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GfWL - Games for Windows LIVE Service Update

21 Jun, 2014 @ 3:47pm - ICptJackSparrow
By now I'm sure many of you have noticed that the Games for Windows Marketplace has been closed down.
Old news, sure.
I'm also sure the many of you have heard tale of the fact the Microsoft is planning on shutting down the LIVE service, in particular, the Games for Windows LIVE service as of July of this year.
What would this mean? It basically would mean that nay game that uses the LIVE service for online play, verification or even cloud saving is no longer going to be playable.
Games like Shadowrun, Halo 2, Bulletstorm, Gears of War and many others would be of no use to you anymore.

Well...

Microsoft has been quelling this rumor of late by stating the following:
Originally posted by GameInformer:
We are continuing to support the Games for Windows Live service. As previously announced, as part of the retirement of Microsoft Points the Xbox.com PC marketplace was closed. Although customers are unable to purchase new games from the marketplace or receive title updates, they can continue to enjoy previously purchased content by downloading them through the Games for Windows Live client as usual. We remain committed to investing in PC gaming in the years ahead, and look forward to sharing more in the future.

Note in particular the line:
Although customers are unable to purchase new games from the marketplace or receive title updates, they can continue to enjoy previously purchased content by downloading them through the Games for Windows Live client as usual.

For now at least this means that the service that allows us to play many of these games will stay in place. So hopefully we will not be losing many of these classics to the wind afterall.
Although I do not know for how long this will last, I am hopeful that it will be for some time to come.

At the very least I hope for an alternative way to play some of these games if they can not be played over LIVE in the future, perhaps maybe even Microsoft would release LIVE to Steam or some sort of client that would allow people to set up their own services. That would be nice...

Original article here at http://gameinformer.com
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HolyLionBlack 27 Nov, 2016 @ 6:43pm 
WAKING UP THE THREAD:
Hello, has anyone figured out how to get Shadowrun '07 to work as of Nov 2016? I can't get it to run on a Windows 10 pc even in compatibility modes. Is my only solution to build a Vista pc dedicated to the game or would I still be screwed because of gfwl?
burdfishdemon 28 Sep, 2015 @ 3:50am 
If I just ordered this through Amazon, am I screwed?
PlayShadowrun 23 Jun, 2014 @ 4:22pm 
Jack, you should be playing more Shadowrun, just saying.
Fobbsy 21 Jun, 2014 @ 7:16pm 
The game has dedicated servers for pc, although it requires hotmail/live, it might still work after a shutdown hopefully
Gyro 21 Jun, 2014 @ 5:47pm 
Shadowrun(2007) being one of my favroite multiplayer shooters of all time with Quake and Titanfall for me this is great news. If I can indeed still player it down the road I'll be very happy.
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