We’re considering removing Legacy from Steam. I know, we’re dicks, but let me explain the logic here: we have to pay license fees to a couple of middleware companies to keep Legacy available. This amounts to a few thousand dollars a year, which haven’t minded paying that for the last few years because we assumed a lot of people were still enjoying it. To be totally blunt, we don’t really like these middleware companies, so we would rather not keep paying them.
I ran some stats earlier this week to verify that. It turns out that at peak time, once you filter out all the bots and fake players, there’s around 200 people playing legacy at one time. That obviously is a very small amount when you consider at peak time Rust gets 20,000 people playing.
So I’m posting this to get the feeling from the community. Do you care if we do this? Shall we keep it available for another year, see how people feel then?
