Marble Blast Ultra removed from XBLA Marketplace | Forums

[lespritdelescal]

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/04/13/ma...t-off-of-xbla/

Marble Blast Ultra, one of the earliest Xbox Live Arcade games, has been removed from the service. The game is no longer listed on the Xbox Live Marketplace, though its DLC packs are still currently available. The delisting, according to XBLA Fans, is the result of developer GarageGames' recent and rocky history.

Between the closure of GarageGames' InstantAction service in 2010 and the company's revival earlier this year, it seems the IP rights to Marble Blast Ultra have been lost in the shuffle. GarageGames, now a subsidiary of Graham Software Development, only owns the rights to the Torque game engine, which powers Marble Blast Ultra. Rights to its games are still property of InstantAction Holdings. As such, GarageGames stopped offering its old titles after its transition to new ownership in February.

In a February forum post, GarageGames CEO Eric Preisz said that it was "unlikely" that the studio would reacquire the rights to its games.

[RetiredRonin]

So is the another case of "thank you for buying, now go away"? I think MBU was one of the first arcade titles I purchased and I loved it. Sad to see that it's now unavailable.

Follow up question. If I bought the game and try to Download it again, will I be able to, or has it been completely removed?

[Colors_of_Life]

Follow up question. If I bought the game and try to Download it again, will I be able to, or has it been completely removed?

You may re-download any content from your download history if it is removed from the marketplace.

EX: Yaris

[xXDonReneXx]

Follow up question. If I bought the game and try to Download it again, will I be able to, or has it been completely removed?

You may re-download any content from your download history if it is removed from the marketplace.

EX: Yaris

Good to hear that... I also bought this one a long time ago but don´t have it on my HDD currently...

[T4KShadow]

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Glad I got it alittle while ago though, even though it was like 4 years old it's still one of my favourite Arcade games.

[Retribution]

Any games they take off the marketplace will still be available through XBLA Thief (google it). Dont get me wrong, i pay for all my games. Its useful for anybody who just now bought an xbox and want to play games like MBU or UMK3.

[rlmergeuser]

It's some sort of copyright dispute because...

!!!RICH PEOPLE ARE JERKS!!!