Minecraft Story Mode delisted from accounts

[shakeyourbunny]

https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/06/01/minecraft-story-mode-being-delisted-later-this-month

[Petekaboo]

Originally posted by BassicPlays.dokgu:

This is why I sometimes regret pouring everything in Steam. I should have went with the DRM-free approach - sadly all my friends are on Steam and I never really see them on GOG.

Good news, Telltale games on Steam are DRM-free.

[GraVe]

Originally posted by Petekaboo 👻 彼卡怖:

Originally posted by BassicPlays.dokgu:

This is why I sometimes regret pouring everything in Steam. I should have went with the DRM-free approach - sadly all my friends are on Steam and I never really see them on GOG.

Good news, Telltale games on Steam are DRM-free.

but steam IS a drm.
and many games has extra drm, you know whats running all in background? and communicate with whatever wherever?

[Petekaboo]

Originally posted by GraVe:

Originally posted by Petekaboo 👻 彼卡怖:

Good news, Telltale games on Steam are DRM-free.

but steam IS a drm.
and many games has extra drm, you know whats running all in background? and communicate with whatever wherever?

I'm not going into off-topic by discussing about Steam and DRM, but you should try running Telltale games without Steam.

[AlphaElite]

Originally posted by GraVe:

but steam IS a drm.

This is a common misconception. Steam itself is not a DRM. There are games on Steam that you can download, copy the files and go play it on another computer (i.e. DRM-free). This is usually only the case with really old games, though.

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

Originally posted by Tcapullo:

Originally posted by ReborN:

Not from STEAM accounts, just the store...

They removed the episodes from the server, so you can't re-download these after removing.

This is a scam!!!!!! People like me paid for this!!! And other licenced or Banner games can be re-download as well. Without piracy!

I hope they get big troubles with it, when they don't change it!!!

I hope they let it be downloadable like usual but they word it like it may not be.

Anyway I think the Steam subscriber agreement tell you you are just a subscriber and haven't bought a game. Personally I want to feel that I've bought games but they don't seem to be selling them.

Originally posted by EPIC Pew Pew:

GOG allready confirmed that you can still download it after the 25th of june. So I geuss Steam is in the same boot

The reason GOG will keep it is that because in their terms they have put that they will grant access even if delisted (or something such.)

Steam may remove. But also may not I guess.

Originally posted by AlphaElite:

Originally posted by GraVe:

but steam IS a drm.

This is a common misconception. Steam itself is not a DRM. There are games on Steam that you can download, copy the files and go play it on another computer (i.e. DRM-free). This is usually only the case with really old games, though.

Steam do provide a DRM so I wouldn't say it's not. Because they do have one. It's very simplistic though and doesn't really offer much protection except of course that you get to use the community features on Steam which comes with having a game registered on your account and that's reason enough for many of us to buy, add and use Steam copies of games even if we could had ran them through other means (for instance Epic gives away games I have Steam keys for but I may still add them on Steam just go get the logged activity and such, though that may seem stupid, people do collect and brag after all ..)

Originally posted by IkoN Clan Les legi 102 community:

Originally posted by Petekaboo 👻 彼卡怖:

If you don't sell it...

so hows it work again .

you download the files in the folder and copy them out?

You can even right click a game in Steam while in your library and then choose to make a backup copy from there.

Originally posted by Arrow:

Originally posted by GraVe:

download game from steam into external drive X:
after downloaded, unmount the external drive and game is "stored"
in your library after reloading the library, game comes up as not downloaded (when external is out), if you plugged it in, game is seen as installed (and maybe update)
so you make copy on external (download unplug) and download it again on your internal drive.
its not so hard or im wrong ?

So you still have to purchase an external drive that can be plugged in and out, correct?

I'd assume just having downloaded it would be enough. In that Steam won't remove the files for you. But of course that could be a possibility.

cp -Rp game /somewhereelse?

[Starcat5]

I never thought that I would need to use Steam's backup function. This is messed up!

[Fnord]

Originally posted by aaronth07:

The developer/publisher cannot make a game they published on the Steam store get removed from accounts. Even games with licensing issues have only been removed from being able to be purchased, never removed from accounts.

Actually, they can remove things from your account. To my knowledge it has only happened once, but it has happened. Order of War: Challenge was the name of the thing that got wiped from everyone's accounts.

[GraVe]

Originally posted by Fnord:

Originally posted by aaronth07:

The developer/publisher cannot make a game they published on the Steam store get removed from accounts. Even games with licensing issues have only been removed from being able to be purchased, never removed from accounts.

Actually, they can remove things from your account. To my knowledge it has only happened once, but it has happened. Order of War: Challenge was the name of the thing that got wiped from everyone's accounts.

that game was removed (2013) only the multiplayer part, other times it was long ago.
server shut down (square enix) and they talked with steam and make that decision to remove the game complete, cause its not playable without the servers.

now you/me/whoever has XX games where the servers are offline and you can not play it ever(?) again. time changed.

[Fnord]

Originally posted by GraVe:

Originally posted by Fnord:

Actually, they can remove things from your account. To my knowledge it has only happened once, but it has happened. Order of War: Challenge was the name of the thing that got wiped from everyone's accounts.

that game was removed (2013) only the multiplayer part, other times it was long ago.
server shut down (square enix) and they talked with steam and make that decision to remove the game complete, cause its not playable without the servers.

now you/me/whoever has XX games where the servers are offline and you can not play it ever(?) again. time changed.

Games had had their servers closed before the removal of Order of War: Challenge and still remained in people's accounts. So before and after this event, we have games where the servers are offline, and that are still in our accounts. If my memory serves, Order of War: Challenge was released as a standalone expansion, and it did have a single player component, although it still needed to make calls to the servers, because of course it did. Yes, that happened in 2013, it has not happened before, and it has not happened since, but the point is that it is that Valve has once shown their willingness to do this.

The thing is, and this is something that was pointed out on the Kotaku article on the topic: " An anonymous source familiar with the inner workings of Telltale games has informed Kotaku that even if you’ve downloaded Story Mode, you should make sure it’s fully updated and you’ve downloaded any localization packs you might need, because those come from Telltale servers as well."

No comment on the version, but I noticed that on my first bootup of the game, the game did try to talk to some server.

Whoever it was that handles communication at Minecraft HQ really did a poor job at it. Because strictly speaking, this is the Microsoft Windows version (and Mac version) , which falls under what won't be playable. The version on GOG is also the Windows & Mac version, but that one has at least been confirmed to be safe.

[GraVe]

If my memory serves, Order of War: Challenge was released as a standalone expansion, and it did have a single player component,
- No Challenges was Only the Multiplayer Part, the single Player Part is, Order of War, but for that you also need to be Online (i think) - so this is also unplayable ;) - But still in my Library

as is said before, this was communicated between valve/steam and Square-Enix, im not part of the teams, all that i know from Google ;)


other random info:
- That "Standalone" DLC pack, was free for owners of the main game - so free games can always be removed from accounts

[jakandratchet]

Has anyone heard anything definitive about the steam version and whether it will remain downloadable?

[IkoN Clan Les legi 102 community]

Originally posted by jakandratchet:

Has anyone heard anything definitive about the steam version and whether it will remain downloadable?

Hopefully new info september

[Hellblazer]

Has anyone tested to see if it can still be installed?

[IkoN Clan Les legi 102 community]

Originally posted by Hellblazer:

Has anyone tested to see if it can still be installed?

ill try it now it probably still works

[Aliquis Freedom & Ethnopluralism]

I figured I'd add one of my keys and download before that time but so far I haven't .. was unsure what the last day was but thought 26th. I guess even if it do work right now that's not a guarantee that it will work later too.