Cooking Mama Cook Star Possibly Illegally Released on Official Storefronts - It's not piracy if they're charging 40 dollars right?

[Marissa Moira]

http://www.ofcr.co.jp/ofcr/ImportantNotice_en.html

Here's the legalese written about the situation that's been ongoing for a year.

We would like to thank our fans and customers for their support over the years for the Cooking Mama franchise. As many of you know, Planet Entertainment LLC (Headquarters: Connecticut, USA; "Planet") recently released "Cooking Mama: Cookstar" for sale in the U.S., Europe and Australia. This was an unauthorized release in breach of Planet’s contract with Office Create.

In August 2018, Office Create licensed Planet to develop the Cooking Mama: Cookstar game for Nintendo Switch™. Unfortunately, the quality of the game builds failed to meet the standards that our customers expect and deserve. Office Create rejected a wide range of deficiencies affecting the overall feel, quality and content of the game. Yet, despite being contractually obligated to correct the identified deficiencies and resubmit the corrected game for Office Create’s approval, Planet proceeded to release Cooking Mama: Cookstar without addressing all of the rejections and without Office Create’s approval.

We have also learned that Planet and/or its European distributor has been promoting an upcoming European release of a PS4™ version of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. Office Create has not licensed Planet (or any other entity) to create any Cooking Mama games for PS4™. Office Create itself has not been involved in the development of any PS4™ Cooking Mama game.

On March 30, 2020 Office Create notified Planet of its immediate termination of the license due to Planet’s intentional material breach of the license contract. Despite such notice, Planet continues to advertise and sell the unauthorized version of Cooking Mama: Cookstar on its website in willful violation of Office Create’s rights. To date, Planet has not confirmed the status of the unauthorized PS4™ version.

Office Create is evaluating all legal action against Planet to protect our customers, intellectual property rights and the Cooking Mama series. In the meantime, we thank our customers and loyal Cooking Mama fans for their continued support and sincerely regret any confusion and disappointment that has been caused by Planet’s conduct.

TLDR: They don't have the full legal authority to release the game, but they just went full retard under the cover of night and put it out on PSN. Right now it's roughly about as legal as Limbo of The Lost. The E-Shop currently does not have it listed.



The US store is the only one where it's actively visible. the EU and JP store doesn't seem to show it proper.

 

[Rusty Crab]

First the crypto miner and now this? We need to ban all Cooking Mamas until we can figure out what the hell is going on!

 

[Cool kitties club]

Reminds me of Midway going ham with Pacman sequels despite not owning any rights.

 

[ChucklesTheJester]

First the crypto miner and now this? We need to ban all Cooking Mamas until we can figure out what the hell is going on!

Cooking mama, cooks up meth I assume is the next step this is going to go towards.

 

[Rusty Crab]

Cooking mama, cooks up meth I assume is the next step this is going to go towards.

one step ahead of you

 

[Marissa Moira]

Office Create isn't listed in any of the data bases as being tied to the game, seems Planet got shovelware devs and publishers to finish the game.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Shit, I own the game physically

 

[Marissa Moira]

Shit, I own the game physically

Yeah it was quickly pulled from store shelves due to how broken it was.

Office Create's twitter has zero mention of the PS4 release being a thing and has a link to the message I posted in the OP.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Yeah it was quickly pulled from store shelves due to how broken it was.

Office Create's twitter has zero mention of the PS4 release being a thing and has a link to the message I posted in the OP.

At least I own a conversation piece...

 

[Haramburger]

At least I own a conversation piece...

Watch it be worth a few thousand in the distant future because it's rare and removed from the market with a good story. Something along the lines of the "only 25 exist" World Championships gold NES cartridge.

 

[Frank D'arbo]

Shit, I own the game physically

Pics or gtfo