Schticky, and maybe with a differently coloured text and/or graphical element to make it stand out against the other schtickies on top of that.

Sticky.

Definitely sticky. It's the one place on this site where an announcement remains visible, in a set place, for everyone, no matter what. Since the redesign, even news quickly vanish, but sticky posts stay there for as long as they're sticky, and anyone who cares about something that should be important should look for new activity there first.
That some people have trained themselves to be "blind" to them is entirely their problem. A non-sticky post scrolls up and down and possibly even off the front page entirely according to activity, and there's also the occasional bug when activity isn't registered and the post doesn't get bumped up with a new message, or with the first message, so a non-sticky post therefore can't be relied on to be visible for anyone looking at any point. That would make it even more likely for those who have trained themselves to be blind to stickies to notice, since it won't even be something new in that list. Indeed, tagged like forum games or giveaways. Those who like to use user scripts could then even make one to make it pop out.

I look forward to people saying they didn't see this thread because it's stickied.

They should make them sticky or tell us in the newsletter, if they won't add it to the news section.

Sticky!

There's only a handful of sticky threads, and they're all at the top, so they're easy to see. You don't have to hunt for them.
And a new sticky thread is shown in Bold so it stands out.

Sticky.

Sticky. But I would prefer if the sticky section got cleaned up, there are way too many of them.

Other than perhaps the unofficial DVD covers, really don't see what could be removed from stickies.

Same here. Those who care can just mark the thread as favorite and ignore the rest of the stickies.

Or maybe pin one shared thread for all elistings and add update it by adding new messages (maybe even this one subj thread).
So it be at same time announce and delisting history megathread.

Sticky, please.

Sticky.

My preferred solution, though, would be to have a thread that only staff can post to, where each delisting would be a new post. That way it would show up clear as day in my favourite topics every time a delisting is announced.

Sticky

I have no preference.

However, I really wish that other users here accept the decision following this thread and stop discussing sticky vs not sticky in games delisting threads.