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James Bond: License Revoked?

[Jan 05, 2013, 5:43 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

There is an unofficial explanation for the disappearance of James Bond games from Valve's Steam service on Neogamr. According to their "unnamed but reliable sources" Activision's license to publish James Bond games expired at the end of 2012. This is surprising considering 007 Legends was released with just a couple of months to go in the year, though a rush to beat the license deadline could explain the game's poor reception which lead to the closure of developer Eurocom. This is all still unconfirmed, as Activision has yet to comment on the situation.

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10. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 6, 2013, 20:23 The Magician
 
Legends was a seriously awful abortion of a development.
  
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9. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 22:19 Orphic Resonance
 
ruh roh!  
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8. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 20:47 theyarecomingforyou
 
Dev wrote on Jan 5, 2013, 19:34:
When games are pulled on steam it typically means removed from store. Anyone who already owns it can still install it.
This. I bought Crysis 2 before it was removed from Steam (it's since been added back again) and was able to redownload and play it without issue. 		 
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7. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 19:34 Dev
 
When games are pulled on steam it typically means removed from store. Anyone who already owns it can still install it.  
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6. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 18:00 eRe4s3r
 
Ah You can still redownload it then? Then forget I mention it.. I never had a game Steam suddenly pulled so I had no idea what happens.  
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5. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 17:59 StingingVelvet
 
So all these games just became abandonware? Nice!

  
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4. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 17:59 StingingVelvet
 
eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 5, 2013, 17:49:
So what happens for those who own it? Anything but a full refund would be fraud in the EU.....

You still have access, as always. 		 
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3. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 17:52 BicycleRepairMan
 
Seeing as they dissappeared just now, and legends was released in 2012 , I assume 2011 is a typo..  
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2. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 17:49 eRe4s3r
 
So what happens for those who own it? Anything but a full refund would be fraud in the EU.....  
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1. Re: James Bond: License Revoked? Jan 5, 2013, 17:28 spindoctor
 
All signs point to this being a licensing problem. Maybe Activision thought they'd renegotiate the license and then couldn't settle on a price. Or if one wants to be cynical, most game sales come within the first few weeks after release anyway, so maybe that's all Activision wanted out of the release of Legends.

Quite a bit of content disappeared from various digital distribution stores on the 1st of January. Always a licensing thing. 		 
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