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by Sheepshow 4566 days ago
Anecdotally, I bought Dark Souls not knowing it required a Microsoft game profile to save your game at all -- no local saves whatever. I wrote a (really bitchy) email to Steam and was promptly offered some sort of "special circumstance" refund.

Incidentally I didn't even follow through with it, though I never played the game even once...
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dereferenced 4565 days ago
Just take the 5 minutes it takes to make an account and enjoy an awesome game. Use a fake email if you must.
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anon4 4565 days ago
That's not really possible now that Microsoft shut down GFWL. Just grab the pirate version.
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rg3 4565 days ago
I'm currently playing Dark Souls under Windows (I bought it during a Steam sale some days ago), and don't understand this. When the game launches it needs and account in "Games for Windows Live". I created an offline (local) profile without any trouble. Honestly, I don't know if my saved games are going to the cloud or not, but the game is working and I didn't have to sign up for any service or give an email address.

Here's a short (less than one minute) video on how to create a local profile:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_jRZ_Sic4k

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