Why no AC franchise bundle? Why no PC ports?

[Gerbera]

Why do you hate money bandai???

[Zynryuk]

To my understanding (what I recall hearing), it is too much of a jumbled 'who owns what' mess, on the IPs.

[Gerbera]

Originally posted by Zynryuk:

To my understanding (what I recall hearing), it is too much of a jumbled 'who owns what' mess, on the IPs.

Oh ok thanks!

Yikes tho that is indeed a confusing situation to be in.

[Kain]

I just think FROM don't see the value, and it's the most important factor regardless of who owns what.

If publisher hell was a concern there would be a compilation in Japan at least since From is publisher too there.

[Aldain]

Originally posted by Gerbera:

Originally posted by Zynryuk:

To my understanding (what I recall hearing), it is too much of a jumbled 'who owns what' mess, on the IPs.

Oh ok thanks!

Yikes tho that is indeed a confusing situation to be in.

You think that's bad? Look up what happened with the Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons franchise, holy crap that was a mess.

[azureskynumber5]

A lot of different publishers involved in the series, so it's gonna be a complicated mess to try that.

FWIW, I do support the idea of an anthology release and ports.

[The Colour Rose]

The things i would do for a AC 2 on steam a remake or remaster

[Algester]

you basically have 3 major "regions" for the games
NA, EU and australia
Sony owns the AC1 license worldwide so they are free to put it into any PS platform they chose to distribute
here where things get crazy AC:PP is licensed by ASCII Entertainment (sub of new Kadokawa and the former name of agetec),
MoA-Last Raven is by agetec (largely NA)

AC2 is licensed by Ubisoft for EU its expansion another age is owned by Metro3D
story largely goes the same for AC3 (agetec for NA, Metro3D for EU)
for Silent Line agetec was the distributor for NA and EU this lasts till Nexus

Formula Front has Agetec for NA, 505 games for EU, Red Ants entertainment for AU (land down under ay?) the PS2 version was never officially localized so thats free game

Ninebreaker to Last Raven has 505 Games for EU distribution this marks the end of 3rd gen shenanigans

AC4 is licensed by Sega (505 for EU), its expansion ACfA is licensed by Ubisoft (world wide)
marks the end of 4th gen

5th gen is easier cause licensed for intl release is controlled by BAMCO (ACV-ACVD)

all AC games however are distributed by From Software in Japan, and the gen 3 portable games (AC3P,AC:SLP,AC:LRP)

just to remind everyone agetec is largely to this day a defunct company we do not know how ♥♥♥♥♥ the scenario is due to this

which largely means if From Soft will make a mega AC compilation it will most likely than not be region locked to Steam Japan (basically Ciel noSurge by K-T) and will be in Japanese only.

but the games available to the market would be the portable "mainline games" as they are translated

[REhorror]

Originally posted by Algester:

you basically have 3 major "regions" for the games
NA, EU and australia
Sony owns the AC1 license worldwide so they are free to put it into any PS platform they chose to distribute
here where things get crazy AC:PP is licensed by ASCII Entertainment (sub of new Kadokawa and the former name of agetec),
MoA-Last Raven is by agetec (largely NA)

AC2 is licensed by Ubisoft for EU its expansion another age is owned by Metro3D
story largely goes the same for AC3 (agetec for NA, Metro3D for EU)
for Silent Line agetec was the distributor for NA and EU this lasts till Nexus

Formula Front has Agetec for NA, 505 games for EU, Red Ants entertainment for AU (land down under ay?) the PS2 version was never officially localized so thats free game

Ninebreaker to Last Raven has 505 Games for EU distribution this marks the end of 3rd gen shenanigans

AC4 is licensed by Sega (505 for EU), its expansion ACfA is licensed by Ubisoft (world wide)
marks the end of 4th gen

5th gen is easier cause licensed for intl release is controlled by BAMCO (ACV-ACVD)

all AC games however are distributed by From Software in Japan, and the gen 3 portable games (AC3P,AC:SLP,AC:LRP)

just to remind everyone agetec is largely to this day a defunct company we do not know how ♥♥♥♥♥ the scenario is due to this

which largely means if From Soft will make a mega AC compilation it will most likely than not be region locked to Steam Japan (basically Ciel noSurge by K-T) and will be in Japanese only.

but the games available to the market would be the portable "mainline games" as they are translated

This is a good post.
I wonder if there are some ways to solve this issue, either Bamco or From somehow re-buying all the licenses.

[Gerbera]

Originally posted by REhorror:

Originally posted by Algester:

you basically have 3 major "regions" for the games
NA, EU and australia
Sony owns the AC1 license worldwide so they are free to put it into any PS platform they chose to distribute
here where things get crazy AC:PP is licensed by ASCII Entertainment (sub of new Kadokawa and the former name of agetec),
MoA-Last Raven is by agetec (largely NA)

AC2 is licensed by Ubisoft for EU its expansion another age is owned by Metro3D
story largely goes the same for AC3 (agetec for NA, Metro3D for EU)
for Silent Line agetec was the distributor for NA and EU this lasts till Nexus

Formula Front has Agetec for NA, 505 games for EU, Red Ants entertainment for AU (land down under ay?) the PS2 version was never officially localized so thats free game

Ninebreaker to Last Raven has 505 Games for EU distribution this marks the end of 3rd gen shenanigans

AC4 is licensed by Sega (505 for EU), its expansion ACfA is licensed by Ubisoft (world wide)
marks the end of 4th gen

5th gen is easier cause licensed for intl release is controlled by BAMCO (ACV-ACVD)

all AC games however are distributed by From Software in Japan, and the gen 3 portable games (AC3P,AC:SLP,AC:LRP)

just to remind everyone agetec is largely to this day a defunct company we do not know how ♥♥♥♥♥ the scenario is due to this

which largely means if From Soft will make a mega AC compilation it will most likely than not be region locked to Steam Japan (basically Ciel noSurge by K-T) and will be in Japanese only.

but the games available to the market would be the portable "mainline games" as they are translated

This is a good post.
I wonder if there are some ways to solve this issue, either Bamco or From somehow re-buying all the licenses.

Most likely aint gonna happen after their metaverse disaster.

[Kain]

Originally posted by Algester:

you basically have 3 major "regions" for the games
NA, EU and australia
Sony owns the AC1 license worldwide so they are free to put it into any PS platform they chose to distribute
here where things get crazy AC:PP is licensed by ASCII Entertainment (sub of new Kadokawa and the former name of agetec),
MoA-Last Raven is by agetec (largely NA)

AC2 is licensed by Ubisoft for EU its expansion another age is owned by Metro3D
story largely goes the same for AC3 (agetec for NA, Metro3D for EU)
for Silent Line agetec was the distributor for NA and EU this lasts till Nexus

Formula Front has Agetec for NA, 505 games for EU, Red Ants entertainment for AU (land down under ay?) the PS2 version was never officially localized so thats free game

Ninebreaker to Last Raven has 505 Games for EU distribution this marks the end of 3rd gen shenanigans

AC4 is licensed by Sega (505 for EU), its expansion ACfA is licensed by Ubisoft (world wide)
marks the end of 4th gen

5th gen is easier cause licensed for intl release is controlled by BAMCO (ACV-ACVD)

all AC games however are distributed by From Software in Japan, and the gen 3 portable games (AC3P,AC:SLP,AC:LRP)

just to remind everyone agetec is largely to this day a defunct company we do not know how ♥♥♥♥♥ the scenario is due to this

which largely means if From Soft will make a mega AC compilation it will most likely than not be region locked to Steam Japan (basically Ciel noSurge by K-T) and will be in Japanese only.

but the games available to the market would be the portable "mainline games" as they are translated

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, nice post.

[Kain]

Still, I believe where there is a will there is a way, specially if you remaster a game. But sadly, I just don't see the demand, we are already a minority just for knowing the previous games exist.

[Bobo]

Fortunately the old games are available on PC including Linux thanks to stuff like PCSX2 and RPCS3.

[Kain]

And better yet, with true analog mods.

[Getsu Fuma]

Originally posted by Bobo:

Fortunately the old games are available on PC including Linux thanks to stuff like PCSX2 and RPCS3.

Sadly gen 5 needs the 360 emulator to work properly so that gen is not playable on linux.