Last week marked eight years since the launch of PTthe demo of Silent Hills. In this way, one of the employees, who once worked within Konami, shared new information about the process of completely removing this title from the PlayStation Store.
Pearl Lai, who currently works at Bandai Namco, shared a series of messages in which she revealed that when PT was removed from the PlayStation Store, he was working as a brand manager at Konami. Thus, personally took care of everything related to the release of this demo once the cancellation is confirmed silent hills. This is what he commented on it:
“Fun fact: since I was the leader [first-party] At the time at Konami, I helped put this product in the windows, fake distributor and all. And I was the one who had to call Sony to ask them to remove it and block the option to download it again. It was a very fun conversation.
It was a ruckus. Honestly, it was not a good situation for anyone. I felt sorry for Sony, who had to bear the brunt of the situation. It was an interesting lesson on the power and importance of choosing battles in relationship management.
We had already gone through a lot to get it, we got a lot of operational exceptions. And then add the request to block the option to download it again? More engineering solutions (…) Believe me, I also would have liked it to be different. It was definitely a lot of fun to be plotting this cool secret thing for the fans.”
Along with this, it is mentioned that at the end of the day, the employees who worked in customer service, They were the ones who suffered the most from this decision.since they were the ones who directly faced the complaints of the fans, and all the doubts that the public had at the time.
On related topics, this is how Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro reacted to the recent anniversary of PT Similarly, Death Stranding Director’s Cut hides a reference to this demo.
Via: VGC