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I'm a little mystified by the lack of Halo, Halo 2, and Gears of War. All of those games have already been ported to Windows so there is no added cost in putting them on the service. If the service had launched with those 3 games available from the start it would have garnered a lot more interest.

 

I find it funny that they don't have Halo 2 for Games on Demand on the XBL Marketplace yet they have the first game, and even funnier that they don't even acknowledge Halo 2 on the Halo Waypoint app.

Gosh, Halo 3, ODST, Reach on PC would be awesome.

 

Halo 2 is, though, and it's not on there either.

Even considering that it is a really dated looking game, if someone would bother to patch it for compatibility with modern versions of the G4WL client software and Windows 7 it would make a decent budget release as well as some actual unique content.

Sadly though G4WL doesn't seem to have any ambition to be anything but a very poor 'me too' effort. I mean, just look at Steam and D2D right now, full of fresh and tantalising Christmas offers, while on the Microsoft side of things it looks like the store owner has been lying dead behind the counter for a month and noone has actually noticed.

 

I replayed Halo on PC just a few weeks ago, always been fond of that game - heck, rushed out and got an XBox for it on launch day
But like for many people in this topic, Halo 2 PC just won't run right for me. I mean not with a recent G4WL installed and/or online play working.

Sure their deep pockets make them a force to be reckoned with, whatever it is they undertake. But c'mon. The store as it is just mainly makes me feel sorry for whatever Microsoft minion has been banished to maintenance duty.

 

Now if ms had given me the job of ceo in charge of pc gaming, I would of ensured that gfwl was full of Gaming Goodness.
And the people would rejoice and chant "All hail Davros for GFWL is indeed The Dogs Bollocks"