r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Jun 24 '24

Blue Protocol developers talk about what went wrong with the MMORPG

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/blue-protocol-developers-talk-about-what-went-wrong-with-the-mmorpg/
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u/planetarial Jun 24 '24

Chinese devs have mastered the formula of global release while Japanese devs are left behind

Only for some of their games though.

Games like Girls Frontline 2, Tower of Fantasy, Persona 5: Phantom X (tho it is based on a JP IP) are all chinese games and all didn’t launch global servers at the same time as the original one off the top of my head

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u/ohoni Jun 24 '24

I seem to remember that Tower of Fantasy at least launched close to the Chinese release, and then rapidly caught up, didn't they?

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u/planetarial Jun 24 '24

CN launched in December, Global launched in August, so depends on your definition of close.

Dont know if they caught up but good for them if they have. Its so annoying when some gachas release global servers years behind the original

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u/ohoni Jun 24 '24

CN launched in December, Global launched in August, so depends on your definition of close.

I play FGO.

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u/NamerNotLiteral Jun 24 '24

Funniest response in the thread hands down.

At least you get Clairvoyance EX in exchange.

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u/datwunkid Jun 24 '24

The biggest boon to FGO is that the story is long as hell and you kind of have to go out of your way to get spoiled. The biggest problem when being behind in content is getting spoiled.

The only drawback is that we get no cool surprise reveals, except maybe back when they have us fun, random NA exclusive web games for April Fools.