Seems to have delisted but not unlisted games (e.g. https://store.steampowered.com/app/302850/Team_Indie/ "At the request of the publisher, Team Indie is unlisted on the Steam store and will not appear in search.")
All Delisted Steam Games
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#72Great 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…
At least the GTA games and metro 2033 are still available for purchase on steam, just the remastered versions. When they released those, the older versions were delisted
Rereleased GTA games have a lot of iconic music removed from their radio soundtracks due to expired licenses.
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#73What does "delisted" mean in this context?
- are they preventing new purchases?
- are they preventing the players who purchased the game prior to the delisting to play them at all?
- both? something else?
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#74What does "delisted" mean in this context? - are they preventing new purchases? - are they preventing the players who purchased the game prior to the delisting to play them at all? - both? something else?
First one
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#75I love how they decided to sell a new Mortal Kombat arcade collection instead of removing GFWL and reinstating the older one. /s
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#76The older Metro games are of note, while they're available as the Redux versions there are a surprising number of non-graphical differences between the original THQ published versions and the graphical updates.
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#77About 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?
Wow this looks pretty rad, I wish I knew about it before! Having real cars in the game really makes it more fun to me. I dunno why, but playing racing games with a bunch of fake cars isn't as exciting (Super Mario Kart being an exception). It's especially fun when you see one of your cars, or a friend's car in the game.
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#78I 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.
What are the uniqueness requirements for titles, For the most part people are reasonable and don't want to stomp on each others names. however there are bad actors and this is usually where trademark law comes into play to help protect the name, but does steam impose additional uniqueness constraints on top of this?
That might be a fun list, games with the same name.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least the GTA games and metro 2033 are still available for purchase on steam, just the remastered versions. When they released those, the older versions were delisted
Rereleased GTA games have a lot of iconic music removed from their radio soundtracks due to expired licenses.
It doesn't feel the same playing GTA4 without the music.
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#80About 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.