Comic Book Skins have been removed from Steam

[Chumm]

I created a ticket with SEGA support.
They informed me these were only suppose to be for consoles:
https://imgur.com/a/hvBPWbP

The skins seem to be removed from Steam store now.

UPDATE: Refunded game.

[Buffster]

Wow, this is BS. I seen someone claim they have this DLC on steam. I'm disappointed.

[Miraglyth]

Oh that's a development. I wonder if that's also made it unusable for everyone who claimed it before.

By the looks of things on SteamDB, they just delisted it from the store (and weirdly removed some of the store page information which was a bit redundant lol). So I think anyone who claimed it during those 24 minutes and 3 seconds should still be able to use it.

Can someone who claimed it before confirm either way?

[Grand Captain Speedy Dash]

What a complete rip, they ripped content then made it a pre-order bonus exclusive for consoles.

[Miraglyth]

The upside of this is there's less moral quandry about it being something PC players mod in, the way some modded in Japan-only content for Frontiers.

The effects on the store and community sections is interesting. In my activity feed, the mentions of friends adding the DLC to their library are gone, but the reviews are still present. My own entry for adding it to my wishlist is still there, but it's been removed from my wishlist.

At this point I'm expecting that people who previously claimed it can still use it, but I'm seeking confirmation on that.

Edit: Just got it confirmed, people who claimed it before CAN still use those skins. So for everyone else it is still technically an incomplete product even on PC despite being a $60 pre-order.

[LegitShadows]

Typical Sega BS

[Grand Captain Speedy Dash]

Originally posted by Miraglyth:

Edit: Just got it confirmed, people who claimed it before CAN still use those skins. So for everyone else it is still technically an incomplete product even on PC despite being a $60 pre-order.

Unless they got the deluxe edition they still would be missing content even if they caught the comic skin.

[Miraglyth]

Originally posted by vanilla:

Considering how some people managed to snag it, it'd be fair to just make it available for everyone.

Fairness to paying customers does not appear to be particularly high on Sega's priority list.

[Grand Captain Speedy Dash]

Originally posted by Miraglyth:

Originally posted by vanilla:

Considering how some people managed to snag it, it'd be fair to just make it available for everyone.

Fairness to paying customers does not appear to be particularly high on Sega's priority list.

Sonic Forces still having Denuvo is a testament to that.

[Chumm]

Yeah, SEGA seems to have a perpectual deal on Denuvo, so I don't see it getting removed anytime soon.

[すとら]

huh? why would they even make a steam page for it then?

[N島]

Even if developers realize that game consoles have become a hindrance to the game industry, things will still not change, because there will be people who pay for lower frame rates, worse image quality, and an unopen game environment.
Some people think consoles won't be pirated, cheated, inoperable and have performance issues....I hope their message sources aren't just newspapers.

[Umbe Nicky]

Originally posted by あきじ:

Even if developers realize that game consoles have become a hindrance to the game industry, things will still not change, because there will be people who pay for lower frame rates, worse image quality, and an unopen game environment.
Some people think consoles won't be pirated, cheated, inoperable and have performance issues....I hope their message sources aren't just newspapers.

The always are. Undependable sources.

[Hydroxybot™]

Should have stayed awake. Fml

[Miraglyth]

Originally posted by すとら:

huh? why would they even make a steam page for it then?

The stupid but realistic answer is that it's easier to hand an intern a bunch of store assets and the instructions "Make all the store pages on all the platforms for these" than it is to pay anyone to think about what's planned to be released where.

I mean heck they even removed it in a lazy way. They just deactivated the store page and then 150 seconds later removed a bunch of stuff like descriptions and screenshots from the store page that was already unavailable lol.

[Chumm]

I wonder how long we will wait for "An Apology from the Sonic Superstars Team" post.