>"Whilst we have loved seeing you enjoy playing Order of War on Steam, unfortunately it is no longer viable for us to continue to run the multiplayer servers due to the low volume of traffic and so the servers were switched off on September 1st, 2013. The multiplayer aspect of Order of War and Order of War: Challenge have subsequently ceased to function, and customers will notice that Order of War: Challenge has been removed from their Steam library. For those who have been playing our game, we thank you for your support and hope you had fun. If you have any further questions about this, please contact our customer support team at http://support.eu.square-enix.com/main.php?la=2&id=592"
https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/11428
>Once Gabe dies and his family sell the company to Microsoft you're going to regret having 200 games in your steam library.
Why would I? I can still download and play those 200 games even if Steam disappears completely.
Are you so moronic you don't know what delisting means? Nobody is talking about removing the games from people's libraries. It just means you won't be able to purchase the games anymore.
they tried once, and immediately caved once they got huge backlash.
Are you so moronic you don't know what delisting means? Nobody is talking about removing the games from people's libraries. It just means you won't be able to purchase the games anymore.
iirc that article literally said something about "games being removed from steam libraries." which was dumb, that's why it was mentioned.
>The nicest thing I can think of to say about Gabe Newell and Steam in the year of our Lord 2024 is that they haven't literally stolen from people yet.
>what happens when this happens to elden ring or balders gate 3 or whatever the frick game you like?
if it's a game you like you probably own it and so can still download it even when it's taken off the store, dumbass
Ubisoft says it’s illegal to steal multiplayer games. Now “The Crew” is unplayable. GYFO with your “own game” nonsense, you never did.
It shouldn't since they left Adult Swim Games. Other games that were former ASG that should still be fine are: Battle Chef Brigade, Death's Gambit, Glittermitten Grove, Volgarr the Viking & Westerado: Double Barrelled. The other games should be affected so you've got about less than 60 days to get them before they are gone and not sure when they'll return. This is the problem with an all digital future because stuff can be taken down easily for stuff like copyright issues and whatever other reason they give.
It's published by Akupara now... for better or for worse.
AS had a games branch?
there's some very good ones. obviously rain world and robot unicorn attack come to mind. the birdman attorney game too. westerado. the samurai jack games.
I just checked Steam and the Director's Cut version is listed under a different developer and publisher, so I'm thinking it's safe.
Duck Game should be everyone's top priority, even though I haven't played it in a couple years. I'm gonna have to buy Samurai Jack while I can. Also anybody played Kingsway? Is that worth picking up?
Kingsway is neat if only for executing on its concept as well as you would hope from the pitch of "RPG where the entire gameworld and UI is expressed as a 90s operating system"
>Duck Game
It's the only one I'm worried about, because it legitimately is one of the greatest video games of all time and a true passion project. I think if it ever got delisted, then Landon would just give the go-ahead for Duck Game Rewrite to make its own multiplayer matchmaking server software for people to continue to get into the game fresh with, but frick I'd hate for it to be taken off when the guy deserves every cent he gets.
The Soundodger+ dev said that he is allowed to put it back on sale as a self-published game but it has to be listed on Steam as a new game since WB refuses to just transfer ownership of pre-existing Adult Swim games to devs.
Remember when ea was gonna delist syndicate and ultima underworld games from gog they gave away them for free?
Ffs how do frick up so bad you make EA look good?
>capitalism is failing
I'm sure you don't know the meaning of the word or else you'd say "communism is here" instead. Failure comes whenever communism is practiced, as it's very purpose is to drain and destroy rather than supply for demands (capitalism).
thats not the point moron, nobody gives a frick about some rick and morty shovelware but what happens when this happens to elden ring or balders gate 3 or whatever the frick game you like?
>what happens when this happens to elden ring or balders gate 3 or whatever the frick game you like?
if it's a game you like you probably own it and so can still download it even when it's taken off the store, dumbass
>notice they will make more money delisting and terminating the existence of the publisher via tax write off then letting them continue existing >'who cares about the consumer, we want out money'
CN did the same thing with cartoons like Mega XL-R where they used it as a tax write-off and thus aren't allowed to ever do anything with it again.
Same company that took a completely finished movie that scored 90%+ scores with test audiences, and decided to delete every copy of it instead of releasing because it might not make over a billion dollars. For execs who just want their bonus, better to use it as a tax writeoff and have another year where they don't have to pay any taxes than make a moderate profit.
>For execs who just want their bonus, better to use it as a tax writeoff and have another year where they don't have to pay any taxes than make a moderate profit.
Explain.
Idiots who learned the new meme phrase and throw it at everything. If a company sustains losses on a project they can halt it and get a tax writeoff, however this will only go so far and will always be far less than what was lost on said project, it's not the free money hack some people seem to think. Also not applicable here, they're just closing down a subsidiary.
Apparently Battle Chef Brigade is in the hands of its developers and won't get pulled, which I'm happy about. I would recommend it, but I'd prioritize getting Samurai Jack Battle Through Time before it goes away; that game is actually great and was made by a bunch of guys who worked on Ninja Gaiden Black.
They were basically Devolver with more money and marketing on cable TV commercials instead of Youtube presentations, until the end of the 2010s when they pivoted exclusively to games based on shows airing on the block instead of indie projects (aka a bunch of Rick & Morty games and the one Samurai Jack game).
>They were basically Devolver with more money and marketing on cable TV commercials instead of Youtube presentations
It's really amazing how many thinks WB has pissed away over the years.
It's still up. If you're paranoid Limited Run released physical copies for PS4 and Switch and the Asian copies of those don't go for too much secondhand.
And while I'm guessing Rick and Morty VR is trash it also got a physical release on PS4 and I think I saw it at a store near me for like $10-20 recently.
You can wait a few days for sure but the official wording is these will be delisted in the next 60 days. There is absolutely no guarantee they won't be removed earlier.
For got pic. Is this any good? The rest look like shovelware
It's good. The team behind it is Soleil which is a bunch of ex-Team Ninja staff. It's the closest thing (read: not the same but you can feel some similarities) to a modern Ninja Gaiden we've gotten. There's a little jank and the cutscene animation is rough but if you like Jack and action games it's worth it. Also the secret ending is confirmed canon by Genndy.
Duck Game, Battle Chef Brigade, Rain World, and Samurai Jack BTT are all pretty great at the minimum, though two of those aren't being pulled and Samurai Jack has a chance of staying up since it's a known IP. >I wonder why they are removing them?
WB has been scorching earth on anything that costs money that doesn't make a ton of it because they're in serious debt after the Discovery merger and the Discovery CEO that's in charge is the most short-sighted CEO in entertainment right now. This is no different from not releasing that Coyote vs Acme movie that got rave pre-release reviews to write it off for taxes. They also earlier this week doubled down on live service and mobile games despite Hogwarts Legacy being 2023's best-selling game while being purely single-player without DLC and Suicide Squad being 2024's first major flop.
Who knows? They're also writing off anything they can for tax purposes, maybe writing off the ability to publish these games will give them a few grand.
WB has been doing a lot of scortched earth things recently but the official reason is restructuring and probably dont want to have to deal with the legal issues during it.
This will probably generate them a small indirect short term cash injection via tax writeoffs, WB has been hellbent on cutting costs and saving few bucks right now even at expense of making long term money. They do not think the world beyond the next financial quarter is relevant. I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to pack the company up to sell it ASAP.
Why don't they just make games with sexy characters in it
Is going bankrupt and shoving your company in the poor house really worth not letting people coom to wonder woman
It is combination of few things.
First of, corporations keep hoping that the "untapped demographic" meme would become true in case of geek media. They REALLY want women and non-white/asian males to buy their products as new core demographics but it just isn't happening no matter how much they are trying to force it. They still refuse to believe that women and brown people aren't going to become primary vidya and comic book consoomers.
Secondly, in recent years corporations have prioritized investment company bucks over sales, which is now fricking them over due to rising interest rates removing free money.
which is strange that they havent' caught on yet that all demographics across the board rather watch some foregein anime characters in a love triangle drama with goofy situations than what they put out
i guess they TRIED doing that with that new homosexual superman cartoon, but that seems to be a failure
Basically if you consolidate assets you tend to not renew contracts for older assets, it lets them sit on the IP for a while then sell them off to the highest bidders.
It's a way to make more money on old content.
I think they would for example sell Samurai Jack and all the assets to the highest bidder, which they can get more if there is no lose ends and there is a demand for it, which they can artificially make by making no more copies available.
Did you guys hear the reason they cant transfer the pub rights when one of the devs asked WB. Its actually sad how stupid the people in charge of wb are.
The same thing that's happening to every corporation worldwide. Line must always go up, but the combination of covid year being unusually good for tech companies plus the economy trending downwards in the following years and investment drying up means that line will probably not go up, so now every company is in a rush to cut costs and increase revenue by firing as many people as they can, cancelling any project that doesn't look like it will be an immediate profit, and refocusing their business on whatever makes them the most money while abandoning other riskier/less profitable ventures.
I feel like if companies are allowed to cancel projects or remove completed media for tax write-offs, then they should be legally required to release whatever media it is into the public domain.
Cancelling projects for tax writeoffs is a very narrow scenario that only applies in very few cases and the end result is always a loss for the company anyway.
>Nothing more complex.
bracing for a worse than '08 collapse
when the PTB decide they're done propping up the real estate markets, the rest is going with it
banks are kill too
the psychopathic rats have been busy stockpiling warchests
The same thing that's happening to every corporation worldwide. Line must always go up, but the combination of covid year being unusually good for tech companies plus the economy trending downwards in the following years and investment drying up means that line will probably not go up, so now every company is in a rush to cut costs and increase revenue by firing as many people as they can, cancelling any project that doesn't look like it will be an immediate profit, and refocusing their business on whatever makes them the most money while abandoning other riskier/less profitable ventures.
Goobergate itself only was figured out in 2014, we always knew there was journos being paid for reviews etc before then and giving suggestions to change stuff. 2013 was when the tomb raider reboot happened where they toned down her sexiness completely.
>it makes me sick to think that purchased games will presumably be removed from users' libraries. Our community and our players have 10+ years of discussions, screenshots, gameplay footage, leaderboards, player progress, unlocked characters, Steam achievements, Steam cards, etc. which could all be lost
you either didn't read the post chain or are illiterate
It just doesn't stop being funny how Warner Bros doubled down on both Erza's Flash and Suicide Squad brand like they really were going to be the next multibillion dollar things.
It is hard to think of a more genuinely moronic corporation than current WB is.
Harley Quinn is such a popular character it makes sense they'd try to capitalize on her. But I think she only really works as a side character or villain.
trying to sell whole games or movies starring the manic zany clown girl just doesn't work
> “I don’t know if they’re delisting it or deleting it,” Molinari told Polygon in an email. “I pleaded with the rep to transfer ownership to my company, as I still retain all IP and game rights. I sent him a link to Steam’s transfer page and explained clearly that it takes literally three clicks to transfer ownership to me. He rejected my request.”
They can just take their game and re-upload it or whatever if they really believe they have ownership rights. They just don't want too lose the steam page for reviews or whatever.
>Games barely sell anymore, anybody who wants them, already has them >WB announces they'll be removing them >Other gaymers suffer from fomo and a ton of them buy it
Just as planned
They already have, the original is only on 3rd party sites due to flash being obsolete and the commercial mobile version got delisted because Adult Swim couldn't be bothered to update it to function on newer phones for whatever reasons.
It is not Adult Swim game anymore so it is safe, multiple Adult Swim games (like Volgarr, Jazzpunk, Death's Gambit and Rain World) have gone self-published indie or switched publisher along the years because in all fairness AS has gone pretty mismanaged during the last five years or so.
Based on what they've told devs, it seems like WB is trying to purge Adult Swim Games from existence
One of the devs got told they can republish their game either again on Steam or on other platforms but any mention of Adult Swim has to be removed including from the credits.
WB is also refusing to transfer the ownership of the games on Steam to the devs so they'd have to basically re-upload the title thus losing out anyone who wishlisted it, all reviews and being unable to ever update the game for anyone who only owns the original Adult Swim-published release.
Why exactly they're doing things this way is a good question. I certainly can't make any sense of it.
>Make game that sells 25 million copies >Make game that nobody buys >Decide that going forward, you will only be making more of the second game
WB is an inspirational company. It shows that no matter how stupid someone is, they can still be a leader of a multibillion dollar company.
Publishers are playing with fire here and I'm not just talking vidya publishers. Their services are like modern day currency, everyone will continue to pay/use them up until the point where people loses all trust in the systems and everything comes crashing down in a cascade of broken promises and shitty half measures.
Netflix along with many of these other subscription services have all started shrinking both because nothing can grow forever (even though the coof gave it a boost which fooled investors into thinking so) and people are sick an tired of shittier and shittier services for higher and higher costs. It's the piracy boom of the early 2000s all over again since the new services are turning out to be just as shit as the old ones to the point where risking viruses and searching through multiple different websites are worth more of the hassle than actually paying for shit
Steam has yet to actually remove games from your library that you have bought, btw!
I truly don't care.
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>"Whilst we have loved seeing you enjoy playing Order of War on Steam, unfortunately it is no longer viable for us to continue to run the multiplayer servers due to the low volume of traffic and so the servers were switched off on September 1st, 2013. The multiplayer aspect of Order of War and Order of War: Challenge have subsequently ceased to function, and customers will notice that Order of War: Challenge has been removed from their Steam library. For those who have been playing our game, we thank you for your support and hope you had fun. If you have any further questions about this, please contact our customer support team at http://support.eu.square-enix.com/main.php?la=2&id=592"
https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/11428
>a game reaches its end of service
>its servers go down
>somehow this is Steam's fault
You are a dumb fricking gorilla ass Black person
>and customers will notice that Order of War: Challenge has been removed from their Steam library.
>excusing the removal of games you paid for
>excusing devs not letting you self-host
cuck
>and customers will notice that Order of War: Challenge has been removed from their Steam library
how come cloud looks way worse in the sequel?
Isn't it open world while the first was a corridor simulator?
Silence autist, you have NO power here.
Once Gabe dies and his family sell the company to Microsoft you're going to regret having 200 games in your steam library.
>Once Gabe dies and his family sell the company to Microsoft you're going to regret having 200 games in your steam library.
Why would I? I can still download and play those 200 games even if Steam disappears completely.
Are you so moronic you don't know what delisting means? Nobody is talking about removing the games from people's libraries. It just means you won't be able to purchase the games anymore.
Op was literally talking shit about game ownership
Every time everyone shits on steam they say that someone somewhere had their games removed (they didn't).
they tried once, and immediately caved once they got huge backlash.
iirc that article literally said something about "games being removed from steam libraries." which was dumb, that's why it was mentioned.
>The nicest thing I can think of to say about Gabe Newell and Steam in the year of our Lord 2024 is that they haven't literally stolen from people yet.
Ubisoft says it’s illegal to steal multiplayer games. Now “The Crew” is unplayable. GYFO with your “own game” nonsense, you never did.
Wow, didn't know that Ubisoft and Valve were the same corporate entity! Thanks anon!
Do we really need to have this same bait thread everytime a game gets delisted?
Does this include rainworld?
Nah, Rain World moved to Akupara a while ago when they did the paid mod.
It shouldn't since they left Adult Swim Games. Other games that were former ASG that should still be fine are: Battle Chef Brigade, Death's Gambit, Glittermitten Grove, Volgarr the Viking & Westerado: Double Barrelled. The other games should be affected so you've got about less than 60 days to get them before they are gone and not sure when they'll return. This is the problem with an all digital future because stuff can be taken down easily for stuff like copyright issues and whatever other reason they give.
It's published by Akupara now... for better or for worse.
there's some very good ones. obviously rain world and robot unicorn attack come to mind. the birdman attorney game too. westerado. the samurai jack games.
AS had a games branch?
Yeah, they published Rain World that one time.
Some of them were alright too.
Rain World
Jazz Punk
Pool Panic
The Birdman games
THEY BETTER NOT REMOVE DUCK GAME OR I'M GOING TO PUT ZASLAV ON A FRICKING SPITROAST OVER AN OPEN FLAME (in vintage story)
What about Sludge Life?
isn't that devolver?
Oh yeah oops. Uhh.
OH FRICK WAIT WHAT ABOUT JAZZPUNK?!
I just checked Steam and the Director's Cut version is listed under a different developer and publisher, so I'm thinking it's safe.
Duck Game should be everyone's top priority, even though I haven't played it in a couple years. I'm gonna have to buy Samurai Jack while I can. Also anybody played Kingsway? Is that worth picking up?
Kingsway is neat if only for executing on its concept as well as you would hope from the pitch of "RPG where the entire gameworld and UI is expressed as a 90s operating system"
>Duck Game
It's the only one I'm worried about, because it legitimately is one of the greatest video games of all time and a true passion project. I think if it ever got delisted, then Landon would just give the go-ahead for Duck Game Rewrite to make its own multiplayer matchmaking server software for people to continue to get into the game fresh with, but frick I'd hate for it to be taken off when the guy deserves every cent he gets.
The Soundodger+ dev said that he is allowed to put it back on sale as a self-published game but it has to be listed on Steam as a new game since WB refuses to just transfer ownership of pre-existing Adult Swim games to devs.
the guy running adultswim games would be based if he just put all the games on sale for a dollar
Remember when ea was gonna delist syndicate and ultima underworld games from gog they gave away them for free?
Ffs how do frick up so bad you make EA look good?
capitalism is failing
Always has been
It was never actually successful.
>capitalism is failing
I'm sure you don't know the meaning of the word or else you'd say "communism is here" instead. Failure comes whenever communism is practiced, as it's very purpose is to drain and destroy rather than supply for demands (capitalism).
Real capitalism has never been tried.
"Real capitalism has never been tried"
I'm going to miss all those classic titles like....uhhhhhhh....yeah, anyway
thats not the point moron, nobody gives a frick about some rick and morty shovelware but what happens when this happens to elden ring or balders gate 3 or whatever the frick game you like?
>what happens when this happens to elden ring or balders gate 3 or whatever the frick game you like?
if it's a game you like you probably own it and so can still download it even when it's taken off the store, dumbass
BG3 would still be in my Steam library and if it wasn't then I would pirate it off GOG with Larian's blessing
BG3 is DRM free even on Steam so they literally can't stop you from making a copy right this second if you're worried about that
>tfw still have the only one that matters
oh no....anyway
great game
ALWAYS
I WANNA BE WITH YOU
AND MAKE BELIEVE WITH YOU
AND LIVE IN HARMONY HARMONY OH LOVE
this. all these people saying they don't know about adult swim games are zoomers and tourists
we JUST had harmony day too, like not even 2 weeks ago
but why?
there's no server upkeep cost associated with keeping games on steam, it's literally just a bit of passive income
probably have no right to sell them any more due to closing down or contracts I dunno
>notice they will make more money delisting and terminating the existence of the publisher via tax write off then letting them continue existing
>'who cares about the consumer, we want out money'
CN did the same thing with cartoons like Mega XL-R where they used it as a tax write-off and thus aren't allowed to ever do anything with it again.
Same company that took a completely finished movie that scored 90%+ scores with test audiences, and decided to delete every copy of it instead of releasing because it might not make over a billion dollars. For execs who just want their bonus, better to use it as a tax writeoff and have another year where they don't have to pay any taxes than make a moderate profit.
>For execs who just want their bonus, better to use it as a tax writeoff and have another year where they don't have to pay any taxes than make a moderate profit.
Explain.
Idiots who learned the new meme phrase and throw it at everything. If a company sustains losses on a project they can halt it and get a tax writeoff, however this will only go so far and will always be far less than what was lost on said project, it's not the free money hack some people seem to think. Also not applicable here, they're just closing down a subsidiary.
There has to be some madlad who will get this leaked.
There were Adult Swim games?
Apparently Battle Chef Brigade is in the hands of its developers and won't get pulled, which I'm happy about. I would recommend it, but I'd prioritize getting Samurai Jack Battle Through Time before it goes away; that game is actually great and was made by a bunch of guys who worked on Ninja Gaiden Black.
They were basically Devolver with more money and marketing on cable TV commercials instead of Youtube presentations, until the end of the 2010s when they pivoted exclusively to games based on shows airing on the block instead of indie projects (aka a bunch of Rick & Morty games and the one Samurai Jack game).
>They were basically Devolver with more money and marketing on cable TV commercials instead of Youtube presentations
It's really amazing how many thinks WB has pissed away over the years.
The only one I remember is the one where beat up and kidnapp street urchins to bake into pies
who cares
I'm ashamed to say I jerked off to that game once.
>only once
what game please
Who cares? People who bought them on Steam can still download them. Consolegays might be SOL, but they're used to that.
>(not!)
Oh you almost got me there haahahaha silly Anon.
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?publisher=Adult%20Swim%20Games
Other than Duck Game, is this worth picking up. Waiting for the spring steam sale in 4 days.
For got pic. Is this any good? The rest look like shovelware
Is it already gone or can I buy it? I like samurai jack, watched all the episodes. Including the new season.
It's still up. If you're paranoid Limited Run released physical copies for PS4 and Switch and the Asian copies of those don't go for too much secondhand.
And while I'm guessing Rick and Morty VR is trash it also got a physical release on PS4 and I think I saw it at a store near me for like $10-20 recently.
>it also got a physical release on a cheap piece of crap that was made to break and become obsolete.
so it's useless basically.
Wait for the steam spring sale in 4 days. Everything gets delisted in May.
You can wait a few days for sure but the official wording is these will be delisted in the next 60 days. There is absolutely no guarantee they won't be removed earlier.
I'm pretty sure pirated copies already exists; if not themoment the news announced a couple days ago
It's good. The team behind it is Soleil which is a bunch of ex-Team Ninja staff. It's the closest thing (read: not the same but you can feel some similarities) to a modern Ninja Gaiden we've gotten. There's a little jank and the cutscene animation is rough but if you like Jack and action games it's worth it. Also the secret ending is confirmed canon by Genndy.
who cares they are all shit but for anybody that cares, you can pirate them on pc so whatever
they're about to try to make their own game launcher aren't they
Oh god. Probably.
At least it means I won't see any more mortal kombat shit popping up on steam.
i don't think any "adult swim" games were that good though.
I wonder why they are removing them?
Tax write-offs, probably.
Duck Game, Battle Chef Brigade, Rain World, and Samurai Jack BTT are all pretty great at the minimum, though two of those aren't being pulled and Samurai Jack has a chance of staying up since it's a known IP.
>I wonder why they are removing them?
WB has been scorching earth on anything that costs money that doesn't make a ton of it because they're in serious debt after the Discovery merger and the Discovery CEO that's in charge is the most short-sighted CEO in entertainment right now. This is no different from not releasing that Coyote vs Acme movie that got rave pre-release reviews to write it off for taxes. They also earlier this week doubled down on live service and mobile games despite Hogwarts Legacy being 2023's best-selling game while being purely single-player without DLC and Suicide Squad being 2024's first major flop.
>WB has been scorching earth on anything that costs money
Does just keeping these games on Steam cost them money?
Who knows? They're also writing off anything they can for tax purposes, maybe writing off the ability to publish these games will give them a few grand.
>Rain World
Rain World isnt AS anymore
Ahem...
Buy Kingsway on GoG btw.
No.
Have you dumb Black folk ever heard of pirating
why are they removing it?
doesn't it generate free money that they made it?
WB has been doing a lot of scortched earth things recently but the official reason is restructuring and probably dont want to have to deal with the legal issues during it.
This will probably generate them a small indirect short term cash injection via tax writeoffs, WB has been hellbent on cutting costs and saving few bucks right now even at expense of making long term money. They do not think the world beyond the next financial quarter is relevant. I wouldn't be surprised if they're trying to pack the company up to sell it ASAP.
I'll never forgive them for axing trick moon
DESYNC is actually good, buy it if it goes on sale
Why don't they just make games with sexy characters in it
Is going bankrupt and shoving your company in the poor house really worth not letting people coom to wonder woman
It is combination of few things.
First of, corporations keep hoping that the "untapped demographic" meme would become true in case of geek media. They REALLY want women and non-white/asian males to buy their products as new core demographics but it just isn't happening no matter how much they are trying to force it. They still refuse to believe that women and brown people aren't going to become primary vidya and comic book consoomers.
Secondly, in recent years corporations have prioritized investment company bucks over sales, which is now fricking them over due to rising interest rates removing free money.
which is strange that they havent' caught on yet that all demographics across the board rather watch some foregein anime characters in a love triangle drama with goofy situations than what they put out
i guess they TRIED doing that with that new homosexual superman cartoon, but that seems to be a failure
Basically if you consolidate assets you tend to not renew contracts for older assets, it lets them sit on the IP for a while then sell them off to the highest bidders.
It's a way to make more money on old content.
I think they would for example sell Samurai Jack and all the assets to the highest bidder, which they can get more if there is no lose ends and there is a demand for it, which they can artificially make by making no more copies available.
Based, I want every single publisher do this shit until the last fricking moron realizes what they bought upon themselves.
What did the morons bring upon themselves and how did they bring it upon themselves?
Yes!
Did you guys hear the reason they cant transfer the pub rights when one of the devs asked WB. Its actually sad how stupid the people in charge of wb are.
so there is now 0% ZERO percent that we will get a new Poker Night game, this confirms it absolutely
I wonder what's really behind this...
Tax writeoff for a little bit of short term money that WB needs right now. Nothing more complex.
I feel like if companies are allowed to cancel projects or remove completed media for tax write-offs, then they should be legally required to release whatever media it is into the public domain.
Cancelling projects for tax writeoffs is a very narrow scenario that only applies in very few cases and the end result is always a loss for the company anyway.
Just how fricked are their taxes?
WB has been canceling shit for a few years at this point for tax writeoffs
they seem to think this strategy works well for them
>Nothing more complex.
bracing for a worse than '08 collapse
when the PTB decide they're done propping up the real estate markets, the rest is going with it
banks are kill too
the psychopathic rats have been busy stockpiling warchests
The same thing that's happening to every corporation worldwide. Line must always go up, but the combination of covid year being unusually good for tech companies plus the economy trending downwards in the following years and investment drying up means that line will probably not go up, so now every company is in a rush to cut costs and increase revenue by firing as many people as they can, cancelling any project that doesn't look like it will be an immediate profit, and refocusing their business on whatever makes them the most money while abandoning other riskier/less profitable ventures.
>Had sweet baby, ghost baby or any other zoe quinn goobergate troony esg shit
>Gets deleted
You get what you fricking deserve
Fist Puncher was released in 2013, anon. Almost all Adult Swim games predate the current year lunacies.
Goobergate itself only was figured out in 2014, we always knew there was journos being paid for reviews etc before then and giving suggestions to change stuff. 2013 was when the tomb raider reboot happened where they toned down her sexiness completely.
>we
frick off moron
>steam will never take your games aw-ACK
threadly reminder that ~~*digital*~~ another word for renting
Nobody's taking away the games from your library, moronic physicalgay
Literally the first post in the thread is a reminder of this
>it makes me sick to think that purchased games will presumably be removed from users' libraries. Our community and our players have 10+ years of discussions, screenshots, gameplay footage, leaderboards, player progress, unlocked characters, Steam achievements, Steam cards, etc. which could all be lost
you either didn't read the post chain or are illiterate
moron post
One of the developers is now giving away their game for free on their website:
https://fire-face.com/games/srbt.html
it's a pretty unremarkable escape room-type puzzle game, played it a few weeks ago
Good to see that some devs are still cool.
Warner won last year and they proceeded to immediately shit themselves wtf.
How horrible (not really)
>ALL Adult Swim games
Such as?
Duck Game is one of the greatest local multiplayer game ever created and it alone makes this bullshit.
>meanwhile FEAR 3 servers are still running
that Flash movie and all that other failed shit really fricked them in the ass, huh.
based Ezra Miller the WB destroyer
It just doesn't stop being funny how Warner Bros doubled down on both Erza's Flash and Suicide Squad brand like they really were going to be the next multibillion dollar things.
It is hard to think of a more genuinely moronic corporation than current WB is.
Harley Quinn is such a popular character it makes sense they'd try to capitalize on her. But I think she only really works as a side character or villain.
trying to sell whole games or movies starring the manic zany clown girl just doesn't work
if rick and morty being delisted is a reason I should be outraged then gaming is not for me anymore
Warner Brothers really just doesn’t give a frick. Why are they like this?
https://www.polygon.com/24093815/warner-bros-adult-swim-games-steam-delisting
> “I don’t know if they’re delisting it or deleting it,” Molinari told Polygon in an email. “I pleaded with the rep to transfer ownership to my company, as I still retain all IP and game rights. I sent him a link to Steam’s transfer page and explained clearly that it takes literally three clicks to transfer ownership to me. He rejected my request.”
Direct transfer of ownership can't be marked as a loss for taxes.
I doubt they could claim the delisted games as tax write offs though since they were already released.
Couldn't they be sued for doing that shit then? Especially if developer has full ownership rights?
Nope, it was in the publisher contract :^3
They can just take their game and re-upload it or whatever if they really believe they have ownership rights. They just don't want too lose the steam page for reviews or whatever.
Next Steam sale is in 5 or so days so you might be able to get some of these should WB not hand them to devs.
Warner loves abusing the system
>Games barely sell anymore, anybody who wants them, already has them
>WB announces they'll be removing them
>Other gaymers suffer from fomo and a ton of them buy it
Just as planned
are they going to remove robot unicorn attack too?
They already have, the original is only on 3rd party sites due to flash being obsolete and the commercial mobile version got delisted because Adult Swim couldn't be bothered to update it to function on newer phones for whatever reasons.
anybody backed them up yet?
I hope they don't remove Duck Game.
The only game published by them that I've played is Volgarr the Viking and I recommend it. It's extremely difficult though.
It is not Adult Swim game anymore so it is safe, multiple Adult Swim games (like Volgarr, Jazzpunk, Death's Gambit and Rain World) have gone self-published indie or switched publisher along the years because in all fairness AS has gone pretty mismanaged during the last five years or so.
you're talking like they're removing them from your library, they're not.
Piracy is evil and doesn't preserve games btw
What is the logic behind removing a game from a digital store anyway? Its not like there are copies going unsold on shelves.
Based on what they've told devs, it seems like WB is trying to purge Adult Swim Games from existence
One of the devs got told they can republish their game either again on Steam or on other platforms but any mention of Adult Swim has to be removed including from the credits.
WB is also refusing to transfer the ownership of the games on Steam to the devs so they'd have to basically re-upload the title thus losing out anyone who wishlisted it, all reviews and being unable to ever update the game for anyone who only owns the original Adult Swim-published release.
Why exactly they're doing things this way is a good question. I certainly can't make any sense of it.
So WB are just trying to destroy themselves
>Make game that sells 25 million copies
>Make game that nobody buys
>Decide that going forward, you will only be making more of the second game
WB is an inspirational company. It shows that no matter how stupid someone is, they can still be a leader of a multibillion dollar company.
remember the "Hanna-Barbera cinematic universe" that was supposed to begin with SCOOB!
lmao, roflcopter.
That is too funny that isn't real
I can't BELIEVE they got rid of Virtual Rick-Ality
Good
>https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/AdultSwimGames
Ehhhh. I'm good, thanks.
Oh im sorry, its still available on my storefront
>no more Duck Game
Frick, my friends and I loved that game
they shut down rooster teeth and then they do this
good job
Rooster Teeth was always a moneypit, that one I'm actually surprised survived as long as it did.
don't affect me
What's the point of buying physical media if everything needs day -1 50GB updates to run?
that's David Zaslav Everyone.
the Bobby Kotick of AT&T, and somehow more tone death.
Publishers are playing with fire here and I'm not just talking vidya publishers. Their services are like modern day currency, everyone will continue to pay/use them up until the point where people loses all trust in the systems and everything comes crashing down in a cascade of broken promises and shitty half measures.
Netflix along with many of these other subscription services have all started shrinking both because nothing can grow forever (even though the coof gave it a boost which fooled investors into thinking so) and people are sick an tired of shittier and shittier services for higher and higher costs. It's the piracy boom of the early 2000s all over again since the new services are turning out to be just as shit as the old ones to the point where risking viruses and searching through multiple different websites are worth more of the hassle than actually paying for shit