So, is Skyrim using GFWL or Steamworks?

[gunner1905]

Because all of the PC box images I see uses that Games for Windows logo, so can someone clarify.
I really hope they're using Steam like their most recent games (FNV, Brink). Even though I don't really mind GFWL, I really just prefer Steam.

 

[Delusibeta]

I haven't heard anything official, but if the boxart doesn't have to work "Live" on it, odds on it's not using Games for Windows Live. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Steamworks again, after Fallout New Vegas and Brink using it.

 

[oliveira8]

It just means that it's an exclusive to the Windows OS, not that it uses Live.

Spoiler: F:NV had Steamworks and no GFWL, but it still had the logo:

Spoiler: Compare to Fallout 3 which had Live:

If it just says Games for Windows it doesn't have Live. If the Live is underneath, it has.

 

[gunner1905]

Well that's good, I hope they use steamworks. Or at least let users activate on steam, because that preorder map looks sweet.

 

[gunner1905]

It just means that it's an exclusive to the Windows OS, not that it uses Live.

Now I want to see a box with Linux or Mac exclusivity

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

I hope it is steam out of the two because I have been holding off pre ordering Skyrim off Amazon just in case that version required GFWL.

It just means that it's an exclusive to the Windows OS, not that it uses Live.

Now I want to see a box with Linux or Mac exclusivity

Maybe one day we will, but until that day we'll just have to use the Wine. Or in my case Wine and incessant praying to the linux gods that I don't get an error message when I load the game up