Removal of Games
In May 2008, Microsoft announced that games older than six months would become eligible for delisting from the service if they had a Metacritic score below 65 and a conversion rate below 6%. The objective was to "focus the catalogue more on larger, more immersive games and make it much easier to find the games you are looking for." However, Microsoft has never removed a game using this method.
In February 2010, it was announced that nine games from Midway Games would no longer be available for purchase, "due to publisher evolving rights and permissions", (even though Sony's PlayStation Store never did as such with its own downloadable Midway games) referring to the purchase by Warner Bros. of some assets of Midway Games, including certain rights related to the nine games. Similar fates befell the XBLA version of Double Dragon when its publisher went under. Yaris was an advergame that was pulled from the system after a year due to the timely nature of its contents. id Software's Doom was pulled from the catalogue due to iD (creators of Doom) being purchased by publisher Zenimax Media, and as such the publishing rights were removed from then publisher Activision. As of January 19, 2012, Doom was restored to Xbox Live Arcade under new publisher Bethesda. In Summer 2011, Ubisoft announced that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled was due to be removed from the Xbox LIVE service on June 30, 2011 due to an expired license. Chessmaster Live has also been removed.
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