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Now one of the things I had heard about this game was the "shitty Games for Windows Live crap" and I figured it was just people being sorta pissy about something that wasn't Steam.
Oh my God, what an abortion GFWL is. I had no idea.
I installed it yesterday morning, and applied the patch from Fileshack. Got home at 9 PM and fired it up. I figured I'd play for a few minutes just to check it out. Says I can't save unless I used a gamer account. So I set that up. Well, it takes me to a web browser out of the game to do so. And it looks like I'm signing up for an Xbox Live account. Honestly wasn't sure if I was at this point. I sign up for the account and I click on some tab that makes it look like I was now obligated to pay $7.99 a month which itself is odd since they never asked me for a credit card.
Get back to the game, sign in - no dice. The fucking game (or the GfWL client) can't get online. CAN'T GET ONLINE. I try a million things, I Google the error message, I find that the KB article on Microsoft's site for this issue is gone. I update to the latest GfW client (which I think was already on there) and still nothing. People in forums are describing things like buying new NIC cards or motherboards to get online with it, or just resolving to not playing MP.
Takes me forever to figure out that you can use a "Local Account", which lets you save in SP but not store achievements or play online. Oh, and if you switch to a GFW account later your saves are wiped out (or at least that's the way it's phrased).
It's pretty obvious that Microsoft is either busy revamping GFWL or has completely abandoned it. Unless someone knows of a way to fix this, I guess I just won't play GoW online.
Fucking wow.
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