Cooking Mama: Cookstar available direct from publisher!

I've certainly been guilty of letting rarity influence my buying decisions, but I've gotta stick to my central collecting principle: only buy stuff I would want to play. This game is said to be awful, so unless you're going for a complete publisher, series, or console collection, it's an easy skip.
 
I've only played parts of one Cooking Mama game in the past. Seem like games I would get really, so likely passing too.

 
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I believe I tried Cooking Mama 4 or 5 on 3DS, and I just had to quit it after 10 minutes or so. It was a serious of annoying, asinine activities that made little sense. But I don't have much interest in games that use the stylus heavily anymore.

 
I can't help but feel like every time people snatch up copies of games that they declare are going to be rare and valuable, it almost always ends poorly for them.
 
As much as I enjoy collecting physical Switch games, I'd rather save my 40 bucks to buy an actual good finished game. 

 
The address listed on dun and bradstreet for Planet Entertainment is a house in Fairfield, CT when you look it up on Google Maps. 

 
Funny when I saw this coming out I was actually planning on getting it eventually when the price dropped. Ironically (or maybe unironically?) my mom loved the game on the Wii. The one I played was fun, and I remember enjoying Science Papa for what it was. Shes got a switch and has retired since all this covid shit started so shes been playing a lot. Not worth $40 tho since I can never predict what she'll actually play. 

 
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So this is what I've been able to gather from this situation. Some of this is just speculation though.

Office Create is the developer of this Cooking Mama Cookstar release. Planet Entertainment licensed / published the game only for the Switch in Europe, Australia and America. 

Both companies were making their own version of the game though but Planet Entertainment was in charge of the main product with Office Creative overseeing the project. The game was set to release but Planet Ent did not like the changes made to the game and poor quality of it so they did not authorize a release. Office Creative said fuck that and released the game anyways without authorization. This means they released it to retail stores and online digital shops.

Planet Ent is like "WTF is this shit" and likely sent cease and desist letters to all major retailers selling the game as they are now suing Office Creative for illegally releasing a game outside of their contract. This is why it was taken off the eShop and removed from all U.S. store shelves (Walmart, Target, Gamestop and Best Buy). 

The eBay sellers are distributors for major companies (mainly Walmart). After the game was pulled, they probably had no choice but to sell the game on their eBay stores to clear stock as no store wants the game anymore.

As for Office Creative (who just sold the game on their site) is liking trying to recoup their loses from the game as it is an incomplete mess (based on several major reviews). They need to pay their employees and bills so they took the risk. They rather deal with the legal repercussions afterwards than have lose their studio (which will likely happen anyways at this point).

Doesn't help that Planet Ent did not authorize a release of the game in Europe for the PS4 but Planet Ent is advertising the game as such in Europe. This is bad because Planet Ent published the game but they did not publish it for the PS4 or in other markets which puts them in legal issues as well as their name is attached to the project. 

This game is a bit mess for the gaming community and we are likely going to see a big legal battle for this.

 
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Sielanas said:
If you're an investor, go for it. If you want to play, don't bother.
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Investor? Its already going for around 50 to 55 on eBay now. It's dropped in average selling price quite a bit in just a week or so.

If anything offload your copy now. There for the past week consistently been about 400 copies on there for sale, price dropped to 60 on Amazon. Its just going to get cheaper. Probably just going to average out around 40 in the end.

And besides I thought flippers were bad here. People who buy something with the intent of selling it for more, isn't that what an investor does also? Buy low sell high.

 
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People who buy something with the intent of selling it for more, isn't that what an investor does also? Buy low sell high.
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It's funny, people complain about resellers but every single retailer buys low and sells high. People think Walmart and the like isn't spending pennies on the dollar from distributors and selling items to customers for good money.

Think people have more issue with scalpers which I get.

 
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