https://x.com/stephentotilo/status/1752444899310342399
NEW: Spec Ops to be delisted entirely from online gaming stores (not just Steam)
— Stephen Totilo (@stephentotilo) January 30, 2024
A 2K rep tells me: "Spec Ops: The Line will no longer be available on online storefronts, as several partnership licenses related to the game are expiring." 1/2
If you have not played Hard-working American Ops The Line, please pirate and play it if you can since it has now effectively become abandonware, or if not, then just watch some videos about it, it actually is an anti-war masterpiece, the vidya equivalent of this: 
To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless''
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec_Ops:_The_Line
https://kotaku.com/spec-ops-the-line-steam-delisted-removed-2k-licenses-1851209947
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This game pissed me off because I got to the part where a mob of angry civilians is coming at me, so I tried to scare them off by shooting the ground at their feet, but they kept coming and throwing rocks so I had to gun them down.
I was pissed off because later I read that I have to shoot at the SKY to scare them off, which is unprofessional Arab bullshit that kills randos a half-mile away.
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If you rush armed soldiers and attack them, literally what do they expect? But oh no we must pretend as if that's le bad somehow
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You can melee one or shoot the sky to scare the
s off and gain the achievement "A Line, Held" 
!g*mers little hidden achievment if you are not aware of it!
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For all the snarky (though admittedly correct) bitching people do about other narrative games, I never understood why this game got such a pass.
The narrative is extremely ham fisted and a sophmoric mix of Fight Club and Apocalypse Now. That the devs blamed the player for the "key set piece" in the game is amazing because that was one instance in which you flat out HAD NO OTHER WAY TO PROGRESS.
Fricking game was weak w it's gameplay too.
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Its ok, the story is about the character you're playing, not you
Guy is just a tard that doesn't know about backtracking or waiting til people go to sleep
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Yeah, after sniping enemies for 10+ minutes I decided to use the WP. "Oh noez you - the player - are bad."
Without the pretentious message the game would've been a better critique of war. I could've sympathized with the character being "forced" to use the WP (or do all the other various stuff), but I as a player see things differently. When I try to break your game and you don't allow me to, then don't blame me for it. Blame yourself for being shitty devs who cannot predict the actions your players will take when presented with such a "message".
Oh I heard that people claim that's intentional as well. Cause "killing people is not fun".
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Based gunsafety enjoyer
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