![]() ![]() ![]() Since Microsoft has recently been making noises about turning Games for Windows Live into a viable iPhone-like app store that can compete with Steam, it’s worth noting how much worse this experience was than my first Steam experience. At least it never went as far as to make good on its warning that it might have to restart the machine. For all I knew, it might have been downloading the same update every time. I almost gave up and hit the support forums, because there was no clear indication that it was actually making any progress. I had to go through this cycle something like five times before it let me play the game. Installing the update required me to exit the game and restart it, sit through the uninterruptible logo movies (including one for nVidia, even though I have an ATI graphics card installed) and log into Games for Windows Live again (even though I had checked the “log in automatically” checkbox - I’m guessing that the update reset that), at which point I was told that I needed to install another Games for Windows Live update. ![]() Once I did that, it needed to download a Games for Windows Live update. Having downloaded Batman: Arkham Asylum from Steam, I found that it wouldn’t let me play (or at least, wouldn’t let me save the game, which is pretty essential in a game like this) until I registered for a Games for Windows Live account - something I’ve managed to avoid doing so far solely through my taste in games. ![]()
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