Will Dark Souls 2 use GFWL?

No. GFWL will be dead before its release, plus go google your question.

hell naw

It won't. They have said so before the PC port of Dark Souls was even released. But they couldn't change it anymore that time.

Wow .. is that a serious question ? Did you even think about it..

Namco would be f**kin dumb to even consider using GFWL when less than 6 months later the service is to shut down. Not one game came out using GFWL since the announcment that it would be gone this summer.

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Nothing has been coming out with GFWL DRM for some time now. The last one I can remember was Resident Evil Operation Racoon City.

Rather than making up information like some other people have chosen to do, I'll just quote something and post a link.

"Hello,
Thanks for contacting Capcom!
As GFWL will be closing down, the client will be removed from games and you will still be able to play your games.
Unfortunately we do not have any details yet of how this will be done and when.
Regards,
Carlos G.
Capcom Technical Support"

http://www.destructoid.com/capcom-to-remove-games-for-windows-live-from-pc-titles-263817.phtml

I think you just answered your own question. If GFWL is shutting down, why would they use it as DRM?

I think at least at one time or another in our lives we have all heard a teacher say "there are no dumb questions". Well, they lied.

Anyway, I believe this will be a Steamworks title.

Nah I don't think it will

I'm almost certain it will be Steamworks.

There's a Steam logo at the bottom of the official website. Conclusion - it will use Steamworks.

No new game includes support for GFWL. It's already being phased out, and summer is when it's going to be completely discontinued. That means devs have until the summer to patch it out, or have their multiplayer games stop working.

So no, I don't expect it to use GFWL.

Nope, I asked them and they said that it will only have GFWL for you, everyone else does not have it :)

Why would they do it? There's no point in releasing a game for a platform you know is going to die very soon.

Dark Souls registry app was just updated on Steam to show Community Stats (as seen here) so next step is probably adding achievements and going full Steamworks

Haha of course not. It's been advertised as Steamworks since it was first announced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Games_forWindows%E2%80%93_Live_titles

Sort by date at the top, you can see GFWL released titles trickled down to a stop at the beginning of last year.

of course not lol. its going to be shut down so soon after what sane person would think that?

Pretty sure that the developers have learned from their mistakes and will purge GFWL from their memories and make sure that Dark Souls 2 is working as a PC game, not a console port. It should hopefully also run at 60 FPS (no throttling) and should use steam as the only DRM protection. I would say it is doubtful that we would ever see a patch to Dark Souls to remove GFWL, as it needs a major overhaul to fix all of the other bugs.