Why is wolfenstein 2009 not on steam??????

[Sgt.Skeleton-Nose]

I really want a digital copy from steam so my life could be so much easier.

[Sgt.Skeleton-Nose]

imo it's my favourite game.

[DVDVGAMES14]

It was on Steam but it was taken down for unknown reasons when id Software was bought by Bethesda.
Only 2 id Software games were deleted from Steam: Wolfenstein 2009 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

[adz]

both of them i have on steam. wolf 2009 is one of my favourite games but etqw is very boring not a fan of it

[Valden21]

Blame Activision. They've taken many of the games they published off of Steam. The 2009 Wolfenstein game was one of the games they removed. Shame, too.

[TheDeeGee]

I wouldn't have had a problem with this if you could get it on another Launcher.

But it's simply not available anywhere anymore.

Good thing Abandonware is a thing i guess.

[Sgt.Skeleton-Nose]

But you can still buy a disc from a game store.

[DVDVGAMES14]

Technically every game, once is added to Steam, they will not be removed from servers.
It stays in the server but it's removed from the store, but if you already bought it you can still download it.
Do you know Hawken?
It's a free to play multiplayer mech based game that was removed from Steam the January 2 2018, I played it since 2014 for about 156 hours and then, when it was removed, i was still able to download it.
Obviously, even today I'm able to start it but it crashes everytime and servers are closed, but I still can download it and start it.
Recently I went to SteamDB to find how many id Software games were on Steam and i found this list https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=enemy+territory
As you can see, there are Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and some demos of it.
I tried to download Enemy Territory Quake Wars Demo 2.0 by clicking on "Free" in the upper right corner and download started, I was even able to start and play it since the client doesn't need internet connection to be played.
So as I can download Hawken and ETQW Demo 2.0, if you owned a Steam copy of Wolfenstein 2009 or ETQW you can still download and play it.
For Enemy Territory Quake Wars click this link [steamdb.info] and then "install" button in the upper right corner.
For Wolfenstein 2009 click this link [steamdb.info] and then click the install button.
Note that if you don't own the game you will be redirected to Steam Store main page (store.steampowered.com).

[Gin N Rum 5454]

Originally posted by DVDVGAMES14:

Technically every game, once is added to Steam, they will not be removed from servers.
It stays in the server but it's removed from the store, but if you already bought it you can still download it.
Do you know Hawken?
It's a free to play multiplayer mech based game that was removed from Steam the January 2 2018, I played it since 2014 for about 156 hours and then, when it was removed, i was still able to download it.
Obviously, even today I'm able to start it but it crashes everytime and servers are closed, but I still can download it and start it.
Recently I went to SteamDB to find how many id Software games were on Steam and i found this list https://steamdb.info/search/?a=app&q=enemy+territory
As you can see, there are Enemy Territory: Quake Wars and some demos of it.
I tried to download Enemy Territory Quake Wars Demo 2.0 by clicking on "Free" in the upper right corner and download started, I was even able to start and play it since the client doesn't need internet connection to be played.
So as I can download Hawken and ETQW Demo 2.0, if you owned a Steam copy of Wolfenstein 2009 or ETQW you can still download and play it.
For Enemy Territory Quake Wars click this link [steamdb.info] and then "install" button in the upper right corner.
For Wolfenstein 2009 click this link [steamdb.info] and then click the install button.
Note that if you don't own the game you will be redirected to Steam Store main page (store.steampowered.com).

shame that doesn't work anymore, just get an error that says "no licenses"
i think if its free, steam should be able to host abandonware

[Babs]

Because 2009 is really really really really REALLY REALLY bad