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Spec Ops to be delisted entirely from all online gaming stores
ShadyAcshuns
Member
Wish they'd put it on sale first.
bender
What time is it?
ShadyAcshuns
Member
I meant on consoles.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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It was on sale for $5.99 until a few days ago, just went back up to its 'normal' price again.
Keep an eye out, it's often on sale.
Shake Your Rump
Member
You can buy a PS3 or 360 disc for $10. As an added bonus, your disc will never be de-listed.
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Making a post to say thanks for pointing it out and to keep the thread up there if anyone wants to grab it from GOG before it goes away. I'd seen it mentioned elsewhere that GOG has a clause where they have to be notified before delisting and I wonder if that's what we're seeing with the sale and the expiration on the sale price? Snagged a spare from there since I haven't played it since release on Steam.
This brings to mind the blight of licensing on game though if it is due to the music in the game. We see this enough with games it almost makes you want to question why they license stuff if the sales will potentially be stopped. But then I tell myself if it is 5-10 years later the suits might not care by then and I guess we've had the chance to buy it? At the same time the new digital hellscape we're in once they're gone they're gone. And now I've mad myself sad about the games we've lost to crap like this.
This brings to mind the blight of licensing on game though if it is due to the music in the game. We see this enough with games it almost makes you want to question why they license stuff if the sales will potentially be stopped. But then I tell myself if it is 5-10 years later the suits might not care by then and I guess we've had the chance to buy it? At the same time the new digital hellscape we're in once they're gone they're gone. And now I've mad myself sad about the games we've lost to crap like this.
bender
What time is it?
If you want it on Xbox, you should buy it as it probably will not be around long enough for another sale.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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bender
What time is it?
Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
I already had this on Steam, but delistings enrage me and I wish platform holders were more aggressive about preventing them somehow. Perhaps through contracting, and only allowing the game to be sold in the first place if the underlying licenses aren't time-limited. (This would require coordination among platform holders, but still.)
LavitzSlambert
Member
The industry really needs to get its shit together in regards to this kind of licensing. It seems like this is the #1 issue resulting in delistings. If publishers and platform owners want consumers to be confident in purchasing digital content, they will need to address these problems.
RedC
Member
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Kacho
Member
You don’t lose it if you bought it digitally
Guilty_AI
Member
Delisting doesn't stop costumers who already purchased the game from downloading it.
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poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Yeah no kidding. My 9 year old steam copy is now useless knowing that other people can't purchase it. I can install and play it, but it would hurt too much. Thankfully there are infinite physical copies and they legally have to be stocked at all major retailers.
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{insert code here}
Member
Get it while you can folks.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
The music industry is mercenary with licensing. Plenty of old TV shows arent available because they never negotiated music rights for alternate platforms in the past and they hold them hostage.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
Yay for digital future.
graywolf323
Member
my biggest problem with delistings is that publishers rarely warn us in advance, it’d be one thing if they gave at least a month notice and put it on sale with that knowledge
Deerock71
Member
Danny Dudekisser
I paid good money for this Dynex!
Bought it from GOG. I've heard good things about the game, so I figured it's worth $6 to make sure I have the chance to play it whenever I get around to it.
Good luck ever seeing this for sale again.
Good luck ever seeing this for sale again.
Matsuchezz
Member
I just bought it physical before its 200 dollars it arrives next week
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
Funny thing I just checked the wiki page. It says it has lots of MP modes. Going by message board posts I thought it was strictly a SP shooter. Never knew there were MP modes.
bender
What time is it?
Co-Op too but not campaign co-op. It's a game that went through a lot of iterations and you can certainly feel that. One of the initial selling points was dynamic environments (sand) and being able to use that to your advantage in combat situations. In the final game those opportunities might come up three or four times.
ChuckeRearmed
Member
Very good game. The plot was really cool.
kiphalfton
Member
Yeah... but you won't be able to buy it if it's delisted.
FeralEcho
Member
Fox Mulder
Member
Music licensing issues like this don’t seem to really take down tv shows and movies. Like martin scorsese puts a song in his movie for art and it stays there. Video game publishers just don’t give a shit about licensing issues delisting games down the road.
Rockstar was constantly taking a hatchet to the carefully crafted soundtracks of the older GTA games instead of paying to keep the original experience and vision. It sucks.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
You're missing the point though. Imagine you didn't own it. Imagine there was no physical release on future games and a game gets delisted everywhere, what are you going to do? beg someone who bought it for their username and password? At least when a physical version exists you can still buy the game from somewhere.
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StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
The thing about physical vs digital really comes down to each products viability (business wise).
A lot of gamers might not like digital only, but if gamers look at the big picture digital is the medium allowing shit loads of games to still be sold. Heck, I bought Cinemaware Anthology on Steam a few years ago. And lucky for me there's actually a digital download for it. And even better it's the Amiga versions! The last time these games were on disk was probably around 1992 on 3.5 discs.
Some things might not get a digital release and some get taken down. But if it wasnt for digital , any gamer would be hard pressed to buy oldies since most games go out of print (esp a 12 year old game like Spec Ops). The best alternatives would be buying a used copy hoping it works or some guy on eBay selling a sealed copy for double the price. The amount of sales old 360/PS3/PC Spec Ops copies sold if all were still available on a disc would be almost zero. But at least it's still available digitally (until now).
So its one of those things, you take the good with the bad.
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NinjaBoiX
Member
You know that they’d have to stop selling it physically in this situation too right?
That's not true AFAIK since licences already cover printed discs but most retailers have already stopped selling this game regardless.
DownLikeBCPowder
Member
Even if that were true, potentially hundreds of thousands or millions in some cases of copies would be in the wild forever, able to change hands etc.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Yeah, especially with Outrun. I don’t give a shit if it’s a Ferrari. Just make it sporty no car that’s similar looking.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
That’s where I’m at. I’ve got it on Steam. Don’t see the need to drop $6 on a GoG copy.