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shio on 09 June 2010

 

Much to the delight of Fallout fans and worried PC gamers alike, Bethesda has posted the first half of its Q&A session for Fallout: New Vegas. The questions were submitted by users, so yes, you better believe project director Josh Sawyer got all into it with the technical answers.

Perhaps most important of all, the specifics of New Vegas' DRM were discussed. The game uses Steamworks, so you'll need to be online and have Steam during the first install of your retail copy. After that, you aren't required to be online in order to play, and additional installs are limitless.

Obviously no DRM at all is ideal, if unrealistic. I tend to view Steam as the next best alternative, as I'm sure many of you do too.

http://www.destructoid.com/fallout-new-vegas-using-steam-as-its-drm-175845.phtml

 

Fallout 3 was a GFWL game, and it's launch was plagued with problems because of GFWL. Now, Obsidian and Bethesda left GFWL and chose the vastly superior Steam instead. HUGE BLOW TO MICROSOFT!

Long Live Our Valve Overlords!!



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yo_john117 on 09 June 2010

Lolz!  You crack me up Shio.



.jayderyu on 09 June 2010

Sorry, but in the PC world this dick comparison system isn't as well effectively applied. There is no huge blow to MS. No one pays for GFWL anyways. Just keep publisher and developer bickering out. PC arena is more about MS, Linux and Mac OS Games.

 

PS. It was a funny read though,.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.

Vetteman94 on 09 June 2010

Well if they were having problems with it then its a good thing they switched. 



darthdevidem01 on 09 June 2010

Ermm what the hell?

Its still on PC, its still coming to xbox.



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shio on 09 June 2010
.jayderyu said:

Sorry, but in the PC world this dick comparison system isn't as well effectively applied. There is no huge blow to MS. No one pays for GFWL anyways. Just keep publisher and developer bickering out. PC arena is more about MS, Linux and Mac OS Games.

 

PS. It was a funny read though,.

Microsoft have now noticed how much money is being made on PC digitally, and they're now trying to make GFWL compete with Steam (and failing miserably). They're even going to release Fable III on PC, digital exclusive on it.

Fallout 3 was the biggest GFWL integrated game, but Bethesda/Obsidian just decided to abandon Microsoft to their fate. Without Fallout: New Vegas, GFWL is one step closer to supreme awfulness.



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Packie on 09 June 2010

New Vegas is still coming to 360. so how is this a blow to Microsoft?



Vetteman94 on 09 June 2010
Packie said:

New Vegas is still coming to 360. so how is this a blow to Microsoft?

Did you even read the thread,  this has nothing to do with the Xbox 360



Acevil on 09 June 2010
Packie said:

New Vegas is still coming to 360. so how is this a blow to Microsoft?



THis is a blow in the sense, that the game will be using steam whatever. I assume valve or microsoft gets some royalities for using clients to manage and download. This is a small blow to microsoft but lets be honest here shio..... GFWL always sucked.



 

Packie on 09 June 2010
Acevil said:
Packie said:

New Vegas is still coming to 360. so how is this a blow to Microsoft?



THis is a blow in the sense, that the game will be using steam whatever. I assume valve or microsoft gets some royalities for using clients to manage and download. This is a small blow to microsoft but lets be honest here shio..... GFWL always sucked.

oh! thanks for pointing that out.