Even with DS, in order to create an offline profile you have to register your CDkey. You can't exactly play any game tied to it unless you register them. Portrays how much of an inconvenience gfwl is to a lot of people.ĭRM is one of the aspects of GFWL. It's no wonder they are shutting down this July. Yes there are those who don't have issues with gfwl, but with its reputation, not from just its consumers but as well as establishments usch as PCgamer or Kotaku, pretty much portrays gfwl as the bad guy due to the problems it gives.
It is how the game establishes multiplayer connections and it made sense to simply use the feature rather than code an entirely new one or transfer to Steam, which comes with it's own problems. In the case of Dark Souls on PC, it was used because the XBox version was already tied to it.
Like anything PC related, too many reasons why some people will have problems and others may not. It's just the people who have no problems don't post incessantly on the internet about their experience. Also, while there are many people who complain about it, there are many people who experience little to no problems. Ursprünglich geschrieben von Manwith Noname:Well, I've never had any issues with GFWL either but I had an existing account from owning an XBox 360 to tie to so I don't know if that makes it work better.