Frogwares games are getting removed from digital distribution platforms due to a dispute with publisher Concentrate Dwelling Interactive, as a policy states that the games can’t be transferred back to a developer that has ‘removed all of their games from the Concentrate catalog’.
Frogwares is the developer of the Sherlock Holmes series of video games, and released the Lovecraftian adventure game The Sinking City earlier this year. In an official statement, Frogwares explained that its games are getting delisted from digital shops due to a dispute with Concentrate Dwelling Interactive.
Concentrate Dwelling Interactive was accountable for the release and licensing of a collection of Frogwares games as multi-platform titles. Even though the two companies’ Publishing and Distribution Agreement has due to the fact ended, Concentrate Dwelling Interactive will not return the title IDs of the developer’s games to it. This refusal is in maintaining with a policy that Concentrate Dwelling Interactive communicated to Frogwares final week. ‘Focus has place in location a policy in accordance with which they will not transfer any title – the content material ID or title ID – belonging to any developer which has removed all of their games from the Concentrate catalog,’ it study.
Frogwares claims that this policy was not integrated in its contracts with Concentrate Dwelling Interactive, but since of it, the developer’s games will be taken down from all storefronts. Frogwares is attempting to develop new shop profiles and liaising with console shops to return the games back to the platforms. ‘We are unable to confirm if this can be completed and currently know that it will be not possible for particular games on prior gen, and really expensive for other folks as we will have to update the SDK and that requires months,’ Frogwares’ statement explained. ‘We are surely not going to give up, and will pursue this problem via the suitable channels.’
At present, Sherlock Holmes versus Jack The Ripper has been removed from the Xbox 360 shop, and The Testament of Sherlock Holmes and Magrunner: Dark Pulse are gone from PlayStation three and Xbox 360. Sherlock Holmes Crimes & Punishments is anticipated to disappear from Steam, PlayStation four, Xbox One particular, PlayStation three, and Xbox 360 on September 29 when its availability expires.