What happened to the Descent games?

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Valden21 2016. febr. 6., 20:32

I used to have the first three "Descent" games on my account. However, earlier this year, I asked Steam to remove them from my account, and now I no longer have them. Now, out of curiosity, I was looking for them on the Steam store, and they appear to be gone. Is that indeed the case?

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FFL2and3rocks 2016. febr. 6., 20:51

Yeah, they're gone because of a copyright dispute.

Here's what I found about it from GOG's forums (since it was removed from there as well):

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/descent_12_descent_3_removed_from_sale/page3

Hey, Folks. Here's the story.

Parallax Software still exists and still owns the copyrights to the Descent games. Under our 21-year-old agreement, Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II, and they have been doing so on Good Old Games and Steam.

The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007. We've talked to them about this numerous times over the years, and finally took action this fall. We served Interplay official notice that they were in breach of the contract, and when they still failed to pay we terminated the agreement.

This means that Interplay has lost the right to sell the Descent games, which is why they came down from GOG. (We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)

Interplay does, however, still own the Descent trademark, which they are free to use or license as they see fit (such as for Descent: Underground) as long as they don't violate our copyrights.

As for whether Descent and Descent II will be available for purchase again, we hope so. We'd be very happy to work things out with Interplay.

Matt Toschlog & Mike Kulas
Parallax Software

Valden21 2016. febr. 7., 9:36

So what does this mean for me, as I bought the game through Steam when it was still available, a little more than a year ago?

BloodShed 2016. febr. 7., 9:40

Valden21 eredeti hozzászólása:
So what does this mean for me, as I bought the game through Steam when it was still available, a little more than a year ago?

You asked to have them removed and Valve did so.

What's your point?