The service, which was never really very popular from the start, saw several games abandon it last year before Microsoft finally threw up its hands and said “I give up”. Games for Windows Live has been dying a slow and agonizing death. Removing the key from the registry entirely would not allow GFWL to function,” explained Neogaf forum member Grief.exe. “For those of you that do not know, GFWL cannot function unless you have a key to input. Removed LegacyKeyRegistrationMethod – registry.
Several removed steamdb strings point to the removal of the “service” from Fallout 3.įallout 3, Bethesda’s open-world post-apocolyptic RPG, has recently had several strings pertaining to its Games for Windows Live functionality removed, according to the folks over at Neogaf.