Developer Aspyr Media and writer Saber Interactive are going through a category motion lawsuit concerning the cancelled DLC for the Nintendo Swap port of Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic 2.
The lawsuit was filed on eighth July, as noticed by The Gamer, by a singular plaintiff on behalf of himself and sophistication members, outlined as “all individuals within the State of California who bought KOTOR for Nintendo in the course of the related statute of limitations interval, i.e. 4 years previous to the submitting of the Grievance till current”.
KOTOR 2 launched on eighth June 2023 for Swap. It was initially marketed with plans so as to add a fan-made mod which restores content material to the unique sport as DLC. On third June 2023, Aspyr introduced it was cancelling the Restored Content material DLC and provided a “complimentary” key from a collection of different Star Wars video games to those that had pre-purchased KOTOR 2.
In Mickelonis et al. v. Aspyr Media, Inc. and Saber Interactive, Inc., the plaintiff states he “felt fully duped” by Aspyr’s commercials claiming the DLC can be launched (the filed criticism might be learn on Reality In Promoting). “Plaintiff didn’t even play KOTOR after buying it,” the criticism reads, “as a substitute selecting to attend till the Restored Content material DLC was launched.”
The filed criticism additionally makes reference to the truth that refunds weren’t provided to pre-purchasers who modified their thoughts due to the cancelled DLC. Mickelonis alleges Aspyr Media and Saber Interactive deliberately deceived shoppers “with a view to artificially elevate gross sales revenues by promoting extra KOTOR video games and with the ability to market KOTOR at above-market costs primarily based on qualities and options that the sport merely didn’t possess”.
Aspyr and Saber now have till 4th October to reply to the criticism, which seeks a payout overlaying the plaintiff’s authorized charges, and to cease the 2 firms from “promoting and distributing KOTOR with the misleading and false promoting” as alleged.
