If by “grab”, you mean “pirate”. Don’t reward them for taking games away.
They mean grab by now buying it and you will keep it on Steam. But it will be unavailable for users after late December to buy it.
That’s just a longer way of saying “reward them for taking games away while you can”…
ya I do agree, we shouldn’t reward them by taking games away. Let’s just go to 1337x
Echo the Dolphin being purged is worth the loss of the other 59.
Nooooooooooo
“You own nothing and be happy”, right?
That’s games that you can and do buy of Steam. Delisting changes nothing except that you won’t be able to give them money in exchange for not owning the games.
If they don’t want me to buy them then why should I buy them now instead of borrowing them for free for unspecified amount of time from the Internet?
I bought them ages ago and let me tell you, crazy taxi without the offspring is just not the same. Borrowing the original versions for free from the internet is the only way to go.
There are mods for it to restore the soundtrack and other little tweaks.
Get it before it’s gone! Go fast! Spend money! Don’t just pirate it when it becomes unavailable!!
I think I have a single Steam game from within which I can then run those games. How would I backup the delisted games?
I think if you own that you’re still able to download them afterwards
You’re right, this is what they’ve been announcing. The games you’ve bought will still be available for download.
No, you need to install them as well. It’ll work as long as it’s installed, but after they’re delisted, I don’t think steam can even distribute them.
I know I have at least one game “grid: race driver” that was delisted from steam, at some point I must have uninstalled it, and now I can’t download it, it doesn’t even show up in my library. I’ve been trying like hell to find a way to play it, but even pirated versions are being difficult.
Edit: judging from comments and downvotes, apparently this is rare? But it does definitely happen, I’m not making this example up. And I don’t know how you could predict whether a game will just be unavailable for purchase or totally disappear…
This is not the case with the sega games we’re talking about. The announcement specifically mentions the games will still be available to download if you bought them before the delisting.
Well that’s certainly good news! And I admit I wasn’t aware of that announcement.
Removing games from player inventory is very rare; I’ve only seen it happen when malware is uploaded to Steam as a game.
I have a few games that can’t be played anymore, like Super Bomberman R Online and The Crew. I still can download their files from Steam; but I can’t play them.
But now I’m curious too, what could’ve happened that got that game removed from the people who bought the game
It’s extremely rare for a delisted game to be removed from your library, and they only do it in cases where, for instance, the game would literally be unplayable because the server isn’t there anymore. Often times they won’t remove the game from your library in that situation either. Having the game in your library is, in fact, enough.
OH no they don’t want my money? Now’s not the time, I won’t bother then
right? I already have the ones I give a shit about … On my shelf where they can’t de-list them.
they are probably cooking something, maybe their own platform? who knows
Probably remasters or remakes. They don’t want to compete with themselves.
maybe, but for 60 games at once?
This generates “buzz” it’s free marketing
It’ll be in a compilation pack, I’d bet
Which is a bit ironic, considering all of these are in two compilation packs.
They’re probably going to have a new compilation pack that costs about the same price and has a few additional games…but they didn’t want to just sell DLC/standalone games for the Collections that already exist.
And actually, a lot of these games that are getting delisted can be purchased separately. And maybe even have ROMs that are easily extracted. So maybe they just want to lock things down into an all-or-nothing ROMs-hidden collection or 10.
I wonder if it’s a licensing thing. I know a few of these games had heavy use of licensed music, like Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxy. At least, the original versions did, I’m not sure if that’s the case for the Steam ports.
Someone else here mentioned that Crazy Taxi doesn’t have the licensed music, but it can be modded back in.
…maybe they’re locking down mod support, too? Lol
