It's so over

[Damage]

I guess it's never coming

https://massivelyop.com/2024/06/24/blue-protocols-fate-up-in-the-air-after-bandai-namco-online-declares-insolvency/

Edit: after some replies in this thread talking about censorship (had read nothing about that) and another disgusting topic, stop replying in this thread. You people need therapy and professional help. I knew nothing of this game besides "cool anime MMORPG" and after doing some research why a lot of you praise the game not coming out sickens me. Get help.

[Tsunero]

DBA speedrun lol

[Bgar]

Serves them right.

[New Adventurer]

Well since the filthy progs (amazon) think cute anime lolis=real children and abolished them from being playable in the north American version, and banned them from wearing cute outfits as well, there's zero reason to play the NA version.

Any type of censorship = no buy. (Or even try out) I don't have to even plan on playing as a loli or shota character to not encourage censorship. I can plan on playing as a tall character and still say no to censorship and refuse to support Amazon's censorship garbage. I don't know how I can make this clearer.

The NA version of this game was dead as soon as Amazon got their slimy, greasy and filthy groomer mits on it.

Pass

[IYO]

This is justice for the S body type

BP was truly unlucky, as much as I want to blame 'localization' for this mess, this is the accumulation of many bad decisions.
They have to get a large and steady playerbase, they have to compete with many successful MMOs, they have to undo the censorship to avoid backlash, all just to crawl out of the money hole Bandai is in. I hate doomposting, but it is very unlikely that they can untangle these knots in time.

[Awaken]

Literal scammers, they deserve it.

[Anxious Egg]

how are y'all blaming localization and censorship, when the game is failing in japan?

[Pelea]

Originally posted by Anxious Egg:

how are y'all blaming localization and censorship, when the game is failing in japan?

Cause Japan's Income is less than the sum from the rest of the world. They could self publish a Global server and have a lot of player from the rest of the world playing and buying cosmetics and giving feedback. But they choose to self sabotage with a poopy publisher.

[Anxious Egg]

but the game is already failing, before it's even published outside of japan

[Tsunero]

Originally posted by Anxious Egg:

but the game is already failing, before it's even published outside of japan

yeah it's doing horribly in Japan, all because the monetization sucks, gacha is strict and expensive but to add insult to injury, the buyable things don't even look particularly good

it's no wonder people aren't throwing money at it

[Kyota]

Good riddance.

Though to be fair.

Anyone with half a mind would've seen this coming.

Gundam Evolution held the exact same monetisation model and it suffered the ultimate price as expected.

The leadership team in that subsidiary is beyond brain-rotted. Bamco needs to axe them completely.

Lesson of the day: stick to publishing bozo, you clearly can't create games for the life of you.

[Attaboy]

As much as it hurts my feelings that this game wont come out it seems, i think it is a good thing. Its showing what the players do not want and what ♥♥♥♥♥♥ monetization models will do to games. Also i think nobody should ever give their game to Amazon to publish. They only have money but they have zero games published truely successfully. They suck at their jobs and you can see that they do not care about the community but only how to squeeze every penny out of them and i wont support that.
MMOs in general have a bad past the last decade and probably a real hard future with all the money grabbing mentallity. I mean games arent made for gamers anymore, they are made to make money, that used to be different. We stitll have the indie sector that is delivering beautiful games so lets hope for the best there.
AAA & AAAA is dead to me for a long time now, they just make copies of copies instead of risking anything with new ideas. I blame management for it because those arent people that ever played a game and they shouldnt be in this business in the first place

[Faiyez]

I won't shed a tear if the Amazon censors lose their jobs.

[aris.indulens]

Good. In addition to Amazon's censorship everybody mentioned, the localization itself is an abomination. ブラストアーチャー Blast Archer -> Keen Strider, thanks but no thanks.

[Awaken]

Originally posted by Anxious Egg:

but the game is already failing, before it's even published outside of japan

Who knew that launching a game with a bloody shortsighted mindset would flop like crap. They fumbled BP so hard when NGS was at its lowest point, a massive missed opportunity.

[woozy]

But maybe there is a chance some other dev studio / publisher (that isn't trash like amazon) will buy the rights to the game, re-release, work on it and one day we get a functional game?