why is this game not available for purchase anymore?

[Privette]

why?

[Faunts]

TL;DR: They lost the rights to Freddy so because Freddy is in the game and they don't have the rights to use him the entire game was removed from Steam.

[Privette]

that seems seems trivial

[Faunts]

Originally posted by jsjszs:

that seems seems trivial

Regardless of how you may view it, that is why the game can longer be purchased.

[Lilshireboy]

Is this why since I bought this game, I can never play it. Like it won't let me.

[Faunts]

Originally posted by Le Trippz:

Is this why since I bought this game, I can never play it. Like it won't let me.

That's a whole separate issue. You should still be able to play the game it's just not available for purchase anymore.

MK9's port onto PC was pretty bad so no doubt it's your game.

[sebedoroje]

you still can buy key for the game.

[xenon]

I dunno if Freddy is the issue, actually. MK Mobile has him in it and it's fine.

[ShiftyMarmot]

Originally posted by butcher97:

Originally posted by Faunts:

That's a whole separate issue. You should still be able to play the game it's just not available for purchase anymore.

MK9's port onto PC was pretty bad so no doubt it's your game.

Can you still download it and play?

This goes for any delisted game. If you bought it, then you still own it and can play it, it's just not available for purchase. But again, as long as you bought it, either before it was removed, or buy a key for it, you can still download and play it.

[V I D A L]

Originally posted by Faunts:

Originally posted by jsjszs:

that seems seems trivial

Regardless of how you may view it, that is why the game can longer be purchased.

That's a bad guess. It would have been pretty easy to simply patch him out of the game instead.

[Faunts]

Originally posted by V I D A L:

Originally posted by Faunts:

Regardless of how you may view it, that is why the game can longer be purchased.

That's a bad guess. It would have been pretty easy to simply patch him out of the game instead.

That would involve getting somebody to do that for a decade old game. It's far easier to just remove the game from store pages.

Every other theory has been mentally retarded, ranging from "They want to censor boobies!" to "WB hates old games" so the most likely possibility was that Freddy's distribution was up and rather than remove him from the game (as shown in another thread, people would have hated this regardless of the alternative) they simply got rid of the game entirely.

[OlCrunchy]

Originally posted by xenon:

I dunno if Freddy is the issue, actually. MK Mobile has him in it and it's fine.

With the way licenses work, its entirely possible that MK Mobile in particular has a longer license than MK9 did, or perhaps even a perpetual agreement.

[xenon]

Originally posted by OlCrunchy:

Originally posted by xenon:

I dunno if Freddy is the issue, actually. MK Mobile has him in it and it's fine.

With the way licenses work, its entirely possible that MK Mobile in particular has a longer license than MK9 did, or perhaps even a perpetual agreement.

But that game came out way later than 9. And now it's been up for about the same time MK9 has been sold (6 years).

There has been never a confirmation that MK9 got pulled because of Freddy. I dunno, and at this point, who cares.

[wizard master結城晶子リ]

Originally posted by Faunts:

TL;DR: They lost the rights to Freddy so because Freddy is in the game and they don't have the rights to use him the entire game was removed from Steam.

the real reasion itsgone is because acording ot netherrealm/wb they no longer support mulitplayer for mk 9 on consoles the message of the day in game used to say this but idk if it still says this pc should still have mulitplayer but if not then that is the reasionwhy it was pulled from steam

[xenon]

PC still has multiplayer. MOTD is gone but everything else works.

[Faunts]

Originally posted by wizard master結城晶子リ:

Originally posted by Faunts:

TL;DR: They lost the rights to Freddy so because Freddy is in the game and they don't have the rights to use him the entire game was removed from Steam.

the real reasion itsgone is because acording ot netherrealm/wb they no longer support mulitplayer for mk 9 on consoles the message of the day in game used to say this but idk if it still says this pc should still have mulitplayer but if not then that is the reasionwhy it was pulled from steam

PC still has multiplayer functionality, I tested it.