Maaaan I hope the new matchmaking system caters to sucky players like myself. I guess much of the problem with poor matching in this game has to do with how small the playerbase is, but windows live matchmaking seems to put way too much of an emphasis on quick player matches rather than actually finding people of around the same skill level. I'd rather wait a few minutes for a good match than enter a game where I'll get stomped within the first 3 minutes of the game. Or vice versa. Not that i stomped people all that often, but it happened, and it's no more fun than being stomped. 
 
GFWL needs to die. Worst matchmaking service ever.

This is a shock.  DoW2 is the perfect model of how to 
integrate Live achievements with a PC game.  Why
would they want to get away from perfection??
 
I wonder what the rationale is to get away from it.
Will they get rid of existing GFWL achievements
as well?
 
I actually hate the idea of mixing achievements
between systems. How the hell will you know 
if you got an S-Rank?

" It's about time they did this. Why the hell would you require Steam activation for both games, but have GFWL support? It's either one or the other. Not both. "

" @Tactical_Kill said:

" @Lukeweizer said:

"Interesting. No more achievements? "

Steam Achievements. "

I want real achievements :( "

@mazik765 said:

" @Tactical_Kill said:

" @Lukeweizer said:

"Interesting. No more achievements? "

Steam Achievements. "

I want real achievements :( "

This.  Xbox achievements have points added in. Steam/PS3  just give you achievement, who knows if it has value or not? And plus nobody really cares about Steam/PS3 achievements, other than being better than nothing. "