Remember how Warner Bros. was fixing to permanently because it would have been too much of a pain to keep processing the devs' royalty checks? Well it looks like that fate's been averted, with the games remaining up on Steam and their creators saying that they've been handed back full control.
" is safe," Creator Landon Podbielski wrote on . "More details soon but the email from Warner finally came. The game is being returned to Corptron along with its store pages on all platforms, it's not going anywhere.
"Thank you everyone… Hoping everyone else got the same email."
It certainly looks like they did: as reported by , developer tweeted that he had similarly gotten back ownership and store listing control from WB. A perusal of Adult Swim Games' shows its catalogue alive and well, despite it having reached the 60-day delisting mark originally specified by WB, and other games from the initiative like and remain available for purchase.
Adult Swim Games seems to have been wound down in Yono all app 2020 and '21, with the final nail in the coffin being parent developer following the relative failure of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. The publisher initially denied developer requests that they be transferred ownership of their games, claiming that it had "made the universal decision not to transfer the games back to the original studios and [did] not have the resources to do so."
So all's well that ends Yono all app well, I guess, but will publishers ever stop threatening to do something extremely unpopular and consumer-hostile before reversing the decision at the last second? It's been an of seeing that practice in action, and we've got no reason to believe it will let up any time soon.
Outside of games, WB has canceled the release of two big budget films in recent years, with and going in the vault in exchange for a tax write off from Uncle Sam. Say, if my tax dollars effectively paid for those movies, why can't I watch them for free?