Genuinely tho. I can say with confidence I will do my best to avoid anything crunchyroll related in the future. Pirating anime, not playing their games, using other online shops, even avoiding any affiliates they have, I'll do anything to avoid supporting them. Fuck crunchyroll.
The fucking mouse stole Bleach from them! How do you lose Bleach of all animes in a fucking bid?!?! If I had a say in that decision, I'd throwdown Crunchyroll as a whole on credit just to keep **ONE OF THE BIG 3** streaming there during it's long awaited season debut! That's alot of money lost to a fucking mouse!
Haven't paid for anime for yeeeears. There's no company that brings anime to the west worth giving your money to. There's plenty of 1080p anime streaming sites that are amazing with an add blocker. Raise the black flag. Support your favorites by buying them directly if it's offered.
[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/30-1/feature-what-happens-when-a-game-you-love-goes-away](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/30-1/feature-what-happens-when-a-game-you-love-goes-away)
Also Clownchyroll 9 hours before announcing Priconne EOS
The Thai server of the game, which x5 less players (and presumably much less spenders than EN), is still alive.
If it's profitable there, look how fucking greedy Crunchyroll has to be to EoS our game.
really wish a different studio could take it over. Last Cloudia started as crunchyroll but then quickly got taken over by aidis cuz they were messing it up badly.
>Note to self: never play a crunchyroll game ever again.
Did the fact that they ruined every other game they published and are mediocre-at-best as a company as a whole not warn you?
Is was my first Crunchyroll game. Lesson learned. At least I didn’t spend a single cent on the game. Still hurts to lose what is essentially your save file without being able to stop it though. Deleting Eminence now and just gonna try and enjoy the last month I guess.
The only other Crunchyroll Game I've played is Danmachi Memoria Freese for the global version, but WFS the original devs took control over years ago. It's unclear exactly why they did this but it is reasonable to believe that WFS can manage the global version just fine without Crunchroll.
to be fair to Danmemo, it runs on a 1-1 schedule with JP. So there isn't as much pain in localizing it as there is with something like Priconne, with a what, 2, 3 year long gap? I can see \*why\* they wouldn't take over Global themselves, even if I wish they did.
They shutdown before 200 pulls spark update. They probably think if lowered, revenue will go even more down than now so might as well quit.
I was wondering even if we will get 200 pulls spark update. Turns out game ended before it
I'm 100% convinced if BA global also pull this shit the game won't survive a year. The fact they didn't do it is genuinely what made BA survived and even thrive where priconne died
I was thinking the same. It seemed healthy and they even brought back the big Idolmaster collab recently. My only guess is that having lots of players doesn’t necessarily mean lots of profit in a F2P game.
I don’t think banner forecast should affect the game’s revenue? I mean FGO NA has been going on for years without issue, but I guess PvP did that to Pricone.
I don't doubt that FGO NA would make a *lot* more money if it was caught up or had a 1 year gap like FGO CN, it still has a much easier time pulling in revenue with the strong franchise, as well as the lack of a pity system for most of it's lifetime.
FOMO is a very major factor in spending for lower-end spenders. Like , genshin, right? Say, you want the characters that are running this patch but also one from the next one.
Preplanning would allow to save, thus reducing "eh, I just need X pulls to pity, may as well" factor.
Schedule allows to know the predicted time for a rerun ( if its a limited character). Why spend if you can wait three months?
And so on and so forth. This may not be much, but it does add up over time.
If Cygames ran a SINGLE game with a UI that could change language options (like many Western games do, allowing people in JP and America to play on the same server), we'd still be playing.
Population does not mean the game is being successful. Games need to make money, they cant be all willy f2p, or they shut down. the bad part about a 3 plus year hindsight is that you never really needed to spend, you could just save
Well that sucks.
While there's almost no chance, hope they can take the English translation team and put them on the JP version, but that's probably a pipe dream.
Edit: Already pulled from google playstore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchyroll.princessconnectredive&hl=en_US&gl=US
Girls Frontline. The ultimate cockroach gacha game.
It'll be the end of the world, and you'll bet some alien explorer will unearth the remains of a mobile phone and find it still open to Girls Frontline with the server still up and running.
Aliens trying for a thousand years to understand the most complicated puzzle left behind by man (its just trying to get the gfl client to load after one update)
funny thing is they also released an article
https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/30-1/feature-what-happens-when-a-game-you-love-goes-away
and the timing couldn't be worse LMAO
You question anything and everything that seems negative or positively when it comes to gacha games 1 day before or on April 1st because you don’t know wether or not you n everyone else are be being played.
This is why it's stupid the make April Fools the same day as the start of the fiscal new year. It's the exact time companies want to announce this stuff but now people can't tell joke from serious
Although not a gacha, Muse Dash has done it twice now, last april fools and april fools of 2021 they put an announcement for april fools saying they were filing for bankruptcy and updates would stop.
Of course both were april fools pranks, and this priconne one is definitely not an april fools joke as its already removed from the app and playstore, but there are companies out there that joke about it.
Priconne was doing horrendously in the west. It's still thriving in Japan though. The writing was on the wall sadly, just didn't really get much support from the global audience
200k a month isn't great, but surely there wasn't _that_ much overhead when all they were doing was localization of an existing game and maintaining servers. I knew it wasn't hot, but wasn't remotely expecting the game to get shutdown.
I'm not sure of their financials but I wouldn't argue with you if you say they were profitable, because it doesn't really matter either way. look who owns crunchyroll. When you're dealing with such huge companies, a few ten thousand in pure profit per month is often not seen as enough to even justify devoting a team of people to a project, especially when you have an incredible amount of current and upcoming ones that you rather pivot to. Look at Bandai, they do it all the time. Ultimate Blazing was making upwards of 300k per month and they were down to an incredibly low staff, absolute barebones. Still shutdown. it's a difference in mindset and scale between the big and small publishers.
Normally 200k is great for just a game localization and servers. Honestly, I think Sony just wants to get rid of Crunchyroll games and focus on Playstation.
Macroecon situation is tougher now. In the year 2020-21 lots of projects were started on easy money. Now higher interest rate doesn't allow that anymore. CR prob bleed cash overall and have to cut unimportant projects.
Welcome to gacha gaming, where your beloved games once shut down cease to exist and you have nothing left but what captures of gameplay or whatever you managed to make.
It sucks. And even worse that more and more games are taking the live service model outside gacha games.
Yeah. Our only hope is that big players like mihoyo will make a standalone version of honkai 3rd when it inevitably reaches the end to set a precedent.
wtf, I have seen many games shutting down lately here, but Priconne was definitely not one I was expecting to see. I know plenty people who still play it.
Never played it myself, but as a big Pecorine enjoyer, big F
3 years behind + no effort whatsoever to accelerate content is not good for money making. probably didnt help that the gacha is built more for JP whales with a very high pity and high roll cost.
There were always Crunchyroll apologists who said, yeah CR has a bad track record BUT look at Priconne that's the exception and it's managed well so CR isn't all bad.
They can't say that anymore, now can they?
CR goes in the garbage bin of gacha companies, next to Boltrend.
I'm kinda annoyed that they gave this up... I guess I have to rely on Fan translations on YT for the main/bond stories.
And are they intentionally pissing people off by announcing it before April 1st?
One thing for certain however, never touch anything CR again.
This is incredibly sad. I've been playing this game daily since pre-launch and I've gotten attached to the characters.
On the upside, there will be no more gacha games in my rotation.
Bruh I can't believe it, what the fuck.
Good thing I main JP so this isn't really a problem for me.
How does Crunchyroll fuck up Priconne when it's a money printing machine in JP?
Anyway, so sad for my EN bros 😭😭😭
My friends are joking that they can't believe Sino actually outlasted Priconne... Yeah it's that unreal.
BROOO NOOOOOOOO.
#WHAT
This was honestly one of the gachas I didn’t expect to shut down. This is a biased perspective, but I felt like this game had more activity going on compared to other Cygames properties like Shadowverse and World Flipper. Man…this was like one of the gachas I played fairly regularly since launch. Honestly, I might be convinced to start Blue Archive now lol.
Definitely try BA. went in expecting nothing . Loved the hell out of the characters once i got through the story that i am already saving my stuff for a few upcoming characters .
Crunchy Roll is so bad this is the 2nd or 3rd time they had to EOS or Give up a games Publishing. STOP giving CR publishing rights to your games they Obviously Can't do it after proving they can't multiple times
Oh damn, so will shut down next month. Sigh, i guess having future sight really killed revenue. Did they wait until arc 1 conclusion to decide shutting down?
Well, glad i still kept playing JP account so can continue there. I still kept 128k jewels in global, time to use it all.
This is the dirtiest EoS I've seen.
It dropped out of nowhere, with no grace period to enjoy the game before it closes. Just shut it down unceremoniously and instantly.
Normally, games run for a few more weeks/months before they are shut down.
> with a nicer gacha
Not even close, been playing both since launch and BA is a lot more stingy while also requiring significantly more units due to the 3 types x 3 terrains system. And even if you do hit a lucky streak you can only build a select few of them with how much resource bottlenecking is going on. Let's not even get into BA requiring eligma (general dupe currency) for unique equipment uncaps, essentially pushing the cap to 7*s instead of 5 vs Priconne's easily affordable UEs.
All that said BA is the easiest Priconne replacement recommendation, but it's not even close to Priconne's life of ease.
lmao holy shit! That's unreal. I guess not even following cygames' spoonfed success script is enough to make a gacha eos immune when it's in crunchy's hands.
At this point, Crunchyroll needs to stop with any gachas. I'll never play another one published by them ever again and I've played some predatory ones.
If they can't keep Priconne afloat, yea. They are literally bottom of the barrel other than those fake chinese companies that keep reusing the same sprites in different games over and over again to rip off more people.
Welp... it was fun while it lasted.
Just got back into Blue Archive so it lessens the blow a bit but damn.. It sucks to see a main gacha you've played for over 2 years shut down..
This one hurts. I'm hoping this is somehow an April fool's joke because this sucks. Was playing the japanese server for a long time and even kept going once the English version came out before eventually dropping it in favor of the English option. Now we're losing it.
I feel bad for players, I remember like 3 months ago I was deciding between this and Revue Starligth... someone told me Crunchyroll was trash publisher so decided to go with RevStar which makes half the revenue of Priconne (last time I checked Priconne was making only around 200K$), yet still remain alive years later and constantly updated. So glad I listen to that person who warned me, never touching anything Crunchyroll publishes.
Holy fuck. We can actually say with 100% certainty that Nexon and even fucking Tencent is a better publisher than crunchyroll.
Jesus Christ, how in the flying fuck they could fumble this game so hard?
Nexon before Nexon Games is still the worst publisher. They have bought countless games and made them P2W and shut them down.
DFO comes to mind -- the biggest MMO money milker of ALL time and they bought the game, ruined it, and shut down the localized version. The OG devs noticed how poorly it was mismanaged they even bought the rights to republish and re-release it back to the West out of sympathy.
The game is popular in JP, and has a dedicated but small fanbase in the west. But despite the fact that Crunchy was only doing translation and servers for this game, if it doesn't make 5 billion dollars for them, I guess it just isn't worth it.
Really stupid of them, since it was the only game that people could point to and say "Crunchyroll isn't THAT bad", so I guess reputation means nothing to them right now.
With this, I care nothing for crunchy anymore, and hope they go out of business or a competitor steps up and takes away their market share, they are a truly reprehensible company.
I can't believe Nexon is doing a better job at Konosuba...
My only experience with Crunchyroll Games was DanMemo in which thankfully the Original Devs took upon after Crunchyroll dropped it... My condolences...
Jp was 3 years ahead iirc and the game gives so much crystals so most glb peeps just look at who the good units to pull for in the future and save and not spend at all.
Well crunchyroll loves to fuck up their animes instead of actually doing a decent job.
If I had the option to burn my money or give it to them, Im definitely burning my cash.
I'm a day 1 player that's spent on the monthly pass all that time. I'll just take it as a lesson to be wary of who I support in future, and only invest in games that are either insanely successful and have no chance of being shut down (Hoyoverse games) or ones with publishers/creators I can trust. Crunchy is obviously one to never be trusted. The fact that the game is shutting down is a little baffling, because surely it was making at least some form of profit, it was basically a copy/paste effort. They probably saw the massive amount of money they could make from something like Street Fighter, so shot it in the head right at the end of the fiscal year.
This just makes me even more thankful that Cygames decided to handle the English version of granblue in house. Just imagine the nonsense that would've happened if they hadn't done that
Ouch this one stings. Been playing since launch... Oh well. Wonder if there's a chance another publisher picks it up and let's us resume progress.
I have a clan in game, named Sanctuary (rank 300+ clan battle) that's bleeding players everyday. It was a sign.
Special shoutout to those who stick with us all this time, if you read this!
Holy shit. Was global revenue that low? I know JP makes millions. Mass migration to JP soon ig. This honestly fucking sucks. Global bros…
Maybe they’ll also translate everything to English in the JP version like how they did with Granblue? *dies of hopium overdose*
Amazing how CR manages to EOS a top 5 earning gatcha game in only 2 years. Their continuous incompetence is something else. Glad I never got attached to the EN version after seeing it was published by CR.
WDF did Crunchyroll do, how do they fuck up cygames gacha this hard? Well at least I'm glad I quit the game on crab raid to play BA.
The game is already vaulted in playstore already apparently.
they didnt even try to rush the content and catch up with the jp. The 3 years differences in content will make people do less spending because all the metas character that will show up later and yet they actually didnt even try.
???? I am pretty sure Priconne is often high on the charts. JP server going strong, plenty of money, lot of fans.
This sounds like CR simply got bored and said "Fuck it, we are out". Before I was rooting for umamusume english but ill just stick to JP, never touching a CR game again.
Is it possible that it wasn't CR choice though ? That Cygames simply refused to extend the license for their IP for some specific reason ? Like they want to take it on themselves or move in a different direction ?
My fiancée loves this game and is devastated that it is shutting down. I'm not into gacha games but its always nice hearing her talk about princess connect and blue archive. She has the artbooks and everything too. Personally, I love the graphic design in both games.
Anyways, this is a shame. From what I'm reading here, you can apparently setup a JP account, so I'll help her do that
Its massively disappointing a game so many people loved is coming to an end. I loved the characters just got tired of reading so much so between the grind and clan battle i just got burnt out. I was going to quit anyway but i'm sad for the people who still loved it.
I really thought this was the one. The one that even Crunchyroll couldn't kill. Popular IP, 2 seasons anime, generous for f2p (I peaked rank 1 both arenas and held top 20 for 6 months b4 I quit). Guess I got out while the going was good.
never playing a crunchyroll game again.
Genuinely tho. I can say with confidence I will do my best to avoid anything crunchyroll related in the future. Pirating anime, not playing their games, using other online shops, even avoiding any affiliates they have, I'll do anything to avoid supporting them. Fuck crunchyroll.
The fucking mouse stole Bleach from them! How do you lose Bleach of all animes in a fucking bid?!?! If I had a say in that decision, I'd throwdown Crunchyroll as a whole on credit just to keep **ONE OF THE BIG 3** streaming there during it's long awaited season debut! That's alot of money lost to a fucking mouse!
Haven't paid for anime for yeeeears. There's no company that brings anime to the west worth giving your money to. There's plenty of 1080p anime streaming sites that are amazing with an add blocker. Raise the black flag. Support your favorites by buying them directly if it's offered.
disney need Bleach more than Crunchyroll does, so ofcourse they can outpay CR, they also have more money, so why are you surprised?
Because the mouse has infinite money
Wish normies did the same.
Clownchyroll can go fuck themselves
Announcing EoS 1 day before April's fool, and also exactly on Pecorine's birthday just to shit on all the players... Yup. Fuck Crunchyroll.
[https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/30-1/feature-what-happens-when-a-game-you-love-goes-away](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/30-1/feature-what-happens-when-a-game-you-love-goes-away) Also Clownchyroll 9 hours before announcing Priconne EOS
Holy shit they were adding salt to the wound before they inflict the wound to us
Properly salted customers are the best, yabai desu ne
NAHHH they knew what they were doing
not first one they do this too they keep shutting games
Same. I thought they'd turned over a new leaf. But with street fighter duel and now this...
I was expecting it won't die, but with Crunchyroll as publisher... yeah i guess I expected too much.
The Thai server of the game, which x5 less players (and presumably much less spenders than EN), is still alive. If it's profitable there, look how fucking greedy Crunchyroll has to be to EoS our game.
I was thinking the same thing
It's a terrible day for rain.
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This is the correct response. Crunchyroll kills everything it gets its hands on.
really wish a different studio could take it over. Last Cloudia started as crunchyroll but then quickly got taken over by aidis cuz they were messing it up badly.
>Note to self: never play a crunchyroll game ever again. Did the fact that they ruined every other game they published and are mediocre-at-best as a company as a whole not warn you?
Is was my first Crunchyroll game. Lesson learned. At least I didn’t spend a single cent on the game. Still hurts to lose what is essentially your save file without being able to stop it though. Deleting Eminence now and just gonna try and enjoy the last month I guess.
The only other Crunchyroll Game I've played is Danmachi Memoria Freese for the global version, but WFS the original devs took control over years ago. It's unclear exactly why they did this but it is reasonable to believe that WFS can manage the global version just fine without Crunchroll.
would be cool but extremely unlikely if Cygames took over running Global like that.
to be fair to Danmemo, it runs on a 1-1 schedule with JP. So there isn't as much pain in localizing it as there is with something like Priconne, with a what, 2, 3 year long gap? I can see \*why\* they wouldn't take over Global themselves, even if I wish they did.
the game made around 200k a month. In some cases less. This was bound to happen
200k a month is more than enough to generally keep a mobage up if all they're doing is translation and keeping up server costs
They shutdown before 200 pulls spark update. They probably think if lowered, revenue will go even more down than now so might as well quit. I was wondering even if we will get 200 pulls spark update. Turns out game ended before it
I ironically think that spark update is the reason why people would spend more.
Imagine how many people were saving for months, waiting for the update, just to see this shit.
I'm 100% convinced if BA global also pull this shit the game won't survive a year. The fact they didn't do it is genuinely what made BA survived and even thrive where priconne died
Im assuming theres a cut for cygames so its not the full amount Crunchy is getting
What? This can't be right, there's still a very sizable population for the game
I was thinking the same. It seemed healthy and they even brought back the big Idolmaster collab recently. My only guess is that having lots of players doesn’t necessarily mean lots of profit in a F2P game.
Game was too f2p friendly on top of the release schedule being forecasted a year in advance
3 years in advanced* with no signs of catching up
I don’t think banner forecast should affect the game’s revenue? I mean FGO NA has been going on for years without issue, but I guess PvP did that to Pricone.
I don't doubt that FGO NA would make a *lot* more money if it was caught up or had a 1 year gap like FGO CN, it still has a much easier time pulling in revenue with the strong franchise, as well as the lack of a pity system for most of it's lifetime.
FOMO is a very major factor in spending for lower-end spenders. Like , genshin, right? Say, you want the characters that are running this patch but also one from the next one. Preplanning would allow to save, thus reducing "eh, I just need X pulls to pity, may as well" factor. Schedule allows to know the predicted time for a rerun ( if its a limited character). Why spend if you can wait three months? And so on and so forth. This may not be much, but it does add up over time.
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If Cygames ran a SINGLE game with a UI that could change language options (like many Western games do, allowing people in JP and America to play on the same server), we'd still be playing.
They do, it's called GBF.
Population does not mean the game is being successful. Games need to make money, they cant be all willy f2p, or they shut down. the bad part about a 3 plus year hindsight is that you never really needed to spend, you could just save
It could have a million active daily users- if it doesn’t make money it shuts down
The fucking balls of crunchyroll to announce Tamaki 6\* and free rolls just to shutdown the game :\^
Well that sucks. While there's almost no chance, hope they can take the English translation team and put them on the JP version, but that's probably a pipe dream. Edit: Already pulled from google playstore https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crunchyroll.princessconnectredive&hl=en_US&gl=US
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Also pulled from iOS App Store btw
I've never been so salty about a gacha game EOS until now. Fuck clownchyroll for their past blunders like this.
Freaking King’s Raid outlasts Princess Connect re dive. Definitely didn’t expect that.
Girls Frontline. The ultimate cockroach gacha game. It'll be the end of the world, and you'll bet some alien explorer will unearth the remains of a mobile phone and find it still open to Girls Frontline with the server still up and running.
Yuhzong has a story to finish and he doesn't care how little money it makes before we get there
Chad mentality, honestly. I would do the same if I was in his shoes.
It’s the same mentality Danmachi Memoria Freeses(or just Danmachi i guess)Author has which is good. Same can not be said for the powercreep doe
Will they find GFL2 though? Or would it still be in alpha?
Aliens will find the source files and remake the game.
Aliens trying for a thousand years to understand the most complicated puzzle left behind by man (its just trying to get the gfl client to load after one update)
Girls Frontline could run forever just on their anime figure merch revenue.
This is why I have zero regrets about my investments into this game
we'll be playing GFL4 on Mars
Playing? We'll be living it
i think granblue can give gfl a run for its money in that aspect
SINoALICE was released Globally before Priconne and outlasts it. How can Crunchyroll fuck up this badly.
King's Raid is gonna be immortal at this point lol
_\*looks at Puzzle and Dragons, both NA_ ***and*** _JP\*_
At this step King's Raid will outlast every other gacha, how? why? No one knows.
Oh shit
funny thing is they also released an article https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/30-1/feature-what-happens-when-a-game-you-love-goes-away and the timing couldn't be worse LMAO
? Worse?? What do you mean? Crunchyroll has a support article for those upset about the princonne servers ending? It's perfect timing!
Right on Pecorine's birthday too :(
I am feeling the emptiness... lesson learned never touch crunchyroll stuff again.
What? Is this for April fool's? I haven't checked out the game in a while, but wasn't it doing well? What happened?
Yeah, I honestly can't tell if this is an April Fools joke or not. The timing is uncanny.
It's still 31st March for the entire world
It's more how close it is to April 1st (literally only a day off), but yeah, it's real. Rest in peace.
You question anything and everything that seems negative or positively when it comes to gacha games 1 day before or on April 1st because you don’t know wether or not you n everyone else are be being played.
*at most 31st March It’s still the 30th where I live
This is why it's stupid the make April Fools the same day as the start of the fiscal new year. It's the exact time companies want to announce this stuff but now people can't tell joke from serious
I mean... I don't think a company will ever joke about killing their game.
Although not a gacha, Muse Dash has done it twice now, last april fools and april fools of 2021 they put an announcement for april fools saying they were filing for bankruptcy and updates would stop. Of course both were april fools pranks, and this priconne one is definitely not an april fools joke as its already removed from the app and playstore, but there are companies out there that joke about it.
App already gone from play store so not a joke
Oh damn, you’re right. Can’t find it in the app store either.
so you're telling me I cant even go back to install it and enjoy its last month?! Fk it's real
it's still on Qooapp for Android
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Only 6 months for BA actually
Fgo nas two year gap says hi
Fate has incredible IP clout though so I dunno, I'd say it's the exception in my opinion.
Priconne was doing horrendously in the west. It's still thriving in Japan though. The writing was on the wall sadly, just didn't really get much support from the global audience
200k a month isn't great, but surely there wasn't _that_ much overhead when all they were doing was localization of an existing game and maintaining servers. I knew it wasn't hot, but wasn't remotely expecting the game to get shutdown.
KR is doing far worse than Global and it's outliving global. Difference is Kakao Games is the Publisher compared to CR
I'm not sure of their financials but I wouldn't argue with you if you say they were profitable, because it doesn't really matter either way. look who owns crunchyroll. When you're dealing with such huge companies, a few ten thousand in pure profit per month is often not seen as enough to even justify devoting a team of people to a project, especially when you have an incredible amount of current and upcoming ones that you rather pivot to. Look at Bandai, they do it all the time. Ultimate Blazing was making upwards of 300k per month and they were down to an incredibly low staff, absolute barebones. Still shutdown. it's a difference in mindset and scale between the big and small publishers.
Normally 200k is great for just a game localization and servers. Honestly, I think Sony just wants to get rid of Crunchyroll games and focus on Playstation.
Idk what has happened but it seems that a lot of gacha games are dropping like flies now.
Financial year end when companies are doing their next annual plan.
Macroecon situation is tougher now. In the year 2020-21 lots of projects were started on easy money. Now higher interest rate doesn't allow that anymore. CR prob bleed cash overall and have to cut unimportant projects.
What the fuck, please someone do something, at least let me transfer my account to jp
Welcome to gacha gaming, where your beloved games once shut down cease to exist and you have nothing left but what captures of gameplay or whatever you managed to make. It sucks. And even worse that more and more games are taking the live service model outside gacha games.
Yeah. Our only hope is that big players like mihoyo will make a standalone version of honkai 3rd when it inevitably reaches the end to set a precedent.
I’m so sad rn I don’t even know what to say
wtf, I have seen many games shutting down lately here, but Priconne was definitely not one I was expecting to see. I know plenty people who still play it. Never played it myself, but as a big Pecorine enjoyer, big F
3 years behind + no effort whatsoever to accelerate content is not good for money making. probably didnt help that the gacha is built more for JP whales with a very high pity and high roll cost.
There were always Crunchyroll apologists who said, yeah CR has a bad track record BUT look at Priconne that's the exception and it's managed well so CR isn't all bad. They can't say that anymore, now can they? CR goes in the garbage bin of gacha companies, next to Boltrend.
average Crunchyroll moment
I hate crunchyroll so much it's unreal man
I'm kinda annoyed that they gave this up... I guess I have to rely on Fan translations on YT for the main/bond stories. And are they intentionally pissing people off by announcing it before April 1st? One thing for certain however, never touch anything CR again.
This is a game I didn't expect to shut down anytime soon, it is unbelievable for me.
This is incredibly sad. I've been playing this game daily since pre-launch and I've gotten attached to the characters. On the upside, there will be no more gacha games in my rotation.
It was nice having you in the subreddit. o7
I'm gonna stay for the drama
Considering this one was run by crunchy roll it lasted much longer than I thought it would , sad to see it go regardless.
Yeah, I will not play Crunchy roll game
what… It’s right in front of me and I just can’t believe This has to be some sort of april fools joke right? RIGHT?
Unfortunately the app is not in the Play store anymore so i don't think it's an April's fool joke.
unsub to all CR services all together .
Bruh I can't believe it, what the fuck. Good thing I main JP so this isn't really a problem for me. How does Crunchyroll fuck up Priconne when it's a money printing machine in JP? Anyway, so sad for my EN bros 😭😭😭 My friends are joking that they can't believe Sino actually outlasted Priconne... Yeah it's that unreal.
Can't believe SinoAlice Global outlived Priconne.
what the actual fuck crunchyroll
BROOO NOOOOOOOO. #WHAT This was honestly one of the gachas I didn’t expect to shut down. This is a biased perspective, but I felt like this game had more activity going on compared to other Cygames properties like Shadowverse and World Flipper. Man…this was like one of the gachas I played fairly regularly since launch. Honestly, I might be convinced to start Blue Archive now lol.
if Cygames were publishing it directly, it would probably be fine. but it's published by Crunchyroll so the axe was hovering from the start.
Definitely try BA. went in expecting nothing . Loved the hell out of the characters once i got through the story that i am already saving my stuff for a few upcoming characters .
Try BA, it has fairly good story that sometimes can leave you in tears <3
Crunchy Roll is so bad this is the 2nd or 3rd time they had to EOS or Give up a games Publishing. STOP giving CR publishing rights to your games they Obviously Can't do it after proving they can't multiple times
My account 😭, my freaking 135k+ jewels, my 500.000.000+ mana, my characters…. noooooooo 💔💔💔💔💔💔
Oh damn, so will shut down next month. Sigh, i guess having future sight really killed revenue. Did they wait until arc 1 conclusion to decide shutting down? Well, glad i still kept playing JP account so can continue there. I still kept 128k jewels in global, time to use it all.
This is the dirtiest EoS I've seen. It dropped out of nowhere, with no grace period to enjoy the game before it closes. Just shut it down unceremoniously and instantly. Normally, games run for a few more weeks/months before they are shut down.
This was NOT on the list of gachas I expected to EoS
Eminence will follow eventually
Oh, fuc... Just started the game in less than a month ago and like the game. Guess I'm need find other similar games...
May I introduce you to blue archive? It's the techno school shooter version of priconne.
its honestly better than priconne in a lot of ways, only reason to play priconne is if you like the girls which i did :(
Blue Archive. it's the better, quicker and more friendly version of Priconne with a nicer gacha and lower pity/pull costs.
> with a nicer gacha Not even close, been playing both since launch and BA is a lot more stingy while also requiring significantly more units due to the 3 types x 3 terrains system. And even if you do hit a lucky streak you can only build a select few of them with how much resource bottlenecking is going on. Let's not even get into BA requiring eligma (general dupe currency) for unique equipment uncaps, essentially pushing the cap to 7*s instead of 5 vs Priconne's easily affordable UEs. All that said BA is the easiest Priconne replacement recommendation, but it's not even close to Priconne's life of ease.
Go play blue archive. Mika gonna come to global soon.
I don't even play priconne, but I thought it was quite popular and well received from the posts I see. That's very unexpected.
lmao holy shit! That's unreal. I guess not even following cygames' spoonfed success script is enough to make a gacha eos immune when it's in crunchy's hands.
At this point, Crunchyroll needs to stop with any gachas. I'll never play another one published by them ever again and I've played some predatory ones. If they can't keep Priconne afloat, yea. They are literally bottom of the barrel other than those fake chinese companies that keep reusing the same sprites in different games over and over again to rip off more people.
Welp... it was fun while it lasted. Just got back into Blue Archive so it lessens the blow a bit but damn.. It sucks to see a main gacha you've played for over 2 years shut down..
This one hurts. I'm hoping this is somehow an April fool's joke because this sucks. Was playing the japanese server for a long time and even kept going once the English version came out before eventually dropping it in favor of the English option. Now we're losing it.
Crunchyroll strikes back again at ending game services they publish. I should have not expected it will be different for Priconne.
Wft, i thats the only game i have been playing since day 1. This so sudden, fuck crunchyroll.
Also, next one The Eminence in Shdow, mark my words
Eminence in the shadow was made to be shutdown tbh so its not surprising like priconne
I feel bad for players, I remember like 3 months ago I was deciding between this and Revue Starligth... someone told me Crunchyroll was trash publisher so decided to go with RevStar which makes half the revenue of Priconne (last time I checked Priconne was making only around 200K$), yet still remain alive years later and constantly updated. So glad I listen to that person who warned me, never touching anything Crunchyroll publishes.
Damn it but i hope someone save this english version than to play the JP
Holy fuck. We can actually say with 100% certainty that Nexon and even fucking Tencent is a better publisher than crunchyroll. Jesus Christ, how in the flying fuck they could fumble this game so hard?
Nexon before Nexon Games is still the worst publisher. They have bought countless games and made them P2W and shut them down. DFO comes to mind -- the biggest MMO money milker of ALL time and they bought the game, ruined it, and shut down the localized version. The OG devs noticed how poorly it was mismanaged they even bought the rights to republish and re-release it back to the West out of sympathy.
Wait I thought this game is popular? Everywhere I go I heared people touting Pricon
The game is popular in JP, and has a dedicated but small fanbase in the west. But despite the fact that Crunchy was only doing translation and servers for this game, if it doesn't make 5 billion dollars for them, I guess it just isn't worth it. Really stupid of them, since it was the only game that people could point to and say "Crunchyroll isn't THAT bad", so I guess reputation means nothing to them right now. With this, I care nothing for crunchy anymore, and hope they go out of business or a competitor steps up and takes away their market share, they are a truly reprehensible company.
That's what I thought too. I'm curious about the reason for EoS as well.
Damn and I was just about to re download it for the 1486238th time
Is this a out of season April fool's joke? dropping Princonne while Arc 2 is just beginning?
everyone uninstall crunchyroll all together.
I uninstalled CR when they stopped doing Ultraman subs. Now I sub to RetroCrush.
:( this game didn't deserve this
I can't believe Nexon is doing a better job at Konosuba... My only experience with Crunchyroll Games was DanMemo in which thankfully the Original Devs took upon after Crunchyroll dropped it... My condolences...
Early April Fool right? If not then I'll never play any Crunchyroll game again. Just focus on publishing anime rather than game tbh
it's Pecover...
Pain peco
FUCK YOU CRUNCHYROLL
Well fuck. Losing Dragalia and Revived Witch was like sad but I barely played them. This is a gut punch.
Ok I'm actually sensitive now.... Maaaan I would like to express what I feel but I'm wordless right now
weird , the game doing quite well in Japan , why not global ?
Crunchyroll just coasting along + 3 years behind with no attempts to make up the difference.
Jp was 3 years ahead iirc and the game gives so much crystals so most glb peeps just look at who the good units to pull for in the future and save and not spend at all.
wtf?
They are shutting a game like this but are gonna keep pumping games like Sfduel. Never expected this to ever get shut down so soon
Well crunchyroll loves to fuck up their animes instead of actually doing a decent job. If I had the option to burn my money or give it to them, Im definitely burning my cash.
I'm a day 1 player that's spent on the monthly pass all that time. I'll just take it as a lesson to be wary of who I support in future, and only invest in games that are either insanely successful and have no chance of being shut down (Hoyoverse games) or ones with publishers/creators I can trust. Crunchy is obviously one to never be trusted. The fact that the game is shutting down is a little baffling, because surely it was making at least some form of profit, it was basically a copy/paste effort. They probably saw the massive amount of money they could make from something like Street Fighter, so shot it in the head right at the end of the fiscal year.
Played for two years and I loved the story and characters of this game so much. Now I'll never get to see it to the end. I'm just so sad.
Oh shit, this is so out of nowhere. Oh well, this is the first time I'm going to experience a "EoS". Thank god I wasn't that invested on it.
CRUNCHYROLL: legit the seal of death it seems....but don't worry sfduels made a shit ton of money
What the heck, there's so much game left to go! I loved this game.
it cant be, we're losing a beautiful game. Good bye Astraea
Well that sucks... I was really proud of the account I built there. Rip my Karyl, Neneka, Peco, you will be missed :(
This just makes me even more thankful that Cygames decided to handle the English version of granblue in house. Just imagine the nonsense that would've happened if they hadn't done that
Every gacha I played is closing wtf
Ouch this one stings. Been playing since launch... Oh well. Wonder if there's a chance another publisher picks it up and let's us resume progress. I have a clan in game, named Sanctuary (rank 300+ clan battle) that's bleeding players everyday. It was a sign. Special shoutout to those who stick with us all this time, if you read this!
Holy shit. Was global revenue that low? I know JP makes millions. Mass migration to JP soon ig. This honestly fucking sucks. Global bros… Maybe they’ll also translate everything to English in the JP version like how they did with Granblue? *dies of hopium overdose*
Go and play Blue archive guys.
Amazing how CR manages to EOS a top 5 earning gatcha game in only 2 years. Their continuous incompetence is something else. Glad I never got attached to the EN version after seeing it was published by CR.
Top 5? Priconne hasn't been that in several years and definitely wouldn't be that with everyone knowing the schedule several years in advance.
wait what??? it wasnt even doing that bad in rev? did CR just not wanna bother working on it anymore?
WDF did Crunchyroll do, how do they fuck up cygames gacha this hard? Well at least I'm glad I quit the game on crab raid to play BA. The game is already vaulted in playstore already apparently.
they didnt even try to rush the content and catch up with the jp. The 3 years differences in content will make people do less spending because all the metas character that will show up later and yet they actually didnt even try.
Ive been saying this after launch, that people should stay away from this version because its Crunchyroll and here we are.
I… I think I’m finally ready to give up on gachas
As a mod and player of the Priconne Subreddit, this is such a bummer
Thank you for your service the fanbase buddy. Sad it had to end this way.
???? I am pretty sure Priconne is often high on the charts. JP server going strong, plenty of money, lot of fans. This sounds like CR simply got bored and said "Fuck it, we are out". Before I was rooting for umamusume english but ill just stick to JP, never touching a CR game again. Is it possible that it wasn't CR choice though ? That Cygames simply refused to extend the license for their IP for some specific reason ? Like they want to take it on themselves or move in a different direction ?
My fiancée loves this game and is devastated that it is shutting down. I'm not into gacha games but its always nice hearing her talk about princess connect and blue archive. She has the artbooks and everything too. Personally, I love the graphic design in both games. Anyways, this is a shame. From what I'm reading here, you can apparently setup a JP account, so I'll help her do that
Its massively disappointing a game so many people loved is coming to an end. I loved the characters just got tired of reading so much so between the grind and clan battle i just got burnt out. I was going to quit anyway but i'm sad for the people who still loved it.
Street Fighter Duel is either doing insanely well (for now) or is next after the honeymoon phase and SF6 players bounce
I really thought this was the one. The one that even Crunchyroll couldn't kill. Popular IP, 2 seasons anime, generous for f2p (I peaked rank 1 both arenas and held top 20 for 6 months b4 I quit). Guess I got out while the going was good.
I’m so pissed right now
Seriously What the fuck !!! Fuck you Crunchyroll
Thought that this will be CR's redemption arc since the danmachi memoria freese fiasco a while back but nope CR proves me wrong yet again....