Games For Windows Live: Unusable
I got into the Age of Empires Online beta this weekend. It’s a beautiful game, and it’s pretty obvious a lot of good work went into it. However, when I was playing it I would keep getting logged out in the middle of the game. My wife, who was watching Netflix on our Xbox, kept getting logged out too.
Turns out, I can’t play a PC game and watch Netflix on the Xbox at the same time. Doesn’t matter that I can do things the other way around just fine. Doesn’t matter that I can log into an IM service from several locations. Their only suggestion to me to fix it was to buy another account.
Really?
So my short adventure with Games for Windows Live is at an end. I’m sad that I won’t be able to play Age of Empires Online or any other games using the GFWL framework.