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I believe it could assist to supply a bit extra context as to what’s going on.

Method again in 2004, a recreation referred to as KOTOR 2 shipped and was performed by numerous gamers. Many gamers didn’t just like the ending, however the recreation had been in improvement for lower than a 12 months and Obsidian have been on the hook to ship the sport by the deadline. The sport was regarded by many gamers as a flawed gem.

Years later, modders would uncover an entire bunch of unfinished endgame content material in [KOTOR 2’s original files]. A few of them collaborated to unlock, fill out, debug, and end that content material and restore it. This was launched for the PC as an unofficial fan mod referred to as The Sith Lords Restored Content material Modification in 2009 and has had a number of updates since.

In 2015 Aspyr Media, a smaller recreation writer and developer, obtained the rights to port previous Bioware video games and started releasing titles like KOTOR, KOTOR 2, and Jade Empire to platforms like iOS, Linux, and Steam. It was round this time that Aspyr started working with the mod staff accountable for the Restored Content material Mod talked about above, all in hopes of bringing the mod to those different platforms. The DLC was by no means actually Aspyr’s work, it was the mod staff working with Aspyr to convey that content material to Aspyr’s Change port of KOTOR 2. Eight years later, Aspyr introduced that issues had fallen by means of and the Restored Content material DLC was cancelled.

It feels like what occurred was that one thing important fell aside alongside the way in which and there was actually no solution to full the work in a well timed and authorized trend. One of many unique modders posted to reddit after the announcement was made and mentioned “Aspyr did nothing flawed. Quote me on that. Disgrace it ended the way in which it did… I’ve nothing however good issues to say about Aspyr and our cooperation over the previous eight years”. I think that, had the DLC been completable inside cheap circumstances, they’d have executed so. However there’s numerous potential points that might have stopped them – the license might have expired, it might have been a Nintendo certification factor, the mod staff might have fallen aside, there might have been some main authorized legal responsibility that got here to gentle, it could possibly be the monetary hassle presently hitting Embracer Group (Aspyr’s proprietor as of 2001), or any of quite a lot of issues. The one individuals who know for positive are the mod staff and Aspyr. I think they’re all beneath NDA, so I doubt they are going to be telling.

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