favor by completely killing this horrible service, so all the games go to Steamworks.

you not bringing any GOW franchise to pc anymore, just die.

It's insane how the same week everyone is willing to open their wallets to be destroyed by Steam DRM filled games, everyone wants this DRM to die, for what reason? So a whole bunch of games go offline and are unplayable? Great idea... Let it live for a few more years just to keep the games that use it alive, you can't expect every GFWL game to go to Steam and some (like Street Fighter 4) actually got worse when they made the switch. Besides, they'll just have to move the Steam versions of the game when Steam dies...

Shut it down. We don't need it. We don't want it.

It's like a cockroach, simply refuses to die.

I think they should make a new client. Something that can actually compete with Steam (or come close to at least). Being the rich and powerful company that Microsoft is, it shouldn't be hard work as long as they're actually willing to contribute to PC gaming.

Or of course, they could just make and port more of their exclusives for PC and that would be good enough as well.

oh you silly microsoft still not understanding us pc gamers

The trick is here you can't get away with whatever you want we just won't buy your garbage, I know it's hard to believe

port the halo collection on windows microsoft!! if you care!

and remove GFWL!

More than any year previously, the PC was a forerunner at E3. This was the perfect year to talk about gaming on Windows. My thought is that Microsoft had too much to "fix" with the Xbox One this year. They couldn't take the risk (or any risk for that matter) by talking about stuff that might get them bad press if things weren't received as well as hoped. Microsoft felt it was better to make the PC fans wait.

PC really deserves to be a big part of E3 in the same way as the consoles. It's sad it has to continue to take a back seat so Microsoft can situate their console.

Microsoft is going to have to come at this hard and correct. Steam machines are coming next year. Steam is growing year over year. PC, in general has gotten a huge boost from cheaper hardware and easy configurations. If Microsoft waits too long, they will, once again, find them selves out of place and time.

what? kill this thing so Dark Souls 1 can move to steam servers.

OMG! GFWL IS WORSE THAN SATAN, AND MICROSOFT IS THE DEVIL! GET OF HERE YOU POOPY COMPANY!!! NO ONE LIKES YOU HFUHYRSEG R L!

Finally, Microsoft came out and said what I thought they always would. This is a good thing for us that still want to play games that use GFWL, in spite of the crappy service. It's not really a 180. The official statement has always been that the service would continue to support existing games. That didn't stop many sites from reporting it as fact based on a blurb that appeared for five minutes on the AoE site.

That said, Microsoft chose to stay silent in the midst of all the rumors. All they had to do was deny the rumor, but they didn't. I think that was done purposely, so that devs would move their games off the platform. That means fewer resources MS has to dedicate to keep the service running.

Make no mistake, GFWL is dead in terms of new games. No games have used it for the last couple of years (give or take), including those published by Microsoft. So, you don't have to worry about that. I think everything has gone according to plan in regards to GFWL, and they are currently figuring out what they want to do on PC in the future.

The problem with this approach is that MS has lost all credibility in the PC online service space. No dev would choose to use their service again. This leads me to believe (hope) that there will be no replacement for GFWL. MS will likely use Steamworks as they have for recent releases and remakes. The alternative is to focus their efforts around Windows 8, but that sounds like the old Microsoft. The mandate these days is to make money on the platforms people use, and on the PC that's Steam. If they really want to show support for the PC, they should release XBox exclusives like Halo and Gears of War on Steam. That would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath.

Oh God no..please let it die.

Does this mean AOEO has a New Lease on Life??

So much for the PC supports

Why cant you just DIE !!!!!!!!!!!

You "up your gaming presence" on PC by making decent games, not forcing a broken DRM system onto that platform.

Damn, and here I was hoping Dark Souls 1 would come to Steam :(