Michael Russell reckons that GFW live isn’t so bad..

Normally I’m loathe to disagree, however in this I must. GFW Live is a pox upon PC gaming’s free and diverse online multiplayer gaming realms. Sure some parts of GFW might seem nice now, but when you end up paying $50 a year to get called names by 10 year olds over ports of ancient Xbox 1 software (that will most likely end up remaining solely on Windows unlike it’s predecessor) you might change your mind.

In any case, as is plain as day, you won’t see EA doing this, and Epic isn’t airing their grievances properly to get what they want. Even if Epic gets special indemnity against the your-customers-must-pay-us-too clauses of the GFW Live service, will the licensors of Unreal Engine 3?

You are aware that no Live games have actual dedicated servers, right? How does this even remotely fit in with the volunteer servers that normally feed in with the rest of PC gaming?

You should listen to the painfully low-quality Skype conversation 1up Yours (the 04/06/2007 episode) had that started all this discussion anyway. It is extremely informative regarding GFW Live.

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