Will this game also be delisted?

[jojorne]

As in not being able to buy anymore like Marvel's Avengers?

[Rarewolf]

they all are eventually.
it happens when the copyrights n stuff expire.

[medion_no]

Licensed games expire so yes.

[Cyber Akuma]

Which is going to be an even bigger issue when it eventually does considering they never removed Denuvo from it.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Any game can be removed and not just for licensing either.

[Cyber Akuma]

Yes, but games based on a licensed property are far more likely to be delisted than some random game that the developer/publisher owns all the IP of. While it of course has happened, it's quite uncommon for a game that isn't using a licensed IP/music/etc to be delisted, but there have been many examples of games with licensed contents being delisted. Especially IPs owned by Disney.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Cyber Akuma:

Yes, but games based on a licensed property are far more likely to be delisted than some random game that the developer/publisher owns all the IP of. While it of course has happened, it's quite uncommon for a game that isn't using a licensed IP/music/etc to be delisted, but there have been many examples of games with licensed contents being delisted. Especially IPs owned by Disney.

I'm well aware of licensed intellectual property games, as you can see from my profile.

And it's not uncommon at all for a game that isn't using a licensed music or intellectual property, to be delisted. I have 400 delisted games in my library and not all of them have licensed music and intellectual property and such.

[Cyber Akuma]

And how many games are there on Steam? Over 50000 at this point I believe? And the vast majority of the older games are still up. According to delistedgames there are currently 776 delisted Steam games. You must have been REALLY unlucky to have somehow purchased 400 of those out of the over 50000 games currently on Steam. And if you look though the list a majority of them are licensed games, with other big chunks being games that were a live service and games that were re-released in an enhanced edition.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Originally posted by Cyber Akuma:

And how many games are there on Steam? Over 50000 at this point I believe? And the vast majority of the older games are still up. According to delistedgames there are currently 776 delisted Steam games. You must have been REALLY unlucky to have somehow purchased 400 of those out of the over 50000 games currently on Steam. And if you look though the list a majority of them are licensed games, with other big chunks being games that were a live service and games that were re-released in an enhanced edition.

Deadpool, both of the Transformer games and both of the Spider-Man games and the Rambo game were not enhanced. Nor was Star Trek.

You also just said that there's currently 776 delisted games. If I have 400 of them, I don't see how that makes me unlucky.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

Also according to what I have read, Star Trek is one of the most rare Steam games out there.

[Cyber Akuma]

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Deadpool, both of the Transformer games and both of the Spider-Man games and the Rambo game were not enhanced. Nor was Star Trek.

You realize all of those are licensed IPs, right? That's my point, the vast majority of the delisted games are ones that are based on licensed IPs. The second biggest are games that relied on a server to work that no longer exists, like MMOs or other games like Battleborn that relied on a server to work. You even just listed three Marvel IPs that were delisted, and this is a Marvel IP too, not just Marvel, but one based on the MCU which Disney also has a hand in. Hence my point that it has a significantly higher chance of being delisted due to being a licensed IP, and one based on both Marvel and Disney, both of which have had many delisted games before. The number of delisted Steam games is not even 2% of the entire library.... yet the majority of that 2% is made up of licensed games. You can't argue that "any game can be delisted for any reasion" when talking about a licensed Marvel/Disney game as if it has the same chance of being delisted as any other old random game that is not based on a licensed IP.

You also just said that there's currently 776 delisted games. If I have 400 of them, I don't see how that makes me unlucky.

There are over 50000 games on Steam and currently 776 are delisted, that's roughly 1.5% of the current steam library that has been delisted (likely closer to 1% now since that number of total Steam games is from 2020). You have over half of those, so I would say that's pretty unlucky that out of all the games you purchased, half of them were one of the less than 2% of delisted ones. And it's certainly not representative of delisted games as a whole.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

You said "enhanced" they are not enhanced.

EDIT
Also since you're trying to be an expert on what gets delisted and why, care to give some insight on why Vigil: The Longest Night was just delisted? Because it is not a licensed IP.

EDIT 2
Let's also not forget Motor Rock. That game was merely based on another game and it still got removed.

Further, games can get removed for all sorts of reasons. Just a couple of weeks ago all of the keys for Motor Rock were revoked because the developers account was hijacked. There's a system in place where if a developer contacts Valve and asks them to restore all revoked keys, it is done. Because that's what happened with Motor Rock.

EDIT 3:
A licensed IP game can also be removed and banned, because that's what happened to Transformers: Devastation

[Cyber Akuma]

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

You said "enhanced" they are not enhanced.

Enhanced, re-released, GOTY edition, etc.

Also since you're trying to be an expert on what gets delisted and why, care to give some insight on why Vigil: The Longest Night was just delisted? Because it is not a licensed IP.

Let's also not forget Motor Rock. That game was merely based on another game and it still got removed.

Further, games can get removed for all sorts of reasons. Just a couple of weeks ago all of the keys for Motor Rock were revoked because the developers account was hijacked. There's a system in place where if a developer contacts Valve and asks them to restore all revoked keys, it is done. Because that's what happened with Motor Rock.

Did you even READ my post?

Notice how I said that the majority, but not every single instance, are removed due to licensed IPs? There are multiple other reasons it can be delisted, from a mandatory server going down, a rerelease of a different version, a disagreement or end of contract with the developer/publisher, legal issues, or the publisher just simply wanting to stop bothering to sell it. The vast majority of games get delisted because of licensing reasons, but not all.

Show me where I said that it was ONLY licensed games that get removed, I even listed other examples in my previous post such as servers going down for live service games. I was explaining how the vast majority, not all, of the delisted games are due to it being a licensed IP. I don't know why you think going "What about X game that wasn't an IP!" is a "gotcha" when I flat out said it does not apply to 100% of cases.... just to the vast majority, I even listed a game I had (Battleborn) that was delisted for non-licensing reasons.

Do you understand the difference between "majority" and "entirety"?

My point, AGAIN since you didn't seem to read it, was that a very very small number of Steam's library has been delisted, around 1-1.5%, yet OF that small number, the vast majority are licensed IPs, so it's disingenuous to act or argue that a game without any licensed IPs associated with it can have just as much of a chance of being delisted as a game that does.

And that because of that, and that this game licenses IPs from both Marvel and Disney, both who have had many delisted and removed games in the past, it has a much higher chance of being delisted than other Steam games which do not.

The vast majority of Steam's games don't get delisted, but, OF that minority that do, the vast majority of them are licensed IPs.

[C²C^Guyver |NZB|]

ANY game can be removed from a digital platform for ANY reason. I'm out.

[Cyber Akuma]

And as I explained, rather thoroughly, some have a much much much much MUCH higher chance of being removed than others, and you can't act like every game has an equal chance of being removed, which was my entire point.

[kazumi_222_SKINS_]

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