This already kind of happened once, when Microsoft's games for windows live died off. There were a fair number of games, some not all that old, that just straight up would never be playable by anyone again. A handful of titles were patched to remove GFWL, but most were not.,(reply>), @SnipyShino R.I.P,(reply>), GFWLs installer is missing a file but you can find it with some looking and it'll fully work, logging in with Xbox LIVE functions as well.,(reply>), Ruined Street Fighter X Tekken,(reply>), The pre-launch release of hitman two from the modern trilogy In pirated form having improved performance or windows 10 having objectively superior performance when compared to windows 11 should be the types of things that generate a deluge of negative publicity for the entire gaming industry. as long as more and more people become acclimatized to the idea of games being software as a service or their entire gaining experience being desktop as a service, there is no incentive for these corporations to abandon the parasitic subscription model, but if the industry were to receive a severe enough backlash…,(reply>), @frequentfrenzied That's why I'm a pirate. Loved the uncut version without any DRM.<br>I am somewhat willing to use Steam when the game is worth it. Any additional DRM and or mandatory launchers/accounts, and I'm out. Especially when I get a better product by not paying.