Jumpin said:
It's a weird trademark thing. Marvelous/Victor Software/Amccus lost the trademark in a dispute with the company that localized the game to the US, Natsume.
To give a little more in depth history on the franchise. In 1997, Amccus developed and released Bokujo Monogatari. They didn't have the resources to publish the game outside of Japan, so they delt with a third party for the US release, and Nintendo released it in Europe. From 1997 to 2013 this arrangement remained. Amccus was wrapped into Victor Software, and then rebranded as Marvelous in 2011 as the result of another merger. The game series continued to become published outside of Japan as "Harvest Moon" Rising Star became the publisher, but in the US it was still published by Natsume. Eventually Marvelous wanted to consolodate their outside of Japan releases of the game with XSeed. Unfortunately, Natsume actually owned the trademark "Harvest Moon" and so Marvelous and XSeed had to rebrand their games as Story of Seasons and Rune Factory. The Harvest Moon games that are released by Natsume now are NOT the same franchise as Harvest Moon from 1997 to 2013. It is like when Activision briefly owned the "Civilization" trademark, and released two Civilization games that had nothing to do with Sid Meier's Civilization. |
damn I did not know this..this certainly makes me skeptical about this game now..now to go see if there is a story of seasons game on ps4 or switch lol
