If by “grab”, you mean “pirate”. Don’t reward them for taking games away.
They mean grab by now buying it and you will keep it on Steam. But it will be unavailable for users after late December to buy it.
That’s just a longer way of saying “reward them for taking games away while you can”…
Echo the Dolphin being purged is worth the loss of the other 59.
I hope this doesn’t affect my folders full of every Sega game rom ever.
OH no they don’t want my money? Now’s not the time, I won’t bother then
they are probably cooking something, maybe their own platform? who knows
I wonder if it’s a licensing thing. I know a few of these games had heavy use of licensed music, like Jet Set Radio and Crazy Taxy. At least, the original versions did, I’m not sure if that’s the case for the Steam ports.
Probably remasters or remakes. They don’t want to compete with themselves.
No ‘probably’ about it. Can’t speak to all of the titles being removed, but they dropped this trailer almost a year ago.
Exactly, they announced earlier this year that they were working on reviving a bunch of licences, including Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Shinobi, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, and hinting at a longer list. We don’t know yet eactly how many titles that includes, and which of them will get remakes, remasters, or brand new games, but it was hinting brand new. Early dev footage was leaked at some point for Crazy Taxi and Shinobi.
They already did this with the classic Sonic games (Sonic Origins) and removed them from any new Steam copies of the Genesis/Mega Drive Classics collection. I doubt they’re working on all the games in their library, but it may be enough of them that they just decided to pull the whole collection rather than leave it so gutted out. Sucks, but yeah, that’s the way it goes. That said, Shining Force remaster please? That would be awesome.
