{"id":66615,"date":"2024-01-30T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/the-line-removed-from-steam-due-to-expiring-licenses\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T00:47:47","slug":"the-line-removed-from-steam-due-to-expiring-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/30\/the-line-removed-from-steam-due-to-expiring-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"The Line Eliminated From Steam Due To Expiring Licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Earlier at present, gamers observed that <span><em>Spec Ops: The Line<\/em><\/span><em> <\/em>was now not out there to buy on Steam, main many to concern that the acclaimed third-person shooter had been quietly delisted with out warning. Sadly, 2K has since confirmed that&#8217;s the case, and the writer has additionally defined why it pulled the landmark shooter<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-1 czxCOT\">\n<div class=\"sc-1needdh-0 jLsF instream-native-video instream-permalink instream-native-video--mobile\">\n<div class=\"sc-1h0epat-0 crfeiW\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-4 kDKXjm video-html5-playlist\" data-playlist=\"195928,196251,195922\" data-current=\"195928\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-0 hAZDOz video-html5-loaded\">\n<div class=\"sc-1wkneyl-1 jShsAa video-html5-player\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-0 biVjcq video-html5 autoplay muted mobile\" data-video-id=\"195928\" data-monetizable=\"true\" data-position=\"sidebar\" data-video-title=\"How Alan Wake 2 Builds Upon The 'Remedy-Verse'\" data-video-blog-id=\"9\" data-video-network=\"kotaku\" data-video-duration=\"190\">\n<div class=\"sc-lhhce6-2 emBeiF video-top-bar\">\n<p>How Alan Wake 2 Builds Upon The &#8216;Treatment-Verse&#8217;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><video disablepictureinpicture=\"\" muted=\"\" playsinline=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" preload=\"none\" style=\"max-height:none\"><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/195928\/195928_240p.mp4\" label=\"240p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/195928\/195928_480p.mp4\" label=\"480p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/195928\/195928_720p.mp4\" label=\"720p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><source data-src=\"https:\/\/vid.kinja.com\/prod\/195928\/195928_1080p.mp4\" label=\"1080p\" type=\"video\/mp4\"\/><track kind=\"captions\" label=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/kinja.com\/api\/videoupload\/caption\/21446.vtt\" srclang=\"en\"\/><\/video><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Developed by Yager and launched again in 2012, <span><em>Spec Ops: The Line<\/em><\/span><em> <\/em>was a reboot of the lesser-known <em>Spec Ops<\/em> franchise. Like these previous video games,<em> The Line <\/em>was a third-person navy shooter. Nevertheless, the 2012 reboot garnered crucial acclaim at launch due to its narrative which depicted a solider within the deserts of Dubai slowly dropping his grip on actuality, providing a meta-critical tackle the way in which some navy shooters glorify the horrors of conflict. Whereas it didn\u2019t promote as many copies as 2K would have preferred, the sport has gone on to turn into a cult favourite amongst shooter followers. And now, it\u2019s now not on Steam. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"twitter-embed\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/embed\/inset\/iframe?id=twitter-1752100767589347450&amp;autosize=1\" autoresize=\"true\" id=\"twitter-1752100767589347450\" data-recommended=\"false\" class=\"core-inset lazyload\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"webkitAllowFullScreen\" mozallowfullscreen=\"mozallowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><span>On January 29<\/span>, of us started to note that <em>Spec Ops: The Line <\/em>had been faraway from Steam and different storefronts, like Fanatical. Folks questioned if 2K had delisted the sport, probably as a result of expiring licensing rights on some music featured in it. And that appears to be the case, in keeping with a 2K spokesperson. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"><em>\u201cSpec Ops: The Line <\/em>will now not be out there on on-line storefronts, as a number of partnership licenses associated to the sport are expiring,\u201d defined 2K in a press release despatched over to <em>Kotaku<\/em>. No particular licenses had been named, however among the many noteworthy music tracks included within the recreation are Jimi Hendrix\u2019s efficiency of \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d and \u201cRooster\u201d by Alice in Chains.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">The writer assured gamers that house owners of the sport will nonetheless have the ability to obtain and replay <em>Spec Ops: The Line <\/em>\u201cuninterrupted\u201d however it would now not be simple to purchase a digital copy shifting ahead. Presently, <span>the sport remains to be on the market on GoG<\/span>, however the above assertion appears to point that can change quickly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">\u201c2K want to thank our group of gamers who&#8217;ve supported the sport, and we stay up for bringing you extra choices from our label all through this 12 months and past,\u201d mentioned 2K in its assertion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\">Whereas there had been talks of a sequel for years, it appears 2K isn\u2019t even keen to tease that and as a substitute is simply letting <em>Spec Ops: The Line<\/em> fade away like a mirage within the desert. It\u2019s only one extra recreation\u2014on an ever-growing record\u2014that can be tougher to play because the years go by. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-77igqf-0 fnnahv\"> .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/spec-ops-the-line-steam-delisted-removed-2k-licenses-1851209947\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Earlier at present, gamers observed that Spec Ops: The Line was now not out there to buy on Steam, main many to concern that the acclaimed third-person shooter had been quietly delisted with out warning. Sadly, 2K has since confirmed that&#8217;s the case, and the writer has additionally defined why it pulled the landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2068,17211,2929,5211,1804,435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66616,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66615\/revisions\/66616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gamergog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}