With GTA IV it was Steam + GFWL + Rockstar Games Social Club. Any extra layer of DRM or account logins after Steam is annoying, unless the game itself needs online accounts.
I hated gfwl because the saves were locked locally to your account on that PC. If I rebuilt the system or wanted to move to another computer, I would have to use a convoluted way to go into hidden directories to get th saves and move them, rename them, and then move to another hidden folder. Its one of the reasons I have…
I'll admit the UI wasn't great (although once you enter your key and sign in for the first time it ceases to become an issue since it just automatically signs in.) All of the GFWL games I've played have been so low in population to the point where it didn't really matter if you could invite somebody or not since there were…