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Originally Posted by monkeyman576
I assume they were given a cease and desist order, so they had no choice legally but to cease and desist, either that or pay the other company for the rights, which was probably not financially feasible given most players play for MLB, not Japan.
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No. from what I can suss out, Konami has exclusive rights to f *** k and they a. flat-out don't extend those rights, and b. pursue "violators" to an extreme extent (if they were a US company I'd say vexatiously). The things they've forced FM to do are pretty well documented but include not even allowing their scouting volunteers to maintain local databases of Japanese players for comparison purposes, and not even having their World Cup teams represented (which might sound minor because like who cares about Japanese soccer, but FM also does women's leagues now and Japan is a major national player in women's soccer).
But yeah, it's probably half-right. I'm just speculating based on what they've done in the past but it looks like "you either make these radical changes to your game, which includes like fruit from the poisoned tree or something or whatever Japan uses to justify this or we'll sue you into oblivion and no we don't care if you don't market in our country because apparently our country's definition of standing is radically different from normal countries' definitions". I very, very much doubt there is or was every anything on the table about OOTP acquiring the rights to use HRVPB* because working with others is not how Konami does "business".
*Human Rights Violations PB