Castle of Illusion HD being delisted any day, buy it now or never

Thanks. I'm in then. It was not on my whishlist but it looks good, I might as well put it in my Library for later. lol Nail'd is on my wishlist as well so I guess I better do it then.

ha. And I just finished buying the $20 Lev over at Humble. Guess tonight is the night for spending money.

Thanks.

ok thanks for the answer, Delta

thanks.. for your reply :)

You forgot about traders and dispenser.tf as well as a few other places. Then you have peeps who are waiting for the price to go up more before attempting to sell it.

For a removed game, the market is flooded. Only a small subset of peeps collect removed games and very few peeps in general know about games being removed from Steam in general. Those who generally collect removed games also happen to be traders so it is very common for them to stock a few copies of at risk games as well as buying one for themselves. Thus, the only peeps who would be interested would be new collectors who got into removed games or those who forgot to get a copy in time.

This is generally fine since few peeps want them and few peeps have spare copies which keeps the prices high. However, when a company draws attention to themselves by having a steep discount like Narnia did, they invite others who see the high prices of removed games to buy a few copies themselves since they think they can make a huge profit as well. The problem is that they know very little about removed collectors to begin with, and don't realize that it would take ages for the price to go up in a situation like this. This is why those copies are still so cheap. Hell the game is still cheaper than its original base price of 20$ and is only slighty more than the 2$ sale price it was when it got pulled in May 2015.

Buying games in the hope of making a quick buck with removed collectors will not work since they are generally one step ahead. The only time a price can spike in a short amount of time is when there is little to no notice of a game being removed and it wasn't bundled or have retail copies floating around. You can still find 3rd party retailers selling steam keys for removed games which keeps the prices for these titles low.

Tl;dr: Don't expect making a profit from removed games unless you are willing to wait years.

I don't really buy from other sites since they usually require credit cards, Paypal and stuff :/ (And I don't have that)

I got it! :D

Thanks for this post.
I was not sure if I wanted to spend $2 on it but getting it for cards money was a no-brainer.

Yea that's true today, I double checked because I was sure I got it a couple of months ago with Ducktales, and it is in My Apps, but if you wanted to get it now you'll get the region restricted notice, that's a shame :/ For some reason the region restriction didn't stop me back then so I guess I just got lucky. In Ireland for what it's worth.

I think it's likely at some point. Capcom doesn't own the Duck Tales IP after all.