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When they were gone from shelves then, no one raised a fuss, right? People do now, and my hunch is itвЂ™s because online marketplaces have come in and become more popular as movie-games have grown less so, if not gone away (as we once knew them). This is what helped kill THQ, remember?)ДЇrom 2000 to 2009, publishers likely also had a limited time in which to sell these games at retail. Since then, itвЂ™s less than half that (and 2010-2012 accounts for the bulk of what has been published. Publishers put out an average of 23 per year from 2000-2009.

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I suppose weвЂ™re taking notice of this now more and more because, as I mentioned, licensed movie adaptations are fewer and fewer.

And I bet that thing had more than 57.0 average daily players when it went bye-bye. I didnвЂ™t hear this level of concern when Rory McIlroy PGA Tour was removed from sale and re-download from its console marketplaces (as well as EA Access) back in the spring. вЂGame you didnвЂ™t want is no longer for sale.вЂ™ДЄll of that adds up to, as one colleague in here dryly noted on Thursday, вЂњgame you didnвЂ™t want is no longer for sale.вЂќ And furthermore, if you already had it, but in digital form only, you can still redownload it through the marketplace where you bought it. I used November because playership spiked in December, a month in which, lo and behold, both games were offered free by Humble Bundle in the middle of the month.

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Steamcharts lists an average of 54.7 players of Hobbit for November (this is PC only, I know) and 57.0 for Rings in the same month, with peaks for both around 150. I said вЂњfor some reason,вЂќ above because not only is the explanation very simple, weвЂ™re not talking about LEGO Silent Hills or LEGO NCAA Football here. Interactive Entertainment were answered with a boilerplate non-answer and no reason why they were taken down, itвЂ™s no mystery nor scandal: The licensing terms for selling these games expired at the end of the year. Even though questions sent to Warner Bros. These games were, obviously, licensed adaptations of movies - which used to be a very common thing in video games but is less so now.

In a story that has, for some reason, managed to captivate the discussion of video games the past two days, yes, Lego : Lord of the Rings and Lego: the Hobbit are no longer listed for sale on digital marketplaces.