Spec Ops: The Line

[gbasden]

It's a really great game. That's unfortunate.

[Blackhawk]

I really wish games would be more conservative with licensed music - in this case it was likely either Hendrix, Alice in Chains, or both. After the profits are done rolling in, most companies don't want to keep paying. This won't be the first game to disappear because of it. Alpha Protocol, for instance.

Rockstar has gone back and edited games in the past to remove specific songs, but most won't bother with the expense. Even then, I'd be worried about the GTA titles long-term availability as well. Someday it just won't be worth their money to keep it available.

GOG is selling Spec Ops: The Line for so if you don't own it on PC and you'd like to, GOG is your best bet right now. The discount is running until 6th February, according to the store page.

Also removed.

[AWS260]

I really liked this reflection on Spec Ops in 2024.

Beyond the game’s plot points, I’d argue the thing it does as a whole is a regular feature of daily life now. Today, I’m far more aware of the politics of my media consumption than I was in 2012. Interrogating the morals and implications of things I like is a sometimes healthy/sometimes not undertaking of anything I read, watch, play, listen to, or buy. We live in the world of milkshake duck and “that thing you like is bad, actually,” a world of JK Rowling and problematic faves. In a way, the whole world feels like Spec Ops’s mirror turn now; it can get in line behind thinkpieces, randos on social media, and my own personal growth. Today, the game is both more relevant than ever, and drowned out by everything else that’s asking me its same questions.

[Daehawk]

The grammar is bad in that. It looks like AI wrote it.

[Punisher]

Safe to assume that if you already bought it you can still install it?
I think I have it on Steam.

[Max Peck]

Safe to assume that if you already bought it you can still install it?
I think I have it on Steam.

It's still present in my library, so you should be able to install it if you bought it. As far as I know, that is normally the case when something is delisted. I've never heard of a case were delisted games were yoinked from anyone's library after purchase, but there might be some unusual circumstances where that happens, I suppose.

[Blackhawk]

Safe to assume that if you already bought it you can still install it?
I think I have it on Steam.

It's still present in my library, so you should be able to install it if you bought it. As far as I know, that is normally the case when something is delisted. I've never heard of a case were delisted games were yoinked from anyone's library after purchase, but there might be some unusual circumstances where that happens, I suppose.

There have been a couple of instances, but they were under extreme circumstances. One was a thing where the developer's site was actually in the game, but the developer went out of business and the site was taken over by someone else, and Valve apparently didn't want that sort of risk (what if a kid played the game and the site had become a porn site?) There was also some game that required third party authentication to launch, but the servers went bye-bye, and the game was erased from existence.

In every other case (and there have been a lot of them), people who already own a game can continue to download it/play it in perpetuity. I've had quite a few of those myself.