Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier, the cell multiplayer battle royale, is being shut down in January. The information comes a month shy of the sport’s one-year anniversary, having launched for iOS and Android in November 2021.
Square Enix states that it feels it hasn’t delivered the expertise it aimed for, so it can start winding down service beginning right now. A roadmap on the sport’s web site lists a three-step sunsetting schedule. Today, you may now not buy Shinra credit from the store, however you may nonetheless spend the credit you personal till the sport shuts down. On November 1, help for non-English localization ends (which means textual content will solely be displayed in English going ahead). Finally, on January 11, The First Soldier goes offline for good.
Here’s the total End of Service announcement by way of Twitter:
It is with a heavy coronary heart that we’re asserting the top of service for Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier. We will probably be ending service at 07:00 UTC on January 11, 2023.
Despite all our efforts to deliver you common updates with recent and thrilling content material, we haven’t been in a position to ship the expertise that we had been hoping to, and that you simply all deserve, so we have now made the extraordinarily robust choice to finish service for Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier.
We wish to thanks all for supporting us over the previous yr.
Although there’s solely rather less than 3 months till service ends, we’ll proceed to make updates throughout this time, so we hope you’ll proceed to take pleasure in Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier till the very finish.
October 12, 2022 – From everybody on the FF7FS workforce
The First Soldier was revealed in February 2021 alongside one other cell FFVII RPG, Ever Crisis (which has but to launch however has a closed beta deliberate for this yr). The third-person battle royale occurred earlier than the occasions of FFVII and pit 75 gamers towards one another as SOLDIER candidates. In addition to utilizing firearms, gamers wield magic and even summons. Square beforehand said The First Soldier was an try to draw a wider fanbase to the FFVII universe whereas giving present followers a brand new solution to take pleasure in its mythos.
Unfortunately, this is not the primary Square Enix printed multiplayer sport to get the axe this yr. Babylon’s Fall, Platinum Games’ live-service motion RPG, can also be being shutdown in February, lower than a yr after its ill-received launch.
While The First Soldier goes away, loads of FFVII content material is within the pipeline. As beforehand talked about, Ever Crisis stays on the docket, and Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion releases on December 13. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, the follow-up to Remake, is scheduled to launch subsequent winter.
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