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Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by embedding-shape »

reddalo wrote: post #46
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…

+1 for Blur, great game, it's like Super Mario Kart for grown-ups. Too bad the only way to get it is by pirating it. But in these situations, doesn't piracy become morally acceptable?

It becomes a moral imperative to pirate it and continue seeding it for others to also acquire, as a mean to help preserving something you cared about, apparently more than the owners of the IP/rights themselves care.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by ekipan »

I'm sad that Platine Dispositif pulled their games. Chelsea Has to Beat the Seven Devils to Death (known more widely in English as Bunny Must Die) was a lot of fun and one day I'd like to play some of their others, but they mostly seem to just release on Switch and Playstation stores in recent years. Their site[1] is getting pretty bitrotted, and their blog has an entry from a month ago[2] talking about their next game displayed in Digital Games Expo 2025. I don't immediately see any mention of Steam or intent to return anywhere.

These are in Japanese of course.

[1]: https://www.platinedispositif.net/

[2]: https://murasame.hatenablog.jp/entry/20251130/1764507793

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by debugnik »

Lost Planet 2 was delisted in 2021 because it can't be played without patching out Games for Windows Live.

The delisting was supposed to be temporary until Capcom removed the dependency, like they did with other titles on the same engine, but so far they haven't bothered restoring this one.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by Sabinus »

NooneAtAll3 wrote: post #30
AnotherGoodName wrote: post #3

It's funny that 3 different Space Hulk games are here. I actually thought Space Hulk (2013) was amazing but it's hard for a developer to keep up the yearly license payments on any Warhammer franchise. So it's not available for purchase anymore. It got ~75% on reviews on release but i like the board game and it was true to the board game so i personally loved it. Link on the steam store (the site should have these) ht…

I've had negative opinion on company behind Warhammer ever since Emperor TTS debacle everything I've heard since only confirms that that universe would be better dead and never be talked about

I've been noticing a bit of 'totally not Warhammer but grimdark and space marines' settings being used more these days.

Void War game on Steam is a notable one.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by embedding-shape »

bananaboy wrote: post #42

This can’t be all of them. My business partner and I delisted our tiny (unsuccessful) indie game after we wound up our company and our game doesn’t show up here.

Ultimately, all the datasets on Steam are scraped one way or another, since Steam themselves don't seem to publish it. I could be that they simply never came across your project before you delisted it, and of course after delisiting it I don't think they'll ever come across it.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by debugnik »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #60
ganoushoreilly wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original story was definitely unique and a fun play on 360.

Until I looked it up, I almost thought my memory of it was the Bernstein effect especially since there’s a 2017 game by the same name and much more popular.

The sequel to Prey (2006) was stuck in development hell for really long until they finally scrapped it, so the publisher placed the trademark on a completely different but similarly themed game instead.

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by dark-star »

dom96 wrote: post #33
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.

yeah, that's the whole point, thye still let you install the games you bought because not doing so would open a huge can of worms and re-start the whole "are you really buying games on steam or just renting them?" discussion, which they are very keen on avoiding

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by Fluorescence »

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.

For Crusader Kings III, the old versions are listed as betas (cog -> properties -> betas) so you downgrade by "signing up to a beta".

I don't know if it's a common practice but pretty damn necessary for paradox games. A single game might take months and their attitude to backwards compatibility is "new versions will corrupt your game files in ways that only subtly reveal themselves like noticing the King of England owns a county in Mongolia before reaching a game year that will always crash".

Re: All Delisted Steam Games

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Post by LorenDB »

bananaboy wrote: post #42

This can’t be all of them. My business partner and I delisted our tiny (unsuccessful) indie game after we wound up our company and our game doesn’t show up here.

The nice move in this scenario would have been to make the game free instead of delisting. Gamers can still enjoy it, and you don't have to worry about income once the company is closed.
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