ST3 Game Being Removed From Steam?

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Just saw the announcement where "Stranger Things 3: The Game" will no longer be available for purchase after August 31st. Surprised by this, I have been looking everywhere for a reason as to why... thinking it might be a licensing issue with Netflix or something. Can anyone confirm what the deal is?

[145Barbarian]

Netflix is also pulling their Stranger Things license from the game Dead by Daylight as well. It seems that since Netflix is dipping its toes into the gaming world they want to pull back their ip's for their own use to generate more buzz for their product. We'll have to see how that goes and if Stranger Things will be locked out of anything not made by them in the future.

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Originally posted by 145Barbarian:

Netflix is also pulling their Stranger Things license from the game Dead by Daylight as well. It seems that since Netflix is dipping its toes into the gaming world they want to pull back their ip's for their own use to generate more buzz for their product. We'll have to see how that goes and if Stranger Things will be locked out of anything not made by them in the future.

Yes, I saw that was the issue with Dead by Daylight but couldn't find any information about it being the same issue with this game. Thank you for clarifying!

[occono]

Originally posted by 145Barbarian:

Netflix is also pulling their Stranger Things license from the game Dead by Daylight as well. It seems that since Netflix is dipping its toes into the gaming world they want to pull back their ip's for their own use to generate more buzz for their product. We'll have to see how that goes and if Stranger Things will be locked out of anything not made by them in the future.

Absolutely silly thinking made by some exec who knows nothing about games, suddenly pulling recently granted licenses because, now their own made games will be a big deal because you can't get Stranger Things characters elsewhere right??

[The Yori]

Originally posted by occono:

Originally posted by 145Barbarian:

Netflix is also pulling their Stranger Things license from the game Dead by Daylight as well. It seems that since Netflix is dipping its toes into the gaming world they want to pull back their ip's for their own use to generate more buzz for their product. We'll have to see how that goes and if Stranger Things will be locked out of anything not made by them in the future.

Absolutely silly thinking made by some exec who knows nothing about games, suddenly pulling recently granted licenses because, now their own made games will be a big deal because you can't get Stranger Things characters elsewhere right??:conwayfacepalm:

It isn't actually that silly or is at least something that happens often. If a license contract runs out games often get pulled, so no more money can be made from their license. Pulling a license prematurely have been seen before too. Devs removing games from Steam happens quite often.
Is it stupid? Perhaps. Depends on the popularity of the game and Netflix's reputation. Personally, I find it to be a bad decision. ST3 was not advertised well. Only a short trailer released and almost a year later it just dropped. Moving the game to Netflix will not help it, as we gamers already are so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tired of the amount of launchers and accounts we have to go through and with netflix it will probably be a cloud service, which almost no one have had success with yet. Geforce Now is probably the closest to a successful cloud gaming service.

But yeah. Netflix is a silly goose for pulling the license when they have no guarantee for the future of the devs or their own service.

[Veylt]

because of that my save game got deleted, sad and silly ;-;