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"You might be able to get it back online, but that’s not always the case"
Modern video game industry yadda yadda glorious digital future blah blah.
"A spokesperson for 2K revealed in a statement that Spec Ops: The Line had been removed 'as several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring,' which makes sense since the game uses a lot of licensed music, including tracks from Jimi Hendrix."
"which makes sense"
It actually makes no goddamn sense to me at all why video games can't get better licenses for music or whatever, such that said video games aren't constantly getting pulled from stores when these licenses inevitably expire. We don't typically hear about movies getting deleted from existence simply because of basic shit like soundtrack licensing issues, after all, so why does it happen so fucking often with video games?
Well, I mean, it makes no goddamn sense if you ignore the usual reasons like greed-induced lack of interest on the part of the games' publishers in paying more for better license agreements, anyway. Regardless, it's just frustrating that so many video games are disappearing, potentially forever, for such supremely asinine reasons.
Here's an idea, if putting licensed shit in your video game is going to put your video game at risk of getting booted off the Internet a few years later... maybe don't fucking put licensed shit in your video game.
Modern video game industry yadda yadda glorious digital future blah blah.
"A spokesperson for 2K revealed in a statement that Spec Ops: The Line had been removed 'as several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring,' which makes sense since the game uses a lot of licensed music, including tracks from Jimi Hendrix."
"which makes sense"
It actually makes no goddamn sense to me at all why video games can't get better licenses for music or whatever, such that said video games aren't constantly getting pulled from stores when these licenses inevitably expire. We don't typically hear about movies getting deleted from existence simply because of basic shit like soundtrack licensing issues, after all, so why does it happen so fucking often with video games?
Well, I mean, it makes no goddamn sense if you ignore the usual reasons like greed-induced lack of interest on the part of the games' publishers in paying more for better license agreements, anyway. Regardless, it's just frustrating that so many video games are disappearing, potentially forever, for such supremely asinine reasons.
Here's an idea, if putting licensed shit in your video game is going to put your video game at risk of getting booted off the Internet a few years later... maybe don't fucking put licensed shit in your video game.
