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Dark Souls GFWL Petition

[Apr 11, 2012, 7:27 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Following today's announcement of the Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for Windows, which was supported by a petition, a new petition is now online to protest the plan to use Games for Windows LIVE (thanks Reddit). Here's word:

GFWL is unpopular, difficult to use, inconvenient, has terrible online support (a key feature in Dark Souls), and is downright unpleasant. After anxiously awaiting a PC release for this fantastic game it feels like a real slap in the face hearing Dark Souls will use Games for Windows Live. We recommend Valve's Steamworks in place, as this DRM is much easier to use, less intrusive, more reliable, and more accepted among PC gamers. Please reconsider the use of GFWL, or offer the game on both services. Thank you for taking the effort to port this game, but for a lot of customers it's Steam or no sale.

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Re: Dark Souls GFWL Petition

Apr 11, 2012, 20:13

eRe4s3r

Yeah, nothing like 5 crashes in a row because retareded GFWL refuses to auto-update properly, then updates to the GOD DAMN WRONG VERSION for x64 so it can't boot, then having to uninstall that and installed the actual games for windows setup from microsoft.com by hand, logging in that, then starting Batman , then having it auto-update and NOT crash instantly, then hoping it actually updates and then finally be in the game, only to discover that all your profiles are gone because all the time it logged in to something but certainly not the online profile. Arkham City gave me so many problems with GFWL that I fully understand the hate it gets. Even now I can't even start the game without MANUALLY starting GFW, yes, the marketplace app which has absolutely no relation to GFWL, but is required for it to not instantly crash on startup (of the game)

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