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global khux rarely tweets about scheduling things i think? beyond the tweets about the initial end of service announcement, they mostly just post about whatever events are going on, but there's been no new events since the closure announcement. same for the dakr road account i think.

if we get any updates, it'll probably an in-app notice

There haven’t been tweets from the account since then. The JP account still seems to post.

I mean, the fact that the offline shutdown was postponed is super important, almost important as the shutdown announcement itself, really. So what's going on with the global version then? They should've given us a notice by now

honestly, even though there's been no update from the NA account nor any notice on the global version of the game, i personally think that global will probably be ending mid-june as well. mainly because both global and japan are caught up to each other, so there's no real reason for that month long delay between global and japan besides the potential of may being a bit of wiggle room for the animators. since japan's ending got pushed even further than global's initial shutdown date, i don't get why global would be sticking around for any longer than the mid-june date, especially because there is no benefit to keeping global online any longer.

If they wrap up the story in May and put an end to raiding and PVP, it might as well go offline in May.

Hmmmmm..........well, I dunno. Nothing makes sense at this point.

I just realized that after four years we finally found out why the Master 'disappeared' in Back Cover. lol

You've gotta wonder what the point there is in keeping it alive w/ less new additions and at that point, less to do.

It's just a prolonged death sentence that has been dragged out to ensue agony.

EXACTLY

well kinda

the developers are like working their butts off right now as is. i mean, suddenly out of nowhere they're informed the game's gonna shutdown and they have to prepare the finale in such a short time, prepare for the shutdown, etc........They probably might not even have the time to prepare gameplay content.

probably why the SHUTDOWN.. got delayed

can't just Alt+F4 an online MMO

Or can you?

> calling a mobile gatcha game a online mmo

nidjiojaiosd

i'm really interested in how long it actually takes to do 5 mins of simple animations

and they're using flash which isn't that difficult to animate on

so either nomura's turning in the scripts late like he usually does with everything he turns in, or it really needs that amount of time

im sorry but you are calling a a gatcha game a mmo is plainly funny.

you dont actually play with others

like interact with them

you do in union cross

the union cross doesnt come close to a mmo game

like ffxiv

the last event with "high difficulty" enemies actually had teamplay

for instance or gta v

yeah sure, but you still interact with people

i'm not saying it's an mmo of course

im just saying dont call a gatcha game a mmo game

@moon☁ But they're doing pretty complicated animations now (like the Darkness and Union Leaders' attacks), which will take more time.

yeah, plus they were allocating resources to dark road as well that probably had to be pulled to shift all the focus onto the ux finale. yall remember how the last update of dark road went back to super simple cutscenes with the large sprites? if that was how union cross delivered the final chapter of its story it would be Awful. there's only like 2 ppl working on the team and they're trying their best, so it makes sense that All of the focus is on the finale instead of dark road or events, especially because money can no longer be made from the game.

Wait what?!?! There's only two people on the team?!?! How's that even possible??

there might be a few more now, but back around the time dark road initially came out, nomura mentioned in a notice that there were only two animators left on the team. i'll see if i can find it.

yeah, late in june of 2020, the animation team had been reduced and apparently only two were left. this probably implies the game was losing money long before the shutdown date came into consideration. apart from any boost in activity or money that happened as a result of the khmom kairi A medal, the game has only been on an activity decline since then, so if they have any more than those two animators, i'll be surprsied.

Oh wow........that's...........

I feel so bad for them!! They have to animate all that!!! In such a short amount of time too!!