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Good for GOG, but I don't think having games still available after they're delisted is special. It would have been news if this didn't happen.
Edit: I mean you can still download the games, if you've already bought them, not that you can still buy them.
It doesn't happen all the time... Games being kept around is the exception not the rule...
Is it? Steam does it all the time. Afaik they only completely remove games (meaning you they get removed from your account), when they break some TOS stuff.
As for Blizzard themselves (since this article is about Warcraft 1&2), they still offer downloads for old titles. I can just download Warcraft 3 or Diablo 2 right now, even though they're remastered, and the old versions not for sale anymore.
You're not wrong... But there's a reason why game preservation has been in the news lately.