Yakuza series’ GOG release removed credits for PC port devs and series creator Toshihiro Nagoshi

The whole Yakuza sequence was not too long ago launched on DRM-free PC video games retailer GOG, but it surely appears a lot of devs have been faraway from the credit.

Usually video games releasing DRM-free is kind of a very good factor, because it means you personal the sport while not having to fret about having a retailer shopper to run it. Just lately, Yakuza 0 via 6 was launched on GOG, a website the place all video games are DRM-free, with your entire sequence receiving a steep low cost too. It is an awesome deal, truthfully, but it surely does include one caveat – as noticed by Reddit person Timo653 on the Yakuza subreddit, each Lab42 and QLOC have been faraway from the credit. On high of that, sequence creator Toshihiro Nagoshi and producer Daisuke Sato have additionally been faraway from the credit, in addition to a lot of others.

The 2 builders had been answerable for dealing with the PC ports for the entire video games (Lab42 porting Yakuza 0 and Kiwami 1, QLOC porting Kiwami 2 to Yakuza 6). So it is clearly fairly unusual that they’d each be faraway from the credit contemplating they’re the rationale the video games are even on PC within the first place.

It is also clearly equally dodgy that the creator of the sequence Nagoshi, in addition to one of many lead producers, Sato, have been eliminated. Again in October 2021, Nagoshi introduced he was leaving Yakuza developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio to kind his personal crew, Nagoshi Studio, and Sato left with him to assist begin the brand new studio.

What is not clear is that if this was a purposeful omission from RGG or not, although it might be a bit needlessly malicious, particularly because it would not even be capable of promote these video games on GOG with out Lab42 or QLOC. Let’s hope everybody is correctly credited with the discharge of Like a Dragon: Gaiden later this yr.