• GunValkyrie@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    It doesn’t happen all the time… Games being kept around is the exception not the rule…

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      6 days ago

      Is it? Steam does it all the time. Afaik they only completely remove games (meaning you they get removed from your account), when they break some TOS stuff.

      As for Blizzard themselves (since this article is about Warcraft 1&2), they still offer downloads for old titles. I can just download Warcraft 3 or Diablo 2 right now, even though they’re remastered, and the old versions not for sale anymore.

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        Usually if the author pulls the game you can’t get it anymore if you didn’t already have it before, afaik.

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          6 days ago

          Yes, that’s what I meant. I didn’t mean you could still buy them. Sorry, I probably should have clarified that in my first comment.

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          5 days ago

          Yes, but if you already had it in your account you can still download it, which is the same thing GOG is doing, so not sure what all the fuzz is about.