Free-to-play online action RPG Blue Protocol will end service on January 18, 2025 in Japan, Bandai Namco announced. The previously planned western released published by Amazon Games has been canceled.
Blue Protocol was very promising, but it ended up shutting down and never coming West. It's now getting a second chance as Star Resonance.
Good next time don't go with a censorship loving company that is Amazon. Glad it never made it.
Bandai Namco announced its financial results for the third quarter of the fiscal year, related to the period between October and December 2023.
To be fair, they the only ones. Square and other Japanese devs been lacking is quality for a long time and they made up for it in good games.
Capcom, Nintendo, and Atlus are far better than Bandai, and you can't really count FromSoftware as one of Bandai's studios.
@silent yeah I know, i ment to put a few. Example square gives quality to FF, with SO and valkyrie nope. Koei quality been eh but there games are fun. Its not just Japanese though.
Good let’s hope others follow them before the industry get too close to collapsing again.
That's the most insane statement I have ever heard, it's basically saying "from now on we will try to make good games"
I mean, why in the f*ck wasn’t this the priority from the get-go? Now that you see consumers aren’t going to swallow up your dribble for full price you have to make the announcement that you’re focused on making “quality” games now? What a joke.
Quality should always be the focus and that will get you $$$$. Though I have to say Bandai Namco has made some great games but some of their anime stuff could be better quality
TechRaptor interviews Blue Protocol franchise lead Mike Zadorojny from Amazon Games about the global version, its localization, monetization, and more.
Amazon's game division has a very hard time making games happen, eh?
Well, according to Japanese players, the game had a very good foundation and was fun to play for the most part. However, progression was terribly annoying - as it often is with Asian MMORPGs - the game lacked content, raids were boring, and the monetization was predatory. Meanwhile, here in the West, the only time the game received any coverage after the Amazon partnership was announced was when Amazon admitted they would "change" and remove some content from the Western release to achieve a Teen rating.
That, coupled with Bandai Namco's weak results last Quarter, makes this cancellation not surprising.
I was going to check it out. Now I’ll wait for Everquest 3. I loved the first EQ
Too bad!! I am waiting for this game! Why?!?!
Wow.. there was a fair bit of buzz surrounding the game but for it to EoS so fast, what a waste.