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Enotria: The Last Song – not available on Xbox (Jyamma Games)

Indie game Enotria: The Last Song has been indefinitely delayed on Xbox and the game developer claims that Microsoft purposefully ignored it.

Soulslike game Enotria: The Last Song, from indie developer Jyamma Games, may not be the most high profile release this autumn but it’s already built up an enthusiastic community that was looking forward to its launch on September 19 for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.

Unfortunately, though, it seems that the Xbox version has been indefinitely delayed and Jyamma Games has made it very clear that they blame Microsoft, who they claim ‘decided to ignore us’. This has led to them delaying the game on Xbox, while the PlayStation version is still set to go ahead this month.

In a situation reminiscent of the much more high profile Black Myth: Wukong, fans initially suspected that this was due to it being a PlayStation paid exclusive but Jyamma Games has insisted that the delay is Microsoft’s fault, as they’ve failed to authorise the game for release and have not replied to them for two months.

On Discord, Jyamma CEO Jacky Greco was clearly very angry, as he wrote: ‘You can ask Xbox why they haven’t answered us for two months. Obviously they don’t care about Enotria and they don’t care about you.’

‘We’ve Xbox Series X/S version ready, but we can’t proceed with submission and release, I spent a lot of money for porting and they decided to ignore us.’

On Twitter, Jyamma gain insisted that communication with Xbox was the problem, with the revelation that ‘the game works fine on Series S and X but we cannot go through the submission process and they can take even two months to reply to us.’

‘We really want to release the game on Xbox ASAP, but with lack of communication on their side it is a hard task indeed,’ added a later post.

If the game is essentially complete, and just needs a bit of administrative work, then it’s possible it might still make it out for release this month, or at least not long after. Since this negative publicity is sure to reach Microsoft’s ears.

The game has already been delayed once though, from August to September, and now Jyamma are insisting that they’re concentrating solely on making a ‘superior experience for PC and PS5 players.’

This is not the first time Xbox, or indeed Sony, has been accused of ignoring indie developers but there has been a rash of multiformat games missing out on an Xbox release lately and it’s still unclear to what degree that’s due to technical issues, poor organisation, or simple apathy.

Enotria: The Last Song – the game does look pretty good (Jyamma Games)

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