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Spec Ops: The Line Will No Longer Be Available in Online Stores, 2K Blames Expiring Partnerships
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<blockquote data-quote="Admin" data-source="post: 62007" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Yesterday,<a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/spec-ops-the-line-unexpectedly-delisted-from-steam" target="_blank"> IGN reported that Spec Ops: The Line had been delisted from Steam</a>. Today, we updated that story with reporting that the game had also disappeared from other digital storefronts, including Fanatical, Gamesplanet, and Nuuvem. And now, we have confirmation from 2K themselves: one of the most important video games of the Xbox 360 and PS3 generation is disappearing from online storefronts for good.</p><p></p><p></p><p>2K Games sent IGN the following statement confirming The Line's delisting:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>While 2K hasn't provided specifics as to what partnerships are expiring, Spec Ops: The Line contains several pieces of licensed music, including Jimmy Hendrix's iconic rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Expiring music licenses have been the reason for many delistings in the past, and that would seem to be a probable reason here.</p><p></p><p>[H2]The rare military shooter that critiqued the genre[/H2]</p><p></p><p>The delisting is not only a huge blow to games preservation, <a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/new-study-13-percent-video-game-history-foundation" target="_blank">which already faces enormous challenges</a>, but a loss for the medium in general. Spec Ops: The Line was one of the most important and acclaimed games of the seventh console generation and one of the rare military shooters that dared to critique the genre it operated in.</p><p></p><p>In our review, we wrote, "Spec Ops is a daring experiment worth celebrating. For the first time, a</p><p>game with guns doesn't want you to be the hero – it wants you to feel terrible about trying to be one."</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/20/the-changing-face-of-war-games" target="_blank">The Line helped to usher in a new, more critical era of video games based on modern conflict</a> and produced several groundbreaking works of games criticism, including <a href="https://brkeogh.itch.io/killing-is-harmless" target="_blank">Brendan Keogh's Killing is Harmless</a>, one of the first book-length analyses of a single video game. There's a reason people still talk about the white phosphorus scene. It's a shame that soon, people will no longer be able to access it on digital storefronts.</p><p></p><p>As of the time of this writing, Spec Ops: The Line is still available on <a href="https://www.gog.com/en/game/spec_ops_the_line" target="_blank">Good Old Games</a> and <a href="https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/spec-ops-the-line/c160k9cdddcw" target="_blank">Xbox</a>, where it is backwards compatible. Anyone interested in purchasing it should probably do so before it disappears into the heart of an immense darkness... for good.</p><p></p><p></p><p><em>Will Borger is an IGN freelancer. You can find him on Twitter @bywillborger</em></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.ign.com/articles/spec-ops-the-line-will-no-longer-be-available-in-online-stores-2k-blames-expiring-partnerships" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Admin, post: 62007, member: 1"] Yesterday,[URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/spec-ops-the-line-unexpectedly-delisted-from-steam'] IGN reported that Spec Ops: The Line had been delisted from Steam[/URL]. Today, we updated that story with reporting that the game had also disappeared from other digital storefronts, including Fanatical, Gamesplanet, and Nuuvem. And now, we have confirmation from 2K themselves: one of the most important video games of the Xbox 360 and PS3 generation is disappearing from online storefronts for good. 2K Games sent IGN the following statement confirming The Line's delisting: While 2K hasn't provided specifics as to what partnerships are expiring, Spec Ops: The Line contains several pieces of licensed music, including Jimmy Hendrix's iconic rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Expiring music licenses have been the reason for many delistings in the past, and that would seem to be a probable reason here. [H2]The rare military shooter that critiqued the genre[/H2] The delisting is not only a huge blow to games preservation, [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/new-study-13-percent-video-game-history-foundation']which already faces enormous challenges[/URL], but a loss for the medium in general. Spec Ops: The Line was one of the most important and acclaimed games of the seventh console generation and one of the rare military shooters that dared to critique the genre it operated in. In our review, we wrote, "Spec Ops is a daring experiment worth celebrating. For the first time, a game with guns doesn't want you to be the hero – it wants you to feel terrible about trying to be one." [URL='https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/11/20/the-changing-face-of-war-games']The Line helped to usher in a new, more critical era of video games based on modern conflict[/URL] and produced several groundbreaking works of games criticism, including [URL='https://brkeogh.itch.io/killing-is-harmless']Brendan Keogh's Killing is Harmless[/URL], one of the first book-length analyses of a single video game. There's a reason people still talk about the white phosphorus scene. It's a shame that soon, people will no longer be able to access it on digital storefronts. As of the time of this writing, Spec Ops: The Line is still available on [URL='https://www.gog.com/en/game/spec_ops_the_line']Good Old Games[/URL] and [URL='https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/spec-ops-the-line/c160k9cdddcw']Xbox[/URL], where it is backwards compatible. Anyone interested in purchasing it should probably do so before it disappears into the heart of an immense darkness... for good. [I]Will Borger is an IGN freelancer. You can find him on Twitter @bywillborger[/I] [url="https://www.ign.com/articles/spec-ops-the-line-will-no-longer-be-available-in-online-stores-2k-blames-expiring-partnerships"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]
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