Several EA and Codemasters classics suddenly delisted on Steam, with no warning

Six EA and Codemasters games have suddenly been delisted from Steam, seemingly without any warning. Each of the games was unceremoniously taken from Valve’s storefront earlier this week, on the same day, making them much harder to purchase going forward. All of the games also have an update on SteamDB on Friday March 14 that reads “app_retired_publisher_request,” with very little else given.