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Blue Protocol ending service in Japan on January 18 2025. Worldwide release cancelled.

Yuri P

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Just announced on Twitter
Japanese version announcement
blue-protocol.com

「BLUE PROTOCOL」サービス終了のお知らせ | BLUE PROTOCOL

日頃より「BLUE PROTOCOL」の世界に足を運んでいただきありがとうございます。プロジェクトスカイブルー　エグゼクティブプロデューサーの下岡です。 この度、ブループロトコルにつきましては、誠に勝手ながら2025年1月18日（土）にサー
blue-protocol.com blue-protocol.com

Amazon Games version announcement
blue-protocol.com

Amazon Games版のリリース中止のお知らせ | BLUE PROTOCOL

Japanese この度、ブループロトコルの日本版につきまして、誠に勝手ながら2025年1月18日（土）にサービスを終了させていただくことになりました。 この日本版の終了に伴い、Amazon Games版につきましても開発の継続ができなくな
blue-protocol.com blue-protocol.com


View: https://x.com/BLUEPROTOCOL_JP/status/1828629461434278184
 
Super

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It was always coming. I need to delete it off my PS5.
 
J_ToSaveTheDay

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Has Amazon been pretty skittish in their commitments to games or am I misremembering?

Sad to see this not even receive its global shot before getting taken down. :/
 
I KILL PXLS

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Wow. There was a point I was so hyped for this waiting for a cool looking action MMO to fill the hole Tera left. Guess I'll keep waiting.

J_ToSaveTheDay said:
Has Amazon been pretty skittish in their commitments to games or am I misremembering?

Sad to see this not even receive its global shot before getting taken down. :/
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Don't think this has anything to do with Amazon (though I am curious how they're affected by this). The game's release overseas has been troubled to put it lightly.
 
Saiyaman

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Not surprised after they seemingly disappeared off the face of the planet once the beta concluded. I didn't enjoy my time in the beta, but I feel for the people who wanted and have been waiting for this game.
 
Kudo

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After seeing it was Amazon doing the publishing in West, I lost all interest. I guess having some sort of conclusion is nice.
 
mudai

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I remember when there was a thread speculating about it shutting down service and some people were like "It's doing well now, it even got an anniversary event." An anniversary event doesn't mean anything. Well, here's the answer now I guess.

The writing was on the wall. Sucks of course for the people who were waiting for it. I feel bad for the devs who put so much into making the game. But someitmes it be like that, I guess.
 
chrisdm

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Wow, this is a huge bummer. Regardless of the issues I had heard about from the Japanese release, I was really looking forward to giving Global a shot. 🥺

There was a period where I'd watch so many videos discussing the Japanese release and update news, impressions, etc.
 
hydruxo

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Haven't followed this at all since the initial reveal but from the outside looking in I had no idea this game was having so much trouble?? Thought they were just silently working on it. Bummer because it looked neat.
 
Dest

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the whole thing has just been a fumble since announcement. not surprised.
 
SaberVS7

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Yeah, called it after the rest-of-Asia publisher unceremoniously cancelled their localization.
 
koutoru

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And there it is. I was getting this feeling that development on this was really languishing for a long while but I didn't think they would out right cancel it before it got a international release.

Bandai's next quarterly report will be interesting to look at.
 
Gamer @ Heart

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How much fucking money did they waste on this.

Hasnt the past year of support been awful in Asia?

They were basically one foot out the door this whole time
 
Dale Copper

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hydruxo said:
Haven't followed this at all since the initial reveal but from the outside looking in I had no idea this game was having so much trouble?? Thought they were just silently working on it. Bummer because it looked neat.
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www.resetera.com

Bandai Namco Online in state of insolvency due to 8.2 billion yen loss and negative net income

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Bandai incurred 21 million yen impairment loss likely due to Blue Protocol

I sincerely hope Bandai invests to address the problem rather than shut the game down... Especially when Amazon is invested and publishing the global version. The next update is also due out end of February as well. Just... I dunno. If they shut the game down before the west gets it or don't...
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It bombed
 
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Yuri P

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Shinobido Heart

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Heard the game wasn't fun then it went silent for awhile. They planned for a global release but they put that aside to focus on Japan I think.

Haven't heard a thing since. Not surprising that this happened though. The way this was handled is bizarre.
 
KCS

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If you've seen Japanese players talk about the dev streams, then you've seen this coming. They completely fucked it up.
 
Strings

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It's impractical and unappealing to the creatives who would be saddled with it, but I'd be interested in them taking the assets and building a singleplayer game with them.
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I wonder if this is one of the biggest bomb in Bamco history....
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It's probably by far their biggest? They basically singled it out in their financials without naming it when they reported a $51m loss for their Bamco Online subsidiary.
 
OverdriveOtaku

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When I first saw this game, I thought to myself that after so long, I've found an MMO that actually interested me. Last time I remotely cared for MMOs was when Phantasy Star Online hit the Dreamcast.

I have not kept up with whatever's been going on with the game, but I'm fairly bummed I never at least got to see it release in the west.

I hope someone makes a postmortem video on what happened with this game.
 
WildArms

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I'm BROKEN. Seriously... this was my dream game. I knew the problems and it didn't bother me. I want to explore this world so freaking badly! They could have EASILY transitioned this game to a Soulslike / Monster Hunter type game with what they had or made it like a Xenoblade / Dragon Quest / Tales of single player game but they didn't even decide to do that! What the hell! I'm done supporting Bandai and ESPECIALLY Amazon... seriously.

THIS... THIS HURTS WAY more than what happened with PSO2 New Genesis, FF Versus XIII, Project BBQ, Ghost in the Shell online... like... seriously. I've had WAY more than my share of games I was hyped for that either got canned before release or failed to deliver but this... I wanted this game more than ANY other game ever.
 
Pyro

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Rough. I was excited about this game for a while until learning more about what it actually was. Shame I didn't even get to try it though.
 
Merc_

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Man, I still remember how people were hyping this game up too. I feel like I never heard anyone talk about it again after the Beta.
 
hydruxo

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Dale Copper said:
www.resetera.com

Bandai Namco Online in state of insolvency due to 8.2 billion yen loss and negative net income

Link
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com
www.resetera.com

Bandai incurred 21 million yen impairment loss likely due to Blue Protocol

I sincerely hope Bandai invests to address the problem rather than shut the game down... Especially when Amazon is invested and publishing the global version. The next update is also due out end of February as well. Just... I dunno. If they shut the game down before the west gets it or don't...
www.resetera.com www.resetera.com

It bombed
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Bummer. Could've been cool, looked promising initially.
 
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