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Almost all PC games that utilized Games For Windows Live stopped working (new installs and reinstalls could no longer be performed) when Microsoft shut down the

Almost all PC games that utilized Games For Windows Live stopped working (new installs and reinstalls could no longer be performed) when Microsoft shut down the service, and AFAIK there are still a couple games that never updated to remove the reliance on GFWL DRM and can only be played by pirating. That's a lot of games, including several notable big name titles: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_for_Windows_%E2%80%93_Live_titles https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_for_Windows_%E... That includes GTA IV, Street Fighter IV, and Resident Evil 5.

nomel 3y ago
As I said, pirating after is one thing. Justifying the pirating with a possible future event that may not happen is another.
- harry8 3y ago
  Justifying insurance with a possible future event that may not happen is another. Sure but it's very much a minority point of view.
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  If the work to crack a game isn't done early on, it can become infinitely harder to do that work later, especially if there's a multiplayer component that needs to be reverse engineered. Being proactive about cracking, emulation, and piracy is the pro-social and pro-preservation of our culture/technology/heritage move here.
  - nomel 3y ago
    Cracking the game early is completely tangential to you supporting the developers of the thing you enjoy. I've bought games and then immediately downloaded the pirated version before. If you don't support the things you like, you're going to end up with the things that everyone else likes.
alpaca128 3y ago
Luckily Dark Souls got re-released on Steam without Windows Live. Until that point my purchased physical copy was unusable. Well, it's still unusable but at least the CD key got me a working version.
ChoGGi 3y ago
You can still download and use gfwl to play the games. At least I could play lost planet 2 the last time I checked. Multiplayer on the other hand...
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  >lost planet 2 Only because Capcom had to put in extra dev work to make it work again after the GFWL shutdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qq3sq9/capcom_has_delisted_lost_planet_2_while_it_fixes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qq3sq9/capcom_has...

nomel 3y ago

As I said, pirating after is one thing. Justifying the pirating with a possible future event that may not happen is another.

harry8 3y ago
Justifying insurance with a possible future event that may not happen is another. Sure but it's very much a minority point of view.
HideousKojima 3y ago
If the work to crack a game isn't done early on, it can become infinitely harder to do that work later, especially if there's a multiplayer component that needs to be reverse engineered. Being proactive about cracking, emulation, and piracy is the pro-social and pro-preservation of our culture/technology/heritage move here.
- nomel 3y ago
  Cracking the game early is completely tangential to you supporting the developers of the thing you enjoy. I've bought games and then immediately downloaded the pirated version before. If you don't support the things you like, you're going to end up with the things that everyone else likes.

alpaca128 3y ago

Luckily Dark Souls got re-released on Steam without Windows Live. Until that point my purchased physical copy was unusable. Well, it's still unusable but at least the CD key got me a working version.

ChoGGi 3y ago

You can still download and use gfwl to play the games. At least I could play lost planet 2 the last time I checked. Multiplayer on the other hand...

HideousKojima 3y ago
>lost planet 2 Only because Capcom had to put in extra dev work to make it work again after the GFWL shutdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qq3sq9/capcom_has_delisted_lost_planet_2_while_it_fixes/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/qq3sq9/capcom_has...