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[Draugoth]

Unfortunately, it appears that several Tales of games have been delisted from the PlayStation Network, and there has been no communication from Bandai Namco. Reddit user InnocentStrategy recently made a post informing other fans of this collective development while also listing which titles have been affected across specific regions. We then checked the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita stores on the platforms themselves to verify if this was accurate.


On the North American PlayStation 3 store, Tales of Xillia 2 and Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, which is comprised of Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World, are unavailable. Tales of Graces f and Tales of Xillia 1 are only available as a double pack and not standalone.


Further, Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World are available standalone but not as part of the Chronicles bundle. Additionally, Tales of Hearts R is not available on the North American PlayStation Vita store. If you’ve bought any of these games, you’re able to redownload them, but those who have never done so won’t be able to find or purchase them.

via NoisyPixel

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Unfortunately, it appears that several Tales of games have been delisted from the PlayStation Network, and there has been no communication from Bandai Namco. Reddit user InnocentStrategy recently made a post informing other fans of this collective development while also listing which titles have been affected across specific regions. We then checked the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita stores on the platforms themselves to verify if this was accurate.

On the North American PlayStation 3 store, Tales of Xillia 2 and Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, which is comprised of Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World, are unavailable. Tales of Graces f and Tales of Xillia 1 are only available as a double pack and not standalone.

Further, Tales of Symphonia and Dawn of the New World are available standalone but not as part of the Chronicles bundle. Additionally, Tales of Hearts R is not available on the North American PlayStation Vita store. If you’ve bought any of these games, you’re able to redownload them, but those who have never done so won’t be able to find or purchase them.

We couldn’t verify the PlayStation European stores due to access issues, but according to InnocentStrategy, who we can verify is correct with the North American stores, Tales of Graces f and Tales of Zesitira are both delisted on PlayStation 3. Tales of Hearts R is gone, too. Tales of Xillia 1 and Tales of Symphonia were delisted previously.

This news is immensely saddening, especially since it appears like Bandai Namco has not announced anything on the matter, so we don’t know if these occurrences are temporary.

Bandai Namco Has Delisted Tales Of Games From PSN Without Warning

Unfortunately, it appears that several Tales of games have been delisted from the PlayStation Network, and there has been no communication from Bandai Namco

noisypixel.net

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

They're all getting re-released on PSN with 60 fps and 4k resolution, right guys?

 

[Mr Hyde]

I have Tales of Symphonia Chronicles, Zestiria, Xillia and Tales of Graces F (physically) so fortunately I'm saved on this front. But since I started exploring the PS3 store out of fear of Sony closing it, I've discovered that there are a ton of games that have been delisted over the years. PS one classics, PSN games, first party games you name it. All purged. And some games never got a digital release so you have to track down the physical copy which can be difficult and expensive. I bought up everything on the store I wanted to play so at least I'm covered when it comes to PS3 now that my collection is complete. But the digital future is scary with threats of stores closing and games delisting.

 

[Celcius]

I'm glad I bought Tales of Xillia 1 and 2 digitally last year or the year before for my ps3.
I bought the Steam version of Symphonia so no worries there.
It bothers me that companies have the ability to completely delist a game though. I never expected this from Bamco though. Why?!?!

 

[adamsapple]

Delisted without any prior notification?

That is some grade A bullshit.

 

[IFireflyl]

My big question is why Draugoth and Thick Thighs Save Lives have no life. I've seen more duplicate threads in the past 24 hours than I have seen since I joined NeoGAF. Step away from your keyboards, guys!

 

[TidusYuna]

Own these physically but still hate to see it. Especially when they don't give gamers a heads up that they are going to be removed.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

My big question is why Draugoth and Thick Thighs Save Lives have no life. I've seen more duplicate threads in the past 24 hours than I have seen since I joined NeoGAF. Step away from your keyboards, guys!

Damn bro, no need for random call outs. If you see a dupe thread just report it and the mods will take care of it.

FYI I always report my threads if I post a duplicate by mistake.

 

[Celcius]

That's a good point - they don't want to pay a fee? Fair enough. But AT LEAST give everyone a heads up beforehand sigh.

 

[Pejo]

They're all getting re-released on PSN with 60 fps and 4k resolution, right guys?

Seems unlikely that it's a licensing issue, since to my knowledge none of the games use licensed tracks that aren't made for the game.

I wonder if they are gonna do a HD collection or something. Graces F is still one of my favorites, so it'd be a shame if you couldn't play it after this. I luckily have it physical on my ol' surviving phatty PS3.

 

[Mibu no ookami]

But the digital future is scary with threats of stores closing and games delisting.

How is this any "scarier" than a physical retailer no longer offering copies of a game? Can you go to best buy and buy PS3 games?

The reality is that games are available for far longer on digital retail than they ever were on physical retail and the lack of scarcity on these games prevents a lot of these games from becoming ridiculously expensive to purchase and hard to find.

That doesn't mean they'll exist forever in a digital store either, but people have ample opportunity to get games these days.

 

[adamsapple]

That doesn't mean they'll exist forever in a digital store either, but people have ample opportunity to get games these days.

It would be nice to get a prior notification or social media update from the publishers that they're about to de-list the games beforehand.

 

[Doom85]

Hopefully it means HD releases of those titles are coming, although I’d far prefer Abyss getting a HD release over weaker Tales games like Xillia 2 and Hearts

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I have them all physically, but you hate to see games like these disappearing like this.

 

[Hrk69]

My big question is why Draugoth and Thick Thighs Save Lives have no life. I've seen more duplicate threads in the past 24 hours than I have seen since I joined NeoGAF. Step away from your keyboards, guys!

 

[LordCBH]

But why?

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

How is this any "scarier" than a physical retailer no longer offering copies of a game? Can you go to best buy and buy PS3 games?

The reality is that games are available for far longer on digital retail than they ever were on physical retail and the lack of scarcity on these games prevents a lot of these games from becoming ridiculously expensive to purchase and hard to find.

That doesn't mean they'll exist forever in a digital store either, but people have ample opportunity to get games these days.

Big difference. The physical versions are still attainable while the digital versions are not. No way around that fact.

 

[tommycronin]

And nothing of value was lost

 

[ProtoByte]

I can feel the remaster flood coming... I'm so tired of remasters.

 

[Deerock71]

And we keep hearing how digital is The Way...

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Seems unlikely that it's a licensing issue, since to my knowledge none of the games use licensed tracks that aren't made for the game.

I wonder if they are gonna do a HD collection or something. Graces F is still one of my favorites, so it'd be a shame if you couldn't play it after this. I luckily have it physical on my ol' surviving phatty PS3.

It could have to do with the voice acting, which is a nightmare to deal with when you have Japanese agencies involved.

Xillia 1 and 2 deserve another chance, but I can't imagine this is precursor to a re-release or anything positive like that. At least they're available physically.

 

[Fake]

Yeah, digital.

 

[hemo memo]

And we keep hearing how digital is The Way...

Sadly not the way but it’ll soon become the ONLY WAY.

 

[Astral Dog]

But why?

I think we will see a lazy HD collection of those games, no point in keeping them on PS3 forever

(Just hope its better than what they did with Symphonia)

 

[IFireflyl]

Damn bro, no need for random call outs. If you see a dupe thread just report it and the mods will take care of it.

FYI I always report my threads if I post a duplicate by mistake.

I'm not upset. I thought it was pretty obvious that I was joking, but apparently it wasn't. <3

 

[LordCBH]

I think we will see a lazy HD collection of those games, no point in keeping them on PS3 forever

(Just hope its better than what they did with Symphonia)

If I can get Xillia on somethng modern I'll be happy

 

[Celcius]

And nothing of value was lost

 

[MALpractice311]

Tell me again about how glorious the all digital future will be?

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Tales of Xillia 2 is the last good Tales game too. RIP.

 

[The Pleasure]

Delisted without any prior notification?

That is some grade A bullshit.

As someone who had a windows phone and saw support cut off

 

[adamsapple]

As someone who had a windows phone and saw support cut off

Damn bro, no need for random call outs. If you see a dupe thread just report it and the mods will take care of it.

FYI I always report my threads if I post a duplicate by mistake.

 

[semiconscious]

And nothing of value was lost

I admit it - this was my first reaction, too...

 

[Physiognomonics]

And we keep hearing how digital is The Way...

The way for those billion or trillion dollar companies to get even more rich.

 

[Astray]

Probably due to the expiry of license on some J-pop song on there or something.

 

[Draugoth]

Step away from your keyboards, guys!

 

[nial]

Probably due to the expiry of license on some J-pop song on there or something.

Ir's 99% this.

 

[Astray]

Ir's 99% this.

Almost every single Tales game I played (not a lot, but enough) had an anime opening of some sort.

 

[nial]

Almost every single Tales game I played (not a lot, but enough) had an anime opening of some sort.

Doing some quick research, Tales of Xillia 2 has music from Avex Trax, a Japanese record label, so yeah.

 

[StereoVsn]

That’s a shame that this keeps happening. I have all those games on physical disks/Vita cart, but that’s really annoying and especially complete lack of warning.

 

[Icymanipulator]

They're all getting re-released on PSN with 60 fps and 4k resolution, right guys?

Please

 

[Firestorm ZERO]

Probably due to the expiry of license on some J-pop song on there or something.

Hearts R they removed the OP song and replaced it with a different instrumental. So the only other reason could be the JP voice actors.

 

[Kataploom]

How is this any "scarier" than a physical retailer no longer offering copies of a game? Can you go to best buy and buy PS3 games?

The reality is that games are available for far longer on digital retail than they ever were on physical retail and the lack of scarcity on these games prevents a lot of these games from becoming ridiculously expensive to purchase and hard to find.

That doesn't mean they'll exist forever in a digital store either, but people have ample opportunity to get games these days.

This is what I don't get, why are people shitting on digital whenever depressing news come up? As of they could go get a physical brand new copy of tales of Symphonia on any gaming store right now lol.

Maybe they're interpreting it as games being removed from people's library?

 

[Kataploom]

Big difference. The physical versions are still attainable while the digital versions are not. No way around that fact.

If a game is no longer being sold just download an iso from a torrent and you're done, it's no piracy as long as it's abandonware. The dev would still get no revenue no matter if you got it second hand or just downloaded it from the internet so it literally harms nobody.

 

[Kupfer]

My big question is why Draugoth and Thick Thighs Save Lives have no life. I've seen more duplicate threads in the past 24 hours than I have seen since I joined NeoGAF. Step away from your keyboards, guys!

Those two keep the forum alive and fill it with meaningful news and content and don't just spam BS or pointless polls to farm likes or lure warriors out of the reserve to have stupid discussions like other users do.
We should be grateful for their commitment.
Respect boys!

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I'm not upset. I thought it was pretty obvious that I was joking, but apparently it wasn't. <3

It was super late when I typed that reply so that's on me for not getting the joke haha. But yeah, there's a vocal minority here on gaf which sometimes gets upset especially about Draugoth threads, and that's why I thought you were serious there for a minute. All good though!

 

[Mibu no ookami]

This is what I don't get, why are people shitting on digital whenever depressing news come up? As of they could go get a physical brand new copy of tales of Symphonia on any gaming store right now lol.

Maybe they're interpreting it as games being removed from people's library?

No, people have a narrative and stick to it.

Notice someone responded and said at least with physical a game can still be acquired. But who is paying 120+ dollars for a used copy of Tales of Xillia 2?

There is something seriously broken in our discourse where the narrative and the agenda are far more important than the reality of the situation.

You start with your general premise that digital is bad and physical is good and you'll argue to the end of the world that narrative despite the facts and you get what we're seeing here.

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[BacklashWave534]

This is why PC will forever remain the best way to preserve games. Typically developers are unwilling to license Denuvo for the long haul so most of the games are easily backed up and archived.

 

[SF Kosmo]

They're all getting re-released on PSN with 60 fps and 4k resolution, right guys?

Only on PC

 

[cash_longfellow]

Sounds like re releases. Wrong of them to give no heads up though.