As of last night, Atari has pulled the classic 2004 PC game Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 from both Steam and GoG, resulting in the game no longer able to be purchased anywhere digitally. Older games in the series, such as 1 and 2 have been unaffected, and are still up on Steam's site. This is apparently due to an issue with expiring license rights, according to Good Old Games staff, between developer Frontier Developments and publisher Atari. Although a press release from Atari themselves prove that they extended their ownership of the Rollercoaster Tycoon license until 2022.

This also follows a pending lawsuit from Frontier against Atari, saying that during the time that Atari went bankrupt in 2013, they worked with the company to figure out how to pay royalties. However, when Atari began making profits again recently, Frontier claimed that they were not being paid the correct amount (resulting in them not being paid an owed 2.2 million dollars) and were refused when they demanded a sales report for Atari's earnings.

It's not known if or when the game will be re-listed, but digital storefront owners are looking into talking with Frontier to get the game back up for purchase.

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[Deleted member 420418]

Sadly, Atari is starting to die, killing off their games in the process.

 

[Arras]

You still need steam to play it. With GOG, you don't have any forced middle ground software.

Not necessarily. Some Steam games are just plain DRM free exe files, and if you copy those files somewhere else or delete Steam but keep the game files, it'll still run.

 

[DinohScene]

I never played 3 in all honesty.
RCT 1 still remains the best one!

Bummer tho :c

 

[Noctosphere]

I never played 3 in all honesty.
RCT 1 still remains the best one!

Bummer tho :c

I think RCT 1 and 2 have both the same graphic engine (if not, they are very similar)
plus RCT2 has a map editor
Personally, IDK which one is the best between 1 and 2
I also played RCT3, and something I noticed is that you can create food specific to restaurant
For example, in a burger stand, you can add Cheeseburger, Big Mac, Ketchup/Mustard, etc..

 

[Taleweaver]

Not necessarily. Some Steam games are just plain DRM free exe files, and if you copy those files somewhere else or delete Steam but keep the game files, it'll still run.

Really? Wow...that's nice to hear.

(I honestly thought that a check for the presence of the steam launcher was required for all games ).

 

[Deleted-394630]

good luck installing that properly on w10

I'm just as amazed as you are, but it runs perfectly!

 

[Noctosphere]

kool, now I want to play RCT1
Downloading it rn

 

[dubbz82]

Really? Wow...that's nice to hear.

(I honestly thought that a check for the presence of the steam launcher was required for all games ).

There's actually a shocking number of titles that don't require steam to even be installed. The old XCOM games are distributed as .iso and ran through dosbox on steam....you could quite literally burn the discs and run them on compatible original hardware if you wanted to

 

[nolimits59]

Really? Wow...that's nice to hear.

(I honestly thought that a check for the presence of the steam launcher was required for all games ).

This is what i just aid before x), and yeah, RCT3 is one of them, completely steam/DRM free.

I think RCT 1 and 2 have both the same graphic engine (if not, they are very similar)
plus RCT2 has a map editor
Personally, IDK which one is the best between 1 and 2
I also played RCT3, and something I noticed is that you can create food specific to restaurant
For example, in a burger stand, you can add Cheeseburger, Big Mac, Ketchup/Mustard, etc..

On the "classic" ones, i would prefere RCT classic of 2017, the perfect combination of RCT1/2 with TT and WW extensions

 

[Taleweaver]

This is what i just aid before x), and yeah, RCT3 is one of them, completely steam/DRM free.

That's true...I accidentally read over that bit. Sorry.