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

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.

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.

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.

The problem with companies is when they feel too safe they believe they can get away with literally anything like a celebrity commiting crimes

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Princess Connect is literally my last trust to Crunchyroll and they lost it when they decide to shut it down.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It's time for refunds!

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 don't touch anything that has Crunchyroll's name on it.

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.

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.

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

8:34 CR have presented packs for new players on march 24! This is nuts!

Crunchyroll dropped Princess Connect so fast after Street Fighter did well. 😢 They care nothing for their fans.

What a shame. Amazing how accurate all those specific warnings were when it was originally announced Crunchyroll were to be releasing the game.

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.

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.

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.

Crunchyrole proving time and time again why people really dislike them as a company

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.

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.

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!

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'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 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.

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.

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

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.

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...

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 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...

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

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.

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.

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 am very sad about this... i really like the game, the story and characters are awesome

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…

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.

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.

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!)

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.

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.

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’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.

It's so stupid... because the dumb, ironic thing is this was the year and moments where princess connect was finally starting to get good. All the units that people will spend their wallets for was coming up and they just.. end it, abruptly. Like, there's no business sense. Me and hundreds and thousands of people are very upset and tired, we have lost our faith in the company and we will no longer involve ourselves into their product.

Can't believe they did Priconne dirty like this 😢

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Totally agree with this, never touch any crunchyroll games screw them. They literally killed their most active gacha

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?

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.

>CrunchyRoll owns Aniplex >Aniplex manages Fate/GO *OH, NO…*

Surprised people still trusted CR? Especially with how they censored Memoria Freeze with an advertised feature.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I decided to move to the JP server... My journey in Landosol will not end here.

Never gonna trust crunchyroll anymore

Yeah, I've been playing Princess Connect daily for the past 6 months (plus on and off since release)... since I've seen that they're shutting it down, I can't decide if I want to put any more progress into the game, and it makes me sad

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.

you are absolutely spot on, cannot trust Crunchyroll anymore after this, also it makes Cygames look bad

And this is why I'm only playing gacha games under Yostar or with partnership with Yostar Because these guys just 👌

Been playing Pricone global since first day. Now I'm sad they drop it before I can get Sheffy. At least finish the current arc story. And Celebrating Peco birthday right after telling players they will close the game at April is a really insulting move.

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 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

any gacha gamer knows what publishers to avoid and Crunchyroll is one of em lol

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

My first and my favorite gacha, i love Princess connect i have a lot of merch and invested a lot of money, now I'm going to jp but it doesn't feel the same, i don't have the same clan members I've been since 2 years ago, but there is still hope, we have a lot of days left and I have hope

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

Honestly this was my first time ever getting involved in a crunchyroll game. (Outside of FGO) Luckily I never spent money with Priconne. I was broke so I couldn't. (I would have if I could) I came over from Granblue and I literally waited years for a translation of the game because I was so curious about it thanks to the events. Now all this is doing for me is convincing me that I need to learn Japanese and/or get translation software because from this point on. I am not giving the time of day to Crunchyroll on any front. This year was gonna be the year where it was gonna be big and so many fun units would have come out. And the FUNNY thing is they would had so many whales/dolphins/etc going buckwild and the whole money issue wouldn't be an issue then. All i can take away this is that whoever is the CEO of Crunchyroll is a massive idiot. It's one thing if a game can't be saved but to pull the plug unexpectedly out of nowhere is extremely bad bed manners. I am angry it's closing but more upset that it was done in a very discourteous way. Most times you can tell when a gacha is failing. There's signs everywhere and the fact there were signs that Priconne would have had a good future and they still closed it. Is the most mindboggling thing. If they didn't vault the other games then priconne would have been fine. So I agree 100% Crunchy did this to themselves and they must lie in that bed. I feel bad for the workers involved but not the ones that made the decision. Evidently they are stupid and I am not saying this only because I am sad a game I really liked is closing. Just logically they are very stupid. And the higher ups deserve everything about to come to them.

Kinda sad though. To be honest, the playerbase is relatively small compare to JP. I can see how my less than 10 member clan in global is in 2k in ranking while my 30 member clan in JP is ranked in 4k. I wish they really carry it even longer, but 2 years gap is kinda big. I wish Cygames managed the global game by themselves instead of putting on others.

i have heard about CR games before, but i think with how much priconne has been very beloved series and track record that 5 years in JP and it's still going strong and 5 other regional servers are doing fine, the game would be too big to fail. or at least the business people should be aware of the consequence of "hey look, all the other regions of this game are going strong, you cant shut this down" it was not like the gacha/online game cannot shutdown, but they should get conclusion before it shutdown to make a game complete and everyone can bid it farewell in good spirit. and we know priconne have at least 3 more years of content waiting for us that we will never live to see is just sad. oh well, good thing now they will learn that shutting down priconne without a good reason will literally cost them their whole business. CR games is dead to me. i'll never play any other CR games ever again. not because of they decide to shutdown a game, but because if they cant make priconne (with all fanbase and positive perks that come with it, this was suppose to be an easy mode) work, they probably cant make any other games work, ever.

i played for 2 years cuz i heard of a friend and woke up 2 days ago and saw the announcement and actually cried a bit i know that it WILL make more money just look at next month 2 great banners will come and it WILL make money and now i will have to say goodbye

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.

This video literally saved me money and a ton of time. I was thinking about playing some of CR's games given the great anime series they have but knowing this background, and the history of literally hurting their own business / brand without any care for the customers and fandom, hard pass. OS, appreciate the time and effort that was put into this review, it was really well articulated.

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

Any game that relies on it's server to be online. I never play it.