Silly me removed about 70 games from Steam library years ago. Today I have restored most of them via Stem support page and with purchases history.

  • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    The bigger issue to me are games that were removed from steam and I can no longer get.

    Which is why I don’t bother buying on steam anymore. If I’m buying, its DRM-free only.

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      I have multiple delisted games in my library that I can still download and play anytime I want. They just don’t have a store page anymore.

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        2 months ago

        Nearly 900 games have been delisted.

        There’s also Fable 3, which you can’t buy anymore because it used Games for Windows, which resulted in no more CD keys.

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          Right, but Steam still let’s people who own delisted games download and play them forever. (Well, assuming they’re not live service games with no servers, but that’s not a Valve problem.)

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          I believe you can still activate keys for delisted games. Meaning if you find a shop that sells them, you might be lucky. I never did that, just read reports of this. So can’t actually verify if this is true. Provided there is no additional third party launcher or activation that hinders this.

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        2 months ago

        Honestly don’t remember the names, its been… Quite a while. I’ll have to open and check.

        Iirc it was also some I stored as gifts that became unknown or something, and I wasn’t able to send them.

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        2 months ago

        One example are most telltale games which still are still playable but not purchaseable (poker night at the inventory being the most recognizable for me since the associated tf2 items are also now that much harder to obtain)