Epic Failure! This is why modern anti-pirating methods need revising.

Surely someone should have seen this coming and sorted it out?

Originally Posted by pistol_pete
Surely someone should have seen this coming and sorted it out?

Like MS saw the Zune problem coming? Come on, man, that would require forethought! That's just not Microsoft's style.

Have you ever had problems with Games for Windows Live? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

What? Other than the obvious crashes on my system and the non-existent extra benefits it offers?

Greetings!

Originally Posted by Article
Have you ever had problems with Games for Windows Live? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.

So far have successfully avoided GFWL.
Pity about Operation Anchorage, though.

Apparently someone at either MS or Epic thought nobody would ever touch the game again after 1 year so the certificate got signed for exactly that time period. Signed certificates and MS are always fun. I still remember as if it was yesterday:

"Dear MS,

we found out that under Office 2k7 meta content is not encrypted when you digitally sign a document and can be manipulated by any third party.
Also the little red ribbon you use to indicate a digital signature doesn't change or show it in any way when the certificate is made invalid/expires.
Please tell us what you think about that."

Answer:

"Works as intended."

Riiiiiight....

first Zune freezing, now Gears doesn't work??

my god, i think i should switch OS, Vista may someday stuck in an infinite loop.
oh, wait, it always gets stuck

You should stop playing them violent video games or you will go out and murder somebody! Thank goodness for microsoft's incompetence!

Ain't I bin' sayin' it?

Ain't I bin' sayin' it?!

But seriously - I find it richly ironic that not only has my prediction come exactly to pass, but the workaround is childishly basic!

your anti virus client relies on your system clock as do other system critical apps, don't change back your system clock!!!!

DD

Originally Posted by pistol_pete
Surely someone should have seen this coming and sorted it out?

This is Epic we're talking about, the people who made a complete mess of GoW2 multiplayer and still haven't fixed all the lag issues.

how about they can windows live

Originally Posted by Veles
This is Epic we're talking about, the people who made a complete mess of GoW2 multiplayer and still haven't fixed all the lag issues.

I still haven't played that in over a month!

no issues on pirated games there. just sayin.

So those three people that play it every day can't play it today? Such a shame... [/******* mode OFF]

But, yeah, I agree that this is a totally stupid bug, serving no purpose than irritating customers and proving once again that Epic doesn't really give a ****

surprised i'm the first but ...... Epic Fail

Originally Posted by Jordan Wise
surprised i'm the first but ...... Epic Fail

ed oh no, i wasn't, missed that :D

Should have read:

Epic! Fail! Again! :)

Steam is also a culprit sometimes, telling me I can't play any of my games because the servers are too busy, sometimes blocking me out for hours. This includes singleplayer games like HL2.

Originally Posted by azrael-
Should have read:

Epic! Fail! Again! :)

it's the 4th time now:
Epic Fail: UT3
Epic Fail again: saying PC gaming is dead
Epic Fail again x2: Gears of lag 2 (or whatever they call it)
Epic Fail so-many-times: this

Originally Posted by johnmustrule
Steam is also a culprit sometimes, telling me I can't play any of my games because the servers are too busy, sometimes blocking me out for hours. This includes singleplayer games like HL2.

try running them in offline mode

stupid people at the companies tho :'(

Well, the first time their GFWL "save" system lost my saves for GoW I was pissed (especially since I could find them myself right there in a directory, but the game was unable to see them), then when it happened the second time I was even more pissed but luckily found a workaround (seriously - still not fixed? tards....). And now this? I'm glad I finished the lackluster game months ago and removed the thing from my hard drive - never to return. Bleh - I understand computer technology is getting more complex, but shouldn't the people working with it become a little more savvy to keep pace? Or at least hire some monkey just out of college and pay them minimum wage to at least go over BASIC FRAMEWORK to make sure things keep working?

It's like a professional race car driver who ends up killing the engine in his fancy top of the line off-the-track sports car because he never checked or changed the oil. Yeah, he knows how to drive really well, and he normally has people who handle such things on the track - but he should have enough knowledge of the basic workings to keep something so simple from screwing things up.
/overwrought analogy

Hey Epic and MS! Hire a goddamn intern, each of you. MS, have them f***ing call your clients when a certificate is about to expire! Epic, have yours check on routine basic crap like this so that you might know about it, oh I dunno - BEFORE it happens? maybe? Oh and have your intern bug the code-monkeys to actually bother to fix one of the most major flaws possible in a game. Right in line behind constant crashing would be losing save games. A few people might be willing to play through your samey predictable shoot 'em up several times just to be able to finally finish it, but most aren't - certainly not me. And this is from someone who replayed Doom 3. Yeah..... so... there!

...wow - retained a bit of bitterness there, didn't I? :p

i was surprised to hear that people actually still played that game on the pc. i couldn't see what the big deal was when i played it.

It was a great game on pc despite the bugs. They did try and fix a few.

Too bad it was a complete failure thanks to GFWL.

I see a trend here....

Did they fix it yet?

Personally, I found the game very disappointing and deleted it after a mere hour or two of play...