I mean, you had 11 years to buy it if you really wanted to!
I understand this as a kneejerk response. But I mean like, it comes down to this.
I wanted to prioritize going for all the achievements in MCC. That will probably take me a while. After that I figured I'd probably end up also going for the 360 games because I just really like Halo, and recently my buddy, who has gotten all 7000G in MCC, was thinking about going back and getting the 360 ones as well.
Money is finite. And there are lots of games I want to try and if I had unlimited money I'd buy all the games I want. But I don't have unlimited money, so if I want to play all the things I want to play, then I need to be somewhat strategic. I need to look at sales and buy which thing I think will get delisted first and then play them all in the order I feel like. No way in hell would I have expected them to delist the halo games. That just does not make any sense why they would even do that. Seriously who was that hurting? So yeah, no way I expected this at all. I don't think I should have been expected to.
I go back and find out about old games all the time too. Some of them are really damn good. I didn't really know I cared about WRPGs or whatever Dragon Age is, but I played Dragon Age Origins since it was free on EA Origin in like 2014 and boy I loved it. I've played even older games and liked them too. That one in particular came out of nowhere and threw off the order I wanted to play the games I had in my backlog at the time, because it's a really long game.
But yeah I mean I don't feel like this is unreasonable of me. Every time someone makes a comment like yours I just scratch my head. Like, sure, if I ONLY cared about Halo then it would be a no brainer to grab them all. But I'm often playing all different kinds of games and I have to prioritize both what I feel like playing at the time, which, is a ton of different things, and also what I think is going to get delisted. A lot of times if I am currently playing a game, and am looking at what to play next. I'll sometimes have a few games that I'm interested in playing. I don't just want to play one or the other. I generally would like to try both. So if one is getting delisted, I'll probably buy that one first and then buy the others after. Then by the time I'm done with my current game I'll have the luxury of doing whichever order.
And also, I personally did not have 11 years. I didn't get my xbox 360 until 2013, and barely played any mainstream games at all before that, so there is a huge swathe of games that I "had 11+ years to buy" that I haven't gotten to. I physically cannot have.
I will get to all the games I like eventually, but that takes time. I can't just treat my backlog like a chore list that I have to play in order from oldest to newest and only buy old games until I've made it through to new. Going back and forth is much more refreshing and fun for me. I don't feel like this is all that unreasonable. I have a life and a ton of games to play and I'm the kind of person who likes to play lots of different games to completion, and sometimes multiple times. I feel like I'm allowed to be annoyed when something is needlessly removed from purchase that I couldn't have predicted in my attempts to evaluate which game to buy first.