So the other day Viva Pinata was on sale for $.99 on gamesforwindows.com and I heard how good it was so there was no way I could pass it up So I purchased it and whatever but I wasn't ready to play it. Right, that title is terrible, so here's my problem. I have a disc of viva pinata; I love this game, but in 5 months' time I won't be able to play it anymore because GFWL is (finally) dying off - the game is playable without it, but it will not let you save without logging in.
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Right, that title is terrible, so here's my problem. I have a disc of viva pinata; I love this game, but in 5 months' time I won't be able to play it anymore because GFWL is (finally) dying off - the game is playable without it, but it will not let you save without logging in. I found a youtube solution but it still requires GFWL to be installed. I'm wondering if there's a hacky bruteforce way around this - I don't want to have to get a 360 for one game and I really don't want to have this game become unplayable just because Microsoft is a horrible company run by horrible people with horrible ideas they infest everything they touch with and then rip them out leaving those things gutted and lifeless. I tried torrenting someone else's disc image in the hopes it would contain some kind of hack to remove the detection; it did not. It's my disc damnit, I should not have to deal with this shit. God I hate microsoft, this is what I get for playing something they published.
I could have just hated them from afar while playing a Sony console or a Steam game but I just had to take interest in something one of their whipping boys made. God I wish they'd fucking die, I hope their HQ gets bowled over by a giant asteroid. Click to expand.whatever I needed to vent:V also if you read through all that, you'd know hat I tried that already and it still requires GFWL to be installed. I have no way to verify my disc's serial number on a new computer if GFWL dies, nor do I have a way to remove it from my computer entirely. I'm looking for a mod, a hack, or just plain simple illegal jailbreaking, I don't care how unethical that sounds, it's my disc, I paid for it, I should damn well be able to use it.
Was that more constructive for you? Click to expand.That didn't work for me on spore, fable 3, or viva pinata; before owning two out of three of those games, I used pirated copies and it either wouldn't let me save or nagged me endlessly to verify my account. In my experience, you need to sign into an online account at least once to make an offline account. Edit: And yes I know spore was published by EA but surprisingly that game's pirated copies work without needing verified serials unlike fable 3's. My steam copy of fable 3 doesn't even work right even in offline mode.