Relic Entertainment Producer Jeff Lydell told PC Gamer that when the new Dawn of War 2 expansion pack arrives, called Retribution, it will be without support for Games for Windows Live.
Both Dawn of War 2 and its first expansion, Chaos Rising, had supported Games for Windows Live and Steam. But as Lydell said, “We’ve always thought this was cumbersome, and only implemented it because back in Dawn of War II’s development, we needed digital distribution and matchmaking features from both platforms”.
He added that supporting both services created more QA work, and that Relic and Valve were working on some exciting new features to be announced later.
Via [Gamasutra]
Shoitaan
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 1:12 PMI love XBL, absolutely hate GFWL. The frequent disconnect problems is why I stopped playing DoWII multiplayer. So glad to hear about this.
matt
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 1:13 PMgood, it was just as cumbersome and hard work for us to USE too, when we have to sign into 300 accounts just to start the game…
weresmurf
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 1:39 PMDoes this mean we’ll get a patch to REMOVE the need for it from the other game and its expansion???
Junglist
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 1:41 PMNope – they’re continuing support for it on the previous games
weresmurf
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 3:54 PMHrrrrm… damn. Oh well. Can’t have everything you want I suppose. But, this is good news in and of itself.
Destructor
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 3:52 PMThis is just downright good news. GFWl is totally clumsy and bug-ridden. The Steam experience is 1000x smoother and more reliable. Bravo.
murray
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 5:05 PMThank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
El Phantasmogoro
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 7:03 PMGreat game just got less cumbersome to play. AND a new expansion!
Dance all night!
Mr Waffle
Friday, September 17, 2010 at 9:56 PMSo I won’t get pretty achievements? :(
LordLeckie
Saturday, September 18, 2010 at 10:14 AMIf they stay with achievements i imagine they’ll be steam ones.
Brady
Sunday, September 19, 2010 at 8:38 PMFINALLY! My GOD GFWL is a TERRIBLE FUCKING SERVICE!
Agr0
Monday, September 20, 2010 at 12:15 PMYAY !
Best news I’ve heard all week, thanks Kotaku!
Daniel Hindes
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 at 1:36 PMDoes this mean Retribution won’t be backwards compatible with vanilla Dawn of War II or Chaos Rising – like CR was with DOWII?
It’s starting to sound less like a standalone expansion and more like a standalone game.