2K Video games has confirmed that Spec Ops: The Line, the cult basic shooter from 2010, is being faraway from sale throughout digital storefronts. Alarms started ringing yesterday when the sport vanished from Steam.
In an announcement given to IGN, 2K stated that “Spec Ops: The Line will now not be accessible on on-line storefronts, as a number of partnership licenses associated to the sport are expiring.”
They confirmed that anybody who already owns the sport can nonetheless obtain it and play it from their chosen platforms. Nonetheless, it’s an actual disgrace that 2K didn’t inform anybody of this occurring beforehand as I’m positive there would have been at the very least a number of individuals who would have grabbed it earlier than it vanished.
Precisely what partnership licenses expired is unknown. Spec Ops: The Line did use a number of licensed tracks together with Jimi Hendrix’s superior model of Star Spangled Banner. Music has certainly been the reason for video games being delisted earlier than. It is also weapons themselves within the sport as their likenesses and names additionally need to be licensed from the producers.
Whereas it’s doable that 2K might signal new licensing offers to carry Spec Ops again into digital markets, I doubt they are going to try this. Licensing prices cash and I don’t think about Spec Ops has sufficient enchantment to make it value the associated fee in 2K’s eyes.
Spec Ops: The Line launched in 2010 for the Xbox 360 and PS3 to a Metacritic rating within the mid to excessive 70s. It was deemed a business failure by Take-Two however it did develop a cult following as a result of its compelling and morally complicated storyline. Primarily based closely on Coronary heart of Darkness, the sport examined what occurred to troopers as they went by way of chaotic and continuously disturbing eventualities, together with the killing of innocents. Though many individuals argued that the gameplay and the storytelling didn’t fairly come collectively, it’s nonetheless usually hailed as top-of-the-line narratives in video video games, and its disappearance is a tragic day for the medium.
