Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 1 wk. ago

Beyond Good and Evil has been delisted on Steam

store.steampowered.com Beyond Good and Evil™ on Steam

Play as Jade, a young investigative reporter, and expose a terrible government conspiracy. It is up to you and your loyal pig friend Pey'j to save your planet and its inhabitants.

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You can ignore all games from publishers on Steam. I'd recommend doing this with any publisher with anti-consumer practices.
- Best thing is: I heard they see the number on their publisher dashboard next to the followers. Don't know if it's true, but I like the idea.
  
  Fuck Ubisoft.
- Holy shit, I didn't know you could do this. If there was a way to block all F2P games too, my store would be so much cleaner.
  
  You can block tags, its in your account settings. I have the tag "free to play" blocked, and it seems to work well.
  
  https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/
  
  I would block games with microtransactions, being free to play, without microtransactions, is itself a positive.
- Wow thanks!
For anyone curious/looking to keep a copy just in case, GOG still has it listed and on sale for $3 US.

If you've never played it before, go. Now. Buy it on sale, hunt down an old physical copy, pirate it, just play it. There is a reason BG&E is so well loved, even today. It's an absolute blast of a time.

ETA: Instead of just mentioning it, here's the link.
- Can you give me some quick teaser spoilers or something to reignite my interest? I've tried to start this game 3 times and every time i fall off cuz it feels like a clunky Dreamworks movie game
  
  photo journualist against dictatorship, interplanetary adventure, fun and heartwarming characters.
  
  Share with the kids and teens in your life
  
  It is "for" a very specific subset of gamers. If you have played and didn't enjoy it, you are just not in that subset. For those of us that enjoy it, it was immediate and throughout. Also if you didn't play it when it was new, it will of course feel like an old game now, as it is. There are always microadvancements in video games that we barely even perceive as they incrementally build on each other. But you go back a whole generation or more and feel ten plus increments at once, it's just gonna be pervasively uncomfortable.
- Sold. Just picked it up for €1.49. Thanks for the tip and the link.
- I have the old physical copy. The DRM on it is awful, get the GOG copy.
Obligatory https://stopkillinggames.com/.
Yeah this sucks but:

if you buy it you're giving Ubisoft money

you should emulate the gamecube version if you don't want to set it up

if you want to tinker pirate the gog release

Giving Ubisoft money is not a good reason just to have the game and playtime tracked on your Steam account.
When a Ubisoft game gets delisted:
- Ubisoft or not, it still adds to the game preservation issue
It's been delisted because a remaster is happening. It was leaked recently. So if you don't get playing it now then you still can in future.
- No, a remaster is not the same. They can be hit or miss. Delisting a game is just another way of erasing history.
  
  Steam version was inferior to GOG. It was definitely missing the multi core CPU fix and maybe even still had TAGES protection (not sure about that one).
  
  I agree remasters are hit or miss.
  
  Take Diablo 2 for example, which is epic level of remaster. The game is virtually identical to the original. It's just working better on modern hardware and can be played in high resolution with shinier graphics. But you can still turn it to (almost) 1:1 copy of original with single keypress. I'm all for this.
  
  And now take Warcraft 3 remaster from the "same Blizzard"... This is an example of how things should NOT be done.
  
  Given both these coming from the same company, there's no telling in how any remaster will turn out in the end. Which is... not very reassuring?
  
  Remasters can be good, but publishers should always keep the original available. If I really like a remaster, I may be interested in trying the original as well. There's no downside to listing the old game unless the new one sucks enough to make the old, cheaper version more attractive.
  
  Do a good job and I may buy both. Put a notice on the old one to point users at the new one, and consider offering a bundle of old and new so users can compare.
- Except it will be infected with a Ubisoft launcher and Denuvo malware and I do not pay for anything with Denuvo filth in it.
  
  Good for you. Does not change that the game will still be playable in some form either for those who already own it or those who want to play it in future. But this is Lemmy so your crusade of course gets upvoted when you've provided fuck all to the conversation.
- So if you don’t get playing it now then you still can in future.
  
  Only when online and DRM servers are up
- Yeah, cause remasters always go well coughGTAdefinitive ahemWarcraft3cough.
  
  Even then, what motive is there to prevent people from getting the original if they want to? Well, other than being able to charge $20-$40 for a 20 year old game.

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