We have seen this in the past. When companies like EA and Epic launched there own rival digital distribution game libraries they removed their games from Steam.

But they tended to only not add new releases, and let older existing titles stay.

However there is a new trend this year of delisting games completely. The owners of the IP removing all traces of a game from a store such as Steam. Or in the recent case of Marvel Avengers, all traces of the game everywhere.

I had played Avengers some time ago when it was included in the PS Plus Extra library, but never directly owned a copy, so I have lost access to that forever. Not that I was ever going to play it again, but that's not the point.

Now Warhammer 40K Space Wolf is due to be delisted on the 12th October. It was never the best Warhammer game, but it wasn't bad, and it had a lot of DLC expansions. I've posted elsewhere with details on grabbing the game and all dlc for 80p before it's too late.

What are your thoughts on delisting games?

Are you that bothered? For those of us who are game collectors and have worked to build a collection to preserve games on retro platforms it's not great. We are in danger of losing these games forever moving forward.

I alto don't get why they instantly delete the storefront page. Games on Steam have a lot of useful information linked within each game page. As well as videos and screenshots, you have reviews and the community pages with screenshots, guides, tips, walkthroughs etc. They wipe a game page out and you lose the lot. Not good
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