Warner Bros. is now erasing games as it plans to delist Adult Swim-published titles

So this is just a thing now? Removing media from the world?

They found out it works so now it's gonna become a trend.

Time, and time again, they prove how piracy is literally THE only option when it comes to preserving media.

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Products no longer available to buy should fall into public domain.

WB are an absolute cancer. Suicide Squad fails spectacularly due to being a multiplayer live service game that nobody asked for, and their immediate response is to go all in on multiplayer live service games.

Because heaven forbid the executives could be fucking wrong.

They don't realize by doing stuff like this they are pushing people back to piracy.

I've never encountered a better argument for piracy and drm-free content than abandonware

... why? They're complete products that just sit there and make money for almost no effort

Cool, then they won't have any problems with everybody downloading them for free.

If they want to cry about lost revenue, then they can turn around and sue themselves for making the games unavailable

Piracy has been legitimized by corporate lies about the free market.

I honestly don't understand the math of not releasing movies and un-releasing games. People say tax purposes but I'd think streaming is essentially pure profit, hard to imagine not being able to make 20% of your money back or whatever credit you get for taxes.

This practice feels like something that should be illegal. Effectively it is destroying art that hundreds or thousands of people worked hard to make, for the sake of fiddling the books of the owning company that commissioned it.

If you "write it off" to be worth zero, it should either become freely available abandonware, or can be claimed as the intellectual property of those that worked on it. Otherwise it is evident that there is some value to be had and therefore tax fraud to claim it has none.

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Since everything is going digital, it seems the only way to actually control the things you want is to pirate them.

Luckily Steam will keep Duck Game in my library, but I dread the moment Valve leadership changes. Steam has existed for 20 years, and I naively hope I'll still be able to play my games in 40 years on my Steck Deck.

Yet another reason piracy is right and just

I'm waiting for the day when actors and game devs refuse to work on things owned by WB because the risk of wasting their time and efforts is too damn high.

it makes sense that failing business would want to remove digital assets hosted somewhere else that can't possibly lose them money

FUUUUUUCK DAVID ZASLAV!

He is not only hiding things people enjoy watching and playing, he is hiding history.

Imagine how much less we would know about Elizabethan England if all of Shakespeare's plays were lost to all time.

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My hatred of WB goes back to when the purposely released a completely broken Arkham Knight game on PC. It has only grown more recently, I really wanted to watch that Acme vs Coyote movie. I hope to see a leak one day maybe.

I kind of get retiring video IPs to save on residual payments, but games which are pay per download should always be revenue neutral at best. This just reeks of shitty culture war rebranding.

They Want To Erase History.

They are Burning The Books.

...and of course Duck Game never got released on GoG

Fuck this greedy bullshit

Disney should sue WB for their Thanos imitation

Finally someone is standing up to the woke mob. Thank you, WB conglomerate! You are the true underdog.

Tax codes and capitalism at it finest. Companies gonna company

As if I'd need any additional reason to not buy Warner Bros games. So stupid of them.

Not sure whether they will remove it entirely or just delist it. I love Steam and the convenience of it and the majority of my games are on Steam. But this is why we should be able to own our games. You never know when your favorite game decides to do something like this.

Drink up me hearties yo ho

Lol good luck erasing the thousands of torrents of these games, piracy makes deleting something impossible, but im sure theyll try!

WB: "we hate money"

When something gets removed from steam and it's in your steam library but not installed, is it gone forever?

I loved adult swim flash games in the 2000s would have definitely cared about this a lot more if flash wasn't already dead and they weren't preserved on internet archive and flashpoint

didn't think it was possible to be worse than aol time warner but zazlav did it.

That's all, folks!

Why do they do this? It doesn't make sense. They don't have to pay to keep it listed.

Even if WB pursues Erasure, we will Always have these games in our heart.

They already have. Can you install Super Monsters Ate My Condo? Released 10 years ago, great android game, gone now.

Not hemp tycoon!

Okay I (don't, actually but whatevs) understand how you can do some tax-swindle capitalist-bs with unrealised stuff but how are they making money from "retiring" games (and is it the same scam as with the animated shows that you can only watch now if you sail the high seas?)?

archive the shit out of all the games

Funny. I just made the decision to not not buy any games brand-new published by Warner Bros. yesterday. Today I see this.

Why??

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If you're buying games these days, STOP buying non physical media