Games for Windows Live Marketplace Adds New Titles, Puts Old Prince of Persias on Sale

Is there any reason to use Windows Live Marketplace? The sales aren't that tempting and the prices don't seem better than anywhere else. Steam is better.

I don't understand why every company feels like they should have a digital distribution service.

Man, modern Ubisoft games on GFWL Marketplace would be a DRM nightmare. Log into GFWL, log into Uplay, and pray that your Internet connection doesn't drop a single packet, because if it does, your game will somehow be interrupted, depending on how lenient / strict the individual game's DRM is.

I don't buy into digital content delivery systems until they're relatively well proven. I didn't go into Steam until Half-Life 2's release, since I wouldn't be able to play Half-Life 2 without it, and Steam had been rather well tested for at least a year with Counter-Strike. I haven't been drawn too much to GoG's catalog, so I haven't signed up there. I don't have a 360, and Microsoft still has a ton of work to do on the PC gaming usability side (compared to Steam), so I'm not interested in Games for Windows Live. I have literally zero interest in anything Ubisoft's doing, so I'm not interested in Uplay. All of the other silly "loyalty network" things like Cerberus for Bioware, Rockstar, etc., are annoying, and are for games that I'm not that interested in, so I don't get into those. I don't use Facebook, and I'm not interested in Twitter, other than checking on a very very very tiny list of people.

Just too many damned logins, and all of these companies are so convinced that their system is going to be The One Digital Content Delivery System To Rule Them All. There is no one gatekeeper to the PC platform (not even Microsoft's Windows division itself; the US Department of Justice and the Eurozone have been suing, fining, and nagging them for over a decade for anti-competitive behavior). So publishers and developers are going to have to "pick sides" with their DRM selection (GFWL activation, Steamworks, Uplay, etc.), or release to multiple digital distributors (which already happens to some extent, though at times it can lead to the "DRM Soup" condition, as with Bioshock 2 on Steam, or with any digitally distributed 2010-released Ubisoft game).

After the years long shaft Microsoft gave PC gamers, publishing one xbox exclusive after another and stagnating PC development by locking DX10 to the initially crappy Vista OS, I will return the favor to them and not give them any of my business.

This also doesn't seem to be appearing on the UK marketplace so I'm assum that it is U.S only. Gay.

I'll buy into this GfWL content if they make a GoW 2 Exclusive for the PC on it. That would grab my attention.

I was hoping for really OLD PoP games on sale :(

Does the original PoP work with dosbox ?

id give them some of my money, if only theyd TAKE money for DLC. i cant imagine what the reasoning is behind it, but while you can now purchase full games with actual money, all the paid DLC for fallout is still only purchasable with points.

oh well, at some point in the (probably not-too-distant) future, ill be cheaper to just re-buy the game in the form of the GotY version than buying the DLCs anyhow...

Based on the prices, the only thing I'd consider getting from the MS store would be a Halo collection or something else that no one else offers.

Is it just me or is there always a single copy of Halo 1 at ANY Gamestop (and I've been in quite a few) that's STILL $19.99?

I find Microsofts prices a good source of chuckles but im one of the few people who dont mind the games for windows live set-up. More competitions is never a bad thing and at least they updated the service for a while there it was sitting like an old dusty bookshelf with the same titles.

Seeing how much they priced Assasin's Cread 2 (69.99$), i don't really see them competing with steam (39.99$), D2D (39.99$), Gamersgate (39.95$) or Impulse (59.99$) ...
Also the deluxe edition is only 44$ on steam and d2d.

Ah microsoft.. always trying to screw us aren't you ; )