Original Crysis suddenly vanishes on Steam in another blow to preservation
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But I keep being told the trillionaire corporation steam is 100% ethical and good guys and that the billionaire Gabe is OUR billionaire and loves us!!
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But I keep being told the trillionaire corporation steam is 100% ethical and good guys and that the billionaire Gabe is OUR billionaire and loves us!!
How is this gabes fault? Should gabe ban people from removing their own games from the store?
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How is this gabes fault? Should gabe ban people from removing their own games from the store?
โDonโt talk bad about MY billionaire!
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โDonโt talk bad about MY billionaire!
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I really donโt think he was getting at that, it just seems like misdirected blame. Itโs like if Nike stopped selling their shoes on Amazon and you went โFuck you Jeff Bezos!โ.
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But I keep being told the trillionaire corporation steam is 100% ethical and good guys and that the billionaire Gabe is OUR billionaire and loves us!!
Itโs unlikely Valve forced the game off the page. Even so, the supposed issue has always been if Steam were to pull games from you that are already in your library (which AFAIK they havenโt) or a future hypothetical where Steam closes down and if people would be able to offline save their libraries.
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Itโs unlikely Valve forced the game off the page. Even so, the supposed issue has always been if Steam were to pull games from you that are already in your library (which AFAIK they havenโt) or a future hypothetical where Steam closes down and if people would be able to offline save their libraries.
If this had happened on ps5 youโd all be blaming Sony
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If this had happened on ps5 youโd all be blaming Sony
The original version of Crysis is available right now on GOG and the EA store. PC isnโt a single vendor ecosystem where the only store also owns the hardware to play it.
We also donโt know who decided to pull it. Iโd still wager it is unlikely Valve made a unilateral choice or pressured the game off the platform. Look at EA for answers.
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The original version of Crysis is available right now on GOG and the EA store. PC isnโt a single vendor ecosystem where the only store also owns the hardware to play it.
We also donโt know who decided to pull it. Iโd still wager it is unlikely Valve made a unilateral choice or pressured the game off the platform. Look at EA for answers.
Surely EA is the victim and did nothing wrong and Steam is the antagonist here.
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But I keep being told the trillionaire corporation steam is 100% ethical and good guys and that the billionaire Gabe is OUR billionaire and loves us!!
Valve didnโt decide to pull it, and the game is still downloadable if you purchased it before.
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Preservation, while perhaps idealistic, is about keeping every version that we can. Doom is a great example. Because Carmac released the source code, source ports have proliferated. That means anyone can play the original Doom on just about any machine. Varying degrees of accuracy to the original DOS release exist thanks to ports like Chocolate Doom, GZDoom, Eternity Engine, et al. As do varying degrees of accuracy to Doom 95, the Windows 95 rerelease. Or to the version running on Xbox packed in with Doom 3.
Ports cover the engine, but we also have an archive of all the doom.wad files, the contents. We have demo and prototype versions. The dos release. Officially patched versions. The win95 release. The Xbox release.
But a preservationist also wants the original Bethesda Unity release, wad and engine. The Kex release with the new engine and new episodes. Neither of those Bethesda engines needs to exist but why not keep them too? Theyโre a part of the Doom legacy, an ongoing chapter in the endless story of Doom.
Its good that in this community weโve gotten to preserve so much. It keeps the history of one of the most important video games alive and relevant. It keeps the game itself relevant. Without the original source release, thereโs no GZDoom and thereโs probably no Bethesda rereleases. The impact that source release had on the gaming community, gaming as an industry, modding and indie gaming, is incalculable.
That Crysisโalso a landmark game in its own timeโdeserves any less is laughable. The original release of the game should always be present and available: as an artifact of its time, as a fine game in its own right, and as a piece of living history that can be stood up against its remakes, sequels, and the games it inspired.
Good thing the Internet Archive has a software library containing many classic PC games, including Crysis.
Not sure about the legality, so I wonโt link it here (just go to archive.org, and search for it in the software category), but it appears the uploads were made by Crytek themselves.
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