If you purchased the disc versions or non-Steam versions of Arkham Asylum or Arkham City, you can redeem your CD/game key on Steam and grab an updated version free of the GFWL shackles, as well as free from SecuROM.
For a full list of games, I recommend checking out the PC Gaming Wiki where they breakdown what is known to be happening for each game.īatman: Arkham Asylum/ Batman: Arkham City Seventy-three video games were blighted with the cancerous growth of GFWL and we still don’t know exactly how many will manage to survive after the lights are finally turned off. So here’s what we can gather is happening to some of the most prominent GFWL-enabled games, and what their publishers are planning to do (if anything) come the end of service.
GFWL will not go down quietly, though, and its death is liable to take a fair few games with it screaming into the void. Microsoft has finally recognized the redundancy of GFWL, however, and are rumoured to be shutting down the entire service on 1st July 2014. Microsoft never backed it with the same support they gave to Xbox, and the service languished in the shadows, quietly holding and stifling the games it was installed on. Games for Windows Live was a sluggish, clumsy piece of software that took ages to update, offered basic functionality, and mainly served as a DRM system which restricted and hampered gamers enjoyments of the products they had rightfully paid for. The idea was that it would be an immediately recognizable mark on a game box of quality that the game would have got through certification to be up to Microsoft’s high standards and would offer PC gamers a similar experience to that which Xbox 360 players enjoyed on their console. In 2007, Microsoft launched a service for PC games.