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This is pretty horrible. I remember always thinking to myself "what if X game isn't there in a year?". Well, I guess it's true!
It may be an over-reaction, because the failed games tend to be the shitty ones, but I'm sure there are some under-appreciated gems that will get reamed by this policy in the future. My conspiracy theory is MS wants to make this public, so you'll rush out and buy all those old "on the fence games" now, "before it's too late".
Yes, some games just become delisted.
Also, this is not related to the Sierra acquisition.
The envelope looks official.
I agree w/ Magnalon
As a former employee of Sierra Online (who published lost cities) I can tell you that looks pretty official to me and what they said was correct. Microsoft de-lists the poor performers, so that's what happened to it. If you downloaded it previously you should be able to re-download it via your download history. If you never downloaded it, you can have someone refer it to you and purchase it that way. Basically delisting it just takes it off the list, it doesn't remove the game from the servers or anything and you can still buy it via referral.
Interesting... I was kind of wondering when/if stuff was gonna start being delisted. Thanks for posting.
The problem is that I only can identify two games that aren't on the service anymore: Lost Cities and Yaris. I figured that Yaris was just taken off because of some contract thing with Toyota, but now I wonder. Also, MS said, through Marc Whitten I think, that there would be notice before the removal. Must've missed that.
The other question: how does stuff like Root Beer Tapper and Crystal Quest stay on the service with metacritic scores lower than Lost Cities (at least barely lower)? Was conversion rate that bad? Shrek -n- Roll also gets to stay.