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Anti-Games For Windows Live Dark Souls PC Petition

Posted on Thursday, April 12 @ 10:23:50 Eastern by Keri_Honea


First there was a petition to bring Dark Souls to the PC, and when that petition won, the petitioners petition again because they don't like the medium used for the PC game. 

Namco Bandai announced last night that there will be a PC version for Dark Souls that will support Games for Windows Live (GFWL). Within hours, if not minutes, an online petition surfaced demanding that the publisher change the format to Steam or add a Steam format. As of writing this, there are over 12,000 signatures.

From their petition:

GFWL is unpopular, difficult to use, inconvenient, has terrible online support (a key feature in Dark Souls), and is downright unpleasant. After anxiously awaiting a PC release for this fantastic game it feels like a real slap in the face hearing Dark Souls will use Games for Windows Live. We recommend Valve's Steamworks in place, as this DRM is much easier to use, less intrusive, more reliable, and more accepted among PC gamers. Please reconsider the use of GFWL, or offer the game on both services. Thank you for taking the effort to port this game, but for a lot of customers it's Steam or no sale.

There is just no pleasing people. It's almost to the point that maybe developers and publishers shouldn't even honor online petitions at all, as it seems that they won't satisfy anyone. They listened to that petition, so surely they'll listen to mine that petitions something different than their decided resolution!

I have such tired head about all of it. Wake me when gamers start enjoying gaming again.
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  • tinymhg
    tinymhg

    Joined: Jun 2011
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 10:30 am
    I enjoy gaming, but I enjoy b*tching and moaning about games more.
  • Merlin
    Merlin

    Joined: Oct 2005
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 10:33 am
    Not that I agree with all the *****ing buuuutttttt......

    Games for windows live does suck >.> and suck badly. Hell I know some guys that... Wait what were we talking about again?
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 10:34 am
    This is why I always like the idea "never listen to the customer". People act like they know what they want when they truly don't.
  • Guernica
    Guernica

    Joined: Mar 2009
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 10:34 am
    I guess people just don't want to be happy with anything. I'll be buying regardless probably. Especially if it's still available on steam like Arkham City was. It still used GFWL and it didn't bug me at all.
  • LawnGnome
    LawnGnome

    Joined: Apr 2007
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 10:38 am
    The masses are asses. I'm just going to stop reading posts/articles about gamer complaints.
  • Bras
    Bras

    Joined: Jul 2008
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 11:04 am
    If the *****ing and moaning are justified, then why not?
    People will always complain, but does that render all complaints unfounded and unworthy?

    I will be signing that petition, if DRM is going to be mandatory, I would at least like DRM options.
  • oblivion437
    oblivion437

    Joined: Nov 2006
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 12:20 pm
    GFWL has been a source of headaches for me in the past, but if the port is done right that kind of problem just isn't severe enough to be a deal breaker for me.
  • Ranim
    Ranim

    Joined: Nov 2005
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 12:39 pm
    Games for Windows Live, I really wanted to play Dark Souls until I saw you. I hate you.
  • warmaster670
    warmaster670

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 12:42 pm
    its amazing how many people rage about GFWL but jerk off steam, steamworks sucks, if someone wants to use steam it should be their choice.
  • OdiousLupous
    OdiousLupous

    Joined: Jul 2011
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 1:37 pm
    It seems that unforgivable word among the loudest and shrillest of gamers has popped up again. "Entitled". Dont all the online game system networks have their own individual problems? Knitpickin mutha****as, you give them an inch and they shove it in your rear usb port.
  • danielrbischoff
    danielrbischoff

    Joined: Nov 2009
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 3:59 pm
    The only GFWL game I have is GTA IV and it doesn't seem like *that* big of an issue to me.
  • Greywolfe1982
    Greywolfe1982

    Joined: Jan 2008
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 4:37 pm
    This seriously pisses me off. A company finally listens to one of the thousands of online petitions floating around, and what happens? They ***** and moan about it.
  • wildmario
    wildmario

    Joined: Jan 2007
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
    I also forgot to mention that even if the vocal minority/majority ***** about all this stuff, they'll get the game anyway.
  • sliverstorm
    sliverstorm

    Joined: Jun 2007
    Posted: Apr 12th, 2012 at 5:35 pm
    Completely disagree with the tone of this article. If you were making a product, wouldn't you want your customer base to tell you A. If they would purchase it and B. What it would take to make them purchase it?

    Consumers are terrible innovators--they hate anything new and they don't know how to create anything they'll like--ask them, and they'll be dead wrong. But if you give consumers a known quantity, they can usually determine their future purchasing course of action pretty accurately.

    Now, whether or not consumers will be truthful about their intentions in public is another question (I'm looking at you, MW2 boycott), but companies are getting better at extrapolating how the silent majority will react based on the vocal minority's actions. It would be a mistake to dismiss that kind of feedback out of hand.
  • cyberjim2000
    cyberjim2000

    Joined: Feb 2010
    Posted: Apr 13th, 2012 at 12:39 am
    GFWL actually came with Fallout 3 on the PC, I remembered. It caused problems like crashing and stability issues, but people just patched it away. I'm sure it'll be the same here, some programmer will just make a program that disables GFWL for Dark Souls... unless you need it for multiplayer.
  • Longo_2_guns
    Longo_2_guns

    Joined: Jun 2003
    Posted: Apr 13th, 2012 at 1:59 am
    Oh man, people want to get their money's worth out of a game and not have to be stuck with an unintuitive piece of crap that no one uses in order to play it. Sound the ****ing alarms, ring the bells, these *******s are entitled jerks who hate video games.

    Or maybe, just maybe, they know EXACTLY what they want, they care about this game, and they would rather have it on Steam (which the majority of PC gamers use) than GFWL (which no one uses). Instead of blaming the consumers, shouldn't you take a look at the producers who aren't making things up to par? I mean, the concept of "make it right, or I'm not going to buy it" is the foundation of capitalism, and isn't it better that they're saying how to make it right rather than just letting it flop?

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