MS Finally Offering PC Digital Games Distro

I wonder if it means an advent of different games now?

i.e. a game will have Steamworks on Steam and achievements on GfWL

It's already happened with Osmos which has been GfWL-ized with integration that is not present on the Steam version. Could they therefore block any future Steam games from having GfWL integration and the only way to get achievements is to buy from Microsoft.
 
I wonder if this also means the beginning of GfWL Arcade which was mooted several years ago. It would be nice to have Shadow Complex for a start. :D
 
I have heard of a lot of download services but never impulse?! Yet its like loads of people have and use it.. what's impulse got that the others don't? :)
 
I hope it is better than what I'm experiencing now. Started up the GfW Live client to have a mooch about and thought I'd give the Viva Pinata demo a try. Start downloading it, it gets to 53% and then goes back to 6% and downloads the same things over again. 1.29GB in total. Will it get there before it goes dark, I wonder.

EDIT: Nope. Gets to 53% and restarts download. What an utter piece of tripe.
 
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As a Brit abroad I'm not too hopeful.

Both MS and SONY insist I choose French or Dutch on their consoles. Despite choosing english for Playstation forrums their server insists on overwriting my choice with French everytime I log on. When I used to download movie clips from Xbox sometimes they'd be dubbed in French. You can't choose UK unless you have a UK credit card linked to a UK address.

Codemasters for LOTRO still send me things in Dutch despite me choosing several times English in my profile and MSN all ads are in Dutch and they send me spam in dutch again after choosing english when signing up. Even signed up to MSN using their US site.

However STEAM!!! \o/ everything in english from ads to receipts to spam ..... = happy jas :D
 
The more alternatives there are the better the service will need to be. I currently don't have any problems with GFWL, it just works. It will get revamped when they release games on there and it's not like MS don't have a ton of bandwidth and also a ton of cash to throw at this. I use MSDN and downloading from there (basically a repository for operating systems and applications) is superb - you queue it all up and leave it to it - its never failed to max my bandwidth out). I envisage something similar for this.

As long as it creates competition then that's all the matters to me - as long as the prices fall.



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I dont want any bloatware download managers like steam. I simply want to walk into a shop, be it in the high street or online, browse the games and buy one.
 
steam is far from bloatware :/

its 1.5MB to download, and sat using 700k of memory...


can you look at reviews, metascores, look at screenshots, ask a bunch of guys on a friends list what its like, watch a sample video, possibly get a demo, decide and then buy or not, in the shop?
 
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Nope, never got a release outside the US as far as I know. The latest iteration of it is apparently quite good. The first one, however, looked AWFUL. Apple must have wet themselves laughing when it game out. It also had wi-fi, which was cool, but which MS then made completely useless by crippling the transfer of songs over it, due to piracy concerns.
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gadget show rated its sound quality much better than the ipod but it got the lowest score because of how impossible it was to get songs for it
 
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