Publisher PQUBE is once again accused by the partner developer. He tried to stop the trouble without fulfilling the contract.

CORECELL TECHNOLOGY based in Bangkok, Thailand published a statement on Twitter on September 1. It is a content that accuses Publisher PQUBE.

Corecell Technology (CoreCell) is a developer known in the action game Aeternoblade series. In the console version of Aeternoblade II released in 2019, the company is in charge of sales in partnership with PQUBE.

CoreCell agreed to pay Corecell for a contract in Aeternoblade II, and PQUBE paid a minimum guarantee (the advance payment paid to the developer before the release, the advance payment paid by the developer is offset from the sales). And comment. It seems that the money was paid by dividing each time the development milestone was achieved. However, Corecell claims that PQUBE pays only a small part and has not yet paid the remaining milestones.

CoreCell negotiated with PQUBE to solve the problem, but did not reach an agreement. Therefore, in September 2020, he decided to discontinue the sales contract. However, PQUBE has not handed over the right to manage sales on each console, and has since gained profits from Aeternoblade II. As a result, PQUBE said that it would respond to the delivery of sales management rights, but have called for not talking about the matter.

Prior to the accusation, Mojiken Studio and Toge Productions, based in Indonesia, were accused of PQUBE on August 24. Both studios have contracted with PQUBE on the console version of the adventure game A Space for the Unbound. In the partnership, PQUBE received a subsidy spent for development support, and dared to set the minimum guarantee while hiding that fact in both studios, and raised its own revenue distribution. (Related article).

In this statement, Corecell states that it has come to talk about the truth, and the above accusation seems to have triggered his experience (although he was stopped). The studio commented that he is no longer going to work with PQUBE, but is a small developer, so he can't afford to make a trial in other countries. Therefore, the console platform holder asked to move the sales management right to the CoreCell side.

At this time, Nintendo and SIE are suspending sales of Aeternoblade II in Europe in response to CoreCell's request. Therefore, the studio states that sales from Europe have not yet been in the pocket.

CORECELL recalls that the last three years have been a difficult time. He reported this time so that other indie developers are not involved in similar troubles, and to make their fans know the current situation of the studio. The only purpose of the accusation was that, and he called on fans not to take any negative or harm to PQUBE.

PQUBE argued that the PQUBE side had fulfilled all the contract obligations in the accusation of the previous Mojiken Studio and Toge Productions. Rather, it has published a statement through the media that the TOGE PRODUCTIONS side has been trying to change PQUBE to change the content of the contract. On the other hand, it has not yet responded to the CoreCell accusation.