Does anyone else not hate GFWL?

I have np with them what so ever, people just love to hate on MS, even tho there products have improved their lives immeasurably, way people are, hate success stories :)
 
wab said:
I have np with them what so ever, people just love to hate on MS, even tho there products have improved their lives immeasurably, way people are, hate success stories :)
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Here's something for you to try.

1. Uninstall all traces of GFWL and any game that uses it, including fixes and patches.
2. From D2D, install GTA4 & GFWL from the GTA4 disc (OK, it's a .zip file).
2b. DO NOT cheat, by fixing GFWL before you run GTA4 (to do this you'd have to have knowledge that it's broken, and where to go to fix it).

3. Attempt to run GTA4.

4. Observe at least 3 different errors that prevent GTA4 from running.
4a. Observe "Endless patch loop" as GFWL fails to update itself from within GTA4.
4b. Observe "Failed to download profile" errors.
4c Observe "Failed to sign in" or "You have been signed out" errors.

5. Realise that if this was your first impression of GFWL, you would probably hate it.


OK, so I did get it running in the end. But it was much, much more hassle than necessary.

And what is to say that a future title using GFWL might not have these problems?

I'm sure there are plenty of games that integrate GFWL in a more seemless and error-free manner. Unfortunately, my first experience of GFWL wasn't a good one, it was a bad one.

My first experience of XBOX Live, however, was very good. I own lots of MS products, including w7 and Office, which I like very much. I'm not MS hater, and to say that all GFWL issues boil down to "haters gonna hate" is frankly very silly.
 
It's a load of rubbish that should be confined to the XBox, I refuse to buy any GFWL games because you know they're going to be half assed Xbox ports.
 
@ FoxEye, i did just what you listed over the weekend and i had no problems with either D2D or GFWL. it patched up gta4 and the episodes just fine.
the biggest pain was putting in the CD key for gta4 and thats it :(
 
Apart from a couple of password issues (i.e. user-related problems :D), I haven't had any issues with GFWL. I do, however, love Steam lots and lots, so GFWL will never be number one in my gaming-download-distributor-heart-area.
 
Is the OP refering to GFWL or the GFW Marketplace?

They both suck ***.

To say it "serves its purpose" is just wrong, should we just accept mediocrity?

Microsoft see the PC market could make some cash after all, so they want in on it.

HOWEVER, they "want in" with as little investment as possible.

IF the GFW/GFWL initiatives were handled by the O.S team, things might be different.

As it is, they seem to be left in the hands of the same team in the console department and anything they do PC related just seems as though it was knocked up on friday afternoon to please the boss.
 
well anywhere you can pick up games for 10p is fine with me :cool:
maybe its all to test the water and they will invest more time and effort into the Pc marketplace in the future to compete with steam/D2D etc etc.
Steam used to get hate in the early days and look what its become nowadays.
 
I'm sure my opinions of GfWL have been made quite clear through a few recent threads :).

It absolutely does not deserve half of the slatting it gets.

It does however pretty much confirm that half of this board are mindless sheep who are incapable of making their own decisions :).

EDIT - As mentioned in one of the above posts, people need to realise that 9 times out of 10, it's actually their system that causes the problem, not the GfWL software as such. But then they're never going to accept that, are they?
 
GFWL is the reason I still haven't played Bioshock 2 despite paying £30 to pre-order it. I tried to save my game, and it told me "NO YOU MUST HAVE A GFWL ACCOUNT" even though it was on Steam. That's when the nerd rage commenced. Why the chuff should I have to go through two layers of account logins for this? Why the chuff should I have to make a new account, and have to remember yet another username/password combination just to play a game I already paid for?

I still haven't forgiven it for that particular piece of obnoxious bulldung.
 
SlyReaper said:
GFWL is the reason I still haven't played Bioshock 2 despite paying £30 to pre-order it. I tried to save my game, and it told me "NO YOU MUST HAVE A GFWL ACCOUNT" even though it was on Steam. That's when the nerd rage commenced. Why the chuff should I have to go through two layers of account logins for this? Why the chuff should I have to make a new account, and have to remember yet another username/password combination just to play a game I already paid for?

I still haven't forgiven it for that particular piece of obnoxious bulldung.
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You mean you did not realise that in 1 maybe 2 button clicks you could make an offline profile ;)

BTW which some kind user made a guide on GFWL forums over a year ago!
http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/p/7889/82943.aspx#82943
 
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