I'm a big fan of Focus Home Interactive (publisher) but recently it seems they're playing "dirty" with one of their devs Frogwares (Sherlock Holmes series, The Sinking City, etc.).

Frogwares' is an independent dev studio that has published most of their Sherlock Holmes games through Focus Home. Recently the licensing agreements have been running up with the IP rights reverting to Frogwares. Focus Home has thus been removing the games from sale (the articles I saw said they may soon be removed from Steam as well). That seems normal, but...

Focus Home has also suddenly changed their policy to include keeping Frogwares from ever selling those games in the future. In essence, Focus is saying "If we can't sell those games, no one can!" So, Frogwares owns the IP and technically has the rights back to those games, but can't sell them... at least not short of a legal battle.

The tweets and info out of Frogwares sounds kind of dire.

Since almost ALL other Sherlock Holmes-Games are here on GOG (with another publisher...), so I expect at least the missing "Sherlock Holmes - Crime and Punishment" to arrive here on GOG at last.

The removal states shop IDs and other stuff related to shops like steam and Sony, where Focus sold the games until now. I hope only those shops are affected by this misery and the new publisher can bring over the few missing Ex-Focus titles here.

I can see why they went to BigBen Interactive with Sinking City then because that's kind of shitty also explains the missing SH game here.

it seems the Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments title is still on sale . under frogware editor https://store.steampowered.com/app/241260/Sherlock_Holmes_Crimes_and_Punishments/

are this articles reliable ?

I read on pcgamer.com that it 'll be removed on 29/09...

http://frogwares.com/official-statement-on-removal-of-our-games-from-storefronts-by-focus-home-interactive/

Did they ever fix the no max graphics and glow in the dark watson problem that was in a couple of their games?