Originally Posted by vurt
Never had a problem with GFWL, you register and you sign in (if you want to) and play.. It sucks with all the different clients though, but at least GFWL doesnt run in the background like Steam and many other, taking up resources and introducing possible conflicts or bugs in the OS or with other applications.

Is this true? I thought you have to log in into the marketplace before running a GFWL game - so there is something running in the background!