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 Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 19:56 Post subject: Games for windows live features now free? |
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was going to post to someone the explanation the difference between windows live free and windows live paid but seems they recently changed that...
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On July 22, 2008 Microsoft's Chris Satchell, CTO of the company’s Entertainment devices division, announced that Games For Windows LIVE would be free to developers. Previously, select publishers and developers used the system and had to pay for it – now, however, it’s free. Also, all Games For Windows LIVE features are now free for gamers, such as matchmaking and cross-platform play. Satchell added that the move was a “way to improve Windows gaming”.
As well as free multiplayer, Microsoft has reduced the technical requirements for those developers looking to utilize Live – such as removing playlist servers, allowing studios to use the Microsoft matchmaking servers instead. They will also be adding a new Marketplace to the PC version of Live later this year. Microsoft is also said to be revamping the UI which should make a debut in late 2008. |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 20:26 Post subject: |
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Yes, it's free. I think there was a thread about it few weeks ago.
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 20:29 Post subject: |
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| RainyDay wrote: | huh, Microsoft's making something free.. guess there is still hope for the world then ? 
So basically we can now i.e, enjoy all the achievements in the various games for free? |
dunno any games that used achievments on PC other than vegas 2 but ya. |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 20:35 Post subject: |
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Vegas 2 is not G4WL. GoW had achievements, I think FOUC has too. CoD4 had them too, but not G4WL.
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 21:26 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 10th Aug 2008 21:31 Post subject: |
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lmao @ tray and play
what a useless fucking concept
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 11:19 Post subject: |
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So... we dont need the club keys anymore, right?
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 12:36 Post subject: |
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Noooooooooo way
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 12:44 Post subject: |
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| Pey wrote: | | So... we dont need the club keys anymore, right? |
Of course you do, usually the goldmembership on the PC was fee based now its free meaning you dont have pay that fee. Still you would need a valid key such as The Club or Halo 2 to acces the online mode (like any other game out there).
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 12:49 Post subject: |
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i rather die in a lake of pestilence then to install that windows live (or any game using it) on my pc ever again. Since Earth assault : World at war (i think it was) i have nightmares of it. It's the worst invention since gamespy ingame browsers back then ....
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Pey
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 13:43 Post subject: |
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| Mutantius wrote: | | Pey wrote: | | So... we dont need the club keys anymore, right? |
Of course you do, usually the goldmembership on the PC was fee based now its free meaning you dont have pay that fee. Still you would need a valid key such as The Club or Halo 2 to acces the online mode (like any other game out there). |
Oh... i tought only xbox users needed to pay the fee and pc users needed just to enter the cd-key.
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 16:01 Post subject: |
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| Pey wrote: | | Mutantius wrote: | | Pey wrote: | | So... we dont need the club keys anymore, right? |
Of course you do, usually the goldmembership on the PC was fee based now its free meaning you dont have pay that fee. Still you would need a valid key such as The Club or Halo 2 to acces the online mode (like any other game out there). |
Oh... i tought only xbox users needed to pay the fee and pc users needed just to enter the cd-key. |
no, the paid part of windows live allowed you to use live match as well as play people on xbox360. |
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 20:26 Post subject: |
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I bet they start charging for it again. They want more people to use the service and hope that it catches on and hope the majority like it. Then the price will be injected back in.
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| Posted: Mon, 11th Aug 2008 20:32 Post subject: |
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I would never ever pay for live.
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Oct 2010 20:44 Post subject: |
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As long as it's not games you can get elsewhere then yay. If it's just games that we could just have had on Steam instead then fuck off already M$.
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Oct 2010 21:16 Post subject: |
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You won't be able anytime soon to buy their (old) games on any other service: The 2 Halo games, the Age of Empires games, the MS Flght Simulator games, etc.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Oct 2010 23:16 Post subject: |
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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/66131
I also had a change to speak with Peter Orullian, Product Manager for PC and Mobile gaming at Microsoft about the relaunch. First and foremost, he confirmed to me that the Marketplace will not be selling games that use Steamworks. "If a game is a Steamworks game, it's not something we're selling."
Too bad MS, because SteamWorks games are rapidly increasing.
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Oct 2010 23:29 Post subject: |
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Saw this on neogaf:
http://www.industrygamers.com/news/microsoft-our-leg-up-on-steam-is-we-span-multiple-platforms/2/
| Quote: | IG: Are there any further PC games coming from Microsoft to support the market? There's been a great deal of promise of more love for the PC gaming sector, but PC gamers feel a bit unloved.
PO: I appreciate that. I certainly don't have visibility in the portfolio for the PC. What their plans are I don't know. |
PO stands for Peter Orullian, the head of "Microsoft's new PC vanguard", as the article claims. And apparently he has absolutely no idea what his team, the people that he's leading, is planning. 
And I thought GFWL had a sliiiiiight chance to succeed this time
TWIN PEAKS is "something of a miracle."
"...like nothing else on television."
"a phenomenon."
"A tangled tale of sex, violence, power, junk food..."
"Like Nothing On Earth"
~ WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SEEN ~
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTUOgYNRzY
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| Posted: Sun, 24th Oct 2010 23:32 Post subject: |
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As expected they're most likely just gonna try to compete with Steam and no games we wouldn't have otherwise.
It has failed before it launched if that really is the case.
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 00:07 Post subject: |
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And these retards have a high paying job, while I cant even find a lowly IT support position... Fuckers.
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LeoNatan
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| Quote: | | I think the other thing that's going to be really compelling for us is the fact that I alluded to before. We have this story that spans multiple platforms. I start thinking about ways in which I can leverage my console and my phone partners and start to create awareness. We're starting to understand more and more that gamers – while there are some that are loyal to a single platform – are gaming on multiple platforms. I start thinking about ways that I can talk to console and phone gamers about cool games that are available here. I start thinking about ways I can run a program where I incentivize you in some interesting way. Maybe you purchase a game on the console and there's a benefit or reward on the PC, and vice versa. We're thinking through these current permutations around, “Hey, we actually have a very unique position in the marketplace now.” |
But of course! Sharing achievements with 360! And sharing games between PC and Windows Phone 7! What an advantage over Steam!
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| Posted: Mon, 25th Oct 2010 01:50 Post subject: |
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