So a good way for Steam to earn more money is to re-release games under new listings. Then collectors have to get the new one too. And also people who are confused and accidentally end up buying two copies of the same game.
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You could say that, but there is really no other way to go about it.
I would assume the game was removed due to the agreement between developer and publisher ending. Steam's normal procedure is to make it still available to those who have purchased and remove it from the store. They now have a new publisher who wants to sell it and get their cut, they can't use the old version as it has the old publishers name and logo and what not, so they had to create a new version and that's what we have here.
There could be some minor differences or bug fixes in the newer one, but I can't confirm any of that.
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I thought the publisher usually just switched without the game being removed. Like all of the previous THQ games don't have new entries even with the publisher change.
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That's slightly different as the games were never at a point where they couldn't be sold, they just went straight from the one publisher to the other.
I tried to find another incident where this has happened, but I couldn't recall any games. The closest would be GTA Vice City being removed due to the licensing of a song ending and then coming back with a new version without that song.
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I've owned this for years and there's no way I'll be re-buying it from another publisher.
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Had the old version for a long time, and the new version showed up in my library today. Old version's name changed to "UFO: Afterlight - Old Version".
Here's what I find interesting: The sizes are dramatically different.
Old version: 3807 MB
New version: 2737 MB
Has it lost 1GB of content, or is the content just more efficiently stored?
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Yeah, I ignorantly activated the new one side-by-side with the old in the recent Bohemia Interactive bundle. If you check the forums, BI is at least aware of the oddity and has mentioned they're looking into it. What that actually means -- who knows. I'd link, but i'm on mobile at the moment and so doing so isn't all that easy right now.
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Just figured I would throw this out there as I just discovered it. Someone on another forum made a post about how UFO: Afterlight had been added to Steam again as it was previously removed.
I took a look into it and this is correct, but it's uses a separate listing from the old version.
New UFO: Afterlight
Old UFO: Afterlight
The main difference appears to be a new publisher, used to be 1C and now it's Bohemia. This means that old keys from the Indie Gala will continue to activate the old one while any new keys will be the newer version.
Not that I truly care, but how do 'Steam Game Collectors' view this?
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