If you don’t remember the whole story about Global Agenda, you could be forgiven for pushing it out of your mind; it’s a bit of a sad one. The first game out of Hi-Rez Studios was not a massive success compared to the studio’s later titles, and with more profitable releases from the studio, the game’s support dropped and it was quietly removed from Steam. The game is still playable right now for people who download it directly, but it’s not there for Steam players to find. Even players who already downloaded it found it gone… until this weekend.
We’ve had some reports (confirmed by our staff) that the game is indeed showing up in Steam libraries once again, although as of this writing it’s not showing up on the main store page. (Searching for it uncovers a demo page that does not actually load.) This could all just be a matter of database maintenance for Steam, or it could be a subtle hint that something is on the horizon. There’s nothing to do but speculate; the last update on the game’s status was that the servers are going to be kept online for the forseeable future, but the studio does need to make plans for a shutdown and has no intention of selling the servers to another company or the fans.
