Those games also benefit from GFWL's TrueSkill rating which helps ensure that players are matched with those of similar skill. Over time this has become harder to use except on games which still support it.

Games for Windows Live provides chat via voice and text a list of those you've recently played with and other basic social networking functionality. Best of all in the multiplayer games that do use it it provides some fairly robust matchmaking and game balance features. Though several games such as Dark Souls and free-to-play MMOs have left the Games for Windows Live framework it still provides access to certain titles that require it on the PC and provides access to a small social network with many of Xbox Live's own features.

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