Spec Ops: The Line delisted from Steam, buy while you can

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The steam store page, for those curious if they have it or not: Spec Ops: The Line

I bet you're right. Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Alice in Chains, etc. There's a surprising amount of licensed music in there.

absolutely i think you right. they removed the trailer from the steam store too, which had music in it. guess thats it

Its one of the finest third person shooter with thrilling story, Companies dont make third person shooters like specs ops, max payne, splinter cell.

Yes, the corporate law is called profit maximization by inducing FOMO. I remember times when you could get the game for pennies on the dollar or for free and now official retailers try to dump their keys for 15 bucks+.

I remember doing FUBAR for the 100% and I had an absolute nightmare on the heli scene where you have to run from it. I had to try that so many times I stopped counting lol. But eventually, I did it and the rest of the game was fairly challenging, but way more possible than that particular scene for some reason.

did they not give a heads up? that tweet's from today...

And BIG W for piracy (there always copy on high seas of internet)

No, when a license expire it just means they can no longer sell the game in any store officially (in this example the dev/publisher selling the game on Steam, GoG etc.).
If you've bought the game, it's yours to keep (for how long a digital license can get you that is). Nothing changes with the game, so no, the music will not be gone.

I agree with you to some extent. The "one thing" would have worked way better if the game was absolutely amazing from the start, but it's painfully generic and lackluster when it's trying to be an ordinary military shooter. That undercuts a lot of what it's trying to do later on imo.

That said, it does deserve praise for even trying to execute on this concept. Doubt we'll ever see a big publisher put money behind stuff like this ever again.

I believe that was the point - make it generic so it doesn't make the war to be this "super men having fun times", then it smashes you over the head with "ohh, you really thought war is 'super men having fun times', do all those dead people make you feel like a hero", but at least in my case they went a bit too far with whole "only losers play this game, winners would just quit" meta-message.

overhyped af, generic shooter

The story, if that's what you mean by "one thing" is what the game is know for. So its kind of weird to call it overhyped. The story was and still is brilliant. The gameplay was and is generic. I don't recall the game being called masterpiece or anything for its core gameplay, but it gained its popularity due to the shocking nature of the story. Not liking it is one thing, saying its overhyped is a bit out of place.

Personally I disliked the gameplay itself. It was cumbersome and some mechanics were outright annoying. Yet due to the story I have finished the game several times.

I'm glad others realize how overhyped this game was. It was an utterly bland shooter with one gimmick - they created an ultra-violent war game that forced us to always resort to the most violent playstyle and then continually wagged their collective finger and chastised us for playing violent video games. The whole gimmick was to try and make us feel like bad people for shooting a bunch of innocent pixels while they raked in mountains of cash for making the thing in the first place. It was a tolerable enough game to ignore the smug preaching and finish but nowhere near the top of my list.

If you bought before delisting, you can still downland and play; if not: find game on "high seas"

https://www.gamersgate.com/de/product/spec-ops-the-line-mac/
plus trading and grey market