As some of you may be aware, last week we’ve mentioned that some of our games might no longer be available on certain platforms and their stores. We’ve made the announcement on our social media channels, and the news spread like wildfire. Today, we can confirm that we lost 9 store listings out of possible 10. The one listing that was saved was Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments on Steam.

What does this mean? It means that all proceeds from the sale of Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments goes to us, the developer. You can say that the game now belongs to us fully.

The one thing that we have to say about last week’s announcement is this. We will be forever grateful for the sheer-amount of public and industry-wide support that we received. We truly appreciate everyone who added their voice to the issue. We were blown-away. To say “thank you” we put together a digital booklet of behind the scenes stories and anecdotes from our Sherlock Holmes games. We called it Sherlock Holmes: Memories, Stories, Thoughts. This booklet is available to download as a Free DLC. It’s a small token of our huge appreciation for the support we received.

The patch is live now and DLC will be available at 4 PM PDT.

So today we announced that 9 out of our 10 games were taken down from Xbox and Playstation following the “policy” of the licensee we entrusted years ago with those titles.
Beyond the obvious sadness that it caused, there was one reason to rejoice: the last game, Sherlock Holmes : Crimes and Punishments, also my most personal title, was not taken down from Steam.
It was not taken down not because we thought fiercely (we didn’t), it was also not because destructive decisions were seen as bad by their petty makers.

The game was not taken down because people reacted.

I don’t think people (I am not a fan of this word for all its ambiguities) reacted because our games are loved beyond measure or our team is filled with glamorous smooth talkers, i believe people reacted because they saw people like them unfairly attacked and threatened.
It was the same reaction inside the studio. It was the same reaction outside the studio.

Maybe I see pink flying cows, but i saw last week a political moment, political in the way that people(again!) react and modify the turn of the tide when we unite.

This week taught me that, not only people from all over the world supported us, they also changed our fate because of what we share.

We won’t travel in first class to the next GDC. We will probably have a normal studio Christmas party without the fountain of champagne and the whole stuffed sturgeon.

But we’ll be together, drunk and naked in the snow as the tradition requires, talking about imaginary characters and game mechanics that don’t exist yet.

I now have 3 versions of the Baskerville game :

The one I originally bought from Frogwares, years ago.

One that appeared suddenly and without notice in my Big Fish library.

[Which is good because I think it's one of the best of its genre.]

I just played Dracula: Love Kills last year and found myself not liking it very much. I was quite disappointed.

I don't remember what I was disappointed with but I did know that it was a casual game so I wasn't expecting serious.

I'm amazed that you have games spontaneously appear without notice in your Big Fish library.
Especially when they're good games.

But I wonder if the game you bought from Frogwares isn't a Big Fish version.
I've had disc versions of games that are published by Big Fish, which don't need online activation but which add themselves to the Big Fish Game Manager.


Yes, I also think it's one of the best.
So is their Dracula casual game.