"Did you know that Valve only has 13 people working on Steam?"The update must have failed, I thought. I checked the official site for the game and confirmed that, yes, the only way to get the game for PC is through Live. I restarted and re-launched the game and everything seemed to be working fine, except there was no marketplace option in Live and the downloads tab on Fallout’s main menu said that no new content was available. I said OK and the game started updating both the game and the GFWL platform. Games for Windows said it needed to update and that a restart might be needed. I duly dredged up one of the review key-codes for the full game and registered, wondering why I hadn’t had to do this at install. I tried to sign-in, but the game insisted that I hadn’t registered this game. I booted up Fallout 3 and opened Games for Windows Live. The review actually got off to a good start though and a keycode to download Operation Anchorage actually came through with no need for nagging, but everything after that was downhill. "Games for Windows Live is more like the software equivalent of flossing with barbed wire"What actually happened was that I ended up writing this, my rage running so hot that the bile I’m spewing is practically boiling. Here was my plan for playing Bethesda’s new piece of downloadable content for Fallout 3 I’d nag Bethesda’s PR for a copy of the game, install it, play it, review it and then, if I liked it, go home and buy it to play there. It’s negatively impacted on every game I’ve ever seen that features it. Games for Windows Live is more like the software equivalent of flossing with barbed wire. It’s not just a little flaky and irritating, like Steam was in the early days when everyone was just getting used to it. The topic of the column is fairly simple too explaining how totally awful Games for Windows Live is and how it’s lost Bethesda at least one customer as a result.Īnd it is truly bad, by the way. As you’ve probably noticed though, it isn’t a review of that. This was supposed to be a review of Operation Anchorage, the new downloadable content for Bethesda’s Fallout 3.
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