‘Elden Ring’ player wants to sue publisher because the game is too hard
FromSoftware players are incredibly passionate about the developer’s challenging games, but one user’s passion has seemingly swung around to fury – and they claim they’re going to sue because they believe Elden Ring is so hard that they’ve only seen half the game.
As reported by MP1st, Twitter user ‘aribagged’ posted some screenshots from a 4Chan account claiming “only two months remain, starting today. September 25th 2024 is when Bandai Namco games enters court”.
Bandai Namco is the international publisher of Elden Ring, and NME has reached out for comment.
Bandai Namco has published many of FromSoftware’s games outside of Japan, while the developer often handles publishing in Japan itself.
The 4Chan user claims that the reasoning for their lawsuit is “we have only played half of FromSoftware’s games and a whole new game is hidden inside, and that it’s too hard to access for even its most dedicated fans”.
there's a guy on 4chan who's planning to sue Fromsoft because he thinks there's more of Elden Ring that's inaccessible to the average player pic.twitter.com/jCESV6HqbT
— kate bush's husband (@airbagged) July 27, 2024
NME has searched the docket number listed in the 4Chan post and it doesn’t turn up anything on the Supreme Court’s website, so there’s a good chance the claim hasn’t been filed.
This news should be taken with a heavy pinch of salt, as the 4Chan poster seems to believe there are in fact entire parts of FromSoftware’s games that haven’t been advertised at all, and they use concept art as evidence.
It’s normal practice for things to be cut during development, or for concept art to simply remain in the concept stage and never make it into a game at all.
FromSoftware games are also some of the most heavily data mined out there, with tech-savvy fans digging up mountains of information on the titles as soon as they come to PC, so it’s unlikely the inclusion of “a whole new world” within these games would be undiscovered.
In other news, Elden Ring got an update yesterday and there’s a lot that’s new to the game you should know about.
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