Although Microsoft Xbox Live in Windows 8 the final installation, the company continues to hold on to Games for Windows Live. The GfWL program, according to Microsoft, intended for ‘hardcore gamers’, even though it was a Metro-look.
When Microsoft in september announced that the Xbox Live will integrate with Windows 8, it was the question, what is it with Games for Windows Live was planning. The program is the counterpart of Xbox Live on pc’s and it seems redundant now, Xbox Live in Windows 8 is included. Microsoft thinks otherwise, however. Website NeoGamr put the question to the consolebouwer and who came up with a clear answer. “Microsoft will continue to Games for Windows Live support, but we’re going to have to invest in games with Metro-style”, says Microsoft. The last part of that comment is what is puzzling.
It is not entirely clear what the consolebouwer mean by games in Metro-style. Probably mean the Microsoft that the games can be opened from the Metro interface of Windows 8. Microsoft further states that it is under the banner of Games for Windows Live recently Age of Empires Online and Microsoft Flight are introduced, thus suggesting that the GfWL program continues to exist for such online games, which are intended for the hardcore gamer.
Games for Windows Live is not popular, especially since there are few games appear for the pc platform. A week ago there was controversy about the GfWL program as publisher Namco Bandai announced a pc version of consolegame Dark Souls on the market to want to bring and want to make use of Games for Windows Live instead of Steam, the comparable platform from Valve. Fans of the game started a petition to Namco Bandai to other thoughts.
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