GAMES FOR WINDOWS LIVE KEEPS SAYING MY ACCOUNT DOESNT EXIST.

[Naguinata]

how the ♥♥♥♥ should i play if i can't even use my cd-key in another account then? since this piece of garbage names gfwl keeps saying 'error: account doesnt exist or the password are incorrect' i changed the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ password 15x times and nothing yet, tried to call the 'SUPER' support of microsoft and no one was able to help me, anyone with this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ bug too? pay for a game and cant play it. Logic.

[Drug KiTo]

Same thing here. Even tried to open up more of those windows live game accounts and it still didn't work. Really depressing stuff..

[Naguinata]

This is boring, i payed for a game played for like 5~10hours. Okay, got tired then 1 week later when i wanted to play it again with my friends this stupid error started to make me mad.

[Naguinata]

This started after i got hacked, but i recovered all my data/passwords/accounts linked with my steam email.

[MrMuffinz]

reinstall GFWL

[Zorfmorf]

I already reinstalled gfwl and dark souls completely from scratch for THREE times and I STILL can't log into windows live (i can log into the website no problem, so my account information is definetely correct).

Looks like I will have to play offline...

[MrMuffinz]

It sounds like a CD key problem.

Study it very VERY closely when logging in.
Make sure you arent mistaking 1's for L's and so on.

If that doesn't work then I don't know.
It can't be the fact that your CD key only works in one account.

I had a Viva Piniata copy (I didn't buy it, it was free) that I never used.
It had a Live Cd Key in it.
At some point that same year I decided to torrent Halo 2 for Pc.
When asked for a CD key I got my copy of Viva Piniata and entered it's CD key and it worked.
Windows Live CD Keys are universal and have 10 activations in them.

So technically, if steam somehow screwed up and removed the check Cd key option from steam, I could still activate the game because I have a live cd key.

I still have that CD key.

If you can't get it to work, then add me on steam, and I can give it to you.
Not like I use it anymore anyway.

[Zorfmorf]

I have it working now. It seems that when you change your password on the gfwl website it takes some time until you can use the new password on the game login screen. Last time I started it suddenly said "logged in" and synced my profile without actually prompting me with the login screen.

Whatever, after three days of regularly fiddling with the game everything works. yey. Thanks for the help though

[Drug KiTo]

In the meantime i also managed to get it working.
At some point i asked a friend to give me his windows live games account (I knew from before his account was working fine). I filled in the info and it actually started signing in, but at the end I got a new message which said that the "windows live ID isn't matching". I quit the game and started it again. This time the game gave me (for the first time) 2 options - to sign in with my default account or to sign in with a new account.

At that moment I remembered - some time ago, when I bought GTAIV, that game also wanted me to make an windows live games account but I wasn't interested in that and just did a quick offline account.

So the whole time Dark Souls (or better said - games for windows live) was actually trying to get me connected (by default) thu my offline account that I created some time ago. Naturally the required data didn't match. When I went to the "sign in with a new account" option, even the little name that is on top of the sign in box changed to the actuall gametag (which is given at random first) i have at the micrisoft xbox live site. That did the trick!

When I think about it now it's was a pretty simple solution to my problem but for people who don't use this games for windows live platform (like me) it just doesn't seem logical that you would, by default, get forced to sign in through a offline account you did a long time ago.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers guys!

[Naguinata]

Still nothing. i can normaly login into my e-mail and xbox website. everytime i try to login in gfwl or marketplace says 'your windows live id doesn't exist or the input password is incorrect' the problem is i already changed 15x times mine password and nothing yet.

[curlycoyote]

This is no CD problem I've also tried for 2 days! now so I can play Dark Souls and every stinking time I create a windows live account I keep getting the message that my account doesn't exist.This absolutely sucks and I wish STEAM tech support would do something about it.

[ThatOldMan]

For me, I also faced this problem. But chaning the password on account.live.com to new password works for me. Hope you pass this f..king problem.

[JohnBravo]

I had the same issue. Turn off two step verification and it should work