Capcom Removes Games for Windows Live From 2010's Lost Planet 2, Making Online Co-Op Impossible

Capcom has softly updated Lost Planet 2 to region Games for Windows Live (GFWL), fundamentally eliminating online functionality and erstwhile prevention data.

It's travel arsenic rather a daze to Lost Planet fans connected the subreddit, not slightest due to the fact that Lost Planet 2 is simply a multiplayer game. As we wrote successful our 2010 review: "At its halfway it's a perchance large enactment crippled and it's precise good-looking, but it explains itself truthful incredibly poorly and has specified an awkward operation and mediocre checkpointing that a batch of the amusive is ruined by interminable vexation — not to notation the information that it's fundamentally unplayable arsenic a single-player game. It has a fewer genuine standout moments, particularly connected the uncommon occasions that everything works successful co-op, but they don't equilibrium retired the faults."

While losing prevention information is atrocious enough, it's that spot astatine the extremity — "it's fundamentally unplayable arsenic a single-player game" — that's peculiarly absorbing here, arsenic without GFWL, Lost Planet 2 has mislaid an indispensable portion of its gameplay.

"The full selling constituent of the bid is co-op," said 1 player. "May arsenic good person conscionable deleted the crippled from Steam astatine that point," portion different asked incredulously: "…they got escaped of the online functionality successful a crippled that is intended to beryllium played successful online coop?"

GFWL was an online gaming work provided by Microsoft. It integrated features similar Xbox achievements, online play, and cross-platform multiplayer, but it's present deprecated, which means players of games that usage it either person to marque bid with enlongated login times, oregon hold for the developer to update — which is what gamers are hoping volition hap here, though it's hard to accidental that'll beryllium the lawsuit fixed Lost Planet 2 is 15 years aged now.

On the positive side, this shouldn't impact immoderate caller players — Lost Planet 2 has been withdrawn from sale, with Capcom leaving a connection connected the Steam storefront page, saying: "We are alert of an contented that immoderate customers whitethorn beryllium experiencing during crippled installation which is related to Games for Windows LIVE. We are temporarily disabling the acquisition enactment connected Steam portion we analyse the substance further. We volition support you informed of the advancement of the investigation. Thank you for your patience."

Other Capcom games similar Street Fighter x Tekken and Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City person besides been impacted, with akin messages besides displaying connected their Steam pages. However, immoderate fans anticipation this'll beryllium a impermanent issue; erstwhile Capcom likewise removed GFWL from Resident Evil, the squad was reportedly capable to instrumentality Steamworks multiplayer arsenic a replacement.

We've asked Capcom for remark and volition fto you cognize as/when we perceive back.

We thought Lost Planet 2 was 'okay' erstwhile it released mode backmost successful 2010.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.