Stop Microsoft's Games For Windows Live restrictions on single-player games and saving/loading features
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For those of you unaware of this issue, the following is a brief summary:
Several software titles associated with Microsofts Games For Windows Live have made logging into their service a requirement to not only play games online, but also to access saved games and single-player mode. Up until now, developers and producers alike have maintained the standard of making both single-player games and saving and loading features independent of any online service or even internet access. Microsoft's attempt at circumventing this standard has caused an uproar in the gaming community with many consumers expressing reluctance or simply refusing to buy these games as a result. Others who did purchase the titles in question have encountered issues with the Games For Windows Live service which has prevented them from accessing some or all of the game features, some even after setting up a valid account. The implementation of these requirements has already weakened consumer confidence, and some have speculated that these restrictions will only encourage piracy.
The following is a petition on behalf of the gamer community to inform Microsoft that we are very displeased with the course they have taken, and that Microsoft and its "Games For Windows Live" service discontinues the use of a mandatory login and account in order to play the game and/or access saved games for all current and future titles. This will insure that users without internet access are provided with a game they can access and play along with anyone who does not wish to sign up with Games For Windows Live.
While gaming add-ons and additional content have become standards the consumer must purchase online, the basic features to play a game and save it have always been available to all consumers and should remain so.
Several software titles associated with Microsofts Games For Windows Live have made logging into their service a requirement to not only play games online, but also to access saved games and single-player mode. Up until now, developers and producers alike have maintained the standard of making both single-player games and saving and loading features independent of any online service or even internet access. Microsoft's attempt at circumventing this standard has caused an uproar in the gaming community with many consumers expressing reluctance or simply refusing to buy these games as a result. Others who did purchase the titles in question have encountered issues with the Games For Windows Live service which has prevented them from accessing some or all of the game features, some even after setting up a valid account. The implementation of these requirements has already weakened consumer confidence, and some have speculated that these restrictions will only encourage piracy.
The following is a petition on behalf of the gamer community to inform Microsoft that we are very displeased with the course they have taken, and that Microsoft and its "Games For Windows Live" service discontinues the use of a mandatory login and account in order to play the game and/or access saved games for all current and future titles. This will insure that users without internet access are provided with a game they can access and play along with anyone who does not wish to sign up with Games For Windows Live.
While gaming add-ons and additional content have become standards the consumer must purchase online, the basic features to play a game and save it have always been available to all consumers and should remain so.
168 Signatures
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Colin Campbell
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- Please sign this petition and encourage others to do the same. Preserve long-standing PC standards for the future!
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Michael L. Arden
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davy
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- i have 3 games with windows live and i can't play those games or barely like universe at war i needed to delete the security (UAWEA.exe.cat) and dawn of war 2 it doesn't play when my internet is on or gears of war it has a goddam time limit it only worked till 17/01/2009
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Shannon
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- Not being able to save when offline is terrible
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Richard Pinter
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- Make GFW LIVE optional only.
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f24
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- :(
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Matt
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- Down with GFWL! Freedom for the players!
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James
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Simon Cooper
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- GFWL services drive me nuts when they drop out for no explicit reason and stop me even playing a single player game offline, not to mention if net connection ever decides to drop out. Awful move. Get rid of it. For Internet play, OK, can accept that. For offline single player, get stuffed.
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kerkerez
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- akpowerr4p
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Artem Karimov
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- В
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CJ Johnson
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Niko
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- ;(
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Antoine
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- GFWL isn't bad, it just needs improvement
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chris
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- this is a waste of my time. I'd rather pirate than deal with this crap.
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Harry Reeder
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jimmy
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- im tired of having to have the internet to save my singleplayer games )=(
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Kontis Athanasios
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- I think it is very unfair to pay some serious money buying a game and not be able to enjoy it to its full extent because of a geographic racism based on -God knows what- various criteria, enforced by MS.
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John Blaine Jr.
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Ryan White
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John Hartley
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Henrique Ventura
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Jesse Leontowicz
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- Way to create something that doesn't even work.
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Mohamed Alfalo
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- I ask PC game makers to stop this GFWL bs and at very least let us consumers save our game with out having to log in into live accounts which doesn't work all the time and requier frequent updating. Steam from Valve offer much better service and is already in use. So just stop (kill) GFWL before it ruines gaming for PC.
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Spingardi Jean
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- I cant play Gta IV for 2 months, since microsoft update. What a shame! That's the first and the last GFW I bought. If I see other that interest me, I will DL it unlegally (even i'm against the principe)
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Han Lin
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Greg Smith
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Chris Parks
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- good game, bad......everything :(
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Josh
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- MS LIVE is a piece of garbage!
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Emil Eriksson
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- I prefer Steam.
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Andrew
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- F **** u microsoft
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Puk
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- I want to be able to play offline......
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Yoshiyah Burrell
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Michael Martin
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- Shouldn't have to sign on to any provider to access single-player saved games. Paid too much to be restricted from a game's single player features.
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hamza komanзero
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- windows live really sucks...
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Tim Geerlink
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- GFWL sucks
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Per Olai Isdahl
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Petteri Ruoko
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- GFWL has made me be unable to play more than one game due to the internet access requirement. I find this to be unreasonable for a single player game.
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Jesper Dam
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G Schiffer
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- I want my money back for GTA IV
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Joseph Ghelarducci
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- Windows Live Restricted the past 2 games i bought. Couldnt play them.
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Thomas Kobler
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- Windows Live for Games sucks! I hate it and I am not gonna buy ANY game using it in the future. That crap is just bringing the pirate in me to the surface!
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Gavin
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- who would want to buy games like that!!!
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Panda
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- GFWL sucks
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Scott
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- Why cant I play a Skirmish Single player mission in DOW2 without having to go through updates and time wasting? Cant you just be happy Microsoft OS is already the only platform for serious PC gamers why do you have to invade the games themselves with your useless systems?
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Geoff Adams
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- Windows Live erased my Fallout 3 saves. ERASED them. They weren't in a different folder. They were erased.
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Michal Kupka
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- GFWL is buggy, I cantt even properly log in in my country, integration into windows is poor and save game managment is non existent
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steegmans jurgen
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- GFWL sucks bigtime!!
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Ivan Talanov
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- Steam is cool service. Plz off gfw in single!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
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damon lee
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- pc gamers are smarter, try to control us and we pirate the crap out of you, get it?? obviously not.
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