The patch is designed to do only one thing: remove all GFWL dependencies. This week, that situation changes with the game’s first official patch on PC in 12 years. But one of the game’s “forward” steps was anything but, at least on PC-it adopted the then-new Games For Windows Live (GFWL) service. Enlarge / Remember this blast from the past? Microsoft and Bethesda would apparently prefer that you do not.īethesda’s Fallout 3 launched in 2008 and, in most ways, moved the series into the future of 3D post-apocalyptic adventuring for the better.