Why?

Here's what GOG posted about it:

http://www.gog.com/forum/general/descent_12_descent_3_removed_from_sale/page1

In a word: Interplay sucks. (OK, that's two words...)

I'll still be around here helping people out though, and hopefully it returns to GOG soon!

Yeah it's Interplay flexing it's muscle again. Just because of Descent Underground.

So here's the official story (this is copied from a post in the "Descent was removed" thread):

"Hey, Folks. Here's the story.

Parallax Software still exists and still owns the copyrights to the Descent games. Under our 21-year-old agreement, Interplay has the exclusive rights to sell Descent and Descent II, and they have been doing so on Good Old Games and Steam.

The problem is that Interplay has not paid to Parallax any royalties since 2007. We've talked to them about this numerous times over the years, and finally took action this fall. We served Interplay official notice that they were in breach of the contract, and when they still failed to pay we terminated the agreement.

This means that Interplay has lost the right to sell the Descent games, which is why they came down from GOG. (We're not sure why they're still on Steam; they shouldn't be.)

Interplay does, however, still own the Descent trademark, which they are free to use or license as they see fit (such as for Descent: Underground) as long as they don't violate our copyrights.

As for whether Descent and Descent II will be available for purchase again, we hope so. We'd be very happy to work things out with Interplay.

Matt Toschlog & Mike Kulas
Parallax Software"


As an addendum, I was told that the reason it hasn't been removed from Steam is because it is published by Old Skuul and not Interplay there, and Parallax is having discussions with Old Skuul about it.

Thanks for this. Makes sense. Sad that Interplay would stoop this low. There is a thread on Interplay's forums and the Mod (Chris) is checking to see what he's allowed to say. lol

what a retard

Uh...who exactly are you calling a retard?

the moderator Chris from Interplay Forums. not you guys

It's NOT Chris's fault. He can't just blurt out anything. Otherwise he risks his job.

Stop sympathizing for a greedy corporation. he gets paid by his superiors to do his job. he doesn't care about the customers

Kid. you seriously know nothing about economics. I suggest you let us handle it.

All I'm saying is it's not Chris's fault that interplay did this and you call me a kid? I know how the world works. And just for your info, I'm not a kid. It's Interplay's Mgmt that decided to do this, not Chris. He's just a pawn.

EDIT: nm, I can still download old purchases.