Valve does not dictate the price games are available at. Also games can have licenses that run out which necessitates their removal due to prior contracts.

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

make all games

that go off sale

free to play

its abit odd that games that use to be sold on steam can be just fully removed from sales id love to see steam force all games not making sales to a free to play state unless valve deems the game not working or a virus

Valve can not legally do any of this.

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

that go off sale

free to play

its abit odd that games that use to be sold on steam can be just fully removed from sales id love to see steam force all games not making sales to a free to play state unless valve deems the game not working or a virus

That would be illegal... So no it will never happen.

Valve has NO legal right to tell game devs they have to continue selling their games on Steam or for how much.

Valve would have a never ending amount of lawsuits coming their way.

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

which means licenses or not you cant just stop a person from keeping the item

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

outside the whole point valve could add sellers are contractors legal setup meaning they could :)

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

which means licenses or not you cant just stop a person from keeping the item

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

You do realize outside of very extreme circumstances even if a game is no longer for sale, those who own it can still play it right?
Like for example: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/app/211420
Dark souls ptde can no longer be purchased, but I can still play it because I own it.

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

which means licenses or not you cant just stop a person from keeping the item

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

People do keep them, even if it's removed from the store.

What you're wanting is free games is all, that's not up to Valve that's up to the Publisher/Developer.

So quite a silly suggestion really, since people who paid for their games aren't losing them.

Considering that the two most common reasons for a game no longer being sold are that the developer can't legally sell it anymore or that there's a new version of the game (like what happened repeatedly with Skyrim, or with various games' "game of the year edition"s, and so on), a Valve policy stealing those games from developers would probably not be a great plan. Which is one of the many reasons why that policy does not exist.

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

which means licenses or not you cant just stop a person from keeping the item

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

And you're wrong in that. It doesn't matter what you personally feel or think about it, licensing works the way it works.

Valve cannot do what you say, not according to law and such.

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

You can say it 10000000 and somehow doesn't change that isn't true.

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

And Valve's agreement with developers and publishers states that all rights to the game belong to developers and publishers and they can change their games or remove them as they see fit. Valve is only a middleman distributing licenses and holds no other rights regarding the game licenses they distribute. No right of ownership is transferred with the sale of license, it merely grans access to the game on platform license was sold on.

what if unlimited games... but no games

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

which means licenses or not you cant just stop a person from keeping the item

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

If a game isn't sold on steam anymore everyone who bought it can still use it. They don't remove the games from people libraries.

So you appear to be confused as to how steam operates

Originally posted by |STE|HuntertheWolf:

i will say it 10000000 times licenses are still theft you wouldint break and enter someones property to take back a item you made because sales are final

which means licenses or not you cant just stop a person from keeping the item

never the less steam is a seller and unless the product directly says theres other terms then steam should have the rights to revoke a devs right to block the product

Look at my profile. I still have those games and I can still play them, anytime I want.

Valve isn't properly placed to officially do this. You can handle this sort of thing yourself quite easy