Takes The Long Dark off of GFN bc he's paranoid about it causing loss of sales for nonexistent ports and Nvidia not sharing sub fees .

And then insists it's bc he wants to maintain his rights to where the game is published. GFN is basically renting a PC, we still have to buy your game through the usual platforms to play it, in fact GFN opens up more people to play your games (this is from personal experience and many comments I've seen of people buying games bc of its availability on GFN).

He's actively ignoring that GFN is no different than playing on any other PC. This isn't emulation or a port, it's playing the game bought through the channels he decided they should be sold on. And his justification is the hypothetical fear it'll reduce sales of another port like on mobile, which has no actual basis in any measurable means yet.

Either he thoughrouly misunderstands the point of GFN, he really is that paranoid of loss of revenue, or his pride was more important than appropriate actions. He could have stated his problems with Nvidia while still being the bigger man and keeping the games on their service or admitting he was just annoyed and is making an ego based decision.

It's really pathetic imo what people do out of greed and then try to act like they're the good guys. Anyone trying to fight the adaptation of new ideas and innovations bc they're afraid of losing sales almost always eventually end up looking like archaic douchebags.

This is just another instance of "Video Killed the Radio Star".

I think we should all review bomb the game, I already did on meta critic and I'd buy the game on Steam just to review it negatively then refund it but I don't want to abuse their refund policy.

EDIT: I want to make it clear I understand the reasons for his decision and his legal right to do so and that I've read the Verge article more than once, my point is that it's a completely paranoia based action about hypothetical loss of revenue that is anti consumer and he's trying to justify it instead of owning that reason. And the decision seems to be based on ego and greed rather than consumers.

Here's a Forbes opinion article basically summing up our issues with devs removing the games.