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Gust is "Gone".
Dec. 5th, 2014 07:41 pmApparently as of October 1st, the company responsible for the Atelier and Ar Tonelico series (Of which Ar Nosurge is a part of) is officially no more. They were bought out by Koei Tecmo back in 2011 iirc and they are now officially absorbed. That is to say that the Gust studio is now a direct part of KT.
I guess that buy-them-up-and-absorb-the-IP thing happens in Japan as well. Oh well, Gust was officially added to my boycott list at this point anyway, so I'll just transfer Koei Tecmo to the boycott list by association.
Gust I decided to add to it over Nosurge - although I don't think I've bothered with many Gust games since Ar Tonelico 3 which I STILL haven't played far enough to get to Phase 2. (Because I hate the horrid battle system implementation.) In Nosurge there's a bunch of bugs in the game and a further issue if you apply the patch prior to installing the actual game. The catch of course is that the patch is offered prior to the required install.
KT I have no problem adding to the list because they've likely been the guiding hand over the DLC whoring over the last few years, and with respect to Ar Nosurge, they apparently made the decision to remove a secret boss in the game. That secret boss is what unlocks your ability to change costumes as you earn them in the Soulspace (Essentially an implementation of the cosmosphere of Ar Tonelico).
But they left the tab in the status screen where you're able to change the costumes. Complete with it saying "Change Costume" as the purpose of the menu. With the boss gone, you can never unlock it in the NA release. I have no idea why they would do this. At all. If I see a paid unlock DLC for it later, I'm sure I'll rage over it.
It's like "Hi there, look what we cut out."
I think I'm going to have to write up a more detailed list of devs and publishers I don't want to buy games from.
*addition*
BTW, from what I gather, the reason Gust was bought out by KT was so that KT could do some social gaming projects with the Atelier series. So I suppose you could blame casual gaming trends for this.
I guess that buy-them-up-and-absorb-the-IP thing happens in Japan as well. Oh well, Gust was officially added to my boycott list at this point anyway, so I'll just transfer Koei Tecmo to the boycott list by association.
Gust I decided to add to it over Nosurge - although I don't think I've bothered with many Gust games since Ar Tonelico 3 which I STILL haven't played far enough to get to Phase 2. (Because I hate the horrid battle system implementation.) In Nosurge there's a bunch of bugs in the game and a further issue if you apply the patch prior to installing the actual game. The catch of course is that the patch is offered prior to the required install.
KT I have no problem adding to the list because they've likely been the guiding hand over the DLC whoring over the last few years, and with respect to Ar Nosurge, they apparently made the decision to remove a secret boss in the game. That secret boss is what unlocks your ability to change costumes as you earn them in the Soulspace (Essentially an implementation of the cosmosphere of Ar Tonelico).
But they left the tab in the status screen where you're able to change the costumes. Complete with it saying "Change Costume" as the purpose of the menu. With the boss gone, you can never unlock it in the NA release. I have no idea why they would do this. At all. If I see a paid unlock DLC for it later, I'm sure I'll rage over it.
It's like "Hi there, look what we cut out."
I think I'm going to have to write up a more detailed list of devs and publishers I don't want to buy games from.
*addition*
BTW, from what I gather, the reason Gust was bought out by KT was so that KT could do some social gaming projects with the Atelier series. So I suppose you could blame casual gaming trends for this.
