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Or just sign a licensing deal that doesn’t expire?
No licensor is going to do that.
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This is the double edged sword of copyright, sometimes you want the artist to have control, sometimes you don't.
People generally always want the artist to have control. What people don't want, as in this case, is for a corporation to have control of the artist's work, and exercise that control mercilessly, thus actually reducing the reach and impact of the artist's work. (Often, unknowingly to the corporation's own detriment. Having your cars appear in a game is literally free marketing, why refuse that?)
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.
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…
This is the double edged sword of copyright, sometimes you want the artist to have control, sometimes you don't.
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Or just sign a licensing deal that doesn’t expire?
That presumes you can find someone to agree to those terms (which you won't), and if they do, that it isn't a prohibitively expensive fee (which it would be).
The license should be to use the likeness for a given purpose. Either make it perpetual or per copy, not per time. Product breaking licenses should not be allowed in most situations.
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.
Mostly seems to be games where the licensing deal expired or the company folded. I was expecting to see a few more from the adult category that got delisted because someone noticed TOS violating material and reported it. There was a recent video about Horses, which admittedly was a pre-release, but was technically available for download and is now gone. It is not on this list.
While the game was upgraded to the 'Director's Cut,' the original version (without the Director's Cut content) is no longer available."
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When you bought a game and it becomes unavailable, due to delisting, you care. It shows a general problem we have with online license's for movies, series and games. You buy the product and at some point later in time you loose access because something changed outside of your control. This is different from VHS/CD/DVD/BluRays where I can use the product even years after purchasing, despite a company loosing the licen…
FWIW Delisting in this context is just removing it from the store for purchase. It doesn't remove it from your library, nor remove your ability to download it. Your concerns for digital licenses are totally valid but his specific topic isn't that.