Recently, EA suddenly removed several classic games from Steam, but did not release any announcements.

In 2021, EA acquired developer Codemasters for a high price of US$1.2 billion. Now, as a subsidiary of EA, a number of games have been removed from Steam recently. These are all classic games developed and released by Codemasters before it was acquired.

A total of six games, "The Curse", "The Hospital Tycoon", "The Great Vortex", "The Rise of the Argo Hero", "The Speedy Toy Car" and "Operation Flash Point", were directly removed from the shelves by EA. The last two games were developed by Codemasters, and the others were games released by Codemasters.

Now, when you try to access them on Steam you will get the "app_retired_publisher_request" error.All games that were removed from the shelves had previously existed in the list of game dreams that GOG players wanted to retain, which also means that players retain the needs of these games.

Coincidentally, Nintendo's first removal of NSO member library game events has also caused many players to worry about dealing with old game issues on digital platforms.

This kind of thing brings us to the serious issue of game saving, after all, low sales should not cause the game to disappear forever.In addition, EA has no response to this matter, and EA has been in a difficult situation in some in-app purchase storms and the failure of "Dragon Age: Guardian of Shadows", which will only make EA's position in the hearts of fans worse.