Looks like the game can't be bought on Steam Anymore

[Hermano_Nintendo]

So i was taking my usual "bored search" on Steam and decided to search for Atari since i've been thinking on the company lately, and the game has no price nor option to purchase it, just like the Ghostbusters DLC.

 

Could this be the reason for the Free DLC bug? It had an insane sale this christmas just like some Activision games that has been already delisted.

 

The game is still there, in the Atari.com marketplace, but unavaiable in Steam.

 

EDIT: Not avaiable in the Spanish Atari website either.

[Eudemon]

More than likely the paperwork got lost in the transition between the many useless departments and such at Atari. Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if someone at Atari has noticed it was available, it was selling and thus decided to pull it for some inane reason. Realistically though it's more than likely Valve got tired of their unprofessional mediocre ways of doing business and the way they deal with their customers and have binned all their titles for the time being.

 

Just Atari being Atari.

[Hermano_Nintendo]

Well, that could be the reason, but if you go to the Atari website the game has dissappeared from the spanish, italian, deutsch and french marketplaces =/

 

License issues maybe? We're in early 2014 and if i recall correctly the same happened to all Activision's Marvel games.

[Eudemon]

Could be I suppose, maybe they threw it back out on Steam to make a quick buck. After all they published that Ferrari Racing Legends game using their TEST DRIVE license. The mentions of Eden making a Free-to-play racer and mobile game under that license doesn't make sense though unless yet again they liked throwing their money away.

 

It's all done so wrong that it's difficult to work out what's being done right. :lol:

[Hermano_Nintendo]

Sadly, given the situation i think that unlocking the DLCs could be the most right thing to do (DLCs for other games like Burnout Paradise are unpurchasable now) and also that makes me think on the whole license issues thing, because even if they stop selling the game they'll be still earning money from the DLCs.

[Eudemon]

When the auth server is down does the DLC not become free to use in the game? I've seen people posting about this but I'm not completely aware of what's actually going on with it.

[Hermano_Nintendo]

tbh i don't know, i've been using Universal Launcher since August '13 - when i discovered the unnoficial patch via Steam Community - and don't know how exactly works, but if you play offline DLC is still locked, and i remember it because i spent 9 months without internet playing the game full offline, not being able even to connect to the authentication servers.

 

Anyway, UL tells me that the servers are up, so something is really going up here.