Old Games On Steam once removed going free to play by default.

[nigelcrouch123]

10 years ago I had a gaming pc and I have just got another one. I have been away from PC for a few years and have noticed alot of games in my library are no longer on the store. Many people still want to play these games and because of digital they no longer can so how about digital games once removed from the store go free to play so we do not loose these older games forever.Once these games are no longer being sold why not just make them free to play

[BloodShed]

Majority of the time a game is removed from sale is because of expired licences.

You suggestion is therefore not feasible.

[Brian9824]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nigelcrouch123:

10 years ago I had a gaming pc and I have just got another one. I have been away from PC for a few years and have noticed alot of games in my library are no longer on the store. Many people still want to play these games and because of digital they no longer can so how about digital games once removed from the store go free to play so we do not loose these older games forever.Once these games are no longer being sold why not just make them free to play

Because Valve doesn't own them, and they are often removed as stated because of expired licenses so the developer is not legally allowed to offer the game anymore. Prime example is the deadpool game where their license expired and they can't sell or distribute the game anymore.

[Crazy Tiger]

The game developers/publishers pull games for various reasons. It doesn't matter which reason, it means they want to stop distributing the game. Making the game free to play goes against that. Plus if they want to keep distributing, why make it free when you can get money?

Also as mentioned, often enough it's related to licensing, so it's not even legally allowed what you want.

[Start_Running]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nigelcrouch123:

10 years ago I had a gaming pc and I have just got another one. I have been away from PC for a few years and have noticed alot of games in my library are no longer on the store. Many people still want to play these games and because of digital they no longer can so how about digital games once removed from the store go free to play so we do not loose these older games forever.Once these games are no longer being sold why not just make them free to play

Yeah The games don't belong to Steam. They belong to the dev/pub. Valve cannot make that call. Heck If the dev/pub removes a game from the store Valve basically can't do anything with it.

[Mad Scientist]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nigelcrouch123:

10 years ago I had a gaming pc and I have just got another one. I have been away from PC for a few years and have noticed alot of games in my library are no longer on the store. Many people still want to play these games and because of digital they no longer can so how about digital games once removed from the store go free to play so we do not loose these older games forever.Once these games are no longer being sold why not just make them free to play

That is up to the right owners if they want to do that.

In some cases games have licenses because they include others properties, once expired they are removed as for example a battlepass, or from the store entirely if it was a collaborative game that has others properties.

So still up to the rights holder, especially if they don't need to renew a license. You can contact whoever owns the rights to whatever games, but once it's in your library you can keep downloading & playing it, but other people that didn't buy it can't.

People grossly over-estimate Valves power, and people really need to realize what properties and licensing means; Valve can't "just do" things with other properties without permission.

[76561198407601200]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nigelcrouch123:

10 years ago I had a gaming pc and I have just got another one. I have been away from PC for a few years and have noticed alot of games in my library are no longer on the store. Many people still want to play these games and because of digital they no longer can so how about digital games once removed from the store go free to play so we do not loose these older games forever.Once these games are no longer being sold why not just make them free to play

Same reason why when manufacturers have recalls they typically don't simply give those items away for free as the reason they were recalled in the first place could be for something potentially dangerous.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nigelcrouch123:

Old Games On Steam once removed going free to play by default.

10 years ago I had a gaming pc and I have just got another one. I have been away from PC for a few years and have noticed alot of games in my library are no longer on the store. Many people still want to play these games and because of digital they no longer can so how about digital games once removed from the store go free to play so we do not loose these older games forever.Once these games are no longer being sold why not just make them free to play

Valve can not legally do this.

[matt]

Yeah, that's called video game preservation. You can find more info on Google. There have been efforts toward this, but the ESA is against it. See https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/esa-org-won-t-cooperate-game-preservation

It's not hopeless, though. Archive.org is still around, even if it sometimes faces setbacks.

[76561199648916059]

Citation needed, none of the games belong to steam, you paying steam and the game company for steam to ultimately lose the right to allow you to play the game. Keep this in mind it might be ten years, it might be two years. Steam doesn't own the games they are just making a quick buck selling it to you with full intension of some day removing your ability to play the game you paid them for.

[Brian9824]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Majestically Awkward:

Citation needed, none of the games belong to steam, you paying steam and the game company for steam to ultimately lose the right to allow you to play the game. Keep this in mind it might be ten years, it might be two years. Steam doesn't own the games they are just making a quick buck selling it to you with full intension of some day removing your ability to play the game you paid them for.

False, steam doesn't remove games you paid for, they can still provide the files to those who already bought it

Citation needed for your claim that steam removes access to your games that you already paid for

[William Shakesman]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Majestically Awkward:

Citation needed, none of the games belong to steam, you paying steam and the game company for steam to ultimately lose the right to allow you to play the game. Keep this in mind it might be ten years, it might be two years. Steam doesn't own the games they are just making a quick buck selling it to you with full intension of some day removing your ability to play the game you paid them for.

Not that I have seen them do this but the SSA does grant them the right

[76561199648916059]

Try reading what others said on this topic,, it provides the proper citation needed to state the claim.

[Brian9824]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Majestically Awkward:

Try reading what others said on this topic,, it provides the proper citation needed to state the claim.

Others were talking about buying the game after it was removed, not losing games you already bought.

I have multiple games that aren't no longer sold that I can download and play. So your claim is false and you can't back it up and name a single game that steam removes your ability to play

[William Shakesman]

Sorry I will try to read better.

[76561199648916059]

Me too I will try to care less about replying to steam forum questions because we apparently have steam employees on the forum that are now handling it