Stevieboy Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Konami has requested Skullgirls be removed from PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, according to Mike Zaimont, design director of the indie fighting game. During a Twitch stream Zaimont, who worked with indie studio Reverge Labs to develop the title, revealed the game would likely vanish from PSN and Xbox Live soon at the behest of Konami. "We were associated with Konami. We soon will not be associated with Konami but they have managed to do something," said Zaimont, during the stream, "here's the deal: Konami has requested - well, it's not a request, they said 'do the thing' - that Skullgirls be delisted from PSN on December 17... As far as Xbox goes, they have also requested that it be pulled from Xbox on the 31st. "I don't want to cast any aspersions," he continued. "but Konami submitted their request for that, didn't tell us and we found out from Sony after the request was approved. It doesn't make any sense for them to have submitted that request because they make money of every copy that is sold with their logo on it." According to Zaimont, Konami has refused to extend the deadline on the removal of the PSN version. "[Co-publisher] Autumn Games asked if Konami would extend the deadline to the 31st and Konami said Sony wouldn't let us. Then Sony asked Konami if they would extend the deadline and they said Autumn won't let us. Then they asked [Konami] together and we haven't got a response. "I will any value judgements out of this but that's amazingly annoying." Skullgirls was due for new character DLC and balance Tweaks, and Zaimont has said he is working with Autumn Games to resubmit the game independent of Konami. "I have been preparing basically a new game. It's still Skullgirls but it's published by Autumn," he said. "We are going to get this build together and we need to wait for some numbers arrive so that it's not Konami's numbers anymore, and then we give them this build. If it gets through QA, then it will come out with Squigly and all the beta changes pretty soon. If not then it won't until after everyone comes back from Winter Break." In regards to the different Sony territories, Zaimont said he is unable to say what will become of Skullgirl outside of the US as he does not have a Sony contact in other regions. "There are three Sonys: Sony US, Sony Japan and Sony the rest of the world. We will be submitting the Sony US build because they were the ones with a very nice account representative that told us what was going on... We don't know anyone at Sony the rest of the world, so it will probably disappear. "In Japan it wasn't published by Konami, so they can't do this there. We will be making a patch that the Japanese company will be able to submit." Although the game probably will still be accessible to those that have already downloaded it, Zaimont says he has not been able to ascertain whether the game will still be playable online. "I don't think that means it deletes it off your hard drive, but no one at Sony could tell me if you can still play online because this has never happened before [to a game with online play]. Posting on the Skullgirls IndieGoGo page Peter Bartholow, an associate of co-developer Lab Zero Games, explained the situation further. "As it's been alluded to in the past, things have not always been hunky-dory between Autumn Games and Konami," he said. "Around the time of the last update, it became clear that it would not be possible to proceed with the new patches as long as Konami was involved with Skullgirls." "So, as of today, Autumn and Konami have terminated their business relationship, allowing us to move forward with the PS3 and Xbox 360 patch in a more timely and cost-effective manner." Autumn Games will become the new publisher of Skullgirls on PSN and it is "working with MarvelousAQL to secure a replacement XBLA publishing slot". Japanese versions should be relatively unaffected. "Since Konami was the distributor in the US and EU and not Japan, this shouldn't have any profound effect on the release of the Japanese PS3 patch," Bartholow explained. "However, before we can finalize the Japanese PS3 patch we need to get the US and EU patches completed. We're working closely with our Japanese distributor, CyberFront, to make sure that all of the patches land as close to each other as possible. "We apologize that these deep business dealings have come between you and the first character your collective efforts have funded, but we're confident that subsequent patches will go more smoothly with this all of this behind us." Source: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/441873/konami-asks-for-skullgirls-to-be-removed-from-psn-and-xbox-live/?cid=OTC-RSS&attr=CVG-News-RSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FayeLeeKitty Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 I never even tried playing Skullgirls. That would be a bummer to current players if online play no longer functioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LabwisCheesecake Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 Wait WHAT!? This is so stupid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukezaemon32 Posted December 10, 2013 Share Posted December 10, 2013 (edited) Judging from the Japanese Playstation Store as of a few days ago, I think Konami is washing away Skullgirls in favor of their Metal Gear and Castlevania. I hope not, because my PC is incapable of running the game at full speed, even with the backgrounds set to 2D and a reduced screen size. Edited December 10, 2013 by Sukezaemon32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful84 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Well, thank goodness we got Skullgirls Encore now. It...Was...Just...A...Moment's...Time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lporiginalg Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 If Konami is hosting the servers, and that is very likely the case, then no you won't be able to play online anymore. It's kind of sad the guy wouldn't do a bit of research on that before doing a press interview. It could be easy to paint Konami as a big villain screwing the little guy here, and perhaps that is the case, but we have not nearly enough details, so I won't speculate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xxleonardo97xX Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Nobody cares, stupid game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful84 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Nobody cares, stupid game Please elaborate as to how this game is "stupid"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memnoch Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 not sure the question is worth asking to be honest nobody cares was bad enough ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful84 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 not sure the question is worth asking to be honest nobody cares was bad enough ... Exactly! Especially given the "fact" that the game is so stupid that they cared enough to the take the time to call it that. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xxleonardo97xX Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Please elaborate as to how this game is "stupid"... It's lame mate I simply can't like it, but it's just my opinion, thus nobody cares either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goekie Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Nobody cares, stupid game This is a good fighting game, anyone who knows a thing or two about fighting games will praise it for it's depth and humour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xxleonardo97xX Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 This is a good fighting game, anyone who knows a thing or two about fighting games will praise it for it's depth and humour. That's the problem I suck at fighting games......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorry777 Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 At least we all got encore - it is a nice little fighter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goekie Posted March 24, 2014 Share Posted March 24, 2014 Nobody cares, stupid game That's the problem I suck at fighting games......... Just because you aren't great at fighting games doesn't mean its a stupid game and that no one cares 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merciful84 Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 (edited) That's the problem I suck at fighting games......... Where there you go! So its not that the game is "lame", "stupid", or "irrelevant"....you just suck at it Edited March 25, 2014 by merciful84 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacJunegrand Posted March 25, 2014 Share Posted March 25, 2014 I'm severely confused by the mention of Indiegogo. Does this mean that this game was crowdfunded? Then what the heck has Konami to do with it? Did these guys get it crowfunded but they still decided to get a third party to publish it? Because that's kind of the opposite of what crowdfunding is for. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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