{"id":20702,"date":"2013-08-20T14:33:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20702"},"modified":"2013-08-20T14:33:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T19:33:01","slug":"experienced-points-games-for-windows-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20702","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Games for Windows Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slight spoiler for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/experienced-points\/10534-Games-for-Windows-Die\">my article this week<\/a>: I comment on the Games for Windows LIVE situation, and I predict that the service won&#8217;t be going anywhere any time soon. A few hours after I submitted the column, I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/127001-Games-for-Windows-Live-Closing-Next-Year-Rumor\">this news story<\/a> with a rumor that, contrary to what I wrote, Games for Windows LIVE may indeed close. <\/p>\n<p>At this point I&#8217;m not sure if &#8220;closing&#8221; means they will end multiplayer, or if it means actual, permanent death for a bunch of single-player games. If it&#8217;s the latter then Microsoft is insane, for all the reasons I outlined. Anyway, keep in mind that the article was written before this rumor appeared.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually a scary thing to me. I own both Batman games, FUEL, all three Fable games, Fallout 3, and GTA IV. I know Batman and FUEL need GFWL to save the game. I dunno about the rest.<\/p>\n<p>While the closing of GFWL would vindicate everything I&#8217;ve ever said about online activation &#8211; going all the way back to my first tirades on BioShock when the blog was young &#8211; this is not an area where I wanted to be proven right. I&#8217;d rather have people call me paranoid and keep our games than be smug while significant titles vanish into BitTorrent. <\/p>\n<p>Trying to look at this rumor in the best possible light:<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they will patch out GFWL before taking it down.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe they will actually be handing off these titles to a new platform they&#8217;re launching.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the &#8220;closing&#8221; only refers to multiplayer stuff and the authentication crap will continue to &#8220;work&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe the rumor is just a rumor.<\/p>\n<p>Again, they hired a guy and seem to be investing in the PC space. It would be nuts for them to burn this bridge right now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slight spoiler for my article this week: I comment on the Games for Windows LIVE situation, and I predict that the service won&#8217;t be going anywhere any time soon. A few hours after I submitted the column, I saw this news story with a rumor that, contrary to what I wrote, Games for Windows LIVE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[155,306],"class_list":["post-20702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-experienced-points","tag-gfwl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}