Aspyr Fixes Manly Female Statue In Upcoming 'Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver 1&2 Remastered'
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Don't bandy about "apparently" too liberally. For all we know, they wanted to make sure Queen Elizabeth wasn't black and so were fired because they didn't meet the DEI quota. The error is on Firaxis that console players didn't have access to bugfixes or DLC for firing the game's support company without having a replacement ready, not on the company that was providing it and then fired. Of course they aren't going to continue fixing bugs for it if they were fired.
I'm sure they're a plenty disfunctional company, all companies are and they did make the statue Modern Audiences-friendly and defaced in the first place, but your premise all on a "apparently" is not the best way to go about things.
I think both parties share blame.
Firaxis, the legacy company continuing on the iconic Sid Meier's Civilization IP is just awful when it comes to community relations.
They released tons of broken and buggy Day 1 paid Season Pass DLC on both PC & console and simply refused to acknowledge the fuckups or rush hotfixes until their next few patch release cycles. PC users at least were able to revert some of the gamebreaking bugs with mods. But console users were completely at the mercy of corporate who was radio silent for months and years.
Aspyr's initial Civ6 base game port to consoles was actually very well done give early 2010s hardware limitations on last gen consoles and needing to turn a mouse & keyboard, heavy infographic game into one that could be played on the couch with a controller.
The problems with the third party developer came later as console-specific problems emerged with half-finished season pass DLC buying dropped every few months back in 2020-2021.
Firaxis would simply wash their hands of all inquiries re: console specific problems, namely late game stability issues as the Civ DLC became more bloated and the old hardware couldn't handle all the assets on anything but the tiniest of map settings.
Corporate would simply state that they weren't responsible for the console ports that contained all their branding & IPs and instead users should directly contact the faceless Aspyr.
In Dec 2023, two & half years after Firaxis had unofficially stopped releasing new content & supporting their 2016 IP, they out of the blue announced a whole slew of new semi-free DLC content for PC users to bridge the gap that Civ 7 hadn't been announced yet and was behind schedule (Civ 7 has since been announced midway through 2024 and is releasing in Feb 2025)
But part of the Dec 2023 new DLC announcement was that it was only coming to PC because Aspyr was so behind on other non-Civ projects that Firaxis was severing ties. This with a third-party developer who hadn't patched a single bug on console since April 2021.
I'm not sure how it came about, but Firaxis did quietly drop the new DLC content for consoles 8 months later in Aug 2024 but without most bugs from 3 1/2 years ago addressed. Previously with the Dec 2023 PC announcement of bridging DLC content, they implied that there was no expectation that console players would ever see any future ports or bug fixes again.