Warner Brothers is slowly making the rounds to delist what looks like every game published by Adult Swim Games from Steam, citing vague "internal business changes".
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Full list of Adult Swim Games games that are on Steam. My personal recommendations are Kingsway if you like roguelites and old operating system aesthetics, and Duck Game if you have friends lol:
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Adult%20Swim%20Games
I don't care.
You cared enough to reply 😉
Is a reply currency in your favela?
It's redeemable for a free one night stay in your head
These are the sort of people that care about this shit.
These are the sort of people that "don't care" so hard they click the thread they don't care about and start to argue with people. Good job there champ
Ridiculing you isn't equivalent to caring about the shit you're talking about. None of those games ever interested me, so them disappearing off of steam literally has 0 effect on me. This is true for most people. I'm reminding you of this so that you don't waste your time trying to make this seem like some sort of big deal or controversy. My post was a courtesy and you're interpreting it as an attack. This is pathetic behavior. I don't care about these games, but I do like mocking people that do stupid shit. Are you still going to feign confusion?
You obviously care enough to drop by to ridicule though.
This is Ganker. Everyone who posts cares enough to post. This isn't some sort of gotcha accusation. A reply isn't the same as support or an expression of emotion over the topic itself. A huge portion of replies from one person to another are not discussing the topic. You know that. This reply is another example of that.
baited 😉
There are 200 threads on this board and you chose this one to enter and start posting in. This is the thread in your mind and on your screen. You care. And while you're arguing so vigorously about how much you don't care, I've been using you to bump my thread and attract people who do want to talk about the thread subject. What have you been getting out of this? Are you really satisfied with this "ridicule" you've been dishing out?
>There are 200 threads on this board and you chose this one to enter and start posting in
Yeah.
>This is the thread in your mind and on your screen
Barely of the former and latter.
>You care
You're delusional. You belong on twitter if replies are giving you dopamine rushes.
>And while you're arguing so vigorously about how much you don't care, I've been using you to bump my thread and attract people who do want to talk about the thread subject
I don't care if this thread dies or gets 500+ replies. I'm not saging. I don't care if other people reply or if other people care. I'm not trying to suppress you, moron.
>What have you been getting out of this?
I don't spend my time on Ganker to get anything of value.
>Are you really satisfied with this "ridicule" you've been dishing out?
My expectations are low.
Any other questions?
Have you convinced yourself yet or do you still need to keep arguing with yourself at me?
Damn bro you really dont care hard. Didnt read btw
>I dont care
>I really dont care
>I so so dont care
>essay #1
>essay #2
esl moment
smug Kiana
Kek yeah you really didnt care. Dont care what your cope is.
Find Jesus anon---i say that as a life long atheist.
You care bro!
You care!
Look at him care!
yeah what better way to say "I don't care" than to have a meltdown about it
Thanks for providing bait to keep the thread alive I guess
I never did end up playing Kingsway to maybe I'll get it now. Shame about Duck Game too
that israelite bastard Zaslav
LEGO . com games ruined HERO FACTORy
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the old lego games on the website were kino as frick. are they archived anywhere?
Yep, Flashpoint Infinity has many (all?) of them.
I truly don't give a shit
You cared enough to reply 😉
Super house of dead ninjas is fricking fun. Loved that shit years ago.
Westerado was good and had a great soundtrack
>cancel multiple finished movies
>pull a bunch of shit from streaming for no reason
>kill Rooster Teeth
>commit to games as a service right after releasing one that flopped hard
>now they’re delisting games
I’m not even mad about it anymore, it’s honestly amusing how Zaslav keeps doing all this transparently awful shit.
All of this recent self-immolation from AAA studios has been amusing and I'd like to see it continue. Vidya has been living off of indie devs for years now anyway
It's what happens when you're financially fricked.
>Hogwarts Legacy was the highest selling game of 2023
>Suicide Squad is an absolute dumpster fire flop
>Decide making more shit like Suicide Squad is the way to go
????
legit makes no sense, who makes these decisions? how can they be so wrong and stupid every time?
It makes perfect sense
Hogwarts legacy took effort and won't make them money forever.
They realize that their increasingly diverse staff is getting increasingly incompetent and isn't realistically going to be able to produce anything good in the future.
Making good games is simply not an option for them, unless they go in like Elon Musk and fire 70% of the staff.
So they figure they need to find a way to make passive income forever without doing any real work or making actual products.
They see all the morons spending millions of dollars on skins, and subscriptions on online games and decide that's is the best option to siphon money from suckers with little effort.
That is "the future".
Their only real mistake is assuming that gamers are so stupid they will buy anything. But these people probably figure gamers are adicts and everyone else will be cutting back or going to live service as well so there won't be too much competition.
>They see all the morons spending millions of dollars on skins, and subscriptions on online games and decide that's is the best option to siphon money from suckers with little effort.
>That is "the future".
They already tried this, and it failed so hard that they gave up on gaming outside of Mobile/F2P trash. They will fail in the mobile market as well. They will NEVER allow a coomer game like Nikki to be made with their IPs. Discovery is even more woke than Disney. Reminder, they know TLC and were/are pushing that little boy "Jazz" aka Jared into becoming a troony freakshow.
>Suits will continue to let Sweetbaby gaslight them into never investing more into Harry Potter because the roastie who wrote the books told some troon to frick off from the bathrooms
He'll kill the company and get paid doing it.
That’s pretty gay, but I’m opposed to panic-buying stuff people don’t want my money for.
Good riddance to homosexual trash.
I didnt even know adult swim had and made games. Oh well... I guess??
Surely you recognize this one, right?
OPEN YOUR EYES
YOUR EYES ARE OPEN
Anon you the the middleschooler gen alphas that infest this board remember this shit, hell the event from a couple weeks ago was full of people asking wtf it was
One more time in English?
>mispell one word
>DURRR IN ENGRISH?!1?!?
Yes... that was my point
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No u
>Anon you the the middleschooler gen alphas that infest this board remember this shit,
You mean zoomers. That game was before Gen Alpha's time.
Why would I? I don't spend hours digging through steam looking for games hell I barely browse it unless there is a game I'm 100% wanting to find and then it's just a search of the title
>steam
You're not gonna find Flash games on Steam son.
You'd be surprise
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2274110/The_Elephant_Collection/
>$15
This fricking thing better have Snood at that price for flash games
I'd give it to him just for bringing me some joy when I was a little poor boy. This is much better than the data-harvesting, penny-pinching, ad-infested mobile game market that replaced the Flash game scene
Woah
I made a whole curator list of flash games and their sequels on steam. there is over 200 of them.
It's literally a key pillar of Ganker culture you insufferable newbie
Guess Videocult got Rain World out of there just in time.
Kingsway is cool but shallow as all frick, literally every run feels the same, starting class hardly matters, and you will see every event every run.
Anyway the only adultswim game that matters was freed from them years ago so no need to panic buy anything
but...why?
This only happens for a couple of reasons. Licensing issues and pre-emptively avoiding future legal nonsense, plans to open an exclusive storefront, or plans to rebrand under a different publisher. There are a few exceptions that are rare like plans to update a game to a different version to be resold under a different name, but that usually only happens with Japanese games when transferring games to new consoles so it's not relevant in this situation.
No one asked
The oversimplified version:
>Adult Swim Games never had a major hit
>profits are ok but not great
>Adult Swim Games required staff and office space
>there is proof of these business expenses in a file cabinet somewhere
>the government offers businesses a discount on their taxes if they can prove they had a big loss somewhere, but you have to destroy whatever it is you're calling a failure and never make money off of it again
>WB decides the tax benefits of calling ASG a failure are bigger than the profits that it'll bring in in the future
Gotta love short sighted profit
>WB decides the meat benefits of killing all the chickens is bigger than the egg supply they'll bring in the future
Jazzpunk was a fairly big hit back when it released uhh.... 10 years ago? Been a while it seems.
That game later had its publishing rights reverted to the original devs though so it's not in danger here.
All this frickery around taxes does make me wonder just how much money do they owe to the government. I mean, aren't they only taxed on profits? If they have enough profit to worry about a massive tax bill then they're making enough to not have to worry about gutting the entire company, right?
Either one of the warnerbros accountants put down the wrong number in the wrong area or they tried fricking around with some tax loophole and uncle sam caught wind of it. Remember, you can't escape the IRS. They have a manual complete with policies and procedures to continue operation in the event of the post-apocolypse
Post-apocalyptic IRS agents collecting money that's no longer worth anything for a government that no longer exists sounds like it'd make for a good movie or an RPG
Nobody tell Warner Bros about this though or they'll actually make the whole thing then cancel it before release
I'd imagine them to be something like the enclave from Fallout but instead of genocidal eugenicists it's just a bunch of accountants in power armor turning raider camps into goo because they didn't lodge their SE tax for that financial year.
Getting to keep more money is always better than getting to keep less money.
Who?
For real, it's one of those brands I've peripherally noticed from time to time without ever really associating it with anything in particular.
That's Adult Swim in general, an umbrella for a bunch of random weird shit
I think the only time I cared enough about games being removed was when they announced they were going to take Mirror's Edge off Steam, I bought that shit as soon as I heard even though I own it on 360 and my 360 still works.
This but for Alan Wake 1 when they were planning to pull it down over music licensing autism. Shame about the second game. Also Duke Nukem: Megaton Edition, it's the definitive way to play Duke Nukem 3D but Randy Pitchford managed to pull himself away from making little girls' hymens disappear just long enough to delist it so people would be forced to buy the 20th Anniversary World Tour at double the price and without the DLC episodes
This is why I will never sell my 360 Collectors Edition. I still own AW1 on PC as well, but going from 360 to PC and seeing QR codes and shit was stupid.
The people these companies answer to are shareholders, not gamers. Shareholders think "wow superhero stuff has been doing great for years, we need to jump onto this" and then yell at the CEO to make it happen. Also Hogwarts was running off childhoods. I read the books and saw like 3 of the movies and got HL just because "I liked this shit as a kid."
Of the games listed here, the biggest casualty would be Duck Game. Fun memories of college multiplayer nights.
Also, wasn't Rain World published by ASG too? That game going under would be a fricking travesty.
>wasn't Rain World published by ASG too?
The dev clawed the rights back a few years ago.
>Also, wasn't Rain World published by ASG too?
The real travesty is that you thought rainworld was still under asg but considered fricking duck game the biggest lose. Anyway no theyre under a different publisher now despite what the game itself says because they never bothered updating the opening
I meant Duck Game was the biggest loss of the games listed in the link,I didn't see Rain World, and so I asked why it wasn't there.
If it was listed that would be my favorite game under the ASG brand.
You know what fair enough sorry for being a jack ass. im just really stressed from work rn 🙁
>duck game is still up
Only game I care about. I hope they leave it be. That game is GOAT
Every game should become 1 dollar
One of the devs got the notice from WB and started giving their game away for free
https://twitter.com/owendeery/status/1765032553147245010
cool
Nice! Hope he enjoys his bankrupcy
According to the articles in the OP, he had already given up on videogame development after his next game flopped, so he was disillusioned with it all already
ALWAYS I WANNA BE WITH YOU
The only of those I played was Super House of Dead Ninjas ages ago.
>WB is going scorched earth on everything they make
what the FRICK is happening there
>"The taxes, the hand thing means the taxes"
Considering EA has been republishing all their old shit for dimes on the dollar, something seems to be going down in corpoland and everyone's dealing with it in their own way.
Almost like the company who turned almost all of their channels into reality TV slop, tried to jam in live action kids shows into Cartoon Network, are fricking moronic and will ALWAYS go for the easiest and cheapest method to make money. This is why them buying WB/DC was a mistake even larger than Disney getting their israelite hands on it.
Oh you are still gonna get the woke shit, but it's gonna be cheaply made trash by 3rd worlders on mobile that are filled to the brim with micros.
Suggesting Headlander: Very cool metroidvania with Steamworld-style ricochet combat and puzzles based on stealing robot frames as a disembodied head set on investigating what went wrong with a fully automated 70s futurism space station resort
Samurai Jack is actually a solid action game. Shame it might become abandonware.
I know I own a game published by Adult Swim Games and I even played it recently but it must not have been very good because I don't remember what it was. Basically what I'm trying to say is I don't care.
This was it:
Headlander, a boring game with boring and tedious backtracking combined with Double Fine's signature grotesquely ugly style.
I liked it.
fair enough, different strokes I guess.
>publisher can simply remove any game they own from steam at any time they want, therefore making it impossible to buy unless it's on another storefront or platform
>steamcucks will defend this
Nobody is defending this. I would just pirate, like I do games on all platforms if they aren't made available for a reasonable price.
>SMT4A used was $90 on Amazon
Thats when I decided that I have both a moral and legal obligation to eternally pirate everything attached to Nintendo.
It's not like Steam has a choice, what are they going to do, just continue selling the game unauthorized? That's a nuclear legal landmine they'd step on.
They could just hire people to do wetwork. There'll be no shortage of ex-soldiers from Russia/ukraine.
>people can just stop selling their products
you don't say...
Pay attention indies, this is just another on the mountain of reasons you shouldn't use a publisher. Guerrilla market your game, bribe some streamers, whatever you have to do but don't sell your soul to some israelite corporation that can pull the plug on your hard work just for shits and giggles.
Duck Game has been on my wishlist since release, I never bought it cause I don't have friends to play it with, but I guess I'll buy it now. Maybe I do find a gaming gf in the future
good news will be when they remove Steam
Ah frick man, I only have so long to get the Samurai Jack game now
>Give these giant buttholes money while you still can!!
Come on anon.
I didn't say to buy anything. I explained what was happening, gave a list of the affected games, and pointed out the games on that list that I like. I'm not gonna put a link to a pirate site in the OP, people who want to do that know how to seek it out
Can someone "in minecraft" Zaslav already?
>it's all shovelware trash
Oh no, anyway... who cares?
All of these games look terrible.
is the samurai jack game any good?
Nothing really interesting to me on the list but thanks OP I wouldn't have known. So I guess WB is so assblasted about suicide bomb that they're gonna leave steam so their players can't be counted? rofl
Duck game is fun. Was fun. I miss my friends 🙁
Seconding Super House of Dead Ninjas and especially Duck Game, that shit is basically Timesplitters in 2D. I really came to love DESYNC as well. Score attack FPS that's part Bulletstorm and part Doom Eternal.
I still play Giant Boulders of Doom to this day. Sad to know it won’t get anymore IOS compatibility updates.
Wasn't Rain World an ASG game?
Different publisher now
see
I was worried for a whole second aswell
thnx
Delisting doesn't remove the game from your account, moron
yet. Almost happened with Sony and discovery movies until they renewed the contract. It depends what the publishers demand.
was waiting for a sale on samurai jack and pool party also looks cool
most of the games are whocares indie titles but still warner bros can suck my fricking wiener
just use GoodOldGames for anything worth keeping.
I don't understand why the WB shareholders are fine with what's happening. The man is actively burning the company down from the inside and nobody with any pull seems to care