Hope that RCT2 get also notification before being removed eventually. This part is still not in my shelf.
I feel sad everytime when games being removed from catalogue.

Which games got removed recent months then? :)

2017 Nov GOG remove Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth without saying anything.
2018 Feb GOG remove Death Gate without saying anything.
2018 Feb GOG remove Softporn Adventure without saying anything.

The worst part is, GOG removed Softporn Adventure from owners' library and never apology.
GOG Support is super slow about the issue,

Hmm, so this list isn't totally up to date: http://www.gogwiki.com/wiki/List_of_games_removed_from_GOG#2018

I normally check that page if anything changed.

I do have Softporn Adventure still in my library though. Is there a topic about this somewhere?

For Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was some info: https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_call_of_cthulhu_dark_corners_of_the_earth_b7169/post203

And I found two topics about Death Gate. That one went fast as well. Like CoC: DCotE... https://www.gog.com/forum/general/game_catalog_count_is_down_by_onewhat_happened_to_death_gate

One forum user confirmed that he/she have 9 days that can not download Softporn Adventure.
I myself have over 168 hours(aka over one week) can not download Softporn Adventure.

Just google it with site:gog.com should find threads about the issue.

Anything currently missing from that page should be mentioned in my topic that tracks that page.
Also, apparently that wiki might be going bye-bye pretty soon.

RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 has a complicated history.

Atari/Infogrames commissioned Frontier to develop it after they completed the two expansion passes for RCT2, Chris Sawyer was attached but primarily as an advisor/consultant. The game was created on Frontier's in-house engine (Cobra) which they still use to this day albeit more modernised. Frontier own the copyrights to the code/assets and receive a royalty off every unit sold (as does Chris Sawyer).

Fast forward to 2013 and Atari are in the midst of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings trying to sell off their assets, their license to the RCT franchise included, the price tag $3.5m. I expect Frontier would have been interested but at that time they were putting all their money into the pot along with Kickstarter money to self-publish Elite Dangerous so they didn't have that kind of cash on hand at that time. However in October 2013 Frontier signed a deal with Atari taking a drop in their royalty rates in exchange for publishing rights on platforms the game wasn't already released on. This was how Frontier managed to publish the game on iOS back in 2015.

Fast forward to January of last year and Frontier sued Atari for a royalties shortfall of $2.2m. Whilst we don't know exactly what happened in this court case Frontier stated the following in their half-yearly statement to their shareholders about 3 months ago: The timing of this action would seem to imply that perhaps Frontier got more than money in that settlement and they themselves will be becoming the new distributors of the game. This could be a good thing as they still have the code/assets/engine so a remaster could be a possibility. At the very least updating to take advantage of multi-threaded CPUs.

Interesting times

I believe this was the main thread on it:

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/game_catalog_count_is_down_by_onewhat_happened_to_death_gate/post1

There were a couple different threads running on it.

It was returned after a few days.

Thank you for the informative post!

Thank you very much for the detailed answer.What a mess this is.This probably explains them only pulling RC 3.Still sad to see it leaving GOG :/.Cheers

Wow, so that's why Softporn Adventure shows up as "NEW" in my ganes library right now?

The fact that they did this and not apologize to affected users is messed up and completely unprofessional.

I somehow missed your very detailed explanation when this thread was active. Luckily this latest necro, by SmashManiac, allowed me to catch up. Thank you for clearing things out! I'm very curious to see what happens next! +1

I guess almost a month has gone by but I don't read the forums and missed this news. Delistings are bound to happen from time to time, but has GOG ever pulled a purchased item from someone's catalog?

I currently make zero effort to download offline copies of my purchases, and wonder if I need to start doing so.

They're pulled from the catalogue and no longer for sale. They're never pulled from your library. You're free to download them today, tomorrow, for as long as GOG in in business.

Colin McRae Rally was going to be pulled from the library of owners but GoG seemed to have worked something out with the IP owners. Pretty rare case where it was discovered that the other party who dealt with GoG never had the distribution rights in the first place - therefore GoG never had a right to sell it.

If something like that happened again you could theoretically lose the game from the library - I assume GoG would refund you in that case though. It is pretty rare for something like that to happen (only once in the history of GoG).