De-listed games and content, your thoughts

[noiseredux]

I can't find a way to search within the Humble app, but ChuChu is no longer listed on the Humble store.

[casterofdreams]

Damn. I didn't see that. Sorry bro.

[isiolia]

^like ChuChu Rocket. Y'all know that ChuChu Rocket used to be on Android? I mean, how brilliant is that? Yet, I don't have it.

Pretty trivial to find the APK to sideload if you really want it.

It does suck that things aren't 100% available, but it can make some sense. The sheer availability of digital marketplaces is largely a huge benefit. Practically speaking though, in the past, the vast majority of dated software would no longer be in a lot of retail channels by the time it was incompatible. For example, not a lot of DOS games on the market by the time Windows XP rolled around.

There's some room, in my mind, for active marketplaces to curate things in a similar way.

At the same time, having a more formalized/legalized route for abandonware to be defined and kept available would be nice - though still wouldn't necessarily cover cases when it's a matter of licensing or something and it gets pulled.

Much as I think not all gaming experiences can be bottled up to revisit anytime, basic applications like mentioned shouldn't be that hard to have archived.

[noiseredux]

Pretty trivial to find the APK to sideload if you really want it.

yeah. I've just never gone looking for it. I'm not really sure where it's "safe" to get delisted Android apps.

[Tanooki]

I don't know either, but you can get the popular PC based a/v for Android too. Just throw that on there, side load it, it will intercept and scan and if it's a virus it's smoked.

I wish I knew a place that threw APKs around that was known as safe I'd bookmark it for stuff that's pulled and oddball junk google store lacks.

If anyone would want it though I have backed up something from years back, Dune 2 for the PC, someone had converted it to Android. They did the entire game, made it free, then on the last release tried to charge for it and it got pulled from the google play store and EA(Westwood) got pissed over it. I've got that build backed up. It plays very nicely.

[isiolia]

yeah. I've just never gone looking for it. I'm not really sure where it's "safe" to get delisted Android apps.

I don't either, necessarily, but I do know that I found the file direct linked on several sites from a simple Google search, and not ones that seemed suspect (I do run adblock though).

[noiseredux]

actually you're right. That was easy. And now I'm really happy, haha.

Alright so if I can eventually get Deathsmiles and XCOM working on my Shield tablet then I'll be ecstatic.

Also whenever the Duelyst Android port finally comes out.