My personal list, without any specific order:

1.Mafia 1
2.Outrun 2006: Coast2Coast
3.Prey

What about you?

9 years ago

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mafia 1 ,dragon age 2,prey why would you remove a game from steam? tell me why,
you ran out of cd keys? you what?
prey goes for 80 keys
mafia 1 for 200 keys
fable 3 i cant even find one
and DA 2 for 100$

9 years ago
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You can easily get prey for 4 keys.

9 years ago
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where? 3 guys asked for 80 tf2 keys for a cd key

9 years ago
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Games are usually removed due to licenses expiring.

9 years ago
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But in the case of Prey it was actually removed because they ran out of keys. They lost the ability to generate new keys, so they removed the game.

9 years ago
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How can that happen? How can you not be able to generate new keys?

9 years ago
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They lost the software. There was some turbulence with the company, important things were lost, and Prey was taken down. Without an ability to generate new keys (they need to make sure that each new key is unique and has not already been used), the game can't be sold anymore.

9 years ago
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But there is no other way? Can't they write the software again?
I have a hard time accepting when a situation has no solution. I'm a problem solver. :/

9 years ago
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How will they know which keys are used and which ones are not? Creating a key generator should not be a huge issue, creating one that does not generate already used keys though, that's an entirely different issue.

9 years ago
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May be an over-simplification and likely speed limited but, accounts with the game that test the generated keys prior to shipping to weed out duplicated (i.e. already sold way back when).

shrug

9 years ago
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If you try to activate enough keys that are already taken in a short period of time Steam will flag your account, and you won't be able to activate any keys for a while (don't know exactly how long, but it's more than an hour).
Also, if you already have the game on your account it won't tell you if the key has been used or not. Steam will already tell you that the product exists in your account, and ask you if you want to install it.

Also, even if you find a way to tell which keys are activated on steam, it won't tell you if they are sold keys that have not been used yet.

9 years ago
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ah true, well....I would think there is some solution, but guess not enough profit to be made that someone will put manpower towards it.

9 years ago
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What about creating a new key-gen that uses a different amount of digits? That way there's no way to accidentally create duplicates.

9 years ago
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The game still needs to be able to accept the keys, and I suspect that it only accepts keys following a certain pattern, so using keys with a different length should not be doable.

9 years ago
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What about a re-release with the new keygen implemented?

9 years ago
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I never knew this. Well, they've mentioned if they sell enough copies of the 3D Realms Anthology - Steam Edition they'll buy back the rights to it and bring it back to Steam. :)

9 years ago
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Onimusha 3, Cryostasis and a lot of other games, that are regions restricted, like Bulletstorm or games that use GfWL >:(

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I'm not sure if anyone already posted it, but some games might be avalible to purhcase via sub pages. Here is link to instruciton http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/f1SE8/removed-games-that-can-be-purchased-in-steam-sub-page

9 years ago
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Scratches: Director's Cut :с

9 years ago
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http://www.tremorgames.com/index.php?action=shop&search_category=0&searchterm=scratches Tremor games is widely known, and NO I won't provide referral links, but if you are on Tremor, you can get 4-500 coins simply by playing their achievement games.

9 years ago
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Thanks for your advice! I didn't know about this site.

9 years ago
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But unfortunately... "Sorry Achievements Games are not available in your region."

9 years ago
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Cryostasis. :(

9 years ago
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Outrun 2006: Coast2Coast and Wanted: Weapons of Fate

9 years ago
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Mafia 1 and 2 and Fuel.

9 years ago
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Add another vote to the first Mafia.

9 years ago
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All of them :D

9 years ago
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Cryostasis, Terminator Salvation and Soldier of Fortune 3.

9 years ago
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Onimusha 3 on Steam, but I have it on PS2...
I miss Severance Blade of Darkness on GOG... :(

9 years ago
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I didn't realize Blade of Darkness has been removed from GOG! :O

9 years ago
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Yeah some month ago, sadly... :(

9 years ago
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Did they announce its removal? GOG is usually good about giving a last chance to purchase before they pull it. Unlike Steam. :(

9 years ago
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I don't know...

9 years ago
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Motor Rock, Rock in Roll Racing Clone.

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Terminator, iron man, mafia 1, wolfenstein 09, blur, godfather and definitely.. james bond serie.

9 years ago
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I hope Mafia will be back when 3 comes out, in some complete pack or something

9 years ago
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Mafia 1 and SAW

9 years ago
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James Bond series, Cryostasis, and Blur. Especially Blur.

9 years ago
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Mafia 1, Prey, Riddick for me, in this exact order.

9 years ago
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Mafia, Dragon Age 2, Prey, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena

9 years ago
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Mafia 1

9 years ago
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Mafia 1, really sad that you can't get it anymore, I had some really nice memories with that game when I was at my cousin :D Can't wait for Mafia 3, I really hope that the story will be as good as Mafia 2

9 years ago
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Stubbs the Zombie

9 years ago
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Blur, not bothered that much about anything else.

You can easily get a copy of Prey these days.

9 years ago
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Too many to list. :(
Some of the ones I really wish I could get:

  1. History Channel games (especially Civil War)
  2. MLB 2K games (to this day MLB 2K10 is my most played game in Steam)
  3. 007 series
  4. Mafia 1 and the dlc for 2
  5. Wolfenstein 2009
  6. The Godfather games
  7. Dragon Age II
  8. Neverwinter Nights
  9. Advanced Warfare games
  10. Risk games
  11. Outrun

Well looks like I'm starting to list them so I need to cut myself off. :)

9 years ago
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The DLC for Mafia II is not THAT expensive on the black/grey market, if you dare to risk them.

9 years ago
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The sad thing is I was trying to buy them during the last sale a few weeks back. $5.14 for all the dlc. My PayPal kept getting declined. It was the first time that had ever happened and I couldn't figure it out. After contacting both the site's and PayPal's support I was informed it was because I hadn't updated my card's expiration date in my PayPal account (I had just received my new card). So, it makes sense and I'm happy my account was secured, but we got it all sorted out 2 days after the game and dlc had been pulled. :(

I don't really know anything about the black/grey markets.

9 years ago
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GTA 2 only :}
(bought DiRT 2 on eBay)

9 years ago
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Dragon Age 2. Have it elsewhere, but it would have been nice to eventually own it on Steam.

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Closed 8 years ago by TatsuyaHiro.