A petition Xbox and Hasbro to relist Peter Cullen's Transformers games as a tribute
OM3G4_247
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Stating the obvious here where I say I'm a huge mecha fan in general and also a big Transformers fan.
As we already know, Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime since 1984, passed away on 26 August at 85.
If you grew up with that voice, you know why this one stings.
Here's the thing that's been bugging me since.
Cullen voiced Prime in four of Activision's Transformers games:
War for Cybertron,
Fall of Cybertron,
Rise of the Dark Spark
Devastation
And you can't buy any of them.
When Activision's Hasbro licence ran out at the end of 2017 they were pulled from Steam, Xbox and PlayStation.
Today the only legal options are a second-hand disc or a grey-market key: the cheapest I could find was about $250 for Fall of Cybertron.
(call it R4,000 to R5,000 depending on the rate), and War for Cybertron and Devastation are $700-plus, north of R10,000 for a 2010 game.
For a newer fan who heard Cullen in the films and wants to play the good stuff, that's a wall.
So I've started a petition asking Hasbro and Xbox (which now owns Activision and High Moon Studios) to relist all four, add them to Game Pass and dedicate the re-release to Cullen.
It's not a fantasy: Hasbro said in 2023 it wants these games back, and the store pages have quietly reappeared twice since (in 2024, and again last September) before being pulled again.
Somebody has been working on it; it just needs a push over the line.
Petition: Change.org Petition
Would appreciate a signature and a share.
And if anyone here has contacts at NAG, Critical Hit or Glitched, point them at it please.
A South African angle on a story the international sites have already been covering would help.
I'll post signature milestones in this thread as we reach them.
Till all are one.
As we already know, Peter Cullen, the voice of Optimus Prime since 1984, passed away on 26 August at 85.
If you grew up with that voice, you know why this one stings.
Here's the thing that's been bugging me since.
Cullen voiced Prime in four of Activision's Transformers games:
War for Cybertron,
Fall of Cybertron,
Rise of the Dark Spark
Devastation
And you can't buy any of them.
When Activision's Hasbro licence ran out at the end of 2017 they were pulled from Steam, Xbox and PlayStation.
Today the only legal options are a second-hand disc or a grey-market key: the cheapest I could find was about $250 for Fall of Cybertron.
(call it R4,000 to R5,000 depending on the rate), and War for Cybertron and Devastation are $700-plus, north of R10,000 for a 2010 game.
For a newer fan who heard Cullen in the films and wants to play the good stuff, that's a wall.
So I've started a petition asking Hasbro and Xbox (which now owns Activision and High Moon Studios) to relist all four, add them to Game Pass and dedicate the re-release to Cullen.
It's not a fantasy: Hasbro said in 2023 it wants these games back, and the store pages have quietly reappeared twice since (in 2024, and again last September) before being pulled again.
Somebody has been working on it; it just needs a push over the line.
Petition: Change.org Petition
Would appreciate a signature and a share.
And if anyone here has contacts at NAG, Critical Hit or Glitched, point them at it please.
A South African angle on a story the international sites have already been covering would help.
I'll post signature milestones in this thread as we reach them.
Till all are one.
