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Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by duskwuff »

grumbel wrote: post #24
agentifysh wrote: post #7

interesting i bought bloodrayne a long time ago if i delete it i lose the game right?

No, the games just disappear from the shop and can no longer be bought via Steam. When you are already own them, you keep them. Third party seller might sometimes also still sell remaining Steam Key inventory and thus offer a way to activate a delisted game on Steam. One area where content can disappear is music licenses, those often don't result in a complete delisting of the game, but just the music getting patched…

> Steam game updates are mandatory and you can't downgrade the game to a previous version either.

You can usually download old versions from the CDN using tools like steamcmd. Developers can remove the old depots, but usually don't.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by kgeist »

smcl wrote: post #22

Jesus I thought it'd be obscure games but I randomly scrolled down and saw Duke Nukem games, a bunch of the F1 series, Jet Set Radio, Lumines, Mafia III, MultiVersus (don't care about this I just remember _so many_ people being paid to stream this, there was a lot of money behind it) and Wolfenstein (2009). I had no idea this was so prevalent

>Mafia III was delisted from Steam on May 19th, 2020 when it was replaced with Mafia III: Definitive Edition

>Lumines was delisted from Steam on June 22nd, 2018. The delisting coincides with the release of Lumines Remastered just a few days later

So there's a tactic of delisting a game to promote a remastered version.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by dom96 »

0xC0ncord wrote: post #15

About one of my favorite racing games of all time: "The game could have been removed for a number of reasons, including the closure of developer Bizarre Creations in early 2011, but the most likely cause was expired licensing of the real-world cars featured in the game."[1] To me this is one of the most egregious examples of how licensing massively hurts consumers. The game is fully playable offline (and online with…

oh yeah, I'm a fan of this game too. To my surprise, even though it's delisted I can still install it. That's certainly better than the alternative.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by smcl »

kgeist wrote: post #32
smcl wrote: post #22

Jesus I thought it'd be obscure games but I randomly scrolled down and saw Duke Nukem games, a bunch of the F1 series, Jet Set Radio, Lumines, Mafia III, MultiVersus (don't care about this I just remember _so many_ people being paid to stream this, there was a lot of money behind it) and Wolfenstein (2009). I had no idea this was so prevalent

>Mafia III was delisted from Steam on May 19th, 2020 when it was replaced with Mafia III: Definitive Edition >Lumines was delisted from Steam on June 22nd, 2018. The delisting coincides with the release of Lumines Remastered just a few days later So there's a tactic of delisting a game to promote a remastered version.

Fair enough

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by benoau »

Shorel wrote: post #29

Great resource. I have a fair number of them purchased. -- Back to the Future: The Game -- Blur -- Crysis -- Dark Souls -- Dirt 2 -- Dirt 3 -- Dirt Showdown -- F1 2010 - 2015 -- F1 Race Stars -- Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, San Andreas, Vice City -- Grid (2019) -- Metro 2033 -- Prey (2006) -- Project CARS -- ToCA Race Driver 3 -- Transformers: War for Cybertron -- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron In most cases the games…

It's all gaming history and a sadly-overlooked part of "Stop Killing Games".

The worst part is the licenses that do exist are non-transferrable, so by the end of this century there will be zero licenses left for these games. They'll just be expunged until they become public domain perhaps in the middle of the next century - if any copies survive.

And what's sad about that is we know for a fact games can survive and be enjoyed for decades, because we have seen this occur for the entire lineage of game-playing machines.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by TitaRusell »

Shorel wrote: post #29

Great resource. I have a fair number of them purchased. -- Back to the Future: The Game -- Blur -- Crysis -- Dark Souls -- Dirt 2 -- Dirt 3 -- Dirt Showdown -- F1 2010 - 2015 -- F1 Race Stars -- Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, San Andreas, Vice City -- Grid (2019) -- Metro 2033 -- Prey (2006) -- Project CARS -- ToCA Race Driver 3 -- Transformers: War for Cybertron -- Transformers: Fall of Cybertron In most cases the games…

Same reason why Ace combat will never get a remake.

If you use real brands in your videogame you as a developer need to know that it's on a death clock.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by fao_ »

kgwxd wrote: post #9

I bought my 2 yo a copy of Rocket League when they announced it would only be available through Epic (no Linux support) once it went F2P, just in case he was going to get into it. Best game in the world, but I'm not subjecting myself, or my kid, to Windows and the Epic store just to get at it. I'm quite surprised Epic hasn't done something to kill off the Steam version yet, but I expect the recent bot problem is goin…

> Best game in the world, but I'm not subjecting myself, or my kid, to Windows and the Epic store just to get at it.

Quite right! I really don't blame you, given the direction that Windows has taken in the last decade, and especially the last few years. The LLM integration is bad enough (Kids and LLMs should not mix, IMHO), but he adverts in the start menu could be anything. I've had some very explicit 18+ adverts on a social media platform twice this week, despite not engaging with that kind of thing at all, and the best I could do was report them.

> I'm quite surprised Epic hasn't done something to kill off the Steam version yet, but I expect the recent bot problem is going to give them the "justification" they need to put EAC in it. Even if it "works" on Linux after that, I'll be in constant fear that my account, with hundreds of dollars into the game, will get banned without recourse.

For what it's worth, Easy Anti-Cheat is supported and doesn't ban you for using Linux.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by FloorEgg »

I was surprised to see that StarForge wasn't on this list, and after looking into it I think it's because after it was delisted someone else published another game named StarForge. I wonder how common that is.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by Apes »

shantara wrote: post #28

Prey (2006) https://delistedgames.com/prey/ Great game, with some innovative level design involving portals and gravity manipulation. Delisted back in 2009 and impossible to acquire legally to this day on PC.

I've got this game in my steam library, and I wondered why no one ever talks about it. I never realized it was delisted and made impossible to buy so long ago.
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