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Blue Protocol Sunsetting January 2025, Will No Longer Release Globally | MMORPG.com

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited August 28 in News & Features Discussion

imageBlue Protocol Sunsetting January 2025, Will No Longer Release Globally | MMORPG.com

Blue Protocol, the anime-inspired MMO by Bandai Namco Online, will no longer release here in the West, and its Japanese servers will officially shut down January 2025.

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  • KumaponKumapon Member EpicPosts: 1,605
    edited August 28
    This is why you don't whale on P2W live service games... you can just lose everything.

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  • BLNXDBLNXD Newbie CommonPosts: 2
    edited August 28
    lol


    Whatever. I wanted to play this game when I first heard about it a long time ago. They waited and hoarded it for so long it's now dead. Gives me Phantasy Star Online 2 vibes, though that one still technically exists (Blue Protocol is not gone yet but might as well be).
  • hovsep159hovsep159 Member UncommonPosts: 77
    it's a shame because the game was actually turning itself around by releasing endgame n stuff.

    what a waste. hope another dev team finds out about the lack of an actuall anime styled mmo and does the same.
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  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450
    Well, it's finally over, people can at least stop obsessing over it, though i think many people stopped that a couple years ago when some of those rumors started spreading and then 'some' of the story came out.

    Whatever this game was, it sounds like we dodged a poisoned bullet.....



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  • xdave78xdave78 Member UncommonPosts: 121
    I was hugely disappointet, when i managed to play some time on JP Servers on Launch:
    It's sad but deserved. BP was not a good MMO at any point and it would have been torn apart on western release...thats for sure!
  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,385
    I suppose there comes a point where too much gacha is a thing. Well then the game deserves to die. Die along with gacha.
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  • DattelisDattelis Member EpicPosts: 1,674
    Gonna blame Bandai for this one. Most of their live service games fail.
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  • sweetdreamssweetdreams Member UncommonPosts: 206
    This game was supposed to be like the best game ever. So much positive hype around it. Sunsetting already and no N.A. release? Cries in anime. /s
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,273
    BLNXD said:
    lol


    Whatever. I wanted to play this game when I first heard about it a long time ago. They waited and hoarded it for so long it's now dead. Gives me Phantasy Star Online 2 vibes, though that one still technically exists (Blue Protocol is not gone yet but might as well be).
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  • VagabondoVagabondo Member UncommonPosts: 93
    Really hyped for this at the start. As time went by I understood it would never find its way over to the west and saw its decline in Japan.

    Time to move on, i guess.
  • texhnolyzetexhnolyze Member UncommonPosts: 58
    Man, I'm so looking forward to this. What a bummer.
  • NeoyoshiNeoyoshi Member RarePosts: 1,450
    edited August 28
    Bandai Namco is giving Konami a run for it's money in being one of the worst Japanese publishers right now, despite having these relationships with some of the most iconic Japanese game studios....

    Where Konami are just pieces of shit to their employees and game partners, Bandai seems to keep running into issues with either game studios grossly mismanaging funds, or money walking out the door in large embezzlement schemes.

    Dattelis said:
    Gonna blame Bandai for this one. Most of their live service games fail.
    1000% this, i don't know why either, but it's true, i've seen so many live service games from their online divisions come and go, it's like a revolving door over there. I still am upset about Dragonball Online and that was YEARS ago.
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  • KumaponKumapon Member EpicPosts: 1,605
    Neoyoshi said:
    Bandai Namco is giving Konami a run for it's money in being one of the worst Japanese publishers right now, despite having these relationships with some of the most iconic Japanese game studios....

    Where Konami are just pieces of shit to their employees and game partners, Bandai seems to keep running into issues with either game studios grossly mismanaging funds, or money walking out the door in large embezzlement schemes.

    Dattelis said:
    Gonna blame Bandai for this one. Most of their live service games fail.
    1000% this, i don't know why either, but it's true, i've seen so many live service games from their online divisions come and go, it's like a revolving door over there. I still am upset about Dragonball Online and that was YEARS ago.
    As a publisher, Bandai is actually not bad. They make billions publishing.

    It's their in house dev teams that suck. The only successful game made by themselves is Tekken. 
  • KatagiriKatagiri Member UncommonPosts: 89
    Oh, well... sad news.
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    Next...
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  • KumaponKumapon Member EpicPosts: 1,605
    edited August 28
    As for why BP failed, there was 2 main reasons. 


    The game itself was not bad, but it litterly had no endgame, at launch. You lvl'd and did the MSQ, which was good. But at lvl 50 there wasn't anything to do. Imagine getting to end game, and do nothing but the equivalent of FFXIV's levequests ad infinitum.

    Also there was no player trading or a marketplace of any kind. So life skills, and crafting was completely pointless. So everyone left, after doing the story. 

    Bandai did add open world bosses, 6 man dungeons, and raids in later patches. But by then the damage had been done. 

    The next reason why it failed was the monetization. The main source of income was the gatcha costume. It had an insane low chance of getting that costume you wanted (0.2%).

    It was about $2.00 US a pull, and to hit pitty was 110 pulls..lol So if you were unlucky, you could be paying over $200 US for that costume you wanted. 

    Also as time went on, Bandai got desperate, and put P2W items in the gacha shop, like special skills and such that were op. 

    As an Anime fan, why would you pay for this overpriced game, when you can play a Hyroverse game or even PSO2 NGS. These games don't have insane gatcha prices. 
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  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,385
    0.2% holy cow!
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  • slowz2secretslowz2secret Member RarePosts: 445
    that's why you don't hype up for bandai games, they do this type of sht all the time
  • RaagnarzRaagnarz Member RarePosts: 647

    Kumapon said:

    As for why BP failed, there was 2 main reasons. 


    The game itself was not bad, but it litterly had no endgame, at launch. You lvl'd and did the MSQ, which was good. But at lvl 50 there wasn't anything to do. Imagine getting to end game, and do nothing but the equivalent of FFXIV's levequests ad infinitum.

    Also there was no player trading or a marketplace of any kind. So life skills, and crafting was completely pointless. So everyone left, after doing the story. 

    Bandai did add open world bosses, 6 man dungeons, and raids in later patches. But by then the damage had been done. 

    The next reason why it failed was the monetization. The main source of income was the gatcha costume. It had an insane low chance of getting that costume you wanted (0.2%).

    It was about $2.00 US a pull, and to hit pitty was 110 pulls..lol So if you were unlucky, you could be paying over $200 US for that costume you wanted. 

    Also as time went on, Bandai got desperate, and put P2W items in the gacha shop, like special skills and such that were op. 

    As an Anime fan, why would you pay for this overpriced game, when you can play a Hyroverse game or even PSO2 NGS. These games don't have insane gatcha prices. 



    Good god I heard the store was ultra predatory but that is insane. If the only "endgame" they had was costumes, then their only end game boss what the store and its odds. And those are some brutal odds right thee. I'm glad garbage like that died no matter how good it looked graphically.
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    Brutal subject, we lost two players and an entire thread on it.


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  • KnightFalzKnightFalz Member EpicPosts: 4,522
    Kumapon said:
    This is why you don't whale on P2W live service games... you can just lose everything.


    You can also just lose everything if an online game without P2W aspects closes down. It is just an aspect of online gaming.
    ZenJelly
  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,385
    Kyleran said:
    Brutal subject, we lost two players and an entire thread on it.


    What the hell happened?
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  • DigDuggyDigDuggy Member RarePosts: 694
    A classic case of why you shouldn't buy into the hype.  There's a difference to my mind between getting a little excited and buying into the hype.  For me hype means you get excited but to such an extent that you have unreasonable expectations.  Get excited, but don't get hyped.
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