Now that GRID 2 has been dropped from the Steam store...

[Mobius762]

It would be nice to have the DRM removed so that I can play on Linux without cracking the game myself.

[NorCalRcr~KMA~]

Who says Grid 2 has been dropped from Steam? I was playing a few minutes ago.

[PROTOTYPE]

Originally posted by NorCalRcr~KMA~:

Who says Grid 2 has been dropped from Steam? I was playing a few minutes ago.

el oh el, it's not how Steam works

[John27]

it might have no DRM aside from Steamworks itself, but the forced redist installer is annoying. Games from 2010-2012 "will" install redists (like directx, dotnet, visualc). If the installscript.vdf or equivalent is removed, Steam will attempt to install it every time the game is run instead of just one time.

From 2013 onwards Steam will still install redists, but installscript.vdf can be removed and the redist install can be skipped.

[PROTOTYPE]

Originally posted by RaTcHeT302:

this practice honestly needs to go die in a pit

This "practice" has quite reasonable excuses, they were officially stated - expired licenses on either car models, or music.

I'm kinda glad such things happened to Grid series, the controls are disgusting. I suppose only Dirt is the favourite of Codemasters in Simulation genre

[Cunin]

The game is not Steam's property, and the owner (Codemasters) has all the rights to remove it from the store for whatever reason they want.
Although I also don't like this practice (and especially with Codemasters since they have this habit of removing every single game they made in the past, while they're still being sold in their own store, at full price of course), there's nothing wrong with the legit owner of something to decide to remove it from the shelves, even if they are virtual shelves, and Valve shouldn't have anything to do with it since they don't own it, they're just reselling it.
On the other hand, "broken games that simply do not work" and that are still being sold SHOULD matter. Allowing simply anything (I've heard of games released without the executable...) to be sold without any control is really bad, and they're pretty slow at responding to customer complaints (if at all).

I'm more annoyed at the fact that a legit customer which still enjoys the game can't have access to parts of the game that were removed to cash more, aka DLCs. If anything, when an owner removes their game from the store, all the additional content should be given out for free to every owner of the game in question. It's kinda stupid that pirates has everything while legit customers that supported the game are left emptyhanded.
That's pretty much why I only purchase Codemasters' games from bundles. That's the right price for the customer support they offer.

[まりさ]

Would be cool, if they left dlcs as purchaseable.

[76561198406610471]

Grid 2 hasn't been dropped from Steam. I'm playing on it now bro.

[ASVPBX]

Originally posted by DingoDave:

Grid 2 hasn't been dropped from Steam. I'm playing on it now bro.

Those who own it can still play it.. It has been dropped as NOT FOR SALE any longer dude.

[EViLiSLuRKiNG]

Originally posted by RaTcHeT302:

Originally posted by Calaifur:

"At the request of the publisher, the game has been removed from steam"
AKA, the game is dropped from steam and no longer available for purchase.

this practice honestly needs to go die in a pit, i don't even understand why they allow fully working games to be straight up removed, jeez

i didn't even like the game that much, but seeing it removed from the store itself only pisses me off more than anything else, because i know that one day, it'll hit a game i care about

It's not a practice it's a license issue and renewing it would cost more then what they would make.Sure glad you want them to waste money keeping a game license just so one of your games isn't effected that you actually like,yet you call there practice stupid

Understand how license work,then buy the games that use license that you don't want to lose access to,it's not rocket science.If you really care about said game and DLC you would buy them long before they are removed.

All that being said I do wish they would at least give some kind of warning,so people have a chance to purchase if they haven't yet.It makes zero sense to not announce as people will buy it and sales will most likely hit a number that hasn't been seen in ages.