Hi everyone!

I hope you've had an awesome start to the year so far!

Firstly, I need to apologise for the lack of updates! 2018 was a rough year for me as my father passed away and I was out of the country almost every other month to settle business matters.
However, things have finally settled down somewhat and I hopefully will be able to devote more time to managing this group this year.

Secondly, here's the reason for this post:

Valve is going to remove non-gaming videos from the Steam store soon. Read the announcement here.

What this means is that more items may soon become unmarketable. But we don't know for sure yet because:

1) we don't know exactly which videos will be removed;
2) even if some videos are removed, this doesn't necessarily mean that their associated items will become unmarketable, as I have explained before in this announcement.

However, it may make sense to complete your card sets and/or buy whatever emoji you want from the market now, just in case they become unmarketable after the removal.

You can find a list of videos that may potentially be affected here: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=992&category2=29

A big thank you to Tasty Salamanders for alerting us to this!
A post has been made on this topic as well: https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/deaditems/discussions/0/1796278072832953327/ - feel free to join in the discussion!

Have a good weekend!

P.S. I will update the dead items list soon, because many more games have been removed from the store and their items become unmarketable. If you know of more removed games not already on our list, please add them here: http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/deaditems/discussions/0/135513901710904793/ - thanks!

Hi everyone,

Hope 2018 has been going well for you so far!

The end of 2017 saw some games suddenly pulled from the Steam store. Here are the new additions (in alphabetical order) that have been added to our existing list since the last announcement:

- Adventures Of Hooi
- Age Of Magic CCG
- Dead Inside
- Dragomon Hunter
- Escape The Island: VR
- Featherpunk Prime
- Fist Of Jesus
- Flight Simulator: VR
- FreeStyleFootball
- Offroad: VR
- Rest In Peace
- Space Journey
- Space Odyssey
- Staircase Of Darkness: VR
- Tankr
- Trigger Happy Shooting
- Uncharted Waters Online: Episode Atlantis
- Valortha
- Viktaram
- Warhammer: Arcane Magic
- Wild Frontera
- Yelaxot
- Zombies Monsters Robots

The full list is here:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/deaditems/discussions/0/135513901710904793/

Do you know of more games not on the list? Let us know!

Lastly, thought I'd clarify something:
When a game is removed from the Steam store, it does not automatically mean that its items also become non-marketable.

This is because a developer's game licensing relationship is entirely separate from his market sales relationship with Steam. They involve 2 different contracts.

Therefore it is perfectly feasible to see a removed game whose items are still selling on the Steam market.
(E.g. The game "Shakedown Racing One" which was removed from the Steam store more than 2 years ago, whose cards, backgrounds, etc are still saleable on the Steam market today: https://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/market/search?appid=753&category_753_Game%5B%5D=tag_app_417730 )

Another game that was removed (because the developer ended his game licensing agreement with Steam), but whose items continued to be saleable (because the developer hadn't yet terminated his market relationship with Steam) for some time, until end-2017, was "Yelaxot".
Which is also why "Yelaxot" has just only appeared on our list even though the game was removed many months ago.

Hope that clears things up!

In light of this, be sure to always check if a game's items are still saleable. Just because the game has been removed from the store, doesn't mean its items have also become non-marketable.

Have a fantastic year ahead!!!

Hi everyone,

Some of you must already have heard the news that Zonitron Productions (aka Silicon Echo) was recently banned from Steam. As a result, all their games have been removed from the Steam marketplace. This means that all items from these removed games are also now non-marketable. (Do not panic though - if you have any of these games in your library, you can still play them, although your game library count will diminish because these games no longer add +1 to your library.)

In addition, a fairly big bunch of other games also recently became unmarketable - a list of them is below.

Here is a full list of the Zonitron games with items (e.g. trading cards, emoji, etc) that have been removed:

- Absconding Zatwor
- Barclay: The Marrowdale Murder
- Beast Blaster
- Break Into Zatwor
- Brilliant Bob
- Cyborg Detonator
- Fiends of Imprisonment
- GooCubelets
- GooCubelets 2
- GooCubelets: OCD
- GooCubelets: The Algoorithm
- GooCubelets: The Void
- Rage Parking Simulator 2016
- Sleengster
- Sleengster 2
- Tesla's Best Friend
- The First Spark
- The Last Photon
- The Safeguard Garrison
- The Safeguard Garrison 2
- They Came From The Moon
- Torch Cave
- Torch Cave 2
- Tracks of Triumph: Good Old Times
- Tracks of Triumph: Industrial Zone
- Tracks of Triumph: Summertime
- Why So Evil
- Why So Evil 2: Dystopia
- Zombie Boom

And here is a list of games from other publishers that were removed recently too:

- KEK Story
- ZombieRush
- Ashbourne
- Abrams Tank
- Cubistry™ Collection Vol. 1
- Super Comboman
- MTB Downhill Simulator
- Sharf
- War Truck Simulator
- Keen Dreams
- The Slaughtering Grounds
- Anime! Oi History!
- Platformica
- Wander
- K-Rolik
- Zi
- Tower Defense Ultimate
- Galaxy In Eclipse
- Ivan Vs Nazi Zombies
- Restricted-RPS - Hope Annihilation Arc

The full, updated list of dead games can be found here:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/deaditems/discussions/0/135513901710904793/

New additions to the list are marked with a "".

Many thanks to everyone who has helped contribute to the list!

Please add to the discussion in the forum if you know of any other dead game that's not on our list!

Have a great week ahead!

Hi everyone,

4 more dead games have been added:

- Hello From Indiana
- Piximalism
- Impulse!
- Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader

The full list of dead games can be found here:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/deaditems/discussions/0/135513901710904793/

New additions to the list are now marked with a "", so it's easier to for you to see which games have been added since the last update.

Many thanks to everyone who has helped contribute to the list!

Hi everyone,

The following games were just taken off Steam recently, so their items can no longer be bought/sold on the Steam market:

- Chicka Wars | Chicken Meat
- CosmoLands | Space-Adventure
- DinoOps
- Etaria | Survival Adventure
- FeeSoeeD
- GrottyScape
- MontaSayer
- REED
- Socxel | Pixel Soccer
- StoneBack | Prehistory
- Storm in Desert
- The Dark Tales of Katarina

Full list of dead games here:
http://v1.steam.hlxgame.cc/groups/deaditems/discussions/0/135513901710904793/

Trade your dead items in the discussion forums in our group! Good luck finding a match!