Blue Protocol Shutting Down Forever | I Was Wrong 😢 

To be fair, they banned players from JP too〜

...profit!

PSO2 NGS has more or less done the first two things but actually puts out updates, which is why it's still alive despite it not being as good as the original.

Deserved to close down

To be said, Bandai Namco do similar things with other games under them, with varying success… The IDOLM@STER franchise, we’re looking at you…

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I played the JP release a little, I should check the game out again before its all over

​@@Anon_2_1 how

@@lstsoul4376 VPN and english translator script

@@Anon_2_1how does this help this man’s pain? 😂

@@UtahSuka Or at least just don't ban people playing the regional server. Those are paying customers you're actively shooing away for no reason. It's pretty self-destructive as Japanese media's biggest attraction is foreigners.

😂🤣 LOL i remember that! Was crazy.

Dam I missed out bet the chatroom was dumbfounded from the experience

That's not necessarily the craziest thing in the world depending on what part of the game they worked on, or what they've done lately. Even if they were working on core systems, they might have done that dev work 2 years ago and switched to work on another part of the game.

@@signalnine2601 Even if that were the case which i highly doubt it's still no excuse. The devs were simply incompetent and had poor management plain n simple.

I said the same thing Sega dancing like a mf RN lmfao

Yeah I’m shocked. they didn’t even support or give this game a chance 😢

Meanwhile sega doing every month collab in ngs 😂

NGS might not be as good as original but at least they're still doing a fuckton of events and collabs, on JP server anyway, don't know what's happening on dump that is global.

@@DiabolicCrusher Sincerely, I was hoping BP would be a good competition for NGS so that SEGA would finally step up their game; guess it was just not meant to be.

ok but like was it actually fun? genuinely curious since you played.

@@wesleyleigh4063 I found it pretty fun. First off the story was cool. It made running to the next location exciting because the story nuggets were interesting; and that's even with pointing my phone at the screen to translate. The combat was a little shallow with having just a few skills; but the base system was fun. I used the sword/shield the whole time but the weapon combos were direction based. If you held forward on the control stick you would stab forward, holding left you'd do an aoe spin. I really liked actually dodging attacks. Most MMO you just avoid by stats or skills, but BP rewarded timing. The sword/shield had a fun shield bash and I could full on stop aoes with a well timed shield slap to the face. The progression board was dumb, but I think they fixed that in later updates. Some quests would be kill 20 goblins, you'd do it and then the next mission on a different board was kill 20 more. You couldn't do BOTH; you had to them one at a time. I think that was changed for the full release. The world was super fun to explore. There were small scale events where you'd fight a miniboss with everyone in the map at the time. There were these little bunny guys who were hiding around the map and you'd try to hunt them all. The thing that really was fun was just 'being' in the world. The fact that you could hold hands in the game made my wife take so many pictures. She'd find a big hill and then call me over for photo mode. The world was gorgeous. The music was great. The towns felt 'lived in' with the farmers and such. It obviously needed a lot of work even after the full release. The costume gacha was awful. There wasn't really a true aggro system when I played so even with my taunts on sword/shield it didn't really feel like i did anything. BUT the game felt like it had passion behind it. I really felt like they'd iron out the issues. I'm not sure how they fumbled so hard.

Ahh that makes it wven more sad😢 was loooking forward to finally try out the game after watching so many news videos about it, and it was looking fricken cool! Just wished they would have translated it and then released it as a test thing, like baldurs gate 3, they released their game not finished, and it went to be great years later😮

It wasn't finished it flopped in Japan because even there the game felt like a beta there was nothing to do

It’s probably their fault

That's the problem: the shareholders aren't willing to put more money into BP because the profit is lacking. Too many shareholders are the #1 problem for gaming in general. 😅

@@chrizz2782 to be fair most people aren't gonna put more money into something that is doing badly for over a year, qt some point you gotta blame the game devs or the creative director,etc for making an unfinished or shallow game it's not always shareholders fault. This game has like 500 players in Japan they obviously did a bad job at creating a good mmo

@@theblackishboy1105 fair enough mate. I agree. Devs and publisher need to understand that the time of GaaS/allways online games are over. Servers are expensive. Just do Multiplayer Games with hosting like they did before. Peer to peer 4 Player coop is so much cheaper to do, which means you have more Money to produce a full game. Full experiences with beefy addons as DLC's. It could ne so easy.

This a very common comment so i gotta ask, what did you see early on that triggered so much hype, or was it literally just that it was an anime/ modern cell shaded mmo? personally for me, i saw a second of the combat and just 'oh that looks super stripped back and one note', prior to that i thought nothing because the gameplay matters most

@@wesleyleigh4063 For me it was a combination of being bored by the current games I play, but me and a friend both found out about the game at the same time as well, so we started to dig together and found images, trailers, and the whole community dance video. Then later they dropped the character creation tool for people to try, and that was just awesome. And we're both anime fans so it just hit home more. I tend to not dig too deep, cause I rather avoid spoiling myself, so when I have enough information to be content, I'm ok to avoid the topic until it's time. And since my friend group kept talking about the game on and off over time we kept the hype going among us.

@@JoakimFigge ok sure, i mean the game did look and still looks great, it's interesting how so much can seemingly go well and be warranted yet there was obviously a lot missing. i suspect it was the combat mainly or lackthereof, as well as reasons to bother signing in after a certain point.

It's really a tragic waste of a decision.

Bamco just really bad at live service game tbh, they create Good game but ruined it with worst management

there is a chance another studio could buy the ip and relaunch it but.. the problem with that would be integrity as the ones able to buy it from Bandai/namco would likely shove p2w bs into it..

I dont see anyone hype about it anymore

Dude, nobody knows what this game even is. It's not going to "echo through gaming history," nobody's even going to notice.

@@_Jay_Maker_ nobody freaking care anymore after that mass banned 🤣

Yeah, people saw the writing in the wall when they saw Bamco was heing racist to foreigners.

Even if AGS had published the game, it would still fail. The game had a good premise, but clearly wasn’t ready

they even encourage people to report and ban foreign players, their isolate backward mindset killing the game itself

Not unless the devs themselves pay to keep the servers on. Bandai Namco's multiplayer subsidiary already filed for bankrupsy like a month ago.

Why woud they the game is not realy that good what i have seen from Japanese players the gameplay is so insanely easy you can basicly solo the hardest content without a problem they have no real direction for it

@@xythiera7255 A different developer could probably improve the content.

People don't want to play another Amazon game. They won't make money and they know it

Sorry, but get a life! BP was not cancelled without reason. Is is just another standard Themepark MMO and there is no room for this!

they even encourage people to report and ban foreign players, their isolate backward mindset killing the game itself

Chill, they gotta put their money in Dragon ball Sparking Zero but I was waiting for the game to release MMObyte was sad you can hear it in his voice so I feel for him

I mean, Elden Ring was a huge hit by Bandai especially Tales of Arise and Armor Core Series.

@@nexokami I mean Bandai, not affiliated studios that use bandai has publisher, tales of arise was not impactful to be say it was huge neither Armor core series otherwise they would be meantion everytime.

not gonna happen. FF has huge brand recognition from a well established franchise with an owner who didn't want it to fail and so put its money up when it counted. This game has none of that going for it.

On top of how Bandai Online declared bankruptcy and insolvency…just big oof all around

You will actually need a director like Yoshi-P to pull that off. I am almost certain there is no one with YoshI-P's caliber in Bandai's team

wat?

Sure buddy

I feel like some studio will come with a similar game in the future knowing the hype BP made around the world, we just have to wait

If people pay for their product, they should be able to enjoy it, any time, regardless if it's not being sold anymore. You as a customer should enjoy your product anytime, and that applies to video games. Trust me this will cause video game products to be protected by legislation.

@@WillyM4rTinEzLoQ Around the world... it's almost like it's idiotic to region lock a game when there is no need for "localized" version.

I remember Peria Chronicles, damn that feels like another life time.

the game would've probably been the closest we would have gotten of the actual shangri-la frontier game too lol

Shangri la even had references to blue protocol. In that video game shop

@@srlorenzo1517 PSO2 NGS currently has shangri-La Frontier collab and the costumes look good

Not Amazon fault that the game was straight dogshit

@j.p6815 yeah it just seems like anything Amazon tries to be a part of, dies.

The game was kinda mediocre by itself, can't blame the publisher for that

It died because of devs and it died where it was created.. in Japan. Amazon had nothing to do with it.

@@j.p6815 definitely not their strict guidelines for publishing in the west and all

This is why china gaming industry is going big, japan loves to live their own bubble bruh.

How did Genshin players kill BP?

@@raevenent751 because genshin players just like a racism problems, do you think why Genshin community keep bashing on ToF many times until then? they will use other openworld games as they will hype but actually they don't play it, they don't have any taste to play this. They just only review as their opinion of this game to think "it will be successful and not flop like ToF" they only speak themself many times in other games to threat ToF. BUT will it successful to make people quit ToF? I just only see Genshin community is much more immoral in other games. I use other games as wuthering waves, azur promilia, 7ds origin, Project mugen, etc. if it is actually successful and will make people quit ToF. Do you think is it neccessary to do that if every game has different audience?

@@NgocNguyen-pv5oc Genshin players would be in a rude awakening once they find out you can't swipe for gear the same way you would for Gacha lol

@@raevenent751 so Genshin players use the other games to threat ToF, do you think Blue protocol will not be flop as ToF or even not worse than ToF? Then you have the answer why Genshin players already killed BP. Not only that, other games can be killed easily by genshin community by their speech and comparison, so be careful for that.

I don't know why they said that They're 2 completely different games

More like the NGS killer. People said that game was going to get EOSed after a year, but it was announced after BP, and outlived it haha.

Only genshin players will say that tbh. This game should be competitor of ff14 and ngs

​@@lambasted6886tbh genshin players didnt know other mmo games they thought bp is single player game i mean what do i expect from them? This game is competitor of ngs and ff14

@@tenten8472 because at that time most people are looking forward to compete genshin and no one else to compare for except tof (completely flop) so when trailer drops, all genshin players are discussing this game. Remember that was like 2022

Enjoy while you can

enjoy the game until January and I hope Bandai Namco Online can finish the story till then

What's this amazing translator you're using ?

i think their biggest mistake was making a game almost nobody wanted to play

doubt it's DEI stuff since Bandai Namco just had a DEI reunion like yesterday or something and in that talk they showed Blue Protocol hairstyles and seems like Bandai is going full DEI because they think it's going to appeal to western audiences

You are waaay too deep into this DEI stuff. The fact is very simple, BP is a poorly managed game that doesn't have a good gameplay reward loop to keep players engaged. Bandai wrote off the global version not because of DEI and censoring but because they don't want to keep losing money on a failing project

Instead of all of this wild speculation and talking out of your a**, a basic google search would've easily answered your question. The game was undercooked. It's as simple as that.

Reminder that Gundam Evo died for this

​@@raevenent751that's not true, Blue Protocol started development back in 2018 way before Gundam Evolution

you are weird

...no they weren't? Don't shove your culture war Bs into this the game was handled poorly plain and simple.

@demonking-zm3rs Amazon censoring was not helping. They took away face, body's and modified clothes