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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 'Reverie' DLC released 'in error' on PSN

by David Hinkle on Mar 31st 2011 8:30PM

David Cox, producer on Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, has been all over Twitter recently, responding to complaints about the DLC delay. When he was asked by one disgruntled European gamer wondering why the Xbox 360 delay was holding up the Reverie DLC on PS3 in his region, Cox revealed that the initial DLC launch on PSN was "put up there in error." In other words, Reverie wasn't meant to be released on PS3 in North America (whoops!).

Cox also said that it's "too late to take it down" meaning that presumably whatever bug is keeping it from a larger release isn't catastrophic enough to require it be pulled from Sony's service. Currently the DLC is still available on the US PlayStation Store for $9.99.

Source: @CastlevaniaLOS

Tags: Castlevania-Lords-of-Shadow, david-cox, dlc, konami, Lords-of-Shadow, mercurysteam, microsoft, playstation, ps3, reverie, xbox

Reader Comments (27)

Whoa, $10? Just how long is this DLC?

@Electrium

3 levels. Which doesn't sound like much when considering how many levels there are in this game.

@Electrium It's three levels.

@Electrium

and it ends with a cliffhanger that makes you want to murder children

@xenophy I don't need a cliffhanger to want to murder children, I work in retail.

@xenophy

Thanx for the warning, no I mean it...I hate cliffhangers.

@baddates77

You and me both brother lol

@ShadowXIII

Honestly if you or anyone ever does get it, then wait for resurrection to come out first and buy them both

I didn't know DLC could be released "in error". That's just weird to me.

@Kirkpad Yeah, im sure there is a big process to release anything on PSN.

@Kirkpad
It's also an interesting way to generate content buzz. Content that WASN'T supposed to be released yet? I'm wondering if it will spike the DLC sales on the PSN.

Looks like Cox... dropped the ball.

@wcarnation

You forgot to put on your glasses. :)

@McDude

(We're not supposed to tell you this, but the glasses merely need to be implied for the lolz to proceed)
NOTHING TO SEE HERE

No wonder the Trophies would not upload when I would sync. Let's see if that error was fixed.

@Saint Anima Seems like everything is good for me, finally. Now, where's that Resurrection, Cox?

Reminds me of the Medal of Honour beta. The 99% crashes/freezes from the PSN beta which was delayed on 360 because of Microsoft's strict xbl software policy gives me hope that at least one company isn't contempt with releasing broken software that they think they can just shove down our throats with the intent of being fixed later.

@McWilly

My Fanboyish friend.... First of all BETAs are "BROKEN SOFTWARE" thats why they need testing, tweaking and fixing BEFORE they release a demo or the retail product. You know i had TONS of issues with the MOH Beta, but almost NONE on the retail. Anyways wanna know something fun? Let me Quote MR Cox:

"It's an issue with XBox Live not the DLC itself."
I know that my english is bad, but its not the DLC itself but that Company that isnt contempt with releasing blah blah blah, fanboy bulls**t

I need to finish this game so I have a reason to download the DLC. I've been meaning to finish it up anyway.

"in error"

Hmmm guess i bought the DLC "in error"

Does the DLC bring back the save problem that the game had before the patch? Maybe that's what they held back the 360 version for. The scariest thing about that was worrying that it would erase my save.

In other words, Sony doesn't want to pull it because they can say they got something before the XBox.
Just like MS constantly does when they are able to release something before the PSN can. It's advertised like mad that it can be gotten on XBox Live before the Playstation Network.
It's just stupid rivalry. Both companies should just see about releasing the content on the same date. As long as it's limited to content that will be on BOTH systems, why does it matter?

@1031982

because feeling like you're punished if you want to play DLC as soon as possible just because you bought the game on one system vs another is enough of a reason to purchase the game for the system that will have it first. Which is what the console wars is all about. It's also how MS competes with Sony, since any game released on both systems will usually look better on the PS3 version.

@nomore7734 Eh, not all the time. Sometimes they look like crap on the PS3. It all depends if the PS3 was the lead platform.

How the heck do you release DLC in error?

"oops, we accidentally released DLC and asked $9.99 for it..."

@brotherfranciz Being a developer myself, i can think, they set the "Release" flag on their psn database, on the gameDLC to 1, meaning it can be published on psn

Pretty sure they mean to run that query (Update psn.gameDLC set Release = 1 where game = "Castlevania: Lord of Shadow") on their test database, not the release one

I mean, i had made this mistake quite a few time where i work (run something on the good databse, not the test one)

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