Microsoft's GFWL and Capcom's Updates on Affected Classic Games

TapTechNews September 22nd news, Microsoft launched the predecessor of the current PC-side Xbox game service, GamesforWindowsLive (GFWL) in 2007. In February 2014, Microsoft shut down this service, and a large number of classic games that relied on related service components were affected and could not be connected to the network for verification, and thus could not be played, so a batch of third-party Live-free game cracking patches were also born.

And now SteamDB shows that Capcom is updating a batch of classic games affected by the GamesForWindowsLive components, mainly involving Ultra Street Fighter IV, Street Fighter X Tekken, Lost Planet 2, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, etc.

TapTechNews learned that Capcom began to gradually remove games with built-in GamesForWindowsLive components as early as last February, and currently Capcom classic games such as Resident Evil 5 on the Steam platform can be played normally without installing a third-party Live-free game cracking patch.