Koei has managed the perhaps unprecedented feat of accidentally publishing the wrong game, after it attempted to release a PSP version of Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII, only to mistakenly place Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII on all the discs.
The title, released on the 12th as part of their “Teiban” classics series, included the wrong game on the UMD but was otherwise correctly marketed as VIII.
Koei have published a suitably formulaic apology, expressing their deep regret for the “great inconvenience” they have caused customers who were expecting the game on the package.
They also promise to replace the game with the right version, and have cancelled all sales of the present special edition whilst they sort out the mess and doubtless assign a few employees to cleaning toilets.
How exactly the mistake came to pass and how it was possible for them not to have picked up on it until the game was on sale has been the subject of much speculation, although it might always be possible games in the series are so similar they did check but didn’t notice…
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Activision already does this every year with call of duty.
...There's more than one Call of Duty game?
I thought people had been playing the same game for years!
EA does this with Madden as well.
considering the fiasco Activision got themselves into, im suprised they're still attempting to make new CoD games.
Error Modern Warfare 2 has crashed...
Modern Warfare 2?
I play madden warfare all the time, great game!
Exactly!
OH SNAP!
HA!
Koei, don't become shitty like Square Enix.
lol free game its already ported rofl
I thought that Koei was already shit. :/
They are, but in a way entirely different from how Square Enix is shit.
Not this shit again...
Take a drink every time you see the word "shit" in response to these comments.
maybe they're planning to take shit into a higher level
gonna get water or alcohol toxicity...at this rate shit!
I need a few more drinks so shit, shit, shitty, shit, shit, shit.
Koei, making the same games like dynasty warriors since forever.
Surprising that koei doesnt capitalize on the latest sengoku trend. Only a couple of sengoku titles from them. Should make them release a oda nobuna game.
Ok let's do this
"Koei, making the same games like dynasty warriors since forever."
How is this relevant when this game (despite using the -same setting-) is completely different from Dynasty Warriors? It's a Grand Strategy game.
"Surprising that koei doesnt capitalize on the latest sengoku trend. Only a couple of sengoku titles from them. Should make them release a oda nobuna game."
...You mean one of the longest series of Grand Strategy games based on the life of Oda Nobunaga doesn't qualify as "Oda Nobunaga game"?
And finally, the series isn't know for it's ground breaking innovations to the genre, but perfecting it. 8 has a really cool "rpg" mode in it that was absent from 7 for instance, while the most recent is a (terrible) RTS.
Over reacting much? From your words, it seems like you actually like koei games to defend it with such vigor or just to prove a point. However, Dont get me wrong, i played all of koeis games that were released locally here in north america but its getting hella stale. I love stratagy games and simulations but enough is enough, obvious milking of the franchises.
Rereleasing classics is ok, but new iterations with new unheard of characters, create a hero, and twist in the plot doesnt make it a game worth buying unless your Activision
"unless your Activision" I hope its irony.
all i can say is R.I.P. Atlus North America
I'm honestly hoping that the series would die now.
It was a good run, but they're running out of innovations and in game "Officers" to create.
They're basically making more "he/she was important in the book?" characters.
A free copy of the actual game to everyone who bought it already is always a good step.
Disney had the same problem, sometimes there were a porno in the box lol
Oh that is easy, their employs can't read Japanese.
It's things like this that made seppuku go out of style.
Looks like someone doesn't have it good with roman numeric
Japan QUALITY right there.
Hey, at least It's better than Chinese quality.
So chinese quality gives you the box without the game?
No, Chinese quality UMDs explode when you attempt to load them.
Maybe it's time to move on from Sancockushi, Koei.
This is why you leak this stuff to the scene before 0-day.
Reminds me a bit of the summer days fail.
Japan the new China!
Wahhhh???
I don't want my games to explode!
you would like to keep this game package, soon it will became rare item.
so it wasn't 8 that was in the box?
someone could tell?
Oh it was the box for 8, the disk was labelled 8, but it wasn't the right game on the disk itself.
Like if you burn a movie, say, Pokemon the Movie 10, but when it's time with the sharpy on the disk to know what's on it, you write Movie 11.
Lololololol.
Best news this week! LOL.
This game just became highly collectible.
This is proof that they put zero efforts into ports in 9/10 cases.
That may be the case for Koei, but Atlus hasn't failed me with P4: The Golden! It's even better than the original.
well thats pretty funny
HAHA, What a story!
Even they've lost count.
Can this really be called a mistake? aren't all the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games the same anyway?
Well, technically the higher number has better graphics so "kinda" the same >.>
have you even played any of them? they aren't the same at all.
Nope you never played them obviously.
Yellow turban rebellion yadda yadda, try to unlock lu bu. Seems the same to me