was duel princess really banned from steam

[It just works]

if somebody knows why i would appreciate response

[Leriko]

Kinda reviving this thread, but qureate just announced on Twitter that Duel Princess's distribution on Nintendo Switch has been "suspended due to various reasons". I wonder what that means. Hopefully they don't have to change any content. They'll announce on their Twitter when distribution resumes, but here's the link to their announcement:
https://twitter.com/qureate/status/1486263228439019522

[Kerbastrar]

Still up on US eShop, so probably just a cero technicality

[davidb11]

Yeah. I can see it being a technicality.

[crunchyfrog]

Publicado originalmente por Kerbastrar:

Still up on US eShop, so probably just a cero technicality

Yup it usually is.

As I said earlier in this thread, when you look at all games that are presented as in development on any platform at any time, you'll find around 50% don't make it into release.

This has largely always been the case. You can look at sites like Unseen64 or The Cutting Room Floor for evidence of this.Also you'll see the reasons they were shot. And most of them are banal, boring business reasons.

Maybe a platform was at the end of its life and they canned it due to a new one coming out (as with Starfox 2 which was FULLY developed). Or maybe it's just that the style of game is past it's sell by date and other similar games didn't fare well, so they cut their losses.

Or even just the regular boring old things like licencing, publishing or other dull reasons - could be that they haven't got a good pubishing partner for a given region, or there's issues with liencing. Many games have been removed from steam just because there's a TINY bit of advertising or product placement in there and the publishers don't want to splash out on fixing it.

The banal is usually the best reason.

[Brother Erxkum]

Publicado originalmente por Kerbastrar:

Still up on US eShop, so probably just a cero technicality

Still on the EU eShop.

[Kerbastrar]

Publicado originalmente por Erxkum:

Publicado originalmente por Kerbastrar:

Still up on US eShop, so probably just a cero technicality

Still on the EU eShop.

It's gone from the EU eShop now, so looks like they lied to PEGI as well. Guess that means they don't have the benefit of the doubt anymore that they're telling the absolute truth about the Steam version, at least for me

[Brother Erxkum]

Publicado originalmente por Kerbastrar:

Publicado originalmente por Erxkum:

Still on the EU eShop.

It's gone from the EU eShop now, so looks like they lied to PEGI as well. Guess that means they don't have the benefit of the doubt anymore that they're telling the absolute truth about the Steam version, at least for me

Welp. I wonder what was the cause of all this.

[my new friend]

This just keeps getting juicier.
https://www.dualshockers.com/waifu-jrpg-duel-princess-unlisted-from-switch-eshop-in-japan/

Translation: Nintendo Switch's #Duel Princess has been suspended due to various reasons. We will make an announcement with this account when the distribution is resumed.
Customers who have already purchased can re-download. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused to our users.

https://twitter.com/qureate/status/1486263228439019522

[Kerbastrar]

Publicado originalmente por Erxkum:

Publicado originalmente por Kerbastrar:

It's gone from the EU eShop now, so looks like they lied to PEGI as well. Guess that means they don't have the benefit of the doubt anymore that they're telling the absolute truth about the Steam version, at least for me

Welp. I wonder what was the cause of all this.

They probably hid content from the ratings boards for a lower rating. It was rated PEGI 16 during the short time it was up, which seemed extremely leinent coming from them

[davidb11]

Wow. THis is pretty wild.

[Kerbastrar]

Publicado originalmente por my new friend:

This just keeps getting juicier.
https://www.dualshockers.com/waifu-jrpg-duel-princess-unlisted-from-switch-eshop-in-japan/

Translation: Nintendo Switch's #Duel Princess has been suspended due to various reasons. We will make an announcement with this account when the distribution is resumed.
Customers who have already purchased can re-download. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused to our users.

https://twitter.com/qureate/status/1486263228439019522

OK now it's gone from the US eShop. Guess I was pulling up a cached page before when checking

kek Qureate definitely dropped the ball with this one. If they lied to CERO/PEGI/ESRB, it's probable they tried to lie to Valve as well

[davidb11]

Yeah. THis is really wacky.

[Spawn of Totoro]

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

Yeah. THis is really wacky.

It is also why I said we don't have enough information to judge one way or another.

Still don't, but at least it is a bit more information then what we had before.

[Kerbastrar]

So one of the theories going around right now is that Qureate only filled out a IARC questionaire to receive a rating for multiple territories. Obviously these questionaires can't cover for all types of content, and several territories probably contacted Nintendo to pull it until they can have humans review the content

Qureate is gonna be feeling this one for awhile, especially if their incompetency did infact tank a Steam release

[Aries Stellar]

Someone call Mr Bones. This ride isn't ending yet.