Games For Windows Live Questions

Gaming
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so, i've heard enough of gfwl that i know i never want it in my life, but i've only heard about these problems in windows 8

so my questions are:

Is gfwl necessary for certain games?

is it embeded into windows 8 and impossible to get rid of?

is it a win8 thing or have i just never run into it in win7?

so i'm asking about this because i can get win8 for $30, there's alot i hate about win8 but it's hard to argue with that price (that said i wasn't a fan of 7 for a while), but i think with all the bad things i've heard about gfwl, if it's going to be needed that's enough to push me over the edge (win7's only $30 more)

also, simmilar but not quite related question: does 8 require me to register a microsoft account to even use the computer? because i refuse to do that

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Games for windows live has nothing to do with your operating system as far as I know. Some games have it, some games don't. If games for windows live is included in a game, then there's no way of "turning it off".

Not as many games include it today as they did a few years ago. The reason why developers actually use it is because it apparently makes it easier to port from console to PC.

Honestly, it's not that big a problem. Not enough to put me off buying a game if it uses GFWL.

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ok, it just that the only times i've heard people talking about it they samething about 8, must have just been the games they were benchmarking

i seen bioshock 2 on the list of games, so i'll download that and see what it's all about

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I turned it off on Fallout 3.  It is different for each game but try searching on Google.

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Bioshock 2 is a great game, don't let GFWL put you off!

I believe there's a good deal on Bioshock 1 & 2 on Amazon at the moment.

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yeah, i have the games, just havn't gotten to them

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You don't have to sign in to use windows 8.