I find it kinda ironic that Konami of all game companies managed to keep duel links alive for 6 or 7 years while crunchy has a track record of 7 games killed
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Arena, Yu-Gi-Oh! Online, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation, Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM and most recently, Yu-Gi-Oh! Cross Duel. 2 out of 7 attempts to make an online/mobile version of Yu-Gi-Oh! is not a commendable track record lmao And Yu-Gi-Oh! is the one franchise Konami actually cares about. If anything CR has managed to keep more games alive than Konami has.
They literally announced this during Pecorine's Birthday, what the heck crunchyroll shame on you! I've seen gacha games die left and right but some had at least put their games into "life-support". But no, Crunchyroll just had to shut it down out of nowhere. Hoping cygames can pick this game up, or at least get a trusted publisher but this is all unlikely. Condolences to fans of Priconne's global server.
Yeah, and in the game she mentions seeing each other next year...They also posted an opinion piece a few hours before announcing the shutdown about "a game you love being shut down" lol
@@otakuspirit both danmachi and grand summoners are still thriving you are literally pulling shit outta your ass danmachi was given to a different company for a lot of money and grand summoners good smile took that back because its easier to publish and develop for the game with 1 team on it
I thought Princess connect would be too big to fail. It even has a nice 2 season Anime but somehow Crunchyroll dropped the Ball and instead of adapting like Nexon did with Blue Archive or decreasing the free gems to push players to the cash shop, they basically just gave up with little effort. It doesn't help that players were discouraged by their record but shutting down an IP this big just proves players right and shows they know nothing about long term business.
@@shinobuoshinoisbestgirl5778 The beginning months of Global, players were shaky about Nexon publishing it since they have a bad reputation mismanaging Games like Crunchyroll. The Game was review bombed and Global was seen lacking in revenue compared to JP.
Priconne was not my first CR game, I did play just a little bit of the Overlord game, but this was the only CR game I invested so much time into since it first launched. It made me get into the anime, and it has become one of my top 10 because I absolutely love the world and the characters. Seeing the EoS announcement finally made me realize what a joke Crynchyroll is, and I'm really heartbroken about it. I'm sad I never noticed it for over 2 years. Jun best girl
fun fact, crunchyroll also managed to get the symphogear gacha back in the days but closed it since they did not get enough money. people where ready to pay actually but they forgot to implement a whaling system for at least 2 month. nice job chrunchy
There are bunch of other gatchas still alive after years eventhough their declining playerbase. This game was very popular compared to those. It's scary how they can just decide to kill the game abruptly.
Was my feelings as well when a company shut down Sword Girls. Probably the best TCG game ever made. But they wanted something more mainstream to chase more cash, so instead they swapped over to some kind of dragon riding game. Never bothered to remember the name, and I'm almost certain that game has shut down ages ago.
i feel bad for eminence in the shadow. There are so many extra stories in there, specifically written, by the writer himself. And for it to be ridden in this Crunchyroll problem is very sad and upsetting
My recommendation is learning japan or using OCR software to play the japan version rather than playing the EN version. If the game IP license hold by 3rd party localization, don't trust them. And see if their track record of EoS is by merging to original region sources which is better rather than what CR did.
Been playing CR's Eminence in Shadow since christmas, really tempted to try purchase the daily gem subscription until I remember this is Crunchyroll lol. I hope the game will stay until season 2 is over at least...
The reason why FGO is an outlier is likely because of Type-Moon having a big stake in the project. Most of revenue from outside FGO like figurines and posters are probably mostly going to TM rather than Aniplex. The reason why Aniplex treats FGO different is because want to remain the publisher for all the future TM games and anime. For example, Mahoyo, a TM game, was just released worldwide under Aniplex. Pretty sure they want to remain on good terms for the Fate-Extra remake and the potential lostbelts anime
Very true! Not ALL of the money from merch goes to Aniplex, but they do get a share. Which is why they handle production, distribution, and whatnot of merch.
Yeah, FGO just expanded their global servers to many more countries too. Sure, most the money comes in from the JP server for FGO because they have the most players on the JP server and many of them are whales when it comes to spending for new servants. Not to mention actively hiring more people for the game staff right now. Aniplex does want to maintain a good working relationship with type-moon though because if it goes sour, type moon can enter talks with any number of publishers who would love to publish Fate franchises to make money.
There's also the fact that the global FGO server is handled by the same people who operate the JP game, so there's not really much danger of it shutting down early.
One large factor is that the EN server is 4 years behind JP practically giving a huge amount of foresight for the majority of players basically encouraging others to abstain from spending and instead save for their favorite or meta characters.
I straight up thought it was an april fools joke at first, it was so out of nowhere. I've been learning japanese for unrelated reasons so I'm at a reading level where I can switch to the japan server, but I can't easily read the main/character stories without looking up a ton of words I don't know and that was my favorite part of this whole game. At least its more motivation to continue learning the language but I'm just so sad this game I loved that was a fun/relaxing daily thing in my life got ripped out from under me out of nowhere.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cygames decides to invest into an En tl for the app like with Granblue and UmaMusu. PriConne still pretty big in JP and is one of their top 3 revenue earners next to/tied with GBF, and UmaMusu. Better for someone like me who has a decently stacked JP account that’s been around since launch and I only dabbled a bit into EN with practically 0 investment but yeah I do feel bad for those that were invested into global.
The VERY BEST thing you can do to enhance your learning of the Japanese language is to go live in Japan for at least 1 year. This is because immersion is hands-down the best way to learn a foreign language.
I just came back again playing Priconne when Summer Saren was announced. I was buying packs to catch up with the level every month. Then, half a year later, the game shuts down, and just when I started playing it religiously. I'm sad and pissed at the same time.
@@mi_mir You will have to ask for them. Contact apple if you bought on an apple device, Google Play if there, or contact your CC company. Be clear that you purchased and they are now shutting downs service. Worst you get is a "no".
I still remember simultaneously being disgusted of and histerically laughing at the fact that right after Magia Record's shutdown was announced, they also said that "oh btw, the premium currency is on a 50% discount until operations shut down". Obviously, gacha games exist for the sole purpose of extorting as much money from irresponsible spenders as possible, but THIS level of shamelessness and cynicism was beyond baffling.
It's ironic because they had a bunch of characters coming up that people were gonna absolutely DESTROY their wallets trying to get. I remember though my proudest moment in Priconne was beating Karyl's 6* ascension quest cuz it was really hard to do cuz the enemy Karyl kept nuking my team, but I eventually got through it and made her my first 6*. I did the same for Pecorine and Kokoro too, all three are my home screen girls. Kokoro also gives by far my favoritest voice line when she talks about being a bride some day like how could they possibly look at something so absurdly cute and decide to take it away from us. Just isn't fair. I genuinely hope someone else takes the game away from them, this shit just ain't right.
Took a hiatus from it for a month seeing this news breaks my heart. I enjoyed decorating my guild room talking with my guildmates in chat and to think it's gone forever now. It hurt a lot to hit that uninstall button. Part of me hopes a more worthy company picks up the pieces of Princess Connect and do what CR failed to do multiple times... wishful thinking i know but still gonna miss my vampire girl she'll always be my favorite character
I wonder if maybe they needed to pay a continuous licensing fee to CY for PriConne… Because I have a hard time imagining that this game would be losing money just from ongoing costs (okay, to be fair, I'm on JP and always have been, so maybe it's not as popular here?) If I'm running a business, I would feel hesitant to cut off anything that is not literally in the red, since, first, it might be temporary, and second, you pay in brand recognition and customer good will, as mentioned. So unless if they need the resources for something else, or their management has some super short-term KPIs (or just bad), I have to imagine that they're actually losing money, potentially sizable, to this. That said, it still feels weird that a game that is still doing quite well in JP would just fail so quickly…
The biggest thing about this EoS is that the JP side is going strong as is KR, CH, and even THAI. I could understand if the whole worldwide service of the game is shutting down due to low sales, but its not. They also CHOSE to announce it two days before April Fools, give us a one month notice only, AND announce on the day of the Mascot's birthday, which is such abhorrent bad foresight that saying I can't trust them with any future gacha responsibilities is an understatement. At least with like Dragalia Lost, another Cygames, they gave their player base a six months advance notice, still made enough events, and also concluded their story. Eng won't get that for Priconne now. As much as people are saying "go jump to JP". I don't read/speak japanese, I don't want to download an emulator, and I don't want to start from scratch. I literally have four characters (Ram, Rem, Uzuki, and Rin (IM@S)) that you CANNOT get anymore in the JP server. That was the whole point for me to stay in the ENG because I've grown to love the collab characters too. Two years of work on a currently 5 year strong JP game going to complete waste is just the final nail in the coffin for my opinion of CR.
It was low sales, global players don't spend. For global, Jan was 300k, Feb dropped to 180k and March global sales dropped again to 100k and they announced EOS on March 31. Compare that to JP which was pulling several million every month.
@@digichu007 compared to other global games, it was still a big income. Some games didn't even have as much as Priconne and they still thrive. GFL eventhough they are lower income than Priconne, they still thrive and well.
@@th3ra83 Any game under the top 25 on sensor tower is always at the risk of being EOS. You can hear this stuff on ScionStorm's Hypewatch episodes where he talks about the industry and game dev.
Sigh this news is super depressing I was super invested and a day one player. This news was incredibly sudden, seriously announced mid clan battles... Honestly I do think what you're saying is correct but does seems so sudden that I feel like it could've been something else too... But I guess we'll never truly know and unless we do hear otherwise fuck CR... I just super hope this blows up enough to shake them enough that they may give it to another company... But I know that's just wishful thinking at this point. ...but ughhh so much great stuff was coming up this year... Definitely giving a pass on any future game I download that has the CR pop up on it... That Street fighter game I downloaded is going straight in the bin.
I don’t think they a scam, that lets them off the hook a little for managing the game so badly. They barely gave us a chance to give them more money, the community wasn’t seeing the wall. They where thinking, I was thinking the game going ok and was even putting money in for the love of the game. I didn’t need those jewels, but I did just for support. They got nothing I willing to invest in now. I am Sad.
I understand every gacha eventually comes to an end. Besides crunchyroll’s practices, the biggest thing that pissed me off was that they only gave A ONE MONTH NOTICE. If you are going to announce an eos do it sooner. Its so sudden and although I literally just had to put the game down like last week due to time constraints and loss of interest, my guildmates were awaiting the future units for months to come and then crunchyroll just shit in their face.
I saw the news and could tell whoever wrote the blogpost was sad about it getting shut down as well. Precon was such a big title imo, I knew a vtuber who played it, some of my friends did, and although I never did, I didn't realize it was a CR game because of how popular it seemed. For future reference for mobile players, when you play a Gacha, despite how much you enjoy it, look at the company who published it as well as how much traction it's making. Used to play a mobile game called Heir of Light and spent probably close to 1k shortly after it released. I started to see signs that it was going to be all too popular so I made the hard decision to leave and while it's still running, it's littered with ads and 0 direction. Mihoyo I'd say is a good company. I grew up playing their games (No Honkai Impact 3 wasn't their first) and the only reason they shut down one of their mobile games, Houkai Gakuen 2, was because it truely wasn't popular in the US (still available in JP and CN though) which makes sense as I've never really met anyone who knows what that game was.
The problem is, it was taken by Crunchyroll for the Global server. The game itself for the JP server still going. So it was more of "translator" problem rather than the company that makes it. This is quite big cause Cygames is a big name, the JP server of Pricone basically still thriving, meanwhilr the Global server that is under CR is going down. And not just going down, but just in a year, where some Indie gacha games actually could hold their games at least 3 years. Meaning, the management at CR is really that bad.
I really feel you, Priconne fans, it has to hurt and I really didn't expect the game to shut down so early. I am kinda glad that I didn't play it tbh. And I was about to get interested in Eminence, dodged a bullet here. Damn, I didn't know Crunchy litteraly had 7 games being shut down...ouch... And pretty early too...damn...
One thing I do wanna talk about is blue archive when it came out got a massive hit it got bad reviews and didn’t seem like it was doing well. But then blue archive fixed the problems pretty fast and now it’s one of the biggest gatchas in global too. It’s good to take hits and get back up don’t just shut it down cause it was doing bad for awile.
Yeah ba is one of the best comeback stories for gacha games. Really shows that if the devs actually put in effort to make things better that things will get better.
I've had doubts about CR games and my friend warned me about trusting them... We knew this day would come just it hit harder than what I expected... Still hurts to see Priconne gonna shut down... Hoping it was just an April Fools meme put huge effort to make it work but they're really going through with it... Speaking of which another game, Girls Frontline, dipped for a long time but still is striving despite its low income, and look at where it is now... Game has a sequel/a prequel/a couple of stand alone games...
One thing I find it sad is that this kind of live service games can't be preserved for the sake of preservation. So many ppl worked hard for these games. I think of Dragalia lost on this matter.
@@Alexandragon1 Given how Mihoyo and Hoyoverse are doing, pretty sure the games will stay for a long while, after all I’m pretty sure the final story chapters have yet to enter global.
They should pass laws tbh that mandate all live service games that have stores must have End of Life plans to make the product playable to customers even after servers shut down.
started playing EiS Master of Garden about a week ago and have been actually having a lot of fun, despite its my first game of that type. If the prices weren't so ridiculous i would have spent money on it already. Then someone posted a warning about the EoS of this in the EiS RPG subreddit after playing connect for like 2 years and seeing how it shutdown despite its popularity. Terrifying. Now i am certain i won't spent any cash on EiS, but ima do what i set out to do in the first place and enjoy the ride until i originally hit a roadblock (or now it gets canned...) it should at least live to its anniversary, and s2 will buy it a few more months but god damn...
This isn't just the death of Princess Connect EN - this is also the death of having the possibility of having a Uma Musume EN game because Cygames will view the loss of Princess Connect EN as to say that there is no profitable market for their games. Expecting Cygames to save Priconne EN or commit to a Uma Musume EN would be silly.
It's time to boycott Clownchyroll. But manh I really thought Princonne was their redemption after all the games they butchered. I'm in shambles still as a day 1 player FK I was having the time of my life with this game even had the whole year pulls planned out.
As someone who cried over both Magia Record (which was my first gatcha game) and Princess Connect, I agree with your statement about losing trust. I've played their My Hero Academia game and still will because I think it's fun, but I've always been a free-to-play person and even with spare money in the future things like this make me want to not spend it on something that might disappear. At least Magia Record had a legacy mode to view what you had (although not transferrable completely to newer devices), losing everything in Princess Connect was heartbreaking.
Man was it sad to see the eos announcement. I took a couple month hiatus and had just recently come back in January and I made it in time for p peco and was excited for the first princess character and then 2nd in may but a couple months later they announced eos. I really wasn’t ready for it and I haven’t tried to get a refund for any purchases since I thought I couldn’t with them being a week or 2 before eos announcement. I wasn’t going to switch to jp but I love this gacha way too much to quit. I’m playing both jp and global up until eos since I’ll still miss it regardless with all the time spent since release minus the hiatus but it isn’t as frequent anymore.
Interesting thing, JP's income is mostly from merch. They haven't been putting in work for merch, they weren't pushing it as much as CyGames does in JP. I'll be migrating to JP, I can't read a lot of kanji but i can mostly understand what they say through audio so I'll be fine hopefully. Fellow Knights. I hope you can find a new game that brings you as much joy priconne gave you. best of luck!
When I heard CrunchyRoll was in charge of PrinCon...yea I sticked with the JP version. I tried to get into Shadow, cuz I love the franchise but...immediately deleted it. Gameplay was so boring and not challenging enough (technically not Crunchy's fault), but knowing who's running the EN server was the nail in the coffin. A friend of mine who works for the company told me rumors circulating of the shutdown after one year cuz it wasn't "earning enough". Oh and saying that, it's exactly what you said, shareholders and top brass want to see "consistent growth" which...yea that's not how gacha works. Ya got rise and dip, typical of how gacha works. But true to how American companies run games (looking at you Activision), they want a massive cash in, and then bail when it's not making money day by day.
I was playing this almost every day since launch. And it was one of my favorite mobile games. This came as a complete shock to me. I spent some money, not a lot but still. I'm never spending on any crunchyroll game again.
i hope cygames is pissed about that. they put a ton of money into advertising for the game including a tie-in event, a tournament and set inclusion in shadowverse. if i was them id be livid having invested millions to get the game of the ground only for some random ass company to waste it all within a short amount of time. i wouldnt be surprised if they took a reputation hit from that considering priconne being one of cygames´s big 3 together with shadowverse and granblue.
I've been playing every day since launch, when they picked it up I seen a lot of doom and gloom about crunchyroll getting it but played anyway. The first summer event i put money on it to get the summer karyl and i used to buy the monthly pack but i stopped about a year ago. It's funny, I played Final Fantasy Record Keeper for 3 or 4 years and when that shut down last year it sucked but it didn't hit me as hard as this, it's probably the strength of the characters like you said, I haven't even watched the anime but Yukari and Mitsuki are just too good. Mitsuki barely shows up in any events probably because Kotono Mitsuishi is too busy or something, but I was excited to see she finally got her 6 star upgrade in Japan and even though it was 3 years away I took a mental note of it. But yeah they wont fool me again.
I feel people turned a blind eye on crunchyroll games for a long time. I played attack on titan tactics , which was a global verson behind a japanese version. Well ... when u have 10-15ish characters in the main show, what can you do as a Dev ? Well, release the usual swimsuit, maiden temple suit outfits etc. The game was fun at first ... then they introduced skip tiickets, content became rare but we had a new outfit for miaksa everyweek ( with blatant powercreep). And yep they disconnect not even 1 month after that.
I played Princess Connect! Re:Dive probably for a couple of months at some point, can't really remember when this was, but I took a long break from it and only recently came back just for a little bit when one Twitch streamer who I follow on Discord wanted to try out the game, and that reminded me "Oh yeah, I could check it out for a bit.". As a side note, it might tell something about the duration of my break that I had enough stuff in the in-game mail that I was able to do about 300 pulls on a banner when I returned. There was about 45k worth the gacha currency if I recall correctly. Maybe it's because I wasn't active in the game for such a long time that this doesn't personally hit me so hard but I can certainly understand that players are sad and upset. There are some characters who I liked, and earlier today I even went back to the game so I could record probably about an hour or so worth of video of the game so I'd have at least something to remember from it when it's gone. Just because I'm not as heart broken about the end of service as active players are doesn't mean I can't imagine how they are feeling right now. All I'd have to do is to imagine my currently active gacha game, Arknights, facing the same end and I can absolutely imagine how I'd feel about it. I've been playing Arknights for over 3 years (started at the end of January 2020, a few weeks after global launch), and I don't think I've played any other gacha game where I remember as many playable characters by their names (including Azur Lane, which I played for several years before I got burnt out from the end game, and soon after found Arknights) as I do in Arknights. Not just their names but their traits, talents, skills and in some cases some of their information from their profiles or voice lines. For a few of them I even remember when or how I got them, or even how many pulls I did for them. If I was being told Arknights was shutting down (the global version) then it'd be like suddenly losing 3+ years of my life. Not just that but I'd be losing the excitement I had for the upcoming events and content, and I'd have less to talk about the game in some communities I've found out thanks to the game. Yeah, it's not like I'd have to leave those communities even if that happened but communities can make games so much more fun when you are aware of other players who are into same things as you are. I don't doubt I might find another gacha game I'd start playing as my main gacha game but out of all the gacha games I've played or tried out, I'd say Arknights is probably my favorite. The point is that I believe I can imagine how the Princess Connect! Re:Dive players might be feeling now. No one wants to lose something they have spent a lot of time and effort into over a long time period. It's sad news and I don't really have any words to offer that might make those players feel better. I know any live service game can't last forever but that doesn't make it any easier when a game you greatly enjoy gets EoS notice. I don't really have anything else to say so I'll just leave it here.
You got a point and i can say for myself i'll NEVER play game published by Crunchyroll again! Those people are bunch of incompetent stooges who doesn't deserve a single dime. And man Priconne is such a great game, for me it was the best title that i enjoyed the most but now its over in the most stupid way possible. Ok fine just downloaded JP version and now i`m building all over and having fun but that bitter taste from Crunchyroll failure will stay for a long time, this company as dead to me as the English version of my favorite game!
I loved priconne, all the characters are great. kyaru (especially nyaru version) is adorable. What I loved about it, is that even as ftp you could still get most of your favorite characters. Which probably aided in it's downfall. As much as I hate it, Genshin probably is making bank due to how stingy they are with primogems.
All cygames gachas are like this, the generosity had nothing to do with it really. If anything that isn’t related to crunchy roll (which I’d argue Cr is the main factor here) is the fact that it was one of the very few gachas that the en had an almost two-three year gap of knowing what’s ahead and saving for specific super meta things. Very uncommon now a days for gachas. Also genshin is really more f2p than people give it credit for on a consistent patch to patch basis. Especially with banner rotation changes
@@amimwosjs Always found it funny when people said Genshin is stingy with their primos. While Genshin is not perfect and have problem on it's own, I doubt gacha is one of it. Literally out of all the games that I played (FGO, GBF, Pricone, Bang Dream, Uma Musume) still loses to Genshin gacha system. Where you can save your pull and keep it on next banner. I'm F2P but till now I just don't have Itto, Ayato, Childe, Nahida, and Cyno. It's really easy to manage the gacha especially if you just want a character (not their cons.)
Stingy? As far as gachas go, Genshin is pretty generous. They’re pretty much as generous as a gacha can get, which isn’t much but hey I’ll take it over FGO rates and stinginess.
I put a lot of time and money into this game too, so it was quite a shocker to see this cancelation announcement. I wish they revamped the arena/princess arena so that if the timer runs out, the winner should be whoever did the most damage, not you automatically lose because the defending team just runs down the clock. Would've made it immensely more interesting. Guess this is my last Crunchyroll game too, since I now have trust issues with anything they release after seeing their track record of shutting games down.
I’ve learned my lesson about Crunchyroll games a long time ago. Memoria Freese wasn’t shut down. A different company runs it now. If Crunchyroll still had it would definitely have been shut down though.
Actually insane stuff man, my clan in Priconne is (was) T10 and emotions were running high when we, on Peco's birthday, got the news CR was EoSing Priconne actually a damn shame.
The anime and manga community has accused Crunchyroll of adopting predatory tactics when it comes to Gacha games. In this case, it’s Princess Connect! Re: Dive that will be shut down on April 30, 2023. This is a popular mobile game that was extremely successful and garnered a massive fanbase that was loyal to the game. One of the main producers of the game is Crunchyroll, which means they have control over the game when it comes to non-Japanese servers. In the announcement post, the platform didn’t particularly state a reason that was directly responsible for the removal of the game. This certainly upset the entire fanbase, since a well-performing game was removed without them receiving a proper explanation.
And here I am thinking if CR will publish another game for JP. I'm looking at you UmaMusume. People better hope their anticipated game won't be published by a dead-on-arrival publisher.
Cygames would probably know better at this point. My hope is that they eventually handle everything like Granblue Fantasy and have an English text option in the main service.
I remember one of Aniplex game that I really love. Before Bang Dream! Even a thing. There's an "Idol Band" game called Band Yarouze! It's an all boys band and the song is amazing. Cast member is amazing too. And they did cover some song like *Asterisk*, Hot Limit, etc. And after 3 years, maybe because the sale is not enough they closed it down. I was so bummed of it because it was an AMAZING game :(
I was super hyped when I first heard Priconne was getting a global server but I lost all of it the moment I learnt CR was publishing it. Now I didn't know back then that CR had a track record but I still didn't download priconne simply because I hate CR for obvious reasons that I don't need to specify here and didn't want to give them a dime. Although there was a time(after watching the anime) when I regretted not downloading the game when it came out but looking back, I really dodged a bullet by not trusting CR. I saved myself from getting duped by CR. For now I'll simply stick with arknights and blue archive.
Nice fellow dokutah. AK publisher also produce another hit game azur lane and it still growing strong by its degenerate fans. So i know AK publisher was trusted unlike CR.
My friend and his wife were big into PriConne and even tried to get me hooked. I made an account last summer, but after seeing the "gameplay", I lost any remaining interest. Now I'm glad I didn't dive any deeper. While my friends didn't put any money into it, it still pissed them off when the end of service announcement came out. I felt sorry for them.
I’ve never played a gacha game before Priconne, which I started playing on release. I played every day. I’m surprised by how much this shut down upset me.
Played Blue Archive Global since launch (November 2021) and dropped it after a month because I'm mad at Nexon for the unreasonable spike of level requirement in event stages, and my unrealistically gacha results full of duplicates despite having only less than 5 SSRs.... a year after I heard rumors that Nexon are starting to change by listening more to their playerbase and becoming more generous (not only in pyroxenes but they also made lots of SSRs farmable), I decided to go back and now for some reason I'm simping hard at Misono Mika and even played both Global and JP version. Forgive me for that unnecessary story but yea I have high expectations on Priconne because Cygames is involved but Cruncyroll decided to just drop it. Eminence in Shadow Is not really generous and had a terrible rates and daily rewards but I decided to stick because I love the plot and anime itself, but now I'm having second doubt reinstalling it when I got my phone fixed.
My Condolences to the PriConnect ReDive Fandom ☹️ Never played the Game, but watched the Anime, which I heard had a 'Lighter' story plot as compared to the Game. Saw some footages of the Game and Was Actually Tempted to Try--- Then I remember I play Azur Lane, Genshin Impact, & Love Live! School Idol Festival - All Stars 😆 Can't Invest my Time, Money, & Emotion in Another Game. Azur Lane, the Devs Luvs their 'Degenerates' (Yes, They call us that, and I'm Proud to be a 'Degenerate')--- They care about their Player base. Genshin Impact, I Love the Lore & Open World Play, and the Characters. LL! SIF All Stars, I Fell in Love with Season 1 of Love Live! and μ's --- And that's Probably the Only Reason I Play It. Hope a Better Publisher comes along & picks us PriConnect ReDive, and Allow Data Transfer of Accounts.
was on max level(name of account Joker), had a own guild with a member number of 27 and 4 of them were nearly max(name of the guild Espada). had nearly all characters, half of them on max armor, 60.000 crystals or whatever you call them, played all story and events and was in the shitty arena on rank 100. IT WAS MY LIFE GAME AND THEY STOLE ALL OF MY SWEAT THAT I PUT INTO THIS GAME. LIKE BEVOR THE NEW DAY STARTS 15:00 I LOGGED IN AND COLLECTED THE STAMINA. IM GOING TO REMEMBER THAT CRUNCHYROLL
@@iiiisssssaaaaaacccccc I already am on jp server, but i like to read the main story, the bond stories etc Also we have here on en server chill guild... but yeah
Another thing that upsets me about Crunchyroll is that they didn't even try to catch up to the jp server, like instead of a banner with a single character for 2 weeks, give us 3/4 banners at the same time. Doing NOTHING to resolve income problem and just let go, then take the next hot game available is the most soulless thing possible (fcking pekorine birthday man!)
This broke my heart. I had even just started Eminence in Shadow because I loved the anime and characters. But after the EoS announcement……..I finally was made aware of CR Games and their track record. After crying a good bit at the knowledge of losing my 2+ years of hard work, I sent a support ticket to Cygames begging for them to handle the global version (worst they can do is not at this point lol) and deleted Eminence in Shadow. I had so many characters I was excited for and I was so excited for the story. They couldn’t even do the appropriate thing and just wait for this arc to end so there’s at least some kind of ending,but they do it during the beginning after plot points and characters have been introduced. Last CR published game I play.
I've never played this game but it's wild how I was getting advertisements for this game about 2 days ago and I hear it's shutting down that's really messed up
Princess Connect has such a great story to be honest and I am sad to see it go. DanMachi Memoria Freeze is still around luckily but I can't play it since my devices can't handle sadly. It seems my phone can but it hears it up a lot. Oh well At least they had more of a heart than the Date A Live Gacha Game that went radio silent for month and only came back to say they shutting down but then again they announced it on Pecorines birthday of all things and not even outing it on life support
Priconne being shut down is hurting me much more than I thought it would. I grew so attached to the characters, and I put so much time and effort into the game I had to take a break. And yesterday when I finally decided to come back, I see the EoS thing. I'm not one to hate, but I hate Crunchyroll now. I just hope the game gets picked up by a more competent company (AND that we get to keep our progress, since today I got all the limited characters from the Comeback Gala). I don't think I have a way to get the JP version, and even if I did I don't understand Japanese, and it's likely I wouldn't be able to keep my progress. I just want my Kokoro, she felt like my one true friend during the pandemic ;-; I'm basically grieving over this even though the game still has some days left.
why haven't i seen this video b4. i guess its too late now. i got banned in OPMW for re rolling and now im looking for a way to refund. im using an A plus account that i used my transaction on.
Yep, that is really true as a princone player that played for almost 2 years, I never have thought it will shut down like this. I swear that I'm not gonna play Crunchyroll games anymore for my whole life.
Just bumped in here since its about the EoS of Precone that’s been talking around for days. All I can say is that it’s news to me to hear that Crunchyroll games had been such a bad platform. Surprised to see that even DanMachi game was part of it before (which leaves a bad taste to me). Good thing I never played any of their games, as I only play FGO mainly which I have confidence Aniplex won’t f*k this up, else they want to face hell in reality and cyberspace. Again, my condolences to all Precone global gamers here...
God. I got burned so hard by Magireco. They ran two of the most anticipated banners, waited for them to end, and then announced it would be shutting down. Like, actual scam activity.
Yes shutting down one of the most popular Gacha game seems a bad move for a company. They are too impatient and didn't think the future upcoming updates will make them more money. PriConne is one of the loved games brought out by Crunchyroll and they are going to shut it down is really a bad move
This is the first time I've heard the Crunchyroll does this kind of thing I've been playing Eminence of Shadow now for a long time. I know they're making a buttload of money off that game that's probably why they haven't shut it down. You're absolutely right we put a lot into our games. I'm definitely not picking up any of those others from Crunchyroll
I actually used to play magical record I made it all the way to chapter 5 before the actually closed the game down and it was disappointing because there were 10 chapters in the game and I finished the first season of the game and I was never able to play season 2 of the game and that was just after the anime for season 1 ended. I got into the game and the anime was really good
I'm in the acceptance stage the pain won't leave but I am there. My clan is slowly but not fully in BA but we will follow in ainz footsteps all the way to the last seconds of Princess connect
Yeah I learned my lesson after Overlord MftD, I was excited for ReDive but as soon I saw it was being published by crunchyroll I didn't even download it
Priconne was definitely fun. I played it for about six months pretty casually. I've played a lot of mobile gacha games over the years so here's my take on this. The two year cycle is typically for cheap gachas. Companies spit them out like clockwork every two years after shutting the old one down in order to milk whales. It's best to avoid them and stick with notable titles from reliable companies like Epic Seven. That said, Priconne did not seem like it would suffer that fate. While it wasn't making a lot of money it seems like the shutdown came early due to the economy. EVERY company worldwide is taking measures to weather this terrible economic period. This has hit the tech and entertainment sectors especially hard. Personally, I'm taking a break from mobile gacha games this year. They are addictive and time consuming. I may give Valiant Force 2 a try because I like the dev studio but that's it.
Figured I'd add a minor correction about one of the vaulted games, Grand Summoners. The game is still alive with 0 involvement from Crunchy Roll. It's been a joke on the GS discord for a while that GS was the only game to survive CR, and that still stands true. I don't know if CR is just bad at managing their games or if they just have predatory contracts with the companies, but when GS and CR were partnered back in 2019-2020 a lot of units got rushed because they were highly anticipated.
They have a nexon-esque business model and will axe any game that does not meet their numbers game. They dont give a shit about their games and community nor the people that work for their department, they just want to make as much money as possible with as little money as possible and fast as possible and thats that.
Ok, crunchyroll is definitely to blame for most of this but i doubt Cygames is feeling too bad about it. Cygames recently dropped another one of their big global gachas late last year being Dragalia Lost (Nintendo x Cygames), which makes me worried for all other Global Cygame gachas that are still running. Also Cygames still has the JP server of Priconne running and they always seem to make their gachas and care more directed towards the JP audience anyway.
I was planning on starting to save up for Misora in EN but thank god i forgot to do that (thanks to Granblue keeping me busy last month). Guess I'll just stick to try-hard translations lol.
Honestly it's so stupid from a revenue perspective closing down Princess Connect since the bulk of the characters people were eagerly waiting for were released during the second arc. I may be a JP player but I'm mad for the disrespect they showed to my global friends.
@@digichu007 We were 30 days away from the Princess Kkr to the Labyrista rush. This was a dead period on JP just like it is on global, not as dead as global but still was a dead period. They were just 30 days away from making a lot of money from Pkkr, Pyui, Summer and Labby were going to make them money
@@redrose1179 Honestly, I don't think it would have made them as much as we expect. Compared to a game like FGO, which is stinginess incarnate, Cygames gachas are almost all very generous. At least with GBF with them running on the same server, there is no foresight, meanwhile with Priconne the only people who whale are new players who want to get caught up quickly, but the entire game is structured in such a way that it's designed to retain players over a longer period. It's sad, but I think if CR are going to be this ruthless about profits (and spend so little effort promoting/advertising the game, running livestreams etc) then this was always bound to happen. Still doesn't mean I'm not terribly upset. I grew to love those characters, and the whole atmosphere.
@@Harkz0r true, but the summer rush last year made them money because it was good unit after good unit and many even with 100k+ saved had to spend something, I had 122k and while I didn't spend I missed out on smakoto
It's so sad because i recently rewatched the s2 of Priconne and i wanted to give a try to his mobile game, and then look what i found Crunchy shut down the game, even if i haven't played a single minute in the game i feel sad inside me right now.
Revue Starlight Relive is a more niche title than Princess Connect, and so far, it's still going strong over three years and counting. FGO is going to hit it's fifth year in NA and doesn't look like it'll go away anytime soon. Azur Lane and Blue Archive are looking good, too. Makes you wonder what Crunchyroll is expecting?
Thank you for covering this. I was honestly pissed when I found out about the closing of Priconne Global. For context, I came across the game a couple of years before the game came out for global and I found out that it's Japan only so I was bummed and hoping that one day it comes to global. So, when the global version of Priconne came out, I was super excited, but then I notice it was publish by Crunchyroll Games which game me red flags as I had not too long had played the Overlord game that they were publishing the global version for. So, I was trying to give them the benefit of a doubt that with this one it will last for a long while, but I didn't spend any money on the game cause of the lingering red flag that it was Crunchyroll Games. So, sure enough, when this happen it made me mad because I was losing a game that I waited for so long for a global version for but upset that the game I was waiting for was picked up by a company I didn't trust with mobile games. I really do feel Priconne would have done much better in the west under a different western publisher. I really do hope Priconne has a happy story like in Danmemo situation where the global version gets picked up by another company. After this shit that they have done to their mobile games especially with Priconne, I refuse to play anymore of their games and I was even looking at the Eminence in Shadow but not anymore. I also refuse to subscribe to their anime streaming platform. I do not want to give Crunchyroll any of my money whether it's through their published games or streaming platform as they have left me this bitter cause of what they keep doing to good mobile games.
Legend of the crypts is a mobile gatcha. That I played when I got into middle school and they were far into content and even till this day they still operate after soo many years. It’s unfortunate some good games fall under horrible circumstances that companies subjugate them to
Even after Danmemmo left their hands, it's censorship stayed too. It helped me jump into FGO. I also used almost zero money in Danmemmo as a protest to the censorship
Good decision you can even found some gem account that quite cheap for 140k gem with princess banner at start + a ton of stuff help you catch up in no time...
i remember in the early days of the mha game there was alot of drama with fake news on the banners and whatnot and most of the player base requested refunds for em to the point where the devs stopped banning people for it cuz it was just bringing more bad press and now the game receives new content rarely and its just sad
Take this with huge, and I mean HUGE grain of salt, but a rumour I've seen regarding why priconne got shutdown was actually because Cygames doesn't want to associate themselves with CR anymore. Now I know this is a stretch but hear me out, the main reason apparently was because of how CR notoriously handled Street Fighter and because of that Cygames have decided to cut all ties with them.
FGO is only an 'oddity' because it has a larger fanbase + it is more difficult to obtain characters. NA received the pity system early sure, but it's still more costly compared to Priconne. Priconne showered you with jewels. I stopped playing Priconne for months. When I came back and I was able to pity NY! Kyaru. The game is very F2P friendly, but it definitely translates to lower sales.
Normally a difficult gacha is a death nail, but Fate has a massive franchise fueling it hype daily. They definitely hit something that is almost unrepeatable..
The one nice thing about fgo when it comes to getting saint quartz in a F2P experience is that you don't need to roll multiple copies of characters like you might in other gacha games. You get one copy of an SSR servant, usually that is enough. They also don't make old servants obsolete by pushing heavy powercreep like some gachas out there. To top it all off, it is possible to borrow units from whales that can beat some hard fights by themselves in the story.
I find it kinda ironic that Konami of all game companies managed to keep duel links alive for 6 or 7 years while crunchy has a track record of 7 games killed
Dokkan is on the 8th year.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Arena, Yu-Gi-Oh! Online, Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Generation, Yu-Gi-Oh! BAM and most recently, Yu-Gi-Oh! Cross Duel.
2 out of 7 attempts to make an online/mobile version of Yu-Gi-Oh! is not a commendable track record lmao
And Yu-Gi-Oh! is the one franchise Konami actually cares about. If anything CR has managed to keep more games alive than Konami has.
Yugioh has a very big fan base from teenagers all the way to adults who play it regularly on there phones or watch the anime.
Its called business strategy and crunchyroll hasn't played chess
@@PlaystationTaxation69999 you're surprised that bandai namco's biggest moneymaker is still alive? what?
They literally announced this during Pecorine's Birthday, what the heck crunchyroll shame on you! I've seen gacha games die left and right but some had at least put their games into "life-support". But no, Crunchyroll just had to shut it down out of nowhere. Hoping cygames can pick this game up, or at least get a trusted publisher but this is all unlikely. Condolences to fans of Priconne's global server.
Well quite hard since Cysgame are just need the JP version
Yeah, and in the game she mentions seeing each other next year...They also posted an opinion piece a few hours before announcing the shutdown about "a game you love being shut down" lol
They even made an editorial article about dealing with EoS on the same day...
@@otakuspirit again where is your news danmachi isnt shut down
@@otakuspirit both danmachi and grand summoners are still thriving you are literally pulling shit outta your ass danmachi was given to a different company for a lot of money and grand summoners good smile took that back because its easier to publish and develop for the game with 1 team on it
I thought Princess connect would be too big to fail. It even has a nice 2 season Anime but somehow Crunchyroll dropped the Ball and instead of adapting like Nexon did with Blue Archive or decreasing the free gems to push players to the cash shop, they basically just gave up with little effort. It doesn't help that players were discouraged by their record but shutting down an IP this big just proves players right and shows they know nothing about long term business.
To be fair, if they did decrease free gems, people would riot anyway.
@@sandlax9509 True, even though it's one of the most generous f2p Gacha out there...despite the 300 pull pity.
Blue archive had issues? I don't think it ever did imo
Wait when did blue archive have issues?
@@shinobuoshinoisbestgirl5778 The beginning months of Global, players were shaky about Nexon publishing it since they have a bad reputation mismanaging Games like Crunchyroll. The Game was review bombed and Global was seen lacking in revenue compared to JP.
The problem with companies is when they feel too safe they believe they can get away with literally anything like a celebrity commiting crimes
its their servers and their property. they can do what they want. bcs its theirs
Priconne was not my first CR game, I did play just a little bit of the Overlord game, but this was the only CR game I invested so much time into since it first launched. It made me get into the anime, and it has become one of my top 10 because I absolutely love the world and the characters. Seeing the EoS announcement finally made me realize what a joke Crynchyroll is, and I'm really heartbroken about it. I'm sad I never noticed it for over 2 years.
Jun best girl
Jun carried me for a long time. Was my first 3* hehe
If u want try the jp version, though it's really complicated and time taking, atleast u will enjoy the game a lot
Isnt Konosuba by Nexon?
@@ShiroKage-h8v Sheeet you right
Dude I was saving a full ass pity worth of crystals+ for summer jun and I don't even get to use them, sadge
fun fact, crunchyroll also managed to get the symphogear gacha back in the days but closed it since they did not get enough money. people where ready to pay actually but they forgot to implement a whaling system for at least 2 month. nice job chrunchy
Actually that was Bushiroad Global being awful. Seeing the Symphogear collab for Revue Starlight after was a low blow.
There are bunch of other gatchas still alive after years eventhough their declining playerbase. This game was very popular compared to those.
It's scary how they can just decide to kill the game abruptly.
Was my feelings as well when a company shut down Sword Girls. Probably the best TCG game ever made. But they wanted something more mainstream to chase more cash, so instead they swapped over to some kind of dragon riding game. Never bothered to remember the name, and I'm almost certain that game has shut down ages ago.
it always happens to the English versions as well, they're the first to get the boot
FEH is now 6 years and still counting even though the game itself is really bad. Probably because of the franchise but im not really sure of that
They should stick to animation.
Managing games aren't for them
@@syaondri oh right that sjw BS little witch academia. Lol
i feel bad for eminence in the shadow. There are so many extra stories in there, specifically written, by the writer himself. And for it to be ridden in this Crunchyroll problem is very sad and upsetting
My recommendation is learning japan or using OCR software to play the japan version rather than playing the EN version. If the game IP license hold by 3rd party localization, don't trust them. And see if their track record of EoS is by merging to original region sources which is better rather than what CR did.
Been playing CR's Eminence in Shadow since christmas, really tempted to try purchase the daily gem subscription until I remember this is Crunchyroll lol. I hope the game will stay until season 2 is over at least...
Is it getting canceled?
@@brunohanham3119 no, at least not yet.... knowing CR, Eminence in shadow probably won't last long either
Agreed
The reason why FGO is an outlier is likely because of Type-Moon having a big stake in the project.
Most of revenue from outside FGO like figurines and posters are probably mostly going to TM rather than Aniplex. The reason why Aniplex treats FGO different is because want to remain the publisher for all the future TM games and anime. For example, Mahoyo, a TM game, was just released worldwide under Aniplex. Pretty sure they want to remain on good terms for the Fate-Extra remake and the potential lostbelts anime
Very true! Not ALL of the money from merch goes to Aniplex, but they do get a share. Which is why they handle production, distribution, and whatnot of merch.
Yeah, FGO just expanded their global servers to many more countries too. Sure, most the money comes in from the JP server for FGO because they have the most players on the JP server and many of them are whales when it comes to spending for new servants. Not to mention actively hiring more people for the game staff right now. Aniplex does want to maintain a good working relationship with type-moon though because if it goes sour, type moon can enter talks with any number of publishers who would love to publish Fate franchises to make money.
@@switchgear100 not fair comparison? hmm it took few year to get there BTW
There's also the fact that the global FGO server is handled by the same people who operate the JP game, so there's not really much danger of it shutting down early.
The One Punch Man World game just banned and resteicted the account of a lot of players for no reason, specially people who spent money on it
One large factor is that the EN server is 4 years behind JP practically giving a huge amount of foresight for the majority of players basically encouraging others to abstain from spending and instead save for their favorite or meta characters.
4 years?! Dang
I thought PGR being 2 years behind CN was bad enough
@@DisappointedAether PGR is only 1,5 years behind they are slowly catching up
@@DisappointedAether what's pgr?
@@LIGHTANGEL_EX gacha game. Punishing : Gray Raven
I straight up thought it was an april fools joke at first, it was so out of nowhere. I've been learning japanese for unrelated reasons so I'm at a reading level where I can switch to the japan server, but I can't easily read the main/character stories without looking up a ton of words I don't know and that was my favorite part of this whole game. At least its more motivation to continue learning the language but I'm just so sad this game I loved that was a fun/relaxing daily thing in my life got ripped out from under me out of nowhere.
That's why I'm hoping Cygames saves it. One is I don't want to have to start over lol... So much wasted time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Cygames decides to invest into an En tl for the app like with Granblue and UmaMusu. PriConne still pretty big in JP and is one of their top 3 revenue earners next to/tied with GBF, and UmaMusu. Better for someone like me who has a decently stacked JP account that’s been around since launch and I only dabbled a bit into EN with practically 0 investment but yeah I do feel bad for those that were invested into global.
The VERY BEST thing you can do to enhance your learning of the Japanese language is to go live in Japan for at least 1 year. This is because immersion is hands-down the best way to learn a foreign language.
I just came back again playing Priconne when Summer Saren was announced. I was buying packs to catch up with the level every month. Then, half a year later, the game shuts down, and just when I started playing it religiously. I'm sad and pissed at the same time.
it really does make me wonder if they were banking on NYKaryu and let it stay up a little longer for transaction reversals..
@@otakuspirit Same thoughts( They literally milked us!
8:34 CR have presented packs for new players on march 24! This is nuts!
It's time for refunds!
Is that even possible
@@mi_mir not for everyone, but there's no harm in trying if you don't want to play a cr-published title again.
@@mi_mir You will have to ask for them. Contact apple if you bought on an apple device, Google Play if there, or contact your CC company. Be clear that you purchased and they are now shutting downs service. Worst you get is a "no".
@@otakuspirit thanks for the tips
@@sampletext02 fuck CR games
I still remember simultaneously being disgusted of and histerically laughing at the fact that right after Magia Record's shutdown was announced, they also said that "oh btw, the premium currency is on a 50% discount until operations shut down". Obviously, gacha games exist for the sole purpose of extorting as much money from irresponsible spenders as possible, but THIS level of shamelessness and cynicism was beyond baffling.
Same thing happened with Overlord.
"Quick! Throw your money in before it's useless!"
And sad part is, there are some dumbos that still bought shit despite knowing fully well they're closing.
It's ironic because they had a bunch of characters coming up that people were gonna absolutely DESTROY their wallets trying to get.
I remember though my proudest moment in Priconne was beating Karyl's 6* ascension quest cuz it was really hard to do cuz the enemy Karyl kept nuking my team, but I eventually got through it and made her my first 6*. I did the same for Pecorine and Kokoro too, all three are my home screen girls. Kokoro also gives by far my favoritest voice line when she talks about being a bride some day like how could they possibly look at something so absurdly cute and decide to take it away from us. Just isn't fair.
I genuinely hope someone else takes the game away from them, this shit just ain't right.
Took a hiatus from it for a month seeing this news breaks my heart. I enjoyed decorating my guild room talking with my guildmates in chat and to think it's gone forever now. It hurt a lot to hit that uninstall button. Part of me hopes a more worthy company picks up the pieces of Princess Connect and do what CR failed to do multiple times... wishful thinking i know but still gonna miss my vampire girl she'll always be my favorite character
I wonder if maybe they needed to pay a continuous licensing fee to CY for PriConne… Because I have a hard time imagining that this game would be losing money just from ongoing costs (okay, to be fair, I'm on JP and always have been, so maybe it's not as popular here?) If I'm running a business, I would feel hesitant to cut off anything that is not literally in the red, since, first, it might be temporary, and second, you pay in brand recognition and customer good will, as mentioned. So unless if they need the resources for something else, or their management has some super short-term KPIs (or just bad), I have to imagine that they're actually losing money, potentially sizable, to this. That said, it still feels weird that a game that is still doing quite well in JP would just fail so quickly…
The biggest thing about this EoS is that the JP side is going strong as is KR, CH, and even THAI. I could understand if the whole worldwide service of the game is shutting down due to low sales, but its not. They also CHOSE to announce it two days before April Fools, give us a one month notice only, AND announce on the day of the Mascot's birthday, which is such abhorrent bad foresight that saying I can't trust them with any future gacha responsibilities is an understatement. At least with like Dragalia Lost, another Cygames, they gave their player base a six months advance notice, still made enough events, and also concluded their story. Eng won't get that for Priconne now.
As much as people are saying "go jump to JP". I don't read/speak japanese, I don't want to download an emulator, and I don't want to start from scratch. I literally have four characters (Ram, Rem, Uzuki, and Rin (IM@S)) that you CANNOT get anymore in the JP server. That was the whole point for me to stay in the ENG because I've grown to love the collab characters too. Two years of work on a currently 5 year strong JP game going to complete waste is just the final nail in the coffin for my opinion of CR.
It was low sales, global players don't spend. For global, Jan was 300k, Feb dropped to 180k and March global sales dropped again to 100k and they announced EOS on March 31. Compare that to JP which was pulling several million every month.
@@digichu007 bruh thai makes 5k per month
It wasn't low sales
@@digichu007 compared to other global games, it was still a big income. Some games didn't even have as much as Priconne and they still thrive. GFL eventhough they are lower income than Priconne, they still thrive and well.
@@th3ra83 Any game under the top 25 on sensor tower is always at the risk of being EOS. You can hear this stuff on ScionStorm's Hypewatch episodes where he talks about the industry and game dev.
Sigh this news is super depressing I was super invested and a day one player.
This news was incredibly sudden, seriously announced mid clan battles... Honestly I do think what you're saying is correct but does seems so sudden that I feel like it could've been something else too... But I guess we'll never truly know and unless we do hear otherwise fuck CR...
I just super hope this blows up enough to shake them enough that they may give it to another company... But I know that's just wishful thinking at this point. ...but ughhh so much great stuff was coming up this year...
Definitely giving a pass on any future game I download that has the CR pop up on it... That Street fighter game I downloaded is going straight in the bin.
What a shame. Amazing how accurate all those specific warnings were when it was originally announced Crunchyroll were to be releasing the game.
I don’t think they a scam, that lets them off the hook a little for managing the game so badly. They barely gave us a chance to give them more money, the community wasn’t seeing the wall. They where thinking, I was thinking the game going ok and was even putting money in for the love of the game. I didn’t need those jewels, but I did just for support. They got nothing I willing to invest in now. I am Sad.
I understand every gacha eventually comes to an end. Besides crunchyroll’s practices, the biggest thing that pissed me off was that they only gave A ONE MONTH NOTICE. If you are going to announce an eos do it sooner. Its so sudden and although I literally just had to put the game down like last week due to time constraints and loss of interest, my guildmates were awaiting the future units for months to come and then crunchyroll just shit in their face.
I saw the news and could tell whoever wrote the blogpost was sad about it getting shut down as well. Precon was such a big title imo, I knew a vtuber who played it, some of my friends did, and although I never did, I didn't realize it was a CR game because of how popular it seemed.
For future reference for mobile players, when you play a Gacha, despite how much you enjoy it, look at the company who published it as well as how much traction it's making. Used to play a mobile game called Heir of Light and spent probably close to 1k shortly after it released. I started to see signs that it was going to be all too popular so I made the hard decision to leave and while it's still running, it's littered with ads and 0 direction.
Mihoyo I'd say is a good company. I grew up playing their games (No Honkai Impact 3 wasn't their first) and the only reason they shut down one of their mobile games, Houkai Gakuen 2, was because it truely wasn't popular in the US (still available in JP and CN though) which makes sense as I've never really met anyone who knows what that game was.
The problem is, it was taken by Crunchyroll for the Global server.
The game itself for the JP server still going.
So it was more of "translator" problem rather than the company that makes it.
This is quite big cause Cygames is a big name, the JP server of Pricone basically still thriving, meanwhilr the Global server that is under CR is going down.
And not just going down, but just in a year, where some Indie gacha games actually could hold their games at least 3 years.
Meaning, the management at CR is really that bad.
It isnt a CR game, it is just published by CR. It is by Cygames and they done great in jp. Sucks that CR took it to global
@@ShiroKage-h8v Yeah, that's why I said to look at the company who published it 😂
@@Aivur.Marshmallow I still cant believe priconne is going too soon lol
I really feel you, Priconne fans, it has to hurt and I really didn't expect the game to shut down so early.
I am kinda glad that I didn't play it tbh.
And I was about to get interested in Eminence, dodged a bullet here.
Damn, I didn't know Crunchy litteraly had 7 games being shut down...ouch...
And pretty early too...damn...
One thing I do wanna talk about is blue archive when it came out got a massive hit it got bad reviews and didn’t seem like it was doing well. But then blue archive fixed the problems pretty fast and now it’s one of the biggest gatchas in global too. It’s good to take hits and get back up don’t just shut it down cause it was doing bad for awile.
And me with arknights review saying DP cost is expensive when Vanguard exist or SSS is a bad game design eventhough it was for end game content😅
@@abrahamwijaya6631 SSS is bad because time gated, makes it tedious. sure, now its easier after hypergrpyh adjusted it
Yeah ba is one of the best comeback stories for gacha games. Really shows that if the devs actually put in effort to make things better that things will get better.
I personally think BA is one of the best gachas out there (in terms of F2P friendly and devs that actually care about the game)
@@TsukatsukiRioExcept it's terrifying Nexon is the publisher 😅.
Princess Connect is literally my last trust to Crunchyroll and they lost it when they decide to shut it down.
I've had doubts about CR games and my friend warned me about trusting them... We knew this day would come just it hit harder than what I expected... Still hurts to see Priconne gonna shut down... Hoping it was just an April Fools meme put huge effort to make it work but they're really going through with it... Speaking of which another game, Girls Frontline, dipped for a long time but still is striving despite its low income, and look at where it is now... Game has a sequel/a prequel/a couple of stand alone games...
One thing I find it sad is that this kind of live service games can't be preserved for the sake of preservation. So many ppl worked hard for these games. I think of Dragalia lost on this matter.
Excellent point, the death of games preservation in online only hurts.
Yeah, this hurts so much( Some games are literally a work of ART. I'm worried about what will happen to HI3rd in the future.
@@Alexandragon1 Given how Mihoyo and Hoyoverse are doing, pretty sure the games will stay for a long while, after all I’m pretty sure the final story chapters have yet to enter global.
They should pass laws tbh that mandate all live service games that have stores must have End of Life plans to make the product playable to customers even after servers shut down.
@@Alexandragon1 don'teven say that!
started playing EiS Master of Garden about a week ago and have been actually having a lot of fun, despite its my first game of that type. If the prices weren't so ridiculous i would have spent money on it already.
Then someone posted a warning about the EoS of this in the EiS RPG subreddit after playing connect for like 2 years and seeing how it shutdown despite its popularity. Terrifying. Now i am certain i won't spent any cash on EiS, but ima do what i set out to do in the first place and enjoy the ride until i originally hit a roadblock (or now it gets canned...)
it should at least live to its anniversary, and s2 will buy it a few more months but god damn...
This isn't just the death of Princess Connect EN - this is also the death of having the possibility of having a Uma Musume EN game because Cygames will view the loss of Princess Connect EN as to say that there is no profitable market for their games. Expecting Cygames to save Priconne EN or commit to a Uma Musume EN would be silly.
>CrunchyRoll owns Aniplex
>Aniplex manages Fate/GO
*OH, NO…*
It's time to boycott Clownchyroll.
But manh I really thought Princonne was their redemption after all the games they butchered. I'm in shambles still as a day 1 player FK I was having the time of my life with this game even had the whole year pulls planned out.
Saaaaaaame (well, I'm nto a day one), but I had my gacha and character build plan laid out..
As someone who cried over both Magia Record (which was my first gatcha game) and Princess Connect, I agree with your statement about losing trust. I've played their My Hero Academia game and still will because I think it's fun, but I've always been a free-to-play person and even with spare money in the future things like this make me want to not spend it on something that might disappear.
At least Magia Record had a legacy mode to view what you had (although not transferrable completely to newer devices), losing everything in Princess Connect was heartbreaking.
I don't touch anything that has Crunchyroll's name on it.
Amen, brother!!!
I preffer to get a virus watching some random anime than spending a dime on crunchyroll
Man was it sad to see the eos announcement. I took a couple month hiatus and had just recently come back in January and I made it in time for p peco and was excited for the first princess character and then 2nd in may but a couple months later they announced eos. I really wasn’t ready for it and I haven’t tried to get a refund for any purchases since I thought I couldn’t with them being a week or 2 before eos announcement. I wasn’t going to switch to jp but I love this gacha way too much to quit. I’m playing both jp and global up until eos since I’ll still miss it regardless with all the time spent since release minus the hiatus but it isn’t as frequent anymore.
Interesting thing, JP's income is mostly from merch. They haven't been putting in work for merch, they weren't pushing it as much as CyGames does in JP. I'll be migrating to JP, I can't read a lot of kanji but i can mostly understand what they say through audio so I'll be fine hopefully.
Fellow Knights. I hope you can find a new game that brings you as much joy priconne gave you. best of luck!
When I heard CrunchyRoll was in charge of PrinCon...yea I sticked with the JP version.
I tried to get into Shadow, cuz I love the franchise but...immediately deleted it. Gameplay was so boring and not challenging enough (technically not Crunchy's fault), but knowing who's running the EN server was the nail in the coffin.
A friend of mine who works for the company told me rumors circulating of the shutdown after one year cuz it wasn't "earning enough". Oh and saying that, it's exactly what you said, shareholders and top brass want to see "consistent growth" which...yea that's not how gacha works. Ya got rise and dip, typical of how gacha works. But true to how American companies run games (looking at you Activision), they want a massive cash in, and then bail when it's not making money day by day.
I was playing this almost every day since launch. And it was one of my favorite mobile games. This came as a complete shock to me. I spent some money, not a lot but still. I'm never spending on any crunchyroll game again.
i hope cygames is pissed about that.
they put a ton of money into advertising for the game including a tie-in event, a tournament and set inclusion in shadowverse.
if i was them id be livid having invested millions to get the game of the ground only for some random ass company to waste it all within a short amount of time.
i wouldnt be surprised if they took a reputation hit from that considering priconne being one of cygames´s big 3 together with shadowverse and granblue.
I've been playing every day since launch, when they picked it up I seen a lot of doom and gloom about crunchyroll getting it but played anyway.
The first summer event i put money on it to get the summer karyl and i used to buy the monthly pack but i stopped about a year ago. It's funny, I played Final Fantasy Record Keeper for 3 or 4 years and when that shut down last year it sucked but it didn't hit me as hard as this, it's probably the strength of the characters like you said, I haven't even watched the anime but Yukari and Mitsuki are just too good. Mitsuki barely shows up in any events probably because Kotono Mitsuishi is too busy or something, but I was excited to see she finally got her 6 star upgrade in Japan and even though it was 3 years away I took a mental note of it.
But yeah they wont fool me again.
I feel people turned a blind eye on crunchyroll games for a long time. I played attack on titan tactics , which was a global verson behind a japanese version. Well ... when u have 10-15ish characters in the main show, what can you do as a Dev ? Well, release the usual swimsuit, maiden temple suit outfits etc. The game was fun at first ... then they introduced skip tiickets, content became rare but we had a new outfit for miaksa everyweek ( with blatant powercreep). And yep they disconnect not even 1 month after that.
Crunchyrole proving time and time again why people really dislike them as a company
I played Princess Connect! Re:Dive probably for a couple of months at some point, can't really remember when this was, but I took a long break from it and only recently came back just for a little bit when one Twitch streamer who I follow on Discord wanted to try out the game, and that reminded me "Oh yeah, I could check it out for a bit.". As a side note, it might tell something about the duration of my break that I had enough stuff in the in-game mail that I was able to do about 300 pulls on a banner when I returned. There was about 45k worth the gacha currency if I recall correctly.
Maybe it's because I wasn't active in the game for such a long time that this doesn't personally hit me so hard but I can certainly understand that players are sad and upset. There are some characters who I liked, and earlier today I even went back to the game so I could record probably about an hour or so worth of video of the game so I'd have at least something to remember from it when it's gone.
Just because I'm not as heart broken about the end of service as active players are doesn't mean I can't imagine how they are feeling right now. All I'd have to do is to imagine my currently active gacha game, Arknights, facing the same end and I can absolutely imagine how I'd feel about it. I've been playing Arknights for over 3 years (started at the end of January 2020, a few weeks after global launch), and I don't think I've played any other gacha game where I remember as many playable characters by their names (including Azur Lane, which I played for several years before I got burnt out from the end game, and soon after found Arknights) as I do in Arknights. Not just their names but their traits, talents, skills and in some cases some of their information from their profiles or voice lines. For a few of them I even remember when or how I got them, or even how many pulls I did for them.
If I was being told Arknights was shutting down (the global version) then it'd be like suddenly losing 3+ years of my life. Not just that but I'd be losing the excitement I had for the upcoming events and content, and I'd have less to talk about the game in some communities I've found out thanks to the game. Yeah, it's not like I'd have to leave those communities even if that happened but communities can make games so much more fun when you are aware of other players who are into same things as you are.
I don't doubt I might find another gacha game I'd start playing as my main gacha game but out of all the gacha games I've played or tried out, I'd say Arknights is probably my favorite.
The point is that I believe I can imagine how the Princess Connect! Re:Dive players might be feeling now. No one wants to lose something they have spent a lot of time and effort into over a long time period. It's sad news and I don't really have any words to offer that might make those players feel better. I know any live service game can't last forever but that doesn't make it any easier when a game you greatly enjoy gets EoS notice. I don't really have anything else to say so I'll just leave it here.
You got a point and i can say for myself i'll NEVER play game published by Crunchyroll again! Those people are bunch of incompetent stooges who doesn't deserve a single dime. And man Priconne is such a great game, for me it was the best title that i enjoyed the most but now its over in the most stupid way possible. Ok fine just downloaded JP version and now i`m building all over and having fun but that bitter taste from Crunchyroll failure will stay for a long time, this company as dead to me as the English version of my favorite game!
I loved priconne, all the characters are great. kyaru (especially nyaru version) is adorable.
What I loved about it, is that even as ftp you could still get most of your favorite characters. Which probably aided in it's downfall. As much as I hate it, Genshin probably is making bank due to how stingy they are with primogems.
Meanwhile the Japan version lives on
All cygames gachas are like this, the generosity had nothing to do with it really. If anything that isn’t related to crunchy roll (which I’d argue Cr is the main factor here) is the fact that it was one of the very few gachas that the en had an almost two-three year gap of knowing what’s ahead and saving for specific super meta things. Very uncommon now a days for gachas. Also genshin is really more f2p than people give it credit for on a consistent patch to patch basis. Especially with banner rotation changes
@@amimwosjs Always found it funny when people said Genshin is stingy with their primos.
While Genshin is not perfect and have problem on it's own, I doubt gacha is one of it.
Literally out of all the games that I played (FGO, GBF, Pricone, Bang Dream, Uma Musume) still loses to Genshin gacha system. Where you can save your pull and keep it on next banner.
I'm F2P but till now I just don't have Itto, Ayato, Childe, Nahida, and Cyno.
It's really easy to manage the gacha especially if you just want a character (not their cons.)
@@Snzn_7 but i cant understand the story and the character interactions so its not worth
Stingy? As far as gachas go, Genshin is pretty generous. They’re pretty much as generous as a gacha can get, which isn’t much but hey I’ll take it over FGO rates and stinginess.
I put a lot of time and money into this game too, so it was quite a shocker to see this cancelation announcement. I wish they revamped the arena/princess arena so that if the timer runs out, the winner should be whoever did the most damage, not you automatically lose because the defending team just runs down the clock. Would've made it immensely more interesting.
Guess this is my last Crunchyroll game too, since I now have trust issues with anything they release after seeing their track record of shutting games down.
I’ve learned my lesson about Crunchyroll games a long time ago.
Memoria Freese wasn’t shut down. A different company runs it now. If Crunchyroll still had it would definitely have been shut down though.
Extra scummy of them to introduce a new player support pack for like 30 bucks a week before announcing EoS. They are definitely scammers.
Actually insane stuff man, my clan in Priconne is (was) T10 and emotions were running high when we, on Peco's birthday, got the news CR was EoSing Priconne actually a damn shame.
The anime and manga community has accused Crunchyroll of adopting predatory tactics when it comes to Gacha games. In this case, it’s Princess Connect! Re: Dive that will be shut down on April 30, 2023. This is a popular mobile game that was extremely successful and garnered a massive fanbase that was loyal to the game.
One of the main producers of the game is Crunchyroll, which means they have control over the game when it comes to non-Japanese servers. In the announcement post, the platform didn’t particularly state a reason that was directly responsible for the removal of the game. This certainly upset the entire fanbase, since a well-performing game was removed without them receiving a proper explanation.
And here I am thinking if CR will publish another game for JP. I'm looking at you UmaMusume. People better hope their anticipated game won't be published by a dead-on-arrival publisher.
Agree.
Cygames would probably know better at this point. My hope is that they eventually handle everything like Granblue Fantasy and have an English text option in the main service.
surprise to you, there already sneak peek and EN uma musume will get published by God Cygames it self
@@Avnich-Rndom Fuh... so Cygames is finally fed up with CR?
@@Alexandragon1dunno, maybe Cygames don't wanna give uma musume's game certificate to other company knowing that game is purely japanese GEM
Crunchyroll dropped Princess Connect so fast after Street Fighter did well. 😢 They care nothing for their fans.
I remember one of Aniplex game that I really love. Before Bang Dream! Even a thing. There's an "Idol Band" game called Band Yarouze! It's an all boys band and the song is amazing. Cast member is amazing too. And they did cover some song like *Asterisk*, Hot Limit, etc. And after 3 years, maybe because the sale is not enough they closed it down. I was so bummed of it because it was an AMAZING game :(
I was super hyped when I first heard Priconne was getting a global server but I lost all of it the moment I learnt CR was publishing it. Now I didn't know back then that CR had a track record but I still didn't download priconne simply because I hate CR for obvious reasons that I don't need to specify here and didn't want to give them a dime. Although there was a time(after watching the anime) when I regretted not downloading the game when it came out but looking back, I really dodged a bullet by not trusting CR. I saved myself from getting duped by CR. For now I'll simply stick with arknights and blue archive.
I thought Priconne was too big to fail. I was a fool(
Eyyy fellow AK and BA dokutah/sensei... hopefully Nexon doesn't betray our newfound trust.
hello fellow doktah/sensei
Nice fellow dokutah. AK publisher also produce another hit game azur lane and it still growing strong by its degenerate fans. So i know AK publisher was trusted unlike CR.
My friend and his wife were big into PriConne and even tried to get me hooked. I made an account last summer, but after seeing the "gameplay", I lost any remaining interest. Now I'm glad I didn't dive any deeper. While my friends didn't put any money into it, it still pissed them off when the end of service announcement came out. I felt sorry for them.
I’ve never played a gacha game before Priconne, which I started playing on release. I played every day. I’m surprised by how much this shut down upset me.
Played Blue Archive Global since launch (November 2021) and dropped it after a month because I'm mad at Nexon for the unreasonable spike of level requirement in event stages, and my unrealistically gacha results full of duplicates despite having only less than 5 SSRs.... a year after I heard rumors that Nexon are starting to change by listening more to their playerbase and becoming more generous (not only in pyroxenes but they also made lots of SSRs farmable), I decided to go back and now for some reason I'm simping hard at Misono Mika and even played both Global and JP version.
Forgive me for that unnecessary story but yea I have high expectations on Priconne because Cygames is involved but Cruncyroll decided to just drop it. Eminence in Shadow Is not really generous and had a terrible rates and daily rewards but I decided to stick because I love the plot and anime itself, but now I'm having second doubt reinstalling it when I got my phone fixed.
My Condolences to the PriConnect ReDive Fandom ☹️
Never played the Game, but watched the Anime, which I heard had a 'Lighter' story plot as compared to the Game.
Saw some footages of the Game and Was Actually Tempted to Try---
Then I remember I play Azur Lane, Genshin Impact, & Love Live! School Idol Festival - All Stars 😆
Can't Invest my Time, Money, & Emotion in Another Game.
Azur Lane, the Devs Luvs their 'Degenerates' (Yes, They call us that, and I'm Proud to be a 'Degenerate')--- They care about their Player base. Genshin Impact, I Love the Lore & Open World Play, and the Characters. LL! SIF All Stars, I Fell in Love with Season 1 of Love Live! and μ's --- And that's Probably the Only Reason I Play It.
Hope a Better Publisher comes along & picks us PriConnect ReDive, and Allow Data Transfer of Accounts.
was on max level(name of account Joker), had a own guild with a member number of 27 and 4 of them were nearly max(name of the guild Espada). had nearly all characters, half of them on max armor, 60.000 crystals or whatever you call them, played all story and events and was in the shitty arena on rank 100.
IT WAS MY LIFE GAME AND THEY STOLE ALL OF MY SWEAT THAT I PUT INTO THIS GAME. LIKE BEVOR THE NEW DAY STARTS 15:00 I LOGGED IN AND COLLECTED THE STAMINA. IM GOING TO REMEMBER THAT CRUNCHYROLL
I am very sad about this... i really like the game, the story and characters are awesome
what a bad day[am kung]
Time to move to jp server.
@@iiiisssssaaaaaacccccc I already am on jp server, but i like to read the main story, the bond stories etc
Also we have here on en server chill guild...
but yeah
Can't believe they did Priconne dirty like this 😢
Another thing that upsets me about Crunchyroll is that they didn't even try to catch up to the jp server, like instead of a banner with a single character for 2 weeks, give us 3/4 banners at the same time.
Doing NOTHING to resolve income problem and just let go, then take the next hot game available is the most soulless thing possible (fcking pekorine birthday man!)
Seems princess connect not being available in my country was a blessing in disguise
This broke my heart. I had even just started Eminence in Shadow because I loved the anime and characters. But after the EoS announcement……..I finally was made aware of CR Games and their track record. After crying a good bit at the knowledge of losing my 2+ years of hard work, I sent a support ticket to Cygames begging for them to handle the global version (worst they can do is not at this point lol) and deleted Eminence in Shadow. I had so many characters I was excited for and I was so excited for the story. They couldn’t even do the appropriate thing and just wait for this arc to end so there’s at least some kind of ending,but they do it during the beginning after plot points and characters have been introduced. Last CR published game I play.
I've never played this game but it's wild how I was getting advertisements for this game about 2 days ago and I hear it's shutting down that's really messed up
Princess Connect has such a great story to be honest and I am sad to see it go.
DanMachi Memoria Freeze is still around luckily but I can't play it since my devices can't handle sadly. It seems my phone can but it hears it up a lot. Oh well
At least they had more of a heart than the Date A Live Gacha Game that went radio silent for month and only came back to say they shutting down but then again they announced it on Pecorines birthday of all things and not even outing it on life support
Priconne being shut down is hurting me much more than I thought it would. I grew so attached to the characters, and I put so much time and effort into the game I had to take a break. And yesterday when I finally decided to come back, I see the EoS thing. I'm not one to hate, but I hate Crunchyroll now.
I just hope the game gets picked up by a more competent company (AND that we get to keep our progress, since today I got all the limited characters from the Comeback Gala). I don't think I have a way to get the JP version, and even if I did I don't understand Japanese, and it's likely I wouldn't be able to keep my progress.
I just want my Kokoro, she felt like my one true friend during the pandemic ;-;
I'm basically grieving over this even though the game still has some days left.
why haven't i seen this video b4. i guess its too late now. i got banned in OPMW for re rolling and now im looking for a way to refund. im using an A plus account that i used my transaction on.
Yep, that is really true as a princone player that played for almost 2 years, I never have thought it will shut down like this. I swear that I'm not gonna play Crunchyroll games anymore for my whole life.
Just bumped in here since its about the EoS of Precone that’s been talking around for days. All I can say is that it’s news to me to hear that Crunchyroll games had been such a bad platform. Surprised to see that even DanMachi game was part of it before (which leaves a bad taste to me). Good thing I never played any of their games, as I only play FGO mainly which I have confidence Aniplex won’t f*k this up, else they want to face hell in reality and cyberspace. Again, my condolences to all Precone global gamers here...
God. I got burned so hard by Magireco. They ran two of the most anticipated banners, waited for them to end, and then announced it would be shutting down. Like, actual scam activity.
Yes shutting down one of the most popular Gacha game seems a bad move for a company. They are too impatient and didn't think the future upcoming updates will make them more money. PriConne is one of the loved games brought out by Crunchyroll and they are going to shut it down is really a bad move
This is the first time I've heard the Crunchyroll does this kind of thing I've been playing Eminence of Shadow now for a long time. I know they're making a buttload of money off that game that's probably why they haven't shut it down. You're absolutely right we put a lot into our games. I'm definitely not picking up any of those others from Crunchyroll
I actually used to play magical record I made it all the way to chapter 5 before the actually closed the game down and it was disappointing because there were 10 chapters in the game and I finished the first season of the game and I was never able to play season 2 of the game and that was just after the anime for season 1 ended. I got into the game and the anime was really good
I'm in the acceptance stage the pain won't leave but I am there. My clan is slowly but not fully in BA but we will follow in ainz footsteps all the way to the last seconds of Princess connect
And this is why I'm only playing gacha games under Yostar or with partnership with Yostar
Because these guys just 👌
Yeah I learned my lesson after Overlord MftD, I was excited for ReDive but as soon I saw it was being published by crunchyroll I didn't even download it
Priconne was definitely fun. I played it for about six months pretty casually.
I've played a lot of mobile gacha games over the years so here's my take on this. The two year cycle is typically for cheap gachas. Companies spit them out like clockwork every two years after shutting the old one down in order to milk whales. It's best to avoid them and stick with notable titles from reliable companies like Epic Seven.
That said, Priconne did not seem like it would suffer that fate. While it wasn't making a lot of money it seems like the shutdown came early due to the economy. EVERY company worldwide is taking measures to weather this terrible economic period. This has hit the tech and entertainment sectors especially hard.
Personally, I'm taking a break from mobile gacha games this year. They are addictive and time consuming. I may give Valiant Force 2 a try because I like the dev studio but that's it.
Figured I'd add a minor correction about one of the vaulted games, Grand Summoners. The game is still alive with 0 involvement from Crunchy Roll. It's been a joke on the GS discord for a while that GS was the only game to survive CR, and that still stands true. I don't know if CR is just bad at managing their games or if they just have predatory contracts with the companies, but when GS and CR were partnered back in 2019-2020 a lot of units got rushed because they were highly anticipated.
you are absolutely spot on, cannot trust Crunchyroll anymore after this, also it makes Cygames look bad
They have a nexon-esque business model and will axe any game that does not meet their numbers game. They dont give a shit about their games and community nor the people that work for their department, they just want to make as much money as possible with as little money as possible and fast as possible and thats that.
Totally agree with this, never touch any crunchyroll games screw them. They literally killed their most active gacha
I'm f2p and I've saved up up to more than 100k jewel for future characters.. now what
Ok, crunchyroll is definitely to blame for most of this but i doubt Cygames is feeling too bad about it. Cygames recently dropped another one of their big global gachas late last year being Dragalia Lost (Nintendo x Cygames), which makes me worried for all other Global Cygame gachas that are still running. Also Cygames still has the JP server of Priconne running and they always seem to make their gachas and care more directed towards the JP audience anyway.
I was planning on starting to save up for Misora in EN but thank god i forgot to do that (thanks to Granblue keeping me busy last month). Guess I'll just stick to try-hard translations lol.
Honestly it's so stupid from a revenue perspective closing down Princess Connect since the bulk of the characters people were eagerly waiting for were released during the second arc.
I may be a JP player but I'm mad for the disrespect they showed to my global friends.
Priconne Global was dropping in revenue tho. It dropped to 180k last month while JP players spent 4 million while global spent less than 1/20 of that.
@@digichu007 We were 30 days away from the Princess Kkr to the Labyrista rush. This was a dead period on JP just like it is on global, not as dead as global but still was a dead period. They were just 30 days away from making a lot of money from Pkkr, Pyui, Summer and Labby were going to make them money
@@redrose1179 Honestly, I don't think it would have made them as much as we expect. Compared to a game like FGO, which is stinginess incarnate, Cygames gachas are almost all very generous. At least with GBF with them running on the same server, there is no foresight, meanwhile with Priconne the only people who whale are new players who want to get caught up quickly, but the entire game is structured in such a way that it's designed to retain players over a longer period.
It's sad, but I think if CR are going to be this ruthless about profits (and spend so little effort promoting/advertising the game, running livestreams etc) then this was always bound to happen.
Still doesn't mean I'm not terribly upset. I grew to love those characters, and the whole atmosphere.
@@Harkz0r true, but the summer rush last year made them money because it was good unit after good unit and many even with 100k+ saved had to spend something, I had 122k and while I didn't spend I missed out on smakoto
It's so sad because i recently rewatched the s2 of Priconne and i wanted to give a try to his mobile game, and then look what i found Crunchy shut down the game, even if i haven't played a single minute in the game i feel sad inside me right now.
Revue Starlight Relive is a more niche title than Princess Connect, and so far, it's still going strong over three years and counting.
FGO is going to hit it's fifth year in NA and doesn't look like it'll go away anytime soon.
Azur Lane and Blue Archive are looking good, too.
Makes you wonder what Crunchyroll is expecting?
Thank you for covering this. I was honestly pissed when I found out about the closing of Priconne Global. For context, I came across the game a couple of years before the game came out for global and I found out that it's Japan only so I was bummed and hoping that one day it comes to global. So, when the global version of Priconne came out, I was super excited, but then I notice it was publish by Crunchyroll Games which game me red flags as I had not too long had played the Overlord game that they were publishing the global version for. So, I was trying to give them the benefit of a doubt that with this one it will last for a long while, but I didn't spend any money on the game cause of the lingering red flag that it was Crunchyroll Games. So, sure enough, when this happen it made me mad because I was losing a game that I waited for so long for a global version for but upset that the game I was waiting for was picked up by a company I didn't trust with mobile games. I really do feel Priconne would have done much better in the west under a different western publisher. I really do hope Priconne has a happy story like in Danmemo situation where the global version gets picked up by another company. After this shit that they have done to their mobile games especially with Priconne, I refuse to play anymore of their games and I was even looking at the Eminence in Shadow but not anymore. I also refuse to subscribe to their anime streaming platform. I do not want to give Crunchyroll any of my money whether it's through their published games or streaming platform as they have left me this bitter cause of what they keep doing to good mobile games.
Surprised people still trusted CR? Especially with how they censored Memoria Freeze with an advertised feature.
Totally forgot about that lol....
Legend of the crypts is a mobile gatcha. That I played when I got into middle school and they were far into content and even till this day they still operate after soo many years. It’s unfortunate some good games fall under horrible circumstances that companies subjugate them to
Never gonna trust crunchyroll anymore
Even after Danmemmo left their hands, it's censorship stayed too. It helped me jump into FGO. I also used almost zero money in Danmemmo as a protest to the censorship
I decided to move to the JP server...
My journey in Landosol will not end here.
Good decision you can even found some gem account that quite cheap for 140k gem with princess banner at start + a ton of stuff help you catch up in no time...
I wish these companies at least offered a server transfer... but that would take effort.
I cant read japanese :/
i remember in the early days of the mha game there was alot of drama with fake news on the banners and whatnot and most of the player base requested refunds for em to the point where the devs stopped banning people for it cuz it was just bringing more bad press and now the game receives new content rarely and its just sad
Take this with huge, and I mean HUGE grain of salt, but a rumour I've seen regarding why priconne got shutdown was actually because Cygames doesn't want to associate themselves with CR anymore. Now I know this is a stretch but hear me out, the main reason apparently was because of how CR notoriously handled Street Fighter and because of that Cygames have decided to cut all ties with them.
I hope that's the case and that cygames has a better alternative. I want to experience these stories.
I still remember playing overlord I was so upset when they shut it down. And I actually loved playing the game
FGO is only an 'oddity' because it has a larger fanbase + it is more difficult to obtain characters. NA received the pity system early sure, but it's still more costly compared to Priconne. Priconne showered you with jewels. I stopped playing Priconne for months. When I came back and I was able to pity NY! Kyaru. The game is very F2P friendly, but it definitely translates to lower sales.
Normally a difficult gacha is a death nail, but Fate has a massive franchise fueling it hype daily. They definitely hit something that is almost unrepeatable..
The one nice thing about fgo when it comes to getting saint quartz in a F2P experience is that you don't need to roll multiple copies of characters like you might in other gacha games. You get one copy of an SSR servant, usually that is enough. They also don't make old servants obsolete by pushing heavy powercreep like some gachas out there. To top it all off, it is possible to borrow units from whales that can beat some hard fights by themselves in the story.