and now you see why people ranted and raved over Xbox One.

Around the world you can hear the victory cries of the PC community.

God riddance, time to completely move to the XBox brand.

I'm sorry to say, wont be missed.

Games for Windows Live provided some of the most frustrating, rage-induced moments of my gaming life. I hated and loathed its existence from the moment I first installed it with Fallout 3. The Grudge 5 should be about GFWL. I'm not kidding, the crap I used to have to go through just to play one of my favorite games was ridiculous.

It left such a bad taste in my mouth that I still have a sealed copy of BioShock, which I never installed simply because I found out after it arrived that it was GFWL.

Microsoft didn't just drop the ball with GFWL, they handed it to Steam then turned and blocked for them while delivering a Personal Foul to their own customers.

May it sink down to the depths of hell.

The only bad part, besides the fact that I might have to re-purchase Fallout 3 one day, is the fact that I have 400 Microsoft points (whatever the hell that means) dating back to when I had to buy Fallout 3 DLC through GFWL. UGH. When I read about this, I went to see if there was anything I could buy with those 400 points. Turns out, OMG THE PRICES. They make GameStop look like HalfPrice.com. So yeah, those 400 points are going to be lost in limbo forever.

Actually, hell is too nice for GFWL.

Wait so does this mean that any games that use Windows Live will not be able to work ?

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Well this puts a damper on some of my games then ..

From the sounds of it, as with Age of Empires Online, the game is transferring over to Steam.

Age of Empires Online (a Microsoft game) transferred over to Steam some time ago, though it required both a Steam account and a Xbox LIVE gamertag.  It sounds like it'll fully move over to Steam and include Steam achievements, as well as utilizing Steam accounts for PVP.

Though, it'd be nice if they just made Age Of Empires Online an Xbox One game so you could play it on the console.  They'd just have to optimize the interface for the controller or include keyboard/mouse support, or a Smartglass interface.

The change impacts gamertags and anything built around those gamertags.  Not the ability to download or play games you already have.  My Age of Empires III collection will work just fine.  It doesn't use gamertags or Windows Games LIVE for any online gaming.

And this, people, is why I hate DRM. When it goes down, there's no guarantee your games will work. That said, I'm very happy GfWL is going down. Literally the only good thing about it I've heard is that it works with XBL (ie. achievements, friend list), everything else is either neutral ("it's not as bad as people say") or different kinds of bad, usually related to the whole thing not working.