News Byte: End of Games for Windows Live Means Trouble for Batman Saves
If you’re a Games for Windows Live user who has Arkham Asylum or Arkham City saves, then you might want to start thinking about what you’re going to do when the service shuts down next summer. The Batman games are just a few new additions to the list of games that have been or will be affected by Games for Windows impending shutdown.
Source: The Verge
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ah hah! This is precisely why I hate anything that makes online part of my gaming experience. Forcing you to be online. It’s not that game breaking though. You could just get a patch for the game but now it’s extra effort on the players side
Exactly. And I don’t know that Microsoft ever really considered that the service might not be a good thing for the *players*. As I said, it probably sounded nice in theory, but in practice it’s been a mess.