What's with the mass 'Licence Expiration' on Steam games - including unreleased games?

[ploppo]

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/31857481-Games-at-risk-of-removal/?appid=692030

Games at risk of removal

List of games on Steam with a risk of (eventual) removal from the store. Use the specials list to quickly see current discounts on them.

There are new games like Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr, Jurassic World Evolution, etc being flagged as "Licence Expiration".

Jurassic World Evolution has not even released yet, how can it be flagged for "Licence Expiration"?

Crazy?

[Moderate my posterior.]

LOL so basically they are going to flag every game that has had a free weekend and a temporary beta access.

I'd find a better curator

[HLCinSC]

Originally posted by ploppo:

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/31857481-Games-at-risk-of-removal/?appid=692030

Games at risk of removal

List of games on Steam with a risk of (eventual) removal from the store. Use the specials list to quickly see current discounts on them.

There are new games like Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr, Jurassic World Evolution, etc being flagged as "Licence Expiration".

Jurassic World Evolution has not even released yet, how can it be flagged for "Licence Expiration"?

Crazy?

The key words were

with a risk of (eventual) removal

Anything that is licensed out runs the risk of that license expiring. So the dev/pub may lose the right to sell additional copies after a certain point, usually numerous years in length. For example, Deadpool (the game) was recently removed from the store (NOT people's libraries) because the dev/pub's license to the Deadpool IP had expired and not renewed.

[ploppo]

Oh, I see.

I just find it odd. I would have thought that anything Steam could evenutally be pulled for a multitude of reasons - the whole idea of tagging stuff seems odd to me.

I get what you are saying though - I hadn't thought of it that way - I just still find it odd (even though I now get the point of it).

You live and learn.