What do you use it for when it's running in the background and not running a game or one of those game-related applications being sold on Steam?

Oh. Then, disregard. I have no idea; I hate watching sports. It's the most boring thing ever, except for the Auburn touchdown the other day.

Quote the basis of your claim that my comments asserted your support of the Third Reich. You cannot, because whether you or others support Nazis or not was never the issue; the issue was the connotation of the terminology.

Yes, of course I said that GFWL only had games that are running on Microsoft platforms. GFWL doesn't run on anything but Microsoft operating systems like Windows XP, Vista, and7; its Xbox counterpart runs on the stunted version of Windows that they use for the Xbox 360. GFWL doesn't run on the PS3. At all. What's your…

Plus, it's harder to score 100 points in baseball than it is in cricket.

No, I'm not "wrong in that regard". I never said GFWL had Microsoft exclusives, at all— just that every single game that used GFWL was running on a Microsoft platform. I don't understand what your point is, if you actually have one in that regard.

Aye, the situation I was talking about happens even when everything else is proper ship shape.

Duh. No shit, Sherlock. I was parodying you, to great effect.

Okay, you didn't understand— Games for Windows LIVE! and Xbox LIVE were/are only used in games that play on Microsoft platforms. That's not the same as being exclusive to Microsoft platforms; this has nothing to do with console or OS exclusivity. I don't know where you got that idea from, but this has nothing to do…

What? GFWL was only used on Microsoft platforms. What is your point?

Gross profits might go up a fair bit, but net profits wouldn't scale, because there would be the cut that Valve takes from the gross profits, then the extra money EA would have to put into maintaining a good online functionality with Steam servers and EA's servers and the games. For two decades, EA as a company has…

Dark Souls and Bioshock 2 weren't running with GFWL on Playstation. What was your point? I don't get it.

I was talking about a particular set of circumstances, where I'm connected, then I shut down Steam, then I lose internets, then I start up Steam (while still having zero internets). In that case, I can't go into offline mode, usually. I haven't tried to disable the wifi altogether, though, so maybe that's a fix.

I call bullshit. Because of this— you spoke of "6 million contexts". Well, for one thing, each context is always different from any other context. 6 million unique contexts means that there's no such thing as a common understanding at all. And nobody here has been saying that the "PC GAMING MASTER RACE" joke applies…

This is true, and GFWL only had games that were running on Microsoft platforms. That doesn't mean that MS shouldn't have been fully updating and improving and actually f&!king supporting their software. Origin may only have EA games (which all have different publishing labels and developers), but MS as a company is a…

Ain't nothing wrong with playing Sins of a Solar Empire!

If it's not Take That, you can take it back.

wow. Somebody took the PC GAMING MASTER RACE from Zero Punctuation and made it semi-realistic... which looks kinda shitty. Plus, if those aren't SSJ PC gamers, they're not of the master race, which is for SSJ only.

I have a hard time believing that only 7.something million people in the entire world would have Steam running on their computer. No, the "logged in" number means the number of accounts which are logged in online and are running a game/program via Steam. Simply counting the number of times Steam starts up online as a…

That's the difference, though— EA has a team that's dedicated to supporting and improving Origin, while Microsoft had a mission statement and a really old piece of software with a UI from 2004 that was pure hell on everybody involved— publishers, developers and players.