A brand new gamer lawsuit rises. Three months after Aspyr stated it was abandoning promised DLC for the remaster of Knights of the Outdated Republic II: The Sith Lords on Nintendo Swap, somebody is suing the writer for failing to make good on its unique promise or to supply a refund when that was not doable.
The category-action lawsuit (by way of The Gamer) was filed by Malachi Mickelonis earlier this summer season and accuses Aspyr of pretend promoting. He apparently purchased the sport however by no means really performed it. The lawsuit alleges he was ready for the “Restored Content material DLC” earlier than beginning the sport on Swap. Oops.
KotOR 2 got here to the Nintendo handheld hybrid on June 8, 2022, and the studio promised to finally add the “Restored Content material” as DLC for the sport down the street. Initially dropped at the PC model by way of mods, the “Restored Content material” pack is basically a fan-made “director’s reduce” of the beloved however a lot beleaguered 2004 Star Wars RPG. “It’ll drop in Q3 2022,” the studio tweeted on a number of events. It didn’t.
As an alternative, the studio introduced again in June of this yr that it was not shifting ahead with the DLC pack promised at launch. Aspyr supplied gamers free codes for the opposite remastered Star Wars video games on Swap as an apology. The information got here after the stories the studio was struggling with its deliberate, ground-up remake of the primary Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic for PlayStation 5. A yr later, the Texas-based studio might be in a good worse place as guardian firm Embracer begins to implode, shedding builders throughout its bloated portfolio of studios.
“[Malachi Mickelonis] felt utterly duped and was upset as a result of he had relied on Defendants’ representations that the Restored Content material DLC can be launched for KotOR,” the brand new lawsuit reads. “The truth is, Plaintiff didn’t even play KotOR after buying it, as a substitute selecting to attend till the Restored Content material DLC was launched. However Defendants by no means did. Plaintiff would doubtlessly be curious about buying different video games with Restored Content material DLC from Defendants’ sooner or later if they’ve the marketed content material, will not be deceptively marketed, and accordingly priced at honest market worth with out being artificially inflated as a result of misleading promoting.”
The category motion lawsuit means anybody else who purchased the sport can be a part of it, although it’s not clear who else has or will. KotOR 2 was $20 when it first got here out on Swap. It’s at present on sale for $7.50.
