Players of the Bethesda title on Steam will no longer need to use this obsolete service to run it.
We are ending 2021 and Games For Windows Live keep stalking us. Fortunately, we are getting rid of the presence of this service that Microsoft launched in 2007 to unify Xbox Live and PC users. Computer gamers were never convinced by this platform, which ended up being suspended in 2014 but, as has happened with other big names, some games are still being released from going through this process.
This is the case of Fallout 3, which can finally celebrate that it will not need Games For Windows Live to work in Setam. The role and action title of Bethesda, specifically the Game of the Year Edition, becomes independent 13 years later on the platform Valve. It will be executed directly, without the need to depend on this service.
If you already had Fallout 3 on Steam, we recommend that you reinstall the game“Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition has been updated and no longer installs dependencies of Games For Windows Live,” they say in the notes of the patch 1.7.0.4, which also introduces some stability and performance improvements. “If you already have Fallout 3 on Steam, we recommend that you uninstall and reinstall the game.”
Fallout 3 was a huge hit for Bethesda at the time. The title became from the beginning one of the most important in the franchise and significantly boosted the company, which ended up being acquired by Microsoft for a multimillion dollar amount last year. Fans keep coming back regularly to the third numbered installment in the series, and some are even using the Fallout 4 to carry out a remake of its predecessor.
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