Re: It happened to the McLaren F1 fuel injection first.
>Even games where the producer -that didn't go bankrupt - promised they would keep working offline, they don't. Ubisoft for example killed off The Crew, a racing game. It took some effort from fans to recover this one (...)
(...)In the case of games, Steam promises to keep a copy of most games on their servers, at the same time that GOG promises to keep the original installers for download, and it is up to you to safeguard a copy and maybe the original media the game ran on, like compact discs. None of this ensures the continued existence of any of them.
Funny you should mention this, because shortly after Ubisoft shut down The Crew they had it removed entirely from Steam and deleted from people's accounts with no prior warning. This obviously caused a furor from not only owners of the game but from people in general, and when their stock began cratering Ubi had to make promises that The Crew 2 and Motorfest would both recieve offline patches when they were EOL'd just to keep more players from abandoning them.
Still, it's a clear cut example that if it's on someone else's server, it's not safe from disappearing without warning.