I wouldn't trust that since it has the GFWL logo up there, GFWL is getting shut-down pretty soon. 

Games for Windows and GFWL aren't the same thing though.

Khanage, if you own the material (GTA for instance) or want to be a jerk, you can hit somebody with a takedown notice for any reason at all, For instance last year there was a French company going around getting files taken off of Mediafire, due to false DMCA claims.

Given that happened.....it's stupidly easy (and it pretty much doesn't matter where) to claim something as your own when you don't in fact own it. Worst bit? Practically 0 penalty for doing so.

E.g.

G17 makes an LCPDFR 2.0 preview video. Somebody comes along, maybe hates GTA or hates G17, they flag the video as their own and demand it gets taken down with a copyright claim.

Youtube takes it down and the onus is on G17 to prove that takedown was wrong. That's just how Youtube works and it'll only ever get worse. Aren't we all glad Youtube got bought up by Google? (No, I'm not!)

For me it's still pretty obvious that the entire Games for Windows live idea is getting shutdown, along with MP support and key activation for all games since they are, as far as I know, stored in the Games for Windows live store. I don't care about Xbox Live at all, I use it because I have to, not because I want to. 

That is of course unless R* goes and patches GFWL out of IV (and V and so on)

Which.......as usual, they've been silent about

I'm just gonna go ahead and say it, IM A PIRATE!! So I don't give a damn about GFWL and whatnot. And no, its not like I'm proud of being a pirate or anything, I only pirate old games (like IV), 'cos, you know, I doubt companies really care about making anymore money from old games.

That's the worst logic I have ever heard. Let's say you released a texture 5 years ago. It's payware, and always will be. You are hosting it on your own site, which you pay for. But the texture is old, so I'll just download it for free from some other site that you do not own. You wouldn't care, right....? 

Edited January 15, 201412 yr by ineseri

Yeah, piracy is mean. But with the recession going on here in England, desperate times call for desperate measures. But you can't really compare textures with blockbuster games.

Since we're all pulling the pirate card....here's my story..

I'm (technically) a pirate. Why? Because I download old DOS games to my laptop to play when I'm not at home. Most of them, you can't buy anywhere at all, they don't show up on eBay or Amazon or Listia or Craiglist or any of the gaming sites.....and even if you do get them, do you really think a modern PC's gnna have a 5 1/4 inch floppy drive or a 1.44mb floppy drive? Or that (say) Civ 1 is gonna run in Win7 or 8?

The ones I do download legally? I buy from GOG and rarely Steam if they got them, but they don't have every game (Fallout springs to mind, it got removed ad now the only way to get it is via piracy now it's in legal limbo).

Same with GTA IV, I used a workaround to disable GFWL on my main PC so I could use a 100% save file with LCPDFR. I disabled GFWL on Dirt 2 and 3 so I could run the cars and tracks I wanted to without having to play through a horrible campaign mode.

 

If that makes me a pirate I'll take it for being able to play my GFWL games when that service gets shut down. Before I got heavily into Steam, I used NoCD/NoDVD patches for the sole fact that it didn't wear my CDs and DVDs out as much. I already bought the game, the publisher got my money.....and you couldn't exactly go dow to EB (yeah showing my age here) and ask for a new CD. Tried that with Half Life. Got told to sod off.

Actually in one game, it's recommended you HAVE to use a pirate NoCD to get the full game? Why? Because when GTR2 was released on Steam, licesing issues meant certain cars weren't included. So on all the big race sim sites, they have topics detailing how to get and use the patch to restore all the content. (yes, that's the exception, not the rule)

If take 2 games took it out, that means the "PC version" is fake...

That video was already taken down

Yeah, piracy is mean. But with the recession going on here in England, desperate times call for desperate measures. But you can't really compare textures with blockbuster games.

So first you say the companies don't care about making money if their games aren't new, and now you're blaming it on a recession? I'm usually not this forward, but go soak your head, dude. If you want to take 'desperate measures' try getting a job, or get a 2nd one like a lot of the rest of us have to do. I'd hope you pirate something from the wrong source tomorrow and you get taken to court for it. You'll feel the recession hit you pretty hard when you have to make a plea deal for $10,000.

So first you say the companies don't care about making money if their games aren't new, and now you're blaming it on a recession? I'm usually not this forward, but go soak your head, dude. If you want to take 'desperate measures' try getting a job, or get a 2nd one like a lot of the rest of us have to do. I'd hope you pirate something from the wrong source tomorrow and you get taken to court for it. You'll feel the recession hit you pretty hard when you have to make a plea deal for $10,000.

You'll have to excuse my lousy attempts at trying to find some justification for piracy, and I do have a job, its just that games are pretty expensive (GTA V costs around £40 on Amazon), and I have to spend my cash on other stuff. I do legally buy games off Steam during sales. I'm still working my way up in the world y'know, I only recently moved out of my parents house. And a 2nd job, well, I'd have to think about that a while.

Oh dear...

 

looks like them fakers achieved their goal... a lot of people discussing if the video is fake or not and while doing so engaging into completely different controversial bullshit. This topic is almost like a YouTube comment section