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Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ooterness@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The cost isn't necessarily zero. Old games are often removed due to music licenses that are about to expire.

[–] jay@mbin.zerojay.com:443 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm talking purely about the work needed to be done on the Steam backend and such. Also in this case, most of these old games - minus Crazy Taxi and perhaps one or two other Dreamcast games - don't have licensed music.