Can we expect other licenses to leave soon as well?
With this in mind licenses feel a lot worse than original chapters!
They can basically just vanish from the store and either you are lucky or you aren’t.
As someone who didn’t own demogorgon prior to his return, I know the feeling of not being able to buy a killer or survivor you want - It feels bad, very bad.
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I'm still waiting to see AoT comeback so we can play in 2v8...such is the nature of the licence beast.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all :(
Licenses are something where, the chance of them leaving is always a possibility, but not something we should expect to happen unless otherwise stated. It always sucks to lose a license and is the third time we have, although one of those has been returned at this point being Stranger Things.
Edit: There are very few licenses that I would call "safe" from being removed, Naughty Bear as another BHVR license, Bill since iirc Valve licenses like Bill's they're generally very chill about and your game basically just has to be on steam which dbd won't be removed from (could be wrong, but the point being, since the license is in the game for free it's probably never leaving), and Crypt TV (same reasoning as bill in the sense that, the licenses holders give you a way to get it for free so they're not really in it for the money and therefor don't really have a reason to pull it).
What's the other license that was lost besides Demo & Pinhead?
Attack on Titan which was cosmetics only, but still a license we had and lost.
Oh I have those on Oni and Spirit. Had no idea you couldn't get them anymore. Thanks. And yeah that sucks for people unable to get them now that want them
Personally, i could see Stranger Things leaving again since even though it's come back it doesn't seem like they are willing to collaborate on any new content. Other than that i don't see any other license leaving when it comes to chapters.
I wouldn't worry too much about most licenses.
So that leaves us with Halloween, Leatherface, Nightmare on Elm Street, Stranger Things and Tomb Raider being up in the air. Assuming those license holders love money, I don't see most of them leaving anytime soon (except maybe Stranger Things, considering Netflix aren't the brightest bulbs out there), and Tomb Raider is too recent to really say anything about.
Pinhead was just in an odd situation, as his license was negotiated with Park Avenue right before the rights got passed back to Clive Barker, and he's now in a Jason situation where different people own different parts of him and are impossible to work with. This isn't indicative of most licenses, and there is no reason to jump the gun and immediately assume we're suddenly going to lose more licenses… again.
For the time being, I wouldn't be too concerned with the Halloween license either. He's been licensed out to various other games, so unless there's a management change I wouldn't expect them to suddenly revoke that.
The Leatherface license was rumoured to be in jeopardy around the time the TCM game released. Though I'm not sure if that's still relevant, given that we still got him.
NoeS is anyone's guess. There's nothing to go off here, afaik.
Stranger Things could leave again towards the end of the year. Out of the lot, this one's the most uncertain, I think.
Tomb Raider is indeed too recent to tell.