F1 2012 GFWL No More, Steam Here We Come

Andrew Bortz · Mar 18, 2012

By the looks of it GFWL are being dropped for 2012 there is now a steamworks badge on the affiliation for the game. Amazed no one has commented about this here yet.

(Edit) Ok so there has been a comment in another thread oops.

Senad Subasic · Jun 24, 2012

Bye_Ya said:
How does Steam work as far as in-game profiles are concerned?

Depends on the game, how they implement it.
There are games with a single profile, connected to your Steam account, and games whose profiles are completely separate from Steam.

Don't own any of the F1 games, so don't know what specific things you had in mind.

Bye_Ya · Jun 24, 2012

I just mean really is my Steam profile name my gamertag then? Or is it my steam account name? Or something else?

Obviously I'll find out in September, but I was just curious.

Senad Subasic · Jun 24, 2012

I don't use that Xbox live thing, because it's horrible, so don't know the specifics on gamertags

Basically, you're the only one who needs to know your Steam account name. It isn't listed anywhere, and nobody else needs to know it. I use it only to log in to Steam.
People can add you if they know your account name, but they can add you without it anyway.

Your profile name (and community page URL), is easily changeable. And that's the thing used by default in most games.

Bye_Ya · Jun 24, 2012

Okay, thanks.

pasta815tim · Aug 9, 2012

Bram Hengeveld said:
Very good decision and a first step in the right direction Now bring on those dedicated servers and the online fun and massive leagues can really begin CM will have to as I don't think PC racers will buy the game in large numbers if they don't give us the option to increase the slots for an online race.

Not just the option to increase slots... the network managment of GFWL is absolutely ****. Clearly CM doesn't pay enough attention to its consumers. How often we long for "better cameras", "no GFWL" (since F1 2010), yet CM doesn't even manage to do those things~