It is not uncommon for mobile games to be suspended in this era, when a game loses its freshness, or the gameplay is not attractive, resulting in poor turnover data, the result of waiting for it is often to close the server, after all, the boss does not eat and the employees still have to eat. And in 2023, there are not a few games that have announced the suspension of service, but in addition to normal operational problems, these games are also inevitably a struggle between manufacturers
"To the Demon Ninja Gogo".
Seeing this title, there should be many old drivers snickering. As a well-known R18 game anime IP, the mobile game of Demon Ninja is actually not R18. This IP derivative is an action mobile game launched by developer Gremory this fall, and the painting style is extremely young, and it can even be said to be a real all-age work, which is completely cut from the previous style of selling meat and rubbing edges. But players are going to play against the Demon Ninja, so it must be going for R18, so this game, which was only launched in May this year, will be suspended on January 26, 2024.
This is the kind of maninja we are familiar with.
For this game, the unanimous comment from players is "It's broken, the heroine has gone to the sea!"."Although the heroine was originally just ashore. But you can also learn a lesson from here, such as this kind of mobile game with IP transformation, you still have to do a good job of user portraits, after all, children know what it is.
Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia (DFFOOO for short).
DFFOOO is a turn-based mobile game developed by Team Ninja, a subsidiary of Koei Tecmo, and operated by SE, which has been launched in early 2017. You read that right, it's Team Ninja, who developed action games like the Nioh series, Wo Long, and more. The game itself is adapted from the action game of the same name on PSP, and this dispute was also one of the highest-quality games on PSP, so it also attracted a lot of users when it was played.
However, as we all know, SE's mobile game basically says that it will die violently. Recently, DFFOOO officially announced that it could last until February of 24 and then stop serving, so calculated, DFFoo has also been in operation for nearly 8 years, which is a game that SE has insisted on for a long time.
The operation of this game is really good, even if 0 krypton has a good game experience, but too much conscience also means that there is no forced krypton, so the running water will naturally not look good. According to foreign ** reports, the total revenue of the game since its launch is about 1$9.9 billion, a mobile game that has only been nearly $200 million in 6 years, is also very different for today's popular mobile games, and it can only be said that the suspension of a good game is still a pity.
"Heavy Armor".
Although this game has not been suspended, it has ceased operation in June this year, and the international server of "Heavy Armor" has been suspended. This game is produced by Beijing Beike World Technology ***, published by Bilibili, and launched on July 18, 2019. The main focus of the game is heavy armor and the cultivation of beautiful girls.,Painting style art resources can be said to be T1 level.,It's been in operation for more than 4 years.,It's also one of the representatives of the end of life.。
In fact, when "Heavy Armor" first opened, it was criticized for having to do daily tasks for several hours, but fortunately, the operation is also quite strong, even if the turnover has declined in recent years, the national service can remain at the level of the second and third lines. However, the foreign service is not so lucky, the data is far away from the front line, and naturally it cannot avoid the closure of the service. It is worth mentioning that station B chose this game as the focus of publicity among the two games that year, and the other one that was not selected was called "Ark of Tomorrow".
"The Legend of Sword and Fairy Nine Wilds".
The Legend of Sword and Fairy is an RPG game developed by Shanghai Softstar with strategy card gameplay. It was officially released on Steam on October 31, 2020, and officially launched on all platforms in March 2021. At the beginning of November this year, it was officially announced that the service would be discontinued in February 24. The gameplay of this game is very outstanding, and it can be said to be unique among the card-based gameplay rules. It's a pity that the investment in the game is obviously insufficient, and there is not much advantage in 3D modeling and art original paintings, and some plots also need to buy expansion packs to unlock.
Although the game has only been in operation for three years, it can also be said to be at the end of its life. Because in the past two years, after the Xianjian IP was acquired by CMGE, Jiuye's mobile game was not favored by CMGE, and it can be said that there was no assistance in publicity and support at all in the past two years, and it has been relying on the production team's love to generate electricity and in-game thermal maintenance, and even in the first half of 23, you can also see the new expansion online. But it also proves one thing, "games still have to be made as commodities to survive".
Samurai Shodown: The Legend of the Moon
Samurai Shodown: Legend of the Moon" mobile game was launched in December 2018, which is a Japanese-style warrior action mobile game authorized by SNK, developed by Ledao Interactive, and exclusive to Tencent Games. The game is also adapted from the classic fighting game Samurai Samurai series, and the plot also refers to the world view of Samurai Samurai, which can be regarded as a 3D version of DNF in terms of gameplay, and with each version update, the overall technical strength is visible to the naked eye**. Unfortunately, the game also ceased operations on September 20 of this year.
This game is not a problem with the operation strategy, nor is it that Tencent has not given resources, the most fundamental reason is actually the departure of the main creative team and the choice to go to the byte game department to do "Crystal Nucleus". We all know the later story, "Crystal Nucleus" can be said to be a great success, but it is a pity that the later bytes cut the game business, and we don't know where "Crystal Nucleus" will go.
"World Catapult Story".
World Catapult Story is a marble game jointly developed by Cygames and Citail, released on iOS and Android platforms on November 27, 2019. In China, it was issued by Thunder**, which was released on October 26, 2021. This time, CY also issued an announcement that it will terminate its operations on February 20, 2024. Although the game is very good, but every version update is accompanied by a major operational accident, although the benefits are given more, but the gacha card is also drawn more, and the value inflation is very serious, especially the game also needs pvp to compete for rankings, and it is more difficult to play.
What's more embarrassing is that after having a precedent for Japanese clothes, the national service operated by Thunder is thriving, and the balance is also very good, and it was suddenly backstabbed by the Japanese service, and the situation became very wonderful. Afterwards, Thunder also issued an announcement, deciding not to be affected by the Japanese server to continue to operate, and will also launch the unique event content of the national server. But what will it look like when the latest version is synced?Will you invest in art resources and create more characters and story stories for the sake of the waifu game?Players will have to wait and see.
Summary
If you want to observe what games are about to be suspended, you can actually choose to look at the game turnover every month, and the judgment benchmark is also very simple, in a region, the games that have been ranked after 40 for a long time are likely to usher in a halved ending. This year's Tencent NetEase has quite a lot of suspended service projects, especially Tencent, in the first half of the year alone, the number of suspended games is as high as more than 10. At present, the game of the national server has not been cut in half, and the game that can have a complete plot and is still in operation seems to be the only game that miHoYo's "Honkai Impact 3".
In fact, at present, in terms of Japanese service, there is another option for the end-of-life treatment of mobile games, that is, on the premise of supplementing the plot, it will be packaged as a stand-alone version of the second**, which can not only improve the regret of the plot, but also give full play to the residual heat of various materials and gameplay of the game. It's a pity that such a technique is basically not seen in the current closed national service mobile games.
"Little Noah" who won the repechage with a single machine
There are thousands of reasons to close the server, but in the final analysis, the game has to be fun, and the characters on the screen have to have characteristics and characteristics. Especially in this era when large factories are rampant, small factories without capital need to have specialized content to have a chance to get out of the sky. It can only be said that making games in this era is also a very demanding test.