Death to Games for Windows LIVE!

Posted by Bjorn - January 24th, 2009

Staff Blog Post

Back in September, Wired ran an editorial titled "Grand Theft Auto IV Could Save Games for Windows". Oh, the IRONY! LIVE can be attributed to many of the problems people have experienced with the plagued GTAIV, so can this atrocious software please just die already?! Not only have people had issues with GTA but also the recent behemoth RPG “Fallout 3”. At one point, I thought it would be incredibly magnificent to play online with 360 users but that hope at seamless integration is long forgotten. Instead, we are annoyed with irrelevant pop-up windows. Does anyone even use the LIVE features? We don’t need multiple gaming services (example: GTA Steam version/Rockstar Social whatever/LIVE). Steam succeeded as the winning gaming services long ago and this time Microsoft, you won’t be able to compete.

Publishers and developers, stop bowing to Microsoft. The incentives might be nice, whatever they might be, but it’ll cause headaches for your customers. If GTAIV isn’t a good enough example for you, good luck turning a profit.

Microsoft, you FAIL. You’re infecting the industry and giving PC gaming a bad name. It wouldn’t hurt to spend a little more time and resources on your OSs anyways.

*Note – I completely disagree with Nate’s opinion on the health of PC gaming in his Wired article. I just wanted to point out how amusing the title is.

Death to Games for Windows LIVE!

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