Back some years ago extra goodies got removed post-sale occasionally. I think they said they wouldn't do this anymore. I think the last I know about might have been LEGO Harry Potter that had some wallpapers removed after just a couple of days on site.

Then there was also the thing when the windowsy version Quake (glquake I think?) got it's music removed shortly after release due to some unspecified but complex licensing issues. However I feel that in this instance it worked out great since the DOS version essentially got a lossless soundtrack, and it's easy to put back into the glQuake if you're so inclined (see game specific forum for details).

That would be perfect,but this is Atari we are talking about.They wouldn't let their games be bundled even if their lives would depend on it xD.But anything is possible in this world.Cheers

But like... the game uses Xzibit's likeness. That, alone, is going to be really difficult to work around.

Except for Simon the Sorcerer 4. :P

The pages are just hidden or taken down, but the user data is pretty much always preserved, and reinstated if the game comes back in the same form. For an example, see <i>Ceville</i>'s store page, which still has reviews from when the game first came to GOG.

GOG issues warnings as soon as they're aware of a removal and able to discuss it. Since it is not in their control, there might be weeks, days or even hours before they have to pull a game. This thread is their warning.

That was different. Neither GOG nor Bethesda had permission to distribute a version of the game that included the Trent Reznor-made soudntrack in the form of individual audio files which could be readily played separate from the game (I think they were .OGG files or something). It wasn't even included as a separate downloadable "extra", just files that were installed with the rest of the game. The other version presumably escaped the same fate because it just uses an image of the entire game disc, which apparently fell outside the purview of whatever licensing problem caused BethSoft to have to release the Windows version without that music.
TL;DR: They updated the installers to remove the individual music files because, legally, they were never supposed to include them in the first place.

Wish this sort of heads up threads get status similar to the news threads, as they're too easy to miss.

The removal sucks, as usual. Let's hope it will return.

i indeed would have liked a better disclosure and some longer warning time, even if no "goodbye discount"

i mean, gog should have a quick and easy to access separate news page dedicated for such things like removal, and/or some "major" updates that were waited (like when a long missing feature to a game (already on the non gog version) get finally delivered by devs, or when game returns, too, whenever they do

i mean i dont either have time to watch over the entire forum for such kind of info

for now, it falls a bit short in regard of customers awareness

The butcher bay game was an awesome one back in its days, it was great to have it here drm free on top of that... I clearly am disappointed and mourn for this loss :(

Because for now, the game aint available anywhere anymore to legally purchase !

This sucks. I was holding out hope that the original version of Escape from Butcher Bay would eventually show up as a bonus. That one apparently has quicksaves, and the graphics look less like everything's been covered in Vaseline. Doesn't Vin Diesel own the rights to Riddick? He signed on for tons of Fast and Furious movies and those XXX abominations, so you should be able to distract him with something shiny. Then you just have to tell him that it's actually a contract for a terrible new action movie where he gets lots of cringey one-liners, and boom. Game's back.

I'm fortunate that I got this game for free at one of the mass sales on GOG.com. Lucky me!

We decently cannot spend all of our money to hurry to buy every each game on GOG because we live in the fear that any game might be removed anytime because of damned publishers who decide to remove their games for any reason all of the time.
If we had bought every game which was removed from GOG until now, GOSH we would be so out of money by now!
You regret that you didn't buy the game when it was on sale because you cannot buy it anymore, which I understand because I felt this so many times.
There a lot of games that I planned to buy and that I cannot buy anymore because they have been removed.
But how could you know that games that are on sale right now might be removed tomorrow as well?
This is why I said that we live in the fear that any game might be removed anytime and so we would have to spend all of our money to hurry to buy every each game before it gets removed.
That's just unbearable, GOSH I HATE SO MUCH PUBLISHERS, I WISH THEY DON'T EXIST!
Because developers almost never remove their games, it is always damned publishers who are mean enough to do it.
Let's be real, publishers push gamers into piracy because of all their petty decisions.
DRM, DLC, removals, all of this push gamers into piracy and publishers are way too much obsessed by how to get the most money possible by any mean out of their slave developers and of games that they see only as merchandises to understand that their greed causes their loss and that the more they try to impose restrictions to fight against piracy, the more they push gamers who want freedom into piracy.
If they remove games from stores, then gamers cannot buy them anymore and then they have to get them by piracy.
If they remove games from DRM-free stores, gamers will not buy them with DRM, they will just get them by piracy when they would have bought them if they were available in DRM-free stores.
I will never understand how stupid publishers can be to not understand such an obvious thing.
GOG understood it. They understood that trying to impose restrictions just push gamers into piracy to fight against the restrictions.
They understood that gamers are willing to play fair if they are free and that DRM-free games are much less pirated than games with DRM.
If only publishers would understand that too...
Well, actually, if only publishers wouldn't exist, they wouldn't steal creations from other peoples and treat these creations as if they were their own.
I dream of a world where all developers are independents, where all developers are free to develop their games as they like and what they create is theirs and they are free to do whatever they like with it...
I wish that GOG could implement a clause in their distributions agreements that once a game is available on GOG, IT STAYS FOREVER!

You mean like Descent 1, 2 and 3 did?

This is Atari we are talking about. The company which has almost caused the end of video games history in 1983 because of its greed.

Oh, bummer. Not that I'm terribly surprised. In fact, I'm more surprised it stuck around as long as it had. I was actually expecting it to go "poof" shortly after Atari's bankruptcy proceedings 4 years ago.