The people that represent AoE on Twitter.

It's also for sale on Direct2Drive now. Probably a good option for people who dislike clients.

Doesn't it use GFWL?

Well... I mean a client to download it. GFWL and Steam both use their clients for downloading where as D2D will just give you a big exe file that is easy to backup.

Also GFWL is easy to ignore for singleplayer, unlike Steam (in my opinion).

I don't know, I remember using mods for my Fallout 3 copy that required me to start the game without GFWL. And I followed the instructions on the mod readme and my fallout 3 started without GFWL.

GFWL Marketplace does not download the game's files directly like Steam does, instead it downloads a single-file installer which it then runs with a silent switch. The installers are downloaded to this folder by default:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\GFWLive\Downloads

You can change this to whatever you like on the settings tab of the Marketplace client.

You can use the installers directly without going through the client. If you do wish to use them through the client simply dump them back into the folder it is looking in and click Download for each entry to make it see the files (no actual downloading takes place).

From what I remember theres very few of the original Diablo team left at blizz it could well be completely crap

Thanks, I didn't know that. I know it worked for the Fallout 3 DLC (which is the only thing I have ever bought from GFWL directly) but I thought that was just because it was DLC. If I go digital delivery again, which I am thinking about, I might get Fable 3 from GFWL then.

I've seen the screens, it looks generic, the classes are rehashes with different names, there are exactly 0 people from old Blizzard North working on it. Trust me, I'll bet Torchlight 2 is actually better (and it has some of the original team working on it).

TL only fell short due to lack of multiplayer, they launched with a really complex editor available.

I'm more interested in Dungeon Siege III than Diablo 3 personally but then I do like Obsidian's games.

While I never came to like Dungeon Siege I loved Diablo, I played Diablo I more than I did for Diablo II and I played Diablo II allot! Still Diablo's III lack of LAN feature is big no for me, so I probably won't buy it until it's really cheap.

Who owns Dungeon Siege? I'd like for it to come to GoG, I'd like to play it again and see if I was wrong the first time.

Nowdays it's Square Enix.

Would love to see Microsoft games on GOG, but I'm not holding my breath...

You probably don't want the Square Enix version currently offered on Steam. Square removed the multiplayer components, added their own copyright message, apparently removed the ending videos (or introduced a bug that did the same) and don't offer the expansion packs -- according to the comments on the Steam forums.

Both games, do however, run perfectly fine in Win 7.

this is disappointing we may not see microsoft games on gog, i am sure if they do come it will be with the sucky gfwl