Maybe a controversial opinion, but screw them for delisting games. Why would I buy these games when they obviously have no interest in selling them? To me, this is a license to go download the ROMs.
Do <i>not</i> buy Crazy Taxi from Steam. It has broken input (analogue controls are really digital without fan patches), and does not play the original audio.
If you don't remove old good content nobody will buy the new bad content.<p>Sounds cynical and it's certainly a practice which isn't exactly widespread, yet.
For what it's worth, the existing Genesis/Mega Drive titles here generally contain the actual ROM. It's generally the cheapest way to get a legitimate copy of these games for use in an emulator. I realize a lot of folks probably don't care about that, but it's a good option for those that do.
<p><pre><code> But after that, for reasons that Sega does not make explicit, they will be "delisted and unavailable."
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I really don't understand this move. The hard work is putting the games on Steam and making sure they work. Assets, testing, integration. Why take them away?<p>Anyway I'll never use Steam to buy a game anymore anyway, because you're only really buying a license to rent a game.
All of the games on this list comprise the "Buy SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics" and "Dreamcast Collection" bundles. My guess is that part of it is the emulation layer - They use a shared backend and launcher for the Genesis games. Maybe they couldn't come to a license agreement with the emulation developer?<p>The standouts for me are Jet Set Radio and NiGHTS into Dreams. The former is well known for it's soundtrack; Ain't nothing but a funky beat. The latter is unique and doesn't quite work, but there's something compelling anyway about the dreamlike visuals and weird floaty gameplay. Crazy Taxi is one I loved as a kid, but it's a bad port - an "Enhanced Remake" that ruined the game by leaving out it's killer soundtrack and breaking the controls.<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10143/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10143/SEGA_Mega_Drive_...</a>
<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14082/Dreamcast_Collection/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14082/Dreamcast_Collec...</a>
I looked into it a bit and if you want to be ready get this bundle:<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10143/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/10143/SEGA_Mega_Drive_...</a><p>And this one:<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14082/Dreamcast_Collection/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/14082/Dreamcast_Collec...</a><p>These contain every game about to be delisted.<p>Each available for around 35 USD/EUR RRP<p>The Steam Autumn Sale might be the last opportunity to get these on discount.
Not sure about other platforms but at least on the Switch this doesn’t affect the Sega Ages line of games. As far as I can tell, this is specially the line of releases they titled Sega Classics, but the Sega Ages line are typically the best in class individual titles put together by M2.
All four posts in this thread have obviously not read the article in full. Sega does this allegedly because they want to sell some kind of classics in stores. So while they have this sale, they delist the steam games.