PQube Games: Space for the Unbound Developers Condemned of Withholding Leverage Grants
A Space for the Unbound Developers Toge Productions, Mojiken Studio and Publisher PQube Games have accused PQube Games of withholding money from a diversity fund meant to assist underrepresented developers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A lengthy statement was posted to the game’s social channels claiming that PQube used Toge Productions’ status as an Indonesian company to obtain an unknown amount from a “well-known console platform”. The money was part of a diversity initiative. Instead of giving it to developers, it added it as a recoupable minimal guarantee and used it to negotiate a higher revenue share.
In March 2022, the developers discovered this and ended their contract with PQube Games. The publisher refuses to give the developers ASpace for the Unboundon consoles publishing control. The game was delayed indefinitely while the studio searched for a better publishing deal.
Toge Productions, Mojiken Studio and a follow-up message asked people not to review bomb or boycott other games published by PQube Games as it will negatively affect developers who are not directly involved in this situation.
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Fanbyte was stated by PQube stating that Toge Productions attempted to “enforce unreasonable modified terms to [the companies] agreement” and that the publisher had made “significant attempts to accommodate.”
