Retail Copies pulled?

If they are still doing hard copies and if so; have they pulled them from retail shelves (especially in non-game stores; like Wal-Mart)?

i would expect hard copies still exist, but they are rarer to find in stores because they more or less stopped with hard copies once the game went to the hybrid model

the most recent hard copy is going rogue

You could still find the Collector's Edition of Tabula Rasa in stores even a month after the game shut down and you could find copies of Asheron's Call 2's expansion pack for an additional year after the game was shut down.

Hard copies of City of Heroes may be hard to find simply because they probably stopped shipping them out awhile ago (when the game went F2P), but if you looked hard enough you could still find some. Most likely at stores that carry a lot of games.

I walked into a Gamestation in 2010 and found a copy of Auto Assault and Tabula Rasa sitting on the shelf.

Is it legal to sell software (at retail) that is essentially nonfunctional and lacking support (after Nov 30)?

Once they stop publishing and providing support for a piece of software, doesn't it become abandonware?

Still plenty copies of Going Rogue on Ebay. Considering that you can still find boxed versions of Neocron 1 out there (which was discontinued at least six years ago) i suspect there will be boxes of CoX out there for some time.

Not sure what you're really getting at here though. Are you looking at filing some sort of suit against NCSoft? Once the copies are sold to retailers it's up to the retailer to try to get their money back (something I can't see) or to remunerate the consumer for purchasing a dead item.

The store would likely be required to refund the purchase price of it.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I walked into a Gamestop to see if they had any time cards. They did and some CoX stuff. The problem is in the Gamestop database the SKU numbers has been pulled so even if the store has them in stock, they can't sell it to you. My best advice is go to Amazon and hope for the best.

I haven't seen any copies of CoH at Walmart in over a year. Basically since Going Rogue was pulled. Doesn't mean that somewhere it won't happen, because I can recall a case where hardcpoies of another cancelled MMO were still in the store past server shutdown.

Thanks for the replies.

I'm trying to find out so I can let my retailer know (assuming they still have it in stock and haven't been told).

And I was hoping the abandonware thing could work in the favor of those in our community looking for ways to acquire portions of the software.

Only god knows how many years independent retailers/people will be trying to sell their copies of CoH on Amazon to suckers.

You can still get copies of Auto Assault, Dungeon Runners, and Tabula Rasa from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Auto-Assault-Limited-DVD-Rom-Pc/dp/B000AFKDE8/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1346974668&sr= 1-1&keywords=Auto+Assault

http://www.amazon.com/dungeon-runners-PC/dp/B001F3UXBW/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1346974626&sr=8-3&keywords=Dungeon+runners

http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Garriotts-Tabula-Collectors-Edition-Pc/dp/B000RLO7M4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1346974525&sr=8-4&keywords=tabula+rasa

I haven't seen a copy in a store since summer last year. It was also nearly impossible to find time cards outside of the holidays but I did still see the old game card at a smaller BestBuy.