Re-licensing historical footage? What the hell does that even mean?
Oh and they can pull it from the store forever for all I care. GOGtard that I am, I already bought the game months ago.
Someone else or some company owns some historical footage/video, not Konami. So now, to get the game back up at stores - Konami's either gotta pay for that license and re-up it...or remove it entirely, if they can't cut a deal.
I really don't like the licensing of music, cars, products, footage, historical video/footages, and any other non-sense. Maybe so these games can be sold forever, they (dev's and pub's) should try to cut royalties per sale to whomever owns the license they're using or try to get forever-licenses or whatever to these companies that they use to licenses whatever it is for.
So that way, the game can always be sold digitally on stores like GOG, PSN, XBL, Steam, etc; and/or at retail if they want to press the game on discs. That way, they (dev's and pub's) ain't gotta worry about their game disappearing from stores and future generations can buy the classic easily. That way, gamers now and especially younger/future gamers numerous years down the line can buy the game easily and legitimately on their favorite store it's sold at...instead of jumping through hoops like Ebay or wherever to find old copies; and/or go actually pirate the damn thing.
But of course, that's how they license-holders make $ - getting companies to re-license stuff every 3-10 years or whatever the deal is, so it can be re-sold.
Now, if this game don't wind-up w/ its "historical footage" license ever re-upped or the content removed - then it'll basically wind-up gone until they resolve the matter.
