I hate Games for Windows Live so much

Taziir · 13 Mar 2010 at 00:44

Aaaarrggghhh!!

My whole evening lost trying to trouble shoot this piece of trash software. It refuses to let me log in, just want to play Batman at least once once...
I've reset IE security settings, deleted temp files and cookies, reinstalled their software & the C++ redistributable, twice, reset the TCP stack, manually opened ports in the router and windows own firewall, rebooted more times than I can count, set UDP, updated updated updated still no joy.

Seriously Microsoft, this is a fresh install of Win 7 and I was logged in yesterday downloading the game. Give me my damn evening back your thieving bastages :mad:

Alex74 · 13 Mar 2010 at 00:50

Ouch..sorry to hear that mate. Seem to be a lot of gfwl horror stories floating around

Just goes to show that forcing people to sign into hosted accounts on the internet doesnt always work! (and i'm talking about this "always online" DRM business as well here).. just seems to have created more problems than it's solved.

EDDS · 13 Mar 2010 at 01:15

using the right password?

SkeeterUK · 13 Mar 2010 at 01:18

Nowt wrong with it, i think its mint, tho ui and way u message mates does need to be more streamline and easier to do but on the whole i like it.

Memphis · 13 Mar 2010 at 01:28

Never had an issue with it. Think it works quite well tbh.

For such mainstream piece of software, whenever there's a catastrophic problem, it's usually a problem with your build, not the software.

Raziel1 · 13 Mar 2010 at 01:43

GFWL seems to either work fine from the first time you instal it or give you loads of greif.

Never had any issues with it myself, other than the Club not updating properly (easily solved though)

Hoodlum · 13 Mar 2010 at 01:50

It's like Steam but generally more annoying, with a worse UI and a load more bugs, in my experience. I wish Valve would spin-off Steam so that there are less reasons for publishers to be afraid of them taking control of distribution. Getting sick of having Steam, Impulse, GFWL and whatever other platforms I'll need to install just to download and play a damn game. One platform to rule them all!

Aloreth · 13 Mar 2010 at 11:14

I love steam.....I hate GFWL.

To be honest if you have already bougt it i would just pirate it so you can actually play the game you paid for

Evilsod · 13 Mar 2010 at 11:44

GFWL is a pile of **** that wishes it could be like Steam. Everything about it is designed to be tedious and frustrating... oh and the updates... that system was designed by morons.

Taziir · 13 Mar 2010 at 12:37

Memphis said:
Never had an issue with it. Think it works quite well tbh.

For such mainstream piece of software, whenever there's a catastrophic problem, it's usually a problem with your build, not the software.

The build is fine, I was happily logging in for GTAIV since christmas but you are right it's going to be an issue with my setup, has to be the config. Wish I could find the right steps to restore the connection...