The former Konami staff member responsible for putting up and taking down P.T. – the free teaser for the later cancelled Silent Hills – from storefronts has talked about the process of removing the game eight years after the fact.
The first party lead for Konami at the time was Pearl Lai, and she put together a thread and answered questions on Twitter about the process of setting up P.T. on the PlayStation storefront, and eventually taking it down.
“Fun fact: since I was the [first-party] lead at the time at Konami, I helped get this product set up on the storefronts, fake publisher and everything,” wrote Lai. “And I was the one who had to call Sony and ask them to take it down and block redownloads. That was a super fun conversation,” (via VGC).
Lai no longer works at Konami, so took the time to answer some extra questions about how the takedown went. When asked if it was awkward, she replied: “Awkward is right! We’d already gone through a lot to get it set up, got a lot of operational exceptions. And then to add the request to block redownload? More engineering workarounds. It was exciting to see people hype about it and see the work pay off! But in a way also not.”
