As is changing into disappointingly widespread with games based mostly on film licenses and whatnot, Lego The Lord Of The Rings and Lego The Hobbit appear to have been pulled from sale on digital shops together with Steam with out warning or rationalization. Folks who already personal them can proceed to obtain and play them on Steam, however newcomers might want to observe down a boxed copy or obtain code from one other retailer if they need ’em. I do know what you’re pondering–that the LOTR and Hobbit motion pictures have been boring empty spectacles of “and then… and then… and then…” so w/e–however the plasticised diversifications from Traveller’s Tales are enjoyable, and it sucks that this retains taking place.
Steam pages for The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit are nonetheless up, however they don’t seem in search outcomes and you’ll’t purchase them. Their pages are outright faraway from the Humble Store.
Publishers Warner Bros. have mentioned nothing about this, why they have been eliminated and whether or not they would possibly return. Presumably it’s the same old sitch of licenses expiring and never being renewed. Sometimes games return from this limbo, and typically they don’t. Mysteries.
Our former Adam (RPS in peace) fairly preferred ’em, with loads of reward in his Lego LOTR review and a good quantity of nodded approval in his Lego The Hobbit review. So these are issues some of us would possibly properly need to play.
The Humble Store gave the games away free in December, and I suppose now we all know extra about why. Steam and Humble had them closely discounted within the run-up to the vanishing too. But in the event you missed out, you’ll want to go looking different shops for boxed copies or Steam keys. They are nonetheless on the market, however provides do now appear restricted.
