Bandai Namco Shuts Down Gundam Evolution Just Under A Year Since Its Launch | MMORPG.com

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Bandai Namco Shuts Down Gundam Evolution Just Under A Year Since Its Launch | MMORPG.com

Gundam Evolution is being canned just under a year since it launched, Bandai Namco announced earlier today. The 6v6 Gundam shooter launched last year on PC and console and will see its service end on November 29th across all platforms.

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LamiaCritter

DarkZorvanReturns said:

Maybe I'm mistaken, but Gundam isn't even the big thing in Japan anymore, much less anywhere else. Heck I loved Gundam, Battletech, etc, when I was a kid but putting it in front of me now there's no desire to play or watch it. Sometimes nostalgic memories don't translate to a desire in the present.

Unfortunately- and I say this as someone just getting into Gundam stuff... It's a niche within a niche. Gunpla is still the IP's primary cashcow, even outside of producing the countless shows. There just aren'tt hat many Gundam games out for people these days and the ones that ARE... were made in somewhat poor execution.

Case in point, GEvolution. Feel good to play? Hell yes. Snappy. Feels good to get a kill.. But making a literal Overwatch clone and just reskinning it with stompy mechs doesn't work. Not only that, but they were locking mecha (the characters) behind either paying with RL money, or obscene grinding for the non-IRLpay currency.

It became a microtransaction hell.

Astropuyo

Well Bandai sucks period. Even their newest gundam game they messed it up so bad that disidia NT is a masterpiece compared.

And when it's just bandai namco making the same crap games time and again...yeah most of us are gonna go "I'm good".


Anyhow Gundam is just a stepping stone into real robo stuff. It's a perfectly nuanced series for younger people but lets face it. Most of us anime fans are hella old now or just straight cringe mode reddit anime fans

Kelador

Gundam Beaker 1,2 and 3 are great games limited to 1 platform... and Mobile Suit Gundam Online was a really good online competitive game that never came to the west and as recently shutdown due more to its age than anything else.

Bandai should look at these Gundam games and see why they are so popular and improve on this model with something truly modern unlike most Bandai games that seem to use dated engines and feel out of date from the day they launch.