I’ve put down projects for years and then picked them back up. Where’s the line in the sand for “removal”? 6 months? A year? You show me a line in the sand I’ll show you a developer who was pushing the next update a day later. I don’t always agree with steam, but this is a very valid option.
What if it’s multiplayer? What if your friend group is playing an EA game and they tell you to pick it up but you can’t because it was just delisted because the developer hasn’t updated in too long?
The warning is valid
You control the buttons you press. Just don’t buy them if you see the warning.
To be fair, I’d rather abandoned early access games have a warning rather than be flat out unsellable. In an ideal world in my opinion, any abandoned early access game on Steam would be either be set as a free to play game or be marked down to a ridiculously low price like 99¢ rather than being outright unsellable.
I would get it if the publisher and/or developers decided to remove a game, make it real cheap, or outright make it free to play. Letting Steam decide what happens? Maybe as a last resort sort of thing where they send something like an email saying that if they don’t do substantial updates and/or reply back, their product will be made free to play or marked at a heavily reduced price.
