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2014/09/05 08:10:22
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Et In Arcadia Ego
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Apologies if this is old news
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-09-05-warhammer-40k-dawn-of-war-2-ditches-games-for-windows-live
Relic Entertainment has updated real-time strategy game Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 so that it no longer uses the Games for Windows Live platform.
Back in June Relic, owned by Sega, pledged to support Dawn of War 2, now over five years old, and said it would move the game over to the same server systems it uses for the first Dawn of War, Company of Heroes and Company of Heroes 2. Now, it is making good on its promise by moving Dawn of War 2 over to Steamworks.
The update for Dawn of War 2 and its expansion Chaos Rising also moved leaderboards and achievements to Relic's servers, with Relic's Battle Servers being used to manage multiplayer networking.
However, a number of features have been removed in the process, including LAN support, referee mode and the ability to pause during multiplayer.
Relic has focused on the Company of Heroes franchise in recent years, supporting COH2 with expansions and other content. But Dawn of War remains in the developers' thoughts. Back in April game director Quinn Duffy told Eurogamer there was a "strong possibility" that Relic would work with Games Workshop on a new Dawn of War game at some point in the future.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2014/09/05 08:41:01
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests
Versteckt in den Schatten deines Geistes.
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'Cause we wouldn't want to include LAN support. LAN is just another word for "piracy"!!!
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2014/09/05 10:04:26
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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To be fair, I don't miss LAN. If we have friends over, we just share our WLAN and even play via WLAN aka internet.
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2014/09/06 18:52:42
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Quick-fingered Warlord Moderatus
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Thank goodness to no more Windows Live. Honestly, it could feel like such a pain in the rear to log on to an account I used only for playing video games.
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Lord Judicator Valdrakh of the Atun Dynasty (6th Ed: W:3, L:4, D:0)
 H.B.M.C. wrote:Well GW were mostly responsible for the Berlin Wall, so it's natural for some people to harbour resentment towards them.
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2014/09/06 18:59:40
Subject: Re:Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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You know, I want an entire game that is just Last Stand. Give me a host of maps, random wave generation, a horde of heroes. I'd buy that.
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2014/09/06 19:16:23
Subject: Re:Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Beautiful and Deadly Keeper of Secrets
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 LordofHats wrote:You know, I want an entire game that is just Last Stand. Give me a host of maps, random wave generation, a horde of heroes. I'd buy that.
Give them interactions as well, I want to hear the bickering between a Chaos Sorcerer and Captain, the General trying to figure out why he's standing next to a Hive tyrant and a Tau Commander prattling on about the Greater Good even from a Tyranid.
It'd be hilarious.
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2014/09/06 19:23:59
Subject: Re:Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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And dances. Space Marine Captain doing the electric slide. 
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2014/09/06 19:26:59
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Huge Hierodule
The centre of a massive brood chamber, heaving and pulsating.
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H.B.M.C. wrote:'Cause we wouldn't want to include LAN support. LAN is just another word for "piracy"!!!
Does anybody honestly care about LAN anymore? Maybe in the early 2000s when internet play was a new thing, but this is 2014.
Anyway, this is good news. GFWL was a mess from what I'm aware.
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Squigsquasher, resident ban magnet, White Knight, and general fethwit.
 buddha wrote:I've decided that these GW is dead/dying threads that pop up every-week must be followers and cultists of nurgle perpetuating the need for decay. I therefore declare that that such threads are heresy and subject to exterminatus. So says the Inquisition!
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2014/09/06 19:38:35
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Oh heeellllll yeah!
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2014/09/07 09:25:25
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Ah Relic, in the with the save like a boss.
Well done and good riddance to GFWL.
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2014/09/07 13:34:51
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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Played five missions of DoW2 vanilla.
A ton of fun now that I don't have to feth with GFWL to start it up.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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2014/09/07 13:45:34
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Mhm, it's not that they ditched GFWL, it's that GFWL doesn't exist anymore.
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2014/09/07 13:47:14
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Secret Force Behind the Rise of the Tau
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 Soladrin wrote:Mhm, it's not that they ditched GFWL, it's that GFWL doesn't exist anymore.
More good news!
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2014/09/07 16:45:30
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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PARTY HARD MUTHA EFFERS!
But seriously GG Relic, you convinced me to play your game again, I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY.
(seriously I do)
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
-- Adam Serwer
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2014/09/07 17:26:45
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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GFWL was a stillborn project that literally had zero benefit. Glad it's gone for gud.
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2014/09/07 17:38:37
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
Cozy cockpit of an Archer ARC-5S
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Now if only I could still access my Fallout 3 DLC and my DoW 2 pre-order bonuses.
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Fatum Iustum Stultorum
Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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2014/09/07 17:52:27
Subject: Re:Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Ancient Venerable Dark Angels Dreadnought
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LordofHats wrote:You know, I want an entire game that is just Last Stand. Give me a host of maps, random wave generation, a horde of heroes. I'd buy that.
Well 40k would make a pretty good MOBA.
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“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
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2014/09/07 18:21:25
Subject: Re:Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Consigned to the Grim Darkness
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 Wyzilla wrote: LordofHats wrote:You know, I want an entire game that is just Last Stand. Give me a host of maps, random wave generation, a horde of heroes. I'd buy that.
Well 40k would make a pretty good MOBA.
I'd buy that.
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The people in the past who convinced themselves to do unspeakable things were no less human than you or I. They made their decisions; the only thing that prevents history from repeating itself is making different ones.
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2014/09/07 22:02:38
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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Count me in.
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2014/09/07 22:46:25
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Fixture of Dakka
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I thought GFWL closed down last June?
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2014/09/07 23:02:44
Subject: Re:Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Glorious Lord of Chaos
The burning pits of Hades, also known as Sweden in summer
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At first I wondered 'wait, is this not ancient news?'
Then I realised this was about vanilla, not Retribution.
Good change.
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2014/09/08 07:17:37
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Decrepit Dakkanaut
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The info about GWFL closing down leaked in June.
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2014/09/08 08:22:34
Subject: Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War 2 ditches Games for Windows Live
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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Speaking of DoW2 being more fun now, anyone interested in getting some Last Stands or something else in?
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