Drizzlehell
Banned
It's pretty ridiculous. Most of the games that have been delisted from Steam and other storefronts are barely a few years old. I think I even saw one that was out for barely 1-2 years and it's already unavailable for purchase.
It got to a point where I just started collecting these games on Steam, regardless of what they are. I'm a huge 40k fan and I would probably check out all of those games at one point or another, but if they are to be delisted within a year of the release, I figured that I'd better grab them as soon as there's a sale. Lest I want to end up having to hunt for second hand steam keys on shady grey markets. And don't even get me started with those fucking scalpers who somehow ended up with leftover steam key for games like Adeptus Titanicus, and try to resell them on the very same grey market for an extortionate price due to artificially created scarcity of the game.
So far I was pretty lucky since I was able to hunt down most 40k games on Steam at fairly cheap prices. But there are still some that are missing from my collection, mostly due to aforementioned grey market prices. I mean, I love 40k, but not enough to spend a 100 dollars on a mediocre turn based strategy. Fuck that.
Regardless, this got me thinking about why Games Workshop is doing this? I assume it's their doing since they're the license holder and whatever they say goes. Plus I think it even says on Steam store pages that most of those games have been taken down at GW's request or whatever. It's stupid. Just let me buy this shit instead of having to chase it down on some scam websites. Do they hate money or something? And if they're concerned about the quality of those games, then maybe they should just license the property out to companies who will be able to make stuff that's actually good, so that they wouldn't have to shamefully delist it a year later.
It got to a point where I just started collecting these games on Steam, regardless of what they are. I'm a huge 40k fan and I would probably check out all of those games at one point or another, but if they are to be delisted within a year of the release, I figured that I'd better grab them as soon as there's a sale. Lest I want to end up having to hunt for second hand steam keys on shady grey markets. And don't even get me started with those fucking scalpers who somehow ended up with leftover steam key for games like Adeptus Titanicus, and try to resell them on the very same grey market for an extortionate price due to artificially created scarcity of the game.
So far I was pretty lucky since I was able to hunt down most 40k games on Steam at fairly cheap prices. But there are still some that are missing from my collection, mostly due to aforementioned grey market prices. I mean, I love 40k, but not enough to spend a 100 dollars on a mediocre turn based strategy. Fuck that.
Regardless, this got me thinking about why Games Workshop is doing this? I assume it's their doing since they're the license holder and whatever they say goes. Plus I think it even says on Steam store pages that most of those games have been taken down at GW's request or whatever. It's stupid. Just let me buy this shit instead of having to chase it down on some scam websites. Do they hate money or something? And if they're concerned about the quality of those games, then maybe they should just license the property out to companies who will be able to make stuff that's actually good, so that they wouldn't have to shamefully delist it a year later.
