THQ drops Games For Windows Live from multiple games!

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Mr Puggsly said:

slowmo said:

GFWL is already dead, Microsoft should have stopped flogging it 2 years ago.  As soon as they tried to start charging PC gamers to play it was never going to get the gamers onside.  Even if it was completely free now, for everything, there will always be the nagging doubt in many PC gamers minds they would start charging as soon as they could.

The reason charging for GFWL online play didn't work is because they didn't deliver appealing software. It can be done but you need to offer something more than a late port of Halo 2. Just ask the millions of people that pay for MMORPGs.

For the record, online play is free now on GFWL. I say that because you said, "Even if it was completely free ." Were you not aware?

Not just the lack of appealing software. It's also the fact that on PC we've been playing multiplayer for free since the days of Doom. Steam would never have been popular if you had to pay to play online. Can you imagine all those people who had been playing Counterstrike for free paying to play CS: Source? They'd just keep playing Counterstrike original.

MMORPGs are a different beast altogether as they require far more server and maintenance costs and people accept that, yet even so their are free to play MMOs.