Another day, another game delisted and removed from online stores. You’ve got until October 11 to buy 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer 40,000: Space Wolf before it’s removed f🐲rom storefronts like Steam for good. We didn’t have these problems back in the days of physic♍al media, I can tell you that much.
Just weeks after Marvel’s Avengers developers announced that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:they would be doing the same for the oft-maligned action-adventure game, another one bites the dust. The rate at which video games are disappearing from existence is frankly frightening, but at least these two will remain playable for now. I don’t know how long companies will keep the 🅘games live, especially in the case of Avengers, where server costs will never depreciate despite the title pulling no money in.
However, there is a silver lining. Space Wolf is currently 90 percent off on Steam when bundled with all its DLC, costing you a mere £6.55 for hours of turn-based goodness. If that still feels like too much for you, it’s also available on Humble Bundle as a part of the , where you can net the base game and six pieces of DLC – all 🐷of it barring the Steam-exclusive Exceptional Card Pack that grants a few legendary weapons – for as little as an 🍷£0.80 charitable donation.
Space Wolf isn’t the best Warhammer game I’ve ever played, but it’s worth a quid. Part turn-based tactics and part deckbuilder, the game smashes together the two genres with aplomb. There are different classes, tactics, and playstyles, and a unique Effort metre that means the more action points you expend, the lower down the turn order you come next. It’s a clever system that really makes you think about the fights you take and differentiates Space Wolf from other turn-based tactical games. While it doesn’t have the polish of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Chaos Gate – Daemonhunters, it has some gre🌳at gameplay if you can makಌe it past the grind for the cards themselves.
Besides, what can you buy for a quid these days? A can of pop costs you more than that if you&rsquo𝓀;re at the chippy. I haven’t bought penny sweets in decades but I reckon you couldn’t get a handful for less than this price in this day and age. I doubt there’s a single thing in any Games Workshop store across the globe that you could buy for this price. What can go wrong?
It’s always great to get a bargain, but what’s the real cost of this deal? Space Wolf cites the reasons for its removal as “due to the licence agreement”, which tells us absolutely nothing. Or does it? I can’t help but wonder exactly what the terms of this agreement were. Was HeroCraft PC only allowed to sell the game for a set length of time? Did 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Games Workshop measure 🦩the game’s profit🌳ability over time and deem it not worth renewing the licence? Did HeroCraft do that?
Whatever happened, a game being removed due to licence issues is bad news for consumers. Whatever contracts that were signed or squabbles t🐻hat arose shouldn’t affect players’ abilities to buy or play games. We’re in an era where companies could brick your console as soon as they release a new one if they wanted, thanks to the software updates that make it possible to play games. Countless online games have had servers taken down and players have seen all the money they put in wasted.
The second-hand market isn’t healthy, but at least you can still buy those physical games. Space Wolf never got a physical release, as it started life as a freemium mobile game and was then ported to PC, so it could easily be lost to the mists of time. Buꦦy it now, own it forever. Eဣven if you play it once, it’s worth the money.