Lost Cities Was Delisted
- Scribbled on April 19th, 2009 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Casual Gaming, Microsoft Xbox 360, WTF, Xbox Live Arcade
GamesAreFun is reporting that Lost Cities, the Xbox Live Arcade adaptation of the award-winning card game which had inexplicably disappeared on February 20, was actually delisted.
The port of the card game Lost Cities had been missing from the Xbox LIVE Marketplace as of February 20th. Word has come that the game has been dropped from the Xbox LIVE Arcade network, making it the second game to be let go of since Microsoft established its delisting policy back in 2008. The first game to get dropped from XBLA was the horribly panned Yaris based on the line of compact automobiles from Toyota.
This is disturbing, since Lost Cities is a devilishly clever card game that requires a lot of subtle strategy. One would think that good games would be allowed to remain available on Arcade, not craptastic ones – Lost Cities and not Crazy Mouse? Hopefully, it’s only due to copyright issues, and not some demented sales reasons.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:51 am
What a shame, Gold Cities is one of my favourite XBLA titles. What is the purpose of the delisting – does it cost the developer to keep the title hosted a XBLA?
April 20th, 2009 at 1:54 am
Delisting means you can’t buy it anymore. People who bought it don’t lose it – but if they delete it for any reason, it’s gone forever.
And no, Microsoft doesn’t charge anyone for hosting. That’s Sony.
I’m guessing there’s a legal issue involved. Hopefully, once it’s resolved, it’ll return.
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