PQube has issued a response to the allegations made against them by Thailand-based Corecell.
Yesterday, we reported a story regarding indie developer Corecell who claims their AeternoBlade 2 game publisher, PQube, has refused to pay the minimum payment guarantees contained in the pair’s publishing agreement. Furthermore, Corecell also claims that PQube refuses to relinquish control of publishing in the game.
We reached out to PQube for comment prior to publishing our article and they have since provided us with a response to Corecell’s allegations. PQube opened the statement by saying, “We enjoyed working with Corecell on our first project together and Corecell was very happy with the success of this. We had the pleasure of working again with Corecell on the Aeternoblade 2, and despite delays and quality issues, we sought to release the game in October 2019 as they requested” .
The statement continued, “At our January 2020 post-launch meeting, Corecell acknowledged significant product quality issues and agreed to provide important fixes to make the game commercially viable. Unfortunately, these fixes never materialized and Corecell remained unresponsive. PQube remained on the Willing to pay full warranty for the game, despite very poor reviews and sales, and publish the PC version in line with PQube’s option in the agreement.Corecell agreed in March 2020 to provide the PC version of PQube, but then went on to list and then launch the PC version The profile itself without further discussion with PQube.”
After that, PQube claims it tried to restore Corecell’s copyrights but the proposals were “not acknowledged” by the Thai studio. PQube states that “Despite all the challenges and lack of connectivity from Corecell, PQube released its rights to the console versions to Corecell long before the agreement expired. We remain open to supporting Corecell in any way we can.”
PQube ended its response by saying that the publisher always tries to resolve challenges with developers in a “fair and reasonable manner” and remains “fully committed to providing the best possible service and success to all of our partners.” Corecell has not made any further statements regarding the situation.
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