Vigil's last game will no longer be sold digitally at the end of the month.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/33680
Action-adventure game Darksiders II will be taken down from the Wii U eShop in Europe on March 31, 2013, according to The Nintendo Channel.
European users who have already bought the title digitally will still be able to re-download it from the eShop, but the game cannot be purchased after this date. Darksiders II has been on sale since launching alongside the system on November 30, and the reasons for its upcoming removal from the store are currently unknown.
This news follows the closure of the developer, Vigil Games, in January, which occurred after owner and publisher THQ filed for bankruptcy and auctioned off its various assets and subsidiaries. Neither Vigil nor the Darksiders franchise were sold during the initial auction, and as of the time of writing, THQ is still seeking a buyer for the Darksiders property.
Their really should be a clause in all the digital game services that a game should be available till explicitaly told to be put down. The royalties can just acrue with a holding fee.
in cases like DKC we should see an expiration date
Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...in cases like DKC we should see an expiration date
Huh?
Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...
with rare, the company that originally made the games and is now M$'s bitch, if i gave you a character, told you to make a game with him, who owns the rights to that game...Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...
I must be missing something here. What contract?
with rare, the company that originally made the games and is now M$'s bitch, if i gave you a character, told you to make a game with him, who owns the rights to that game...Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...
I must be missing something here. What contract?
"Clearly"? You dont know why it was pulled, you shouldnt assume things.what explanation do you have professor,
yes but the question of the hour is who holds the rights to redistribute the original game at a later date, the characters are owned by the big N but what of the games they appear in that were created by Rare...with rare, the company that originally made the games and is now M$'s bitch, if i gave you a character, told you to make a game with him, who owns the rights to that game...Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...
I must be missing something here. What contract?
But surely Nintendo owns those characters. Otherwise they wouldn't be releasing DKCR 3D?
with rare, the company that originally made the games and is now M$'s bitch, if i gave you a character, told you to make a game with him, who owns the rights to that game...Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...
I must be missing something here. What contract?
yes but the question of the hour is who holds the rights to redistribute the original game at a later date, the characters are owned by the big N but what of the games they appear in that were created by Rare...with rare, the company that originally made the games and is now M$'s bitch, if i gave you a character, told you to make a game with him, who owns the rights to that game...Donkey Kong Country was clearly pulled due to the end of a contract, it would be nice to know when that happens so i can pick it up beforehand...
I must be missing something here. What contract?
But surely Nintendo owns those characters. Otherwise they wouldn't be releasing DKCR 3D?
Some of the THQ games got yanked off PSN as well, so this might be a European regulation about the operation of a company in bankruptcy.
when you make nothing but kinect sports, what are you then
Rare is owned by Microsoft, doesnt make them their bitch.
