Holy I didn't expect this to pop off! I hope to provide more coverage on BP in general and the situation of it. You guys outside of JP deserve to know what's really happening. YT gave me a notification only today about a comment posted and was expecting just 1 comment.
From the title and thumbnail alone it seemed like a very interesting topic. I actually have never played BP and barely have any knowledge of it, but you hit the nail on the head discussing something I haven't heard elsewhere. Well paced, engaging info for the intro, watched the vid from start to end. Kudos!
Why did you not mention the huge June update that is coming this month? Alot of your issues with the game seem like they're being addressed this month with the new endgame content etc.
And based on the recent interview that was released it seems like they're not as tone deaf as people are perceiving. Which would also be a good thing to talk about in the video
Hey, honestly I prefer the game to be easy. That's the reward you get for maxing the potential of your build, embrace it. There will always be players that fail to do even that, and ends up needing to be carried by party members, that's the charm of a MMORPG. I'm saying that there's enough hardcore games out there, from FF14 to Elden Ring, to the upcoming Thrones & Liberty.
@@tedkhoong Blowing thru everything in an MMO means there's less of a dopamine hit when you accomplish anything honestly. Why grind and or min-max your build when you can beat all the content without doing so? Why grind better weapons when you can beat the new content without them? Why party up when you can just solo everything? It's these things that are the reasons why MMOs that have a combat focus should have challenging content. If you want easy, play PSO2 NGS
That's Bamco for u, they already do this almost decade, if they release Online Game or more specifically Live Service game, don't expect its gonna do well I wish someone else that handle this game instead Bamco
Region locking is the DUMBEST thing in gaming. Preventing country X from playing while X is going to connect to the country Ys region server anyway is insane!
That Rimaru slime game did the same thing on a massive scale. It wasn't available in half of Africa half of Europe half of Asia Brazil etc. Ended up preventing 4 BILLION people from ever having the possibility to play the game. Obv the game is dead
@@abhishekbhattacharyya2950 Indeed.. Idc what people could say, but, companies do not understand that, if they region lock a game, it will pretty much be already dead..
Okay, thank you for explaining WHY it's delayed because a lot of us don't know the state at all. If this was communicated by a community manager we would not be crying as much or me holding out hope it might turn up this year.
@@Fire-Manz JP players arent really happy with the game, bad communication from devs, boring old man silent livestream from devs... I don't really think the devs understand what players want... they don't even tried lol
@@ivansentanu3498 tbf bad communication and boring livestream is the least of my concerns. as long as the content is good, it's good. don't u think ? and to be clear, i'm not talking for Blue protocol case in particular, i don't know and don't care if they also have bad content. i just meant it in a general way.
@@phantr2530 lol that's right, as long as it has lot of fun contents I don't give a f**k I just wanna say that generally devs with bad communication and lack of understanding for player would make a bad game :)
@@doodoodoo1366 They already killed the hype when they marketed it as "Global" but in a classic AGS fashion, region locks it from majority of the world like what they did with Lost Ark. Now add to that the delays and censorship and this game's gonna be most likely dead on arrival.
That was exactly my impressions too. Like holy hell, you can tell they MUST be new at this, even judging from the structure (or lack theteof) of their live streams! Even one of those streams was so bad that Japanese players called the devs out for it and they had to issue a public apology regarding it! 😅
Yeah. As soon I see "Bandai" name, I also knew BP would be failed for some reason or another. Even if BP had good gameplay and community growth, Bandai would still screw it up somehow
@@basedarsonist bandai when making live service game doesn't have good records. The last 2 i played were zenonzard on mobile and gbo 2. Gbo have server and matchmaking issues during it's launch, zz closed after 2 years in jp and a year in global, less maybe.
@@basedarsonist nothing, people just want to overexaggerate and jump on the hate bandwagon, and has no idea what the fuck they're talking about. Bamco has had a lot of successful games under their belt, mainly Tekken and Tales series. Even their lesser known titles didn't flop as hard. That being said the problem with Bamco is their exec just simply have zero idea on how to monetize F2P games, Gundam Evo was a incredibly good game but it was DoA when you only get enough currency to buy ONE new mobile suit every 3 months. Blue Protocol at launch literally had the BiS gear for the tank class locked behind a cash shop gacha using real money.
NGL, there were several red flags when it launched in Japan last summer: 1. No simultaneous global release. If Mihoyo and Kuro games can do it, why couldn't an industry veteran? 2. Boring combat. A streamer I watched basically called it a "left click simulator". 3. Amazon 4. Lack of ultra wide screen support. If Genshin and Wuthering Waves can do it, why can't Blue Protocol? 5. Predatory pricing for cosmetics, etc. Honestly, the management team needs to be fired and the game needs a hard reboot (similar to what FFXIV did). Also, all censorship demands made by Amazon need to be ignored.
I feel like almost every Bandai game I played hates ultra-wide, I can't even think of one that has good ultra-wide support from them. I have just settled with "Oh, it's a Bandai game... Guess I'll have to deal with stretch res."
There's a big difference between hosting a server for instanced solo games with limited co-op and hosting one for a game that's always syncing for all online players. It's a lot less expensive for the former, which is why there's a lot more of those kinds of games than there are MMOs.
This is 2024, not 1990. They're not reinventing the wheel. Not supporting ultra widescreen support was a purposeful decision admitted to by the devs. Not having a simultaneous global launch was initially done to localize (censor) the game for different regions. Having a battle system that is inferior to Tera (a 2011 action MMO) is simply bad design.
@f2ppoorloserjealoustearist454 I don't disagree as a whole, but Blue Protocol has been in development since 2015. I put the blame for its failure directly on the management at Bamco.
thanks for covering the topic for many people, i just got interersted about BP cause i heard about it some years ago, and what i see just, ehh lets wait a little bit more xd
For sure. Reading the comments many are anticipating the release, but all we can do is be patient. If the game becomes good, it'll pop off no matter how long it's delayed just like how Lost Ark global was at first.
I believe game had ton of potential, I watched couple of Japanese streamers they still play BP after big update but after that they never stream the game til the next update... it is what it is
Amazon as publisher really such a letdown for me, the purge of the foreigner players on the early days make me gave up on it. PSO2 may be content drought but they can be compensate with non demanding class system, variety character customization, creative space and photo mode.
As a PSO2 player who had to sit through a bunch of try-hards telling me how AMAZING THE HIT NEW MMO BLUE PROTOCOL WILL BE... I'm sorta vindicated on this lol
Any game that has a region lock on release is a game I wont care about, ever. I had an interest, but they killed it after a JP-only release. Even a secluded country like China does global releases these days.
and they have so many massive IPs under their belt: biggest one is genshin obviously, followed by tower of fantasy, star rail, then wuthering waves, recently zenless zone zero, soon azur promilia, the new neverless to everness game teased a day ago. don’t forget the games that came before like honkai 3rd, punishing gray raven, azur lane all these devs are improving and making crazy revenue. There I listed 10 different games! Absolutely Crazy
Bandai is the reason Japan is getting Out-Anime'd by other countries in their own export of Culture (by that I mean, making Anime style games, literally everybody started doing it better than Japan, esp China). Because, for some bloody reason, they have their grubby little hands in allll of them over there, and they suck.
@@justacuteonigiri how is it not answering? Tldr Bandai is just freaking suck at making anime games which make japan left behind in anime games compare to china
It was dead to me as soon as Amazon got involved and started censoring it in the west. So while this is sad, it doesn't really matter much to me anymore.
@@benj4845 we got to thank amazon, for saving as the disappointment. i too lost interest when its announce to be publish by amazon. amazon hates SEA region.
@@benj4845 game is actually just not fun to most people who have played it and neckbeards are more upset about booba lmaooo dont try to reason with these people
About the focus on hardcore players: I think this is a double-edged sword. While casual players are the majority of a game, those are also the ones that don't really care much about stats/doing well and have a much higher rate of just leaving and play something else, once they cleared the story. The hardcore players, who grind alot, care alot about the game and play frequently on the other hand, are also the majority of the people, who potentially spend money on things like battle passes, outfits ect. So I think trying to keep those players engaged and not get bored, makes sense since these are the most engaged players. The downside to that it will be harder to convert new casual players to core players since, like you said, endgame gameplay mechanics arent well explained and ruining other peoples runs or feeling useless is gonna discourage a casual player from playing that content. Combine that with little and low effort content updates and you loose player interest. If you see those 5% and take those suggested 1000-2000 active players, that means only 50-100 players are actively playing difficult endgame content together. It's probably going to be hard as a new player to even find groups, who accept newbies and casuals and teach them.
i want to mention that the reason some of jp player dropped it soon after trying it is the class system. jp players love to play into dedicated job and fully role play it. having it needing you to change class to fully play the game ruin the immersion for them. also the fact that you only get to pick 4 skills of each class kinda makes it feel not rewarding to grind.
@@lilblkrose pc 4 active class skill to be exact you get more from other sources but still... oh and you also cant decide the order of skill lvl up so for every skill you ddnt want is wasted exp
Bandai Namco: Try not to screw up an online game edition Difficulty: Impossible Given Bamco's track record with online games, I'm not surprised at all anymore.
Me too! since I got banned me and my friends never want to play this game anymore. We spent all 3-4 weekend days to grind and top ups Good Luck BP! We so excited when the game release cuz we waiting almost 4 years since we read news but idk. (i know the rules but it's kinda a waste of time to go back and play again anyway.)
Thank you for covering how Blue Protocol's been doing. Now that they just pressed the irreversible shut down button, this should help us understand why.
@@XT91 yes. It is a deadgame. I'm just tryna see if there's another anime mmo that can take it's place. Right now I'm only play the base pso2 game while ignoring NGS.
PSO2/NGS cannot die as long as they keep up their cosmetic gacha and lobby interactions. Probably. The only way they'd be at risk is if another game had similar cosmetic freedom, not exclusive to paying customers and/or with actual gameplay attached.
People complain that miHoYo games are easy, but miHoYo at least knows that the vast majority of players are not tryhards. It's better to disappoint 2% than drive away 98%.
There's a reason why their game is still so successful after the initial boom. They know their audience, and they are not gonna bend down to the absolute minority that talks a lot but doesn't contribute and it's working still.
Man. I was extremely hyped about this game and that was when my friend used to live in the same country as me. Now hearing this makes me sceptical to really put that much time and effort in this anymore. I'm absolutely devastated that this is happening to BP..
I forgot about this game damn. I remember being hyped about it but now that I think about it, it just disappeared. Didn't even know it was region locked.
This game singlehandedly tanked Bamco. That company cant bank on From Software games anymore since they've pivoted to self-publishing, they killed Tales Of, their flagship RPG title and only has Tekken 8 right now. Sparking Zero has to do the heavy lifting after all this.
But hey, they still got iDOLM@STER... right? I'm really asking because they recently released Gakumas which I already declared to be dead on arrival because of the writers.
no way they managed to kill Tales of that was my favorite series for so long shame. If they didn't manage to keep _that_ afloat, almost no way they're carrying a whole new IP
@@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli They offed every Tales of gacha. Cresteria barely made it to a year, Luminaria didnt even last 10 months. Arise was 3 years ago, the DLC is low budget as it gets, and thwre isnt any new game announcement from Tales fest 2024. The series is in limbo at the moment.
Bandai Namco is a horrible company, they are disorganized on all levels even down to recruitment and HR. I wanted to be excited for this game for so long, but I've all but lost interest by now.
Here on the announcement of JP EOS and Global cancellation. A shame for this project. I appreciate your cataloguing of the game's woes prior to its euthanization.
Oh nooo, how's Josh Strife Hayes gonna play this in the future now??? Hopefully there will be at least a documentary/essay-like video on this game in the future.
This is extremely sad. I've been waiting since the first time the game has made an appearence. I've been promoting this game to my friends for a good time, since we all got into mmos after playing FFXIV... I had my hopes high for this one
By the Holy Waffle, I completely forgotten about Blue Protocol ever since Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Wuthering Waves and Warframe took up all my gaming time... wow I feel old. Edit: But yeah... after watching this video and seeing the state the game is in... I'll stick with my current games.
I still do not understand how bamco could’ve fumbled the bag this bad. Like, they didn’t really have to look far to see what a good MMO plays like as literally the 2nd biggest MMO in the world comes from their home country.
Exactly. As if FF14 2.0 and onwards doesn't even exist. NGS is still going despite all the bs SEGA is pulling off. And that's just the two (relatively) modern titles I'm aware of.
Great video! MMO content creators have been dooming this game for a while and never provided any detailed information on why they thought the game was bad. So thank you for taking the time to explain and provide examples of the issues in this game
You can't forget the casual playerbase. I play GW2 alot and will likely never touch raids in that game. Luckily, they focus alot more on other forms of content that don't require dps meters or highly coordinated teams to clear.
Woah, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember a time when I had been really excited for a good new anime mmo, and the disappointment when I heard there was a region lock, and no EN server.
@@sebasstehfish5634 I'm kind of nervous about ZZZ especially with the complaints of the TV system being tedious but I heard they fixed that so the game is more roguelike.
As soon as I heard that amazon would be managing the global version of this game, my hype dropped by 70%. I had hope for this game since it looked fun and highly enjoyable for an MMO. Then, I saw the global version preview and all the censoring that had been done. Never before has my hype for a game been killed in such a way, even including mega-flops like Sonic Forces and No Man's Sky. I could technically still play the game through a VPN, but hearing that the JP playerbase is dying just makes me think that there's no hope for Blue Protocol. Such a shame.
A PC game could never succeed in the Japan, the market is not there. Bandai failed before they even launched. There's no way a PC launch would have provided them with the income needed to update the game.
Noelle spotted. That one friend of yours has good taste. Honestly, I almost forgot the game existed. Haven't seen any news since the first couple of months of JP release or so.
A complete shame. The worst thing about blue protocol is that all its most obvious problems are already known problems in the industry. The dev company had gold and apparently they are living under rocks because they did not see that they were making the same mistakes that have existed in the industry for about 2 decades now.
This game used to have so much hype around it, but they killed it off completely by the endless delays of global version and with the JP version even struggling now, I just don't think it will ever realisticaly release here....
I forgot this game existed, but I've been completely out of the sphere of MMO's and general PC gaming for a long time. There was a time when I was rather heavily invested in BDO, and I spent a lot of time learning the combat for my particular class, and this was something you HAD to learn to sanely grind for experience. Watching you demonstrate how people usually level to max was disheartening.
The bugs and unoptimization was definetly something that made me distance from playing much, I've played JP consistently since release and everything you stated is 100% true. I personally still love the game but the lack of stuff to do is underwhelming. Graphics are still really awesome same with the gear system imo. Great video overall !
me and my friend were so excited for this game but he lives in germany and i live in JP and the moment he got banned multiple times just from playing killed the game for both of us
Sounds like the game is missing content for midcore players, a sort of middle ground between the hardcore and casual players. With such a big gap between the content meant for hardcore raiders and the rest of the playerbase there should be some sort of content that requires a bit more than mashing all your abilities mindlessly but not so much skill as having a full understanding of buff timers and class rotations, kind of like how FF14 does normal raids and trials that require paying attention to boss mechanics and doing enough damage but that are lenient enough that someone without too much knowledge can still queue it and have fun. Content like that gives players that aren't super sweaty something that is still engaging/requires more thought than most of the game without requiring them to be at the most hardcore level to enjoy it while also giving players that might be interested in more hardcore content an easier to digest gateway. I also think it'd give the people that find the casual content way too easy and the people that wish the game wasn't catered to the hardcore playerbase so much something they could both enjoy since it's not so hard that a casual can't beat it and not so easy that someone who wants something intense isn't bored to death. Or maybe I'm completely off base, I just wanted to give my two cents on what I took away from the video and give you a comment for the algorithm, I really enjoyed this video/perspective and wanted to boost it a little ^^ wishing you the best
it was lacking on all fronts... not just mid or hard lol the casual might have just not even existed at all because every single goddamn thing was pay walled or would take you months if not a year to obtain cause of how little they gave a shit about their players lol and they banned us "Gaijin" players cause they didn't want us to embarrass them at how bad their handling of this game really is lmao and to be fair i didn't hate the combat or the aesthetics but i did hate that the rewards were absolute shit for free players which unfortunately most gaijin are forced too be cause of the strict banning.
BP was great at first after they making outside japan player not playing that game in jp server. which many that player outside japan leave then some fraction of JP player. the dev also didn't serious on the game and player end up quitting meanwhile pso2ngs they still retain outside japan player and keep them playing the game
Wow 🤯. This video is eye opening for this game. This is one of my most anticipated game for years!!! But it’s a bummer to hear all the issues. I haven’t followed in a long time and sad to hear it’s struggling. I wonder if they should add more open world content?? Like Genshin? Maybe players would like that idk. The dungeon farming doesn’t sound very fun though I didn’t expect the game to be doing that on the daily basis 😕 sort of kill my excitement lol
my big issue with bp (played jp for 8 months or so), was as you mentioned lack of meaningful things to do, but beyond that social aspects of game were lacking. Monetization was way to aggressive, gasha's were just very expensive, entirely rng which outfits you got, pity system was basically only for whales, and the pity currency expires! (I lost like 9k BPP lol when was saving for new years stuff and planned to maybe pull) To cap that off, there's no trading, no economy, which makes skins and customization even worse, combining outfit pieces to make fits you want to wear is a huge part of games like PSO2, and social mmo's. Having virtually no way to do that besides 'collect everything and horde' is just a horrible model. imo should have been a auction house using premium currency for outfits and pieces, mounts etc so could recoop loses or even sell goods that are rare from several banners ago, or just even a specific pair of shoes from few banners ago etc. Its completely ridiculous and anti-player way the game was designed. That was one of the big sticking points for me, its sad cuz i loved the enviroment, and was engaged with story but they really fell down live service slop rabbit hole :(
i was really excited for this game but only just recently realized it was bandai namco developing it. it'll be a miracle if it makes it to its second anniversary with how that company handles their games. it's really depressing. i just hope i'll at least be able to give it a try before it comes crashing down
everyone expected amazon to fumble the western release but the game is already dead in japan. i'll still give it a go once it comes to the west, but i doubt it will do well. since this is bandai they will swiftly shut it down once they realize no one cares about it in the west either
the combat is okay, you first got 4 skills out of all skills you get, plus the alpha and beta skills are crazy to get (or beta, I think). After reaching end game I just did raids but then got bored. When I stopped I got my CP to the maximum possible number, right after spear got released.
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Holy I didn't expect this to pop off! I hope to provide more coverage on BP in general and the situation of it. You guys outside of JP deserve to know what's really happening.
YT gave me a notification only today about a comment posted and was expecting just 1 comment.
From the title and thumbnail alone it seemed like a very interesting topic. I actually have never played BP and barely have any knowledge of it, but you hit the nail on the head discussing something I haven't heard elsewhere. Well paced, engaging info for the intro, watched the vid from start to end. Kudos!
Why did you not mention the huge June update that is coming this month? Alot of your issues with the game seem like they're being addressed this month with the new endgame content etc.
And based on the recent interview that was released it seems like they're not as tone deaf as people are perceiving. Which would also be a good thing to talk about in the video
Hey, honestly I prefer the game to be easy. That's the reward you get for maxing the potential of your build, embrace it. There will always be players that fail to do even that, and ends up needing to be carried by party members, that's the charm of a MMORPG.
I'm saying that there's enough hardcore games out there, from FF14 to Elden Ring, to the upcoming Thrones & Liberty.
@@tedkhoong Blowing thru everything in an MMO means there's less of a dopamine hit when you accomplish anything honestly. Why grind and or min-max your build when you can beat all the content without doing so? Why grind better weapons when you can beat the new content without them? Why party up when you can just solo everything? It's these things that are the reasons why MMOs that have a combat focus should have challenging content. If you want easy, play PSO2 NGS
Imagine making a cool IP and mmo idea but drop the ball so hard, that its now sitting in the center of the earth.
fr, this game had so much potential
That's Bamco for u, they already do this almost decade, if they release Online Game or more specifically Live Service game, don't expect its gonna do well
I wish someone else that handle this game instead Bamco
@@manyblock4192 if only they don't let worldwide management to Amazon.
Like throne and liberty, its probably getting a massive overhall before its comes to global
AFK journey destroyed their own game. 1 month in all the whales did a charge back after they made huge changes no one liked. Millions in charge backs.
honestly i really want to play this game and patiently wait for their release for years, but region lock ? amazon ? that just death sentence already.
Region locking is the DUMBEST thing in gaming. Preventing country X from playing while X is going to connect to the country Ys region server anyway is insane!
That Rimaru slime game did the same thing on a massive scale. It wasn't available in half of Africa half of Europe half of Asia Brazil etc. Ended up preventing 4 BILLION people from ever having the possibility to play the game.
Obv the game is dead
it already dead before AGS touch it lol
I already lost interest when they decided to region lock. Good thing is i will not miss much. They dig their own grave.
@@abhishekbhattacharyya2950 Indeed.. Idc what people could say, but, companies do not understand that, if they region lock a game, it will pretty much be already dead..
Blue Protocol is literally the embodiment of "Expectation vs Reality"
To think this game used to be the most hype game after Genshin
Now it's gotten taken over by Wuthering Waves www.youtube.com/@WutheringWaves and eventually Azur Promilia www.youtube.com/@azurpromilia/videos
Man I wanted this before genshin now we are here 4 years later played the beta and that was it nothing else
I don't think it would have become that big considering it's not multi platform if it was on mobile as well then yeah definitely
nowadays, with lower genshin popularity
this could sit on top
@@berkalikalila on top of coffin..yes.
Okay, thank you for explaining WHY it's delayed because a lot of us don't know the state at all. If this was communicated by a community manager we would not be crying as much or me holding out hope it might turn up this year.
@@Fire-Manz JP players arent really happy with the game, bad communication from devs, boring old man silent livestream from devs... I don't really think the devs understand what players want... they don't even tried lol
@@ivansentanu3498 tbf bad communication and boring livestream is the least of my concerns. as long as the content is good, it's good. don't u think ? and to be clear, i'm not talking for Blue protocol case in particular, i don't know and don't care if they also have bad content. i just meant it in a general way.
lol game isnt even available in my country xDD
@@phantr2530 lol that's right, as long as it has lot of fun contents I don't give a f**k
I just wanna say that generally devs with bad communication and lack of understanding for player would make a bad game :)
When it come out it will be unavailable for most country like lost ark
As someone that was originally waiting for Global, I've lost all hype for the release of this game. Could release tomorrow and doubt I'd touch it
Amazon killed this for me they already censoring for the modern audience
I call cap, if they announce global I see a lot of people not standing on business and downloading the game
@@doodoodoo1366 But how many will stay for the long run is the real question right?
@@doodoodoo1366 They already killed the hype when they marketed it as "Global" but in a classic AGS fashion, region locks it from majority of the world like what they did with Lost Ark. Now add to that the delays and censorship and this game's gonna be most likely dead on arrival.
@@herrscherofshrimps1451 Depends on updates etc
The only thing I remember about this game is that one dev stream where the devs didn't know how to play and explain the new class they made.
its like the devs have never played an MMO before and have no idea how to create a gameplay loop
That was exactly my impressions too. Like holy hell, you can tell they MUST be new at this, even judging from the structure (or lack theteof) of their live streams! Even one of those streams was so bad that Japanese players called the devs out for it and they had to issue a public apology regarding it! 😅
so basically bandai being bandai. yea i afraid this would be the case when it was announced and indeed it is what happening
Yeah. As soon I see "Bandai" name, I also knew BP would be failed for some reason or another.
Even if BP had good gameplay and community growth, Bandai would still screw it up somehow
What's wrong with Bandai, I didn't know anything genuinely
@@basedarsonist bandai when making live service game doesn't have good records. The last 2 i played were zenonzard on mobile and gbo 2. Gbo have server and matchmaking issues during it's launch, zz closed after 2 years in jp and a year in global, less maybe.
@@basedarsonist nothing, people just want to overexaggerate and jump on the hate bandwagon, and has no idea what the fuck they're talking about. Bamco has had a lot of successful games under their belt, mainly Tekken and Tales series. Even their lesser known titles didn't flop as hard.
That being said the problem with Bamco is their exec just simply have zero idea on how to monetize F2P games, Gundam Evo was a incredibly good game but it was DoA when you only get enough currency to buy ONE new mobile suit every 3 months. Blue Protocol at launch literally had the BiS gear for the tank class locked behind a cash shop gacha using real money.
@@saito853 Let's highlight bandai and not namco when it comes to screwing up. I wish that they just unmerge at this point
Unbelievable! Phantasy Star Online was doing this kind of clear one room move to the next dungeon game play on Dreamcast more than a decade ago
The fact that PSO2 Ngs is better of than this is dear god.
Depressing. Like there's no hope in this.
NGL, there were several red flags when it launched in Japan last summer:
1. No simultaneous global release. If Mihoyo and Kuro games can do it, why couldn't an industry veteran?
2. Boring combat. A streamer I watched basically called it a "left click simulator".
3. Amazon
4. Lack of ultra wide screen support. If Genshin and Wuthering Waves can do it, why can't Blue Protocol?
5. Predatory pricing for cosmetics, etc.
Honestly, the management team needs to be fired and the game needs a hard reboot (similar to what FFXIV did). Also, all censorship demands made by Amazon need to be ignored.
I feel like almost every Bandai game I played hates ultra-wide, I can't even think of one that has good ultra-wide support from them. I have just settled with "Oh, it's a Bandai game... Guess I'll have to deal with stretch res."
There's a big difference between hosting a server for instanced solo games with limited co-op and hosting one for a game that's always syncing for all online players.
It's a lot less expensive for the former, which is why there's a lot more of those kinds of games than there are MMOs.
This is 2024, not 1990. They're not reinventing the wheel.
Not supporting ultra widescreen support was a purposeful decision admitted to by the devs. Not having a simultaneous global launch was initially done to localize (censor) the game for different regions. Having a battle system that is inferior to Tera (a 2011 action MMO) is simply bad design.
@@lunaticyoshi1 How is that any relevant to what was said? No one argued about those points.
@f2ppoorloserjealoustearist454
I don't disagree as a whole, but Blue Protocol has been in development since 2015. I put the blame for its failure directly on the management at Bamco.
thanks for covering the topic for many people, i just got interersted about BP cause i heard about it some years ago, and what i see just, ehh lets wait a little bit more xd
For sure. Reading the comments many are anticipating the release, but all we can do is be patient. If the game becomes good, it'll pop off no matter how long it's delayed just like how Lost Ark global was at first.
I believe game had ton of potential, I watched couple of Japanese streamers they still play BP after big update but after that they never stream the game til the next update... it is what it is
BP 2019: 🙂❤
BP 2025: 🫠💀
still 2024 but dev already announce EoS 💀💀💀
@@eghajuly7452 Tencent is working on a Mobile version, there is hope.
Amazon as publisher really such a letdown for me, the purge of the foreigner players on the early days make me gave up on it. PSO2 may be content drought but they can be compensate with non demanding class system, variety character customization, creative space and photo mode.
As a PSO2 player who had to sit through a bunch of try-hards telling me how AMAZING THE HIT NEW MMO BLUE PROTOCOL WILL BE... I'm sorta vindicated on this lol
Any game that has a region lock on release is a game I wont care about, ever. I had an interest, but they killed it after a JP-only release. Even a secluded country like China does global releases these days.
and they have so many massive IPs under their belt: biggest one is genshin obviously, followed by tower of fantasy, star rail, then wuthering waves, recently zenless zone zero, soon azur promilia, the new neverless to everness game teased a day ago. don’t forget the games that came before like honkai 3rd, punishing gray raven, azur lane all these devs are improving and making crazy revenue. There I listed 10 different games! Absolutely Crazy
Bandai is the reason Japan is getting Out-Anime'd by other countries in their own export of Culture (by that I mean, making Anime style games, literally everybody started doing it better than Japan, esp China). Because, for some bloody reason, they have their grubby little hands in allll of them over there, and they suck.
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what are you talking about
@@justacuteonigiri bandai is the company that have the most anime games, most of them half arsed. Too much milking those shonen arena games
@@shutup1037 that doesn't answer what you're talking about
@@justacuteonigiri how is it not answering? Tldr Bandai is just freaking suck at making anime games which make japan left behind in anime games compare to china
The area where your character is staying in for most of the video is so cool! I love the mood of it
It was dead to me as soon as Amazon got involved and started censoring it in the west. So while this is sad, it doesn't really matter much to me anymore.
Yep, even if the game itself was amazing I wouldn't have played it with Amazon games.
ok but this isnt a fault with amazon, its a fault with the game as it is... amazon hasnt done anything to touch the jp version
@@benj4845 we got to thank amazon, for saving as the disappointment. i too lost interest when its announce to be publish by amazon. amazon hates SEA region.
Let me ask you a question do you only play M rated games and watch R rated movies?
@@benj4845 game is actually just not fun to most people who have played it and neckbeards are more upset about booba lmaooo dont try to reason with these people
About the focus on hardcore players: I think this is a double-edged sword. While casual players are the majority of a game, those are also the ones that don't really care much about stats/doing well and have a much higher rate of just leaving and play something else, once they cleared the story. The hardcore players, who grind alot, care alot about the game and play frequently on the other hand, are also the majority of the people, who potentially spend money on things like battle passes, outfits ect. So I think trying to keep those players engaged and not get bored, makes sense since these are the most engaged players. The downside to that it will be harder to convert new casual players to core players since, like you said, endgame gameplay mechanics arent well explained and ruining other peoples runs or feeling useless is gonna discourage a casual player from playing that content. Combine that with little and low effort content updates and you loose player interest.
If you see those 5% and take those suggested 1000-2000 active players, that means only 50-100 players are actively playing difficult endgame content together. It's probably going to be hard as a new player to even find groups, who accept newbies and casuals and teach them.
I was so excited for this game the last few years but I honestly forgot this existed till I saw ur vid
i want to mention that the reason some of jp player dropped it soon after trying it is the class system.
jp players love to play into dedicated job and fully role play it. having it needing you to change class to fully play the game ruin the immersion for them.
also the fact that you only get to pick 4 skills of each class kinda makes it feel not rewarding to grind.
4... skills? Is BlueProtocol a PC MMO or Mobile game??
@@lilblkrose pc
4 active class skill to be exact
you get more from other sources but still...
oh and you also cant decide the order of skill lvl up so for every skill you ddnt want is wasted exp
@@lilblkrose you have 8 skills
@@aykan5621yep that's true and there's different skill slots too so you can equip different skills
does it force you to change the class to do a certain thing or not? since PSO2 also have the same system but it doesn't really a problem at all at JP
どうも日本の者です。
こんなゲームでも2000時間も遊んで頂きありがとう御座います。日本のゲームへの愛を感じて非常に嬉しいです。
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さらに、バグといった要因でまともなプレーヤーが一気に離れた分、このゲームに病的に執着してるプレーヤー（挨拶強要してくる奴やプレーヤーカードの交換強要など）が固まりました。もはや、カオスそのものです…。
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How do you make the most gorgeous looking anime game I've ever seen and failed to make it good. Did they hire 90% artists and 10% game designers?
Bandai Namco: Try not to screw up an online game edition
Difficulty: Impossible
Given Bamco's track record with online games, I'm not surprised at all anymore.
thank you for taking the time to do this video and keep everyone in the west up to date.
Every one of my friends got banned so we kinda stopped playing too lol
banned for what?
@@eruno_ there was a ban wave of players that plays using vpn, i (regrettably) topped up abit, and got banned and wasnt refunded either.
@@ringo3650
ah I see. that's unfortunate.
Me too! since I got banned me and my friends never want to play this game anymore. We spent all 3-4 weekend days to grind and top ups Good Luck BP! We so excited when the game release cuz we waiting almost 4 years since we read news but idk.
(i know the rules but it's kinda a waste of time to go back and play again anyway.)
Thank you for covering how Blue Protocol's been doing. Now that they just pressed the irreversible shut down button, this should help us understand why.
Omg ty for this update. I've been wondering what happened to BP for a while.
Me, who believe this would be the NGS killer.
and i'm sad that I'm wrong.
Your talking like NGS isn't already a deadgame.
@@XT91 yes. It is a deadgame. I'm just tryna see if there's another anime mmo that can take it's place.
Right now I'm only play the base pso2 game while ignoring NGS.
@@XT91 but take a look at the ranking in JP , 1:38 . 11th place lol
PSO2/NGS cannot die as long as they keep up their cosmetic gacha and lobby interactions. Probably.
The only way they'd be at risk is if another game had similar cosmetic freedom, not exclusive to paying customers and/or with actual gameplay attached.
2000 hours? Damn, respect bro
Thanks for in a very easy to understand way , talk about your experiance with this game after playing it so much.
I arrived here 2 months later with announcement of EOS
People complain that miHoYo games are easy, but miHoYo at least knows that the vast majority of players are not tryhards. It's better to disappoint 2% than drive away 98%.
There's a reason why their game is still so successful after the initial boom.
They know their audience, and they are not gonna bend down to the absolute minority that talks a lot but doesn't contribute and it's working still.
Man. I was extremely hyped about this game and that was when my friend used to live in the same country as me. Now hearing this makes me sceptical to really put that much time and effort in this anymore. I'm absolutely devastated that this is happening to BP..
wow, i feel better playing pso2ngs after watching this video.
I forgot about this game damn. I remember being hyped about it but now that I think about it, it just disappeared. Didn't even know it was region locked.
My eagerness to play died long ago, all the wating. This happened across my feed & though I'd give it a watch, nice vid.
This game singlehandedly tanked Bamco. That company cant bank on From Software games anymore since they've pivoted to self-publishing, they killed Tales Of, their flagship RPG title and only has Tekken 8 right now. Sparking Zero has to do the heavy lifting after all this.
Sparking zero looks awful. Rip I guess
@@Tetsaga Thing is, its Dragonball, its carried by the IP alone.
But hey, they still got iDOLM@STER... right?
I'm really asking because they recently released Gakumas which I already declared to be dead on arrival because of the writers.
no way they managed to kill Tales of
that was my favorite series for so long
shame.
If they didn't manage to keep _that_ afloat, almost no way they're carrying a whole new IP
@@Metal_Sign-Friday_Patchouli They offed every Tales of gacha. Cresteria barely made it to a year, Luminaria didnt even last 10 months. Arise was 3 years ago, the DLC is low budget as it gets, and thwre isnt any new game announcement from Tales fest 2024. The series is in limbo at the moment.
After the censorship most likely via Amazon I expected this to happen.
I was praying this would save mmos LMAO
insane how it didnt even hit NA and already is in the mud
Bandai Namco is a horrible company, they are disorganized on all levels even down to recruitment and HR.
I wanted to be excited for this game for so long, but I've all but lost interest by now.
It's so sad that BP used to have similar hype as Genshin, but dropped so low because the devs/company keep shooting on their feet.
Here on the announcement of JP EOS and Global cancellation. A shame for this project. I appreciate your cataloguing of the game's woes prior to its euthanization.
Oh nooo, how's Josh Strife Hayes gonna play this in the future now???
Hopefully there will be at least a documentary/essay-like video on this game in the future.
This is extremely sad. I've been waiting since the first time the game has made an appearence. I've been promoting this game to my friends for a good time, since we all got into mmos after playing FFXIV... I had my hopes high for this one
By the Holy Waffle, I completely forgotten about Blue Protocol ever since Genshin Impact, Honkai: Star Rail, Wuthering Waves and Warframe took up all my gaming time... wow I feel old.
Edit: But yeah... after watching this video and seeing the state the game is in... I'll stick with my current games.
At this rate, itll die before a global release
Bamco being Bamco is no surprise
I still do not understand how bamco could’ve fumbled the bag this bad. Like, they didn’t really have to look far to see what a good MMO plays like as literally the 2nd biggest MMO in the world comes from their home country.
the moment when BP locked my region on steam....i already forgot about it.
Let's take note of every success MMO in our country and not do any of that
Exactly. As if FF14 2.0 and onwards doesn't even exist. NGS is still going despite all the bs SEGA is pulling off. And that's just the two (relatively) modern titles I'm aware of.
Yup People want mmorpgs it’s the devs and producers that don’t seem to understand that we just want real mmorpgs not pay to win garbage
Great video! MMO content creators have been dooming this game for a while and never provided any detailed information on why they thought the game was bad. So thank you for taking the time to explain and provide examples of the issues in this game
Great video man, very informative
actually haven't heard any news about the game since forever
You can't forget the casual playerbase. I play GW2 alot and will likely never touch raids in that game. Luckily, they focus alot more on other forms of content that don't require dps meters or highly coordinated teams to clear.
Woah, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember a time when I had been really excited for a good new anime mmo, and the disappointment when I heard there was a region lock, and no EN server.
Is a common thing for BANDAI NAMCO STUDIO . bandai namco studio , not other bandai are famous for making games become trash and discontinue them
I forgot this game even exist. HSR, R99, and WuWa got my attention more than this.
Same here, been loving WuWa and got started playing more HSR because of the update. Also really hyped about ZZZ!
@@sebasstehfish5634 I'm kind of nervous about ZZZ especially with the complaints of the TV system being tedious but I heard they fixed that so the game is more roguelike.
@@gamerhero9559 Yeah, I think I'm most excited about the animation in that game, it looks SO clean. I'm cautiously optimistic.
@@sebasstehfish5634 As long the gameplay loop is good I'll play it as one of my mainstays.
@@sebasstehfish5634 the story also seems like a more light meal than other games
i excited for this game when the beta first come out. now, without this news i dont even remember this game exist
I've just completely just forgotten about this game until now.
Bandai and Amazon are one of the worst possible mixes.
They simply have no clue and together they turn a sure thing into a sure fail.
As soon as I heard that amazon would be managing the global version of this game, my hype dropped by 70%. I had hope for this game since it looked fun and highly enjoyable for an MMO. Then, I saw the global version preview and all the censoring that had been done. Never before has my hype for a game been killed in such a way, even including mega-flops like Sonic Forces and No Man's Sky. I could technically still play the game through a VPN, but hearing that the JP playerbase is dying just makes me think that there's no hope for Blue Protocol. Such a shame.
A PC game could never succeed in the Japan, the market is not there. Bandai failed before they even launched. There's no way a PC launch would have provided them with the income needed to update the game.
Send this video to BP devs
rip game , damn the good old times when mmorpgs were fun are over .
Noelle spotted. That one friend of yours has good taste.
Honestly, I almost forgot the game existed. Haven't seen any news since the first couple of months of JP release or so.
A complete shame.
The worst thing about blue protocol is that all its most obvious problems are already known problems in the industry.
The dev company had gold and apparently they are living under rocks because they did not see that they were making the same mistakes that have existed in the industry for about 2 decades now.
This game used to have so much hype around it, but they killed it off completely by the endless delays of global version and with the JP version even struggling now, I just don't think it will ever realisticaly release here....
I forgot this game existed, but I've been completely out of the sphere of MMO's and general PC gaming for a long time. There was a time when I was rather heavily invested in BDO, and I spent a lot of time learning the combat for my particular class, and this was something you HAD to learn to sanely grind for experience. Watching you demonstrate how people usually level to max was disheartening.
funny more pep in JP play BDO than this game xD
The bugs and unoptimization was definetly something that made me distance from playing much, I've played JP consistently since release and everything you stated is 100% true. I personally still love the game but the lack of stuff to do is underwhelming. Graphics are still really awesome same with the gear system imo. Great video overall !
My friend played this, from outside JP, and his account was banned. Good Bandai go protect your domestic ip address and sink with your little island.
me and my friend were so excited for this game but he lives in germany and i live in JP and the moment he got banned multiple times just from playing killed the game for both of us
Sounds like the game is missing content for midcore players, a sort of middle ground between the hardcore and casual players. With such a big gap between the content meant for hardcore raiders and the rest of the playerbase there should be some sort of content that requires a bit more than mashing all your abilities mindlessly but not so much skill as having a full understanding of buff timers and class rotations, kind of like how FF14 does normal raids and trials that require paying attention to boss mechanics and doing enough damage but that are lenient enough that someone without too much knowledge can still queue it and have fun. Content like that gives players that aren't super sweaty something that is still engaging/requires more thought than most of the game without requiring them to be at the most hardcore level to enjoy it while also giving players that might be interested in more hardcore content an easier to digest gateway.
I also think it'd give the people that find the casual content way too easy and the people that wish the game wasn't catered to the hardcore playerbase so much something they could both enjoy since it's not so hard that a casual can't beat it and not so easy that someone who wants something intense isn't bored to death.
Or maybe I'm completely off base, I just wanted to give my two cents on what I took away from the video and give you a comment for the algorithm, I really enjoyed this video/perspective and wanted to boost it a little ^^ wishing you the best
it was lacking on all fronts... not just mid or hard lol the casual might have just not even existed at all because every single goddamn thing was pay walled or would take you months if not a year to obtain cause of how little they gave a shit about their players lol
and they banned us "Gaijin" players cause they didn't want us to embarrass them at how bad their handling of this game really is lmao
and to be fair i didn't hate the combat or the aesthetics but i did hate that the rewards were absolute shit for free players which unfortunately most gaijin are forced too be cause of the strict banning.
I thought this was going to be THE anime mmo that everyone plays but maybe not,
I legit didn’t even know this game launched
That was a good video. Thank you for the information and perspective!
While true that Japan loves their consoles, the biggest playerbase right now is the Switch; which doesn't have Blue Protocol.
BP was great at first after they making outside japan player not playing that game in jp server. which many that player outside japan leave then some fraction of JP player. the dev also didn't serious on the game and player end up quitting meanwhile pso2ngs they still retain outside japan player and keep them playing the game
I remember being excited for this game and I didn't even know it came out 😂
Wow 🤯. This video is eye opening for this game. This is one of my most anticipated game for years!!! But it’s a bummer to hear all the issues. I haven’t followed in a long time and sad to hear it’s struggling. I wonder if they should add more open world content?? Like Genshin? Maybe players would like that idk. The dungeon farming doesn’t sound very fun though I didn’t expect the game to be doing that on the daily basis 😕 sort of kill my excitement lol
I didnt even know the game WAS released.
my big issue with bp (played jp for 8 months or so), was as you mentioned lack of meaningful things to do, but beyond that social aspects of game were lacking.
Monetization was way to aggressive, gasha's were just very expensive, entirely rng which outfits you got, pity system was basically only for whales, and the pity currency expires! (I lost like 9k BPP lol when was saving for new years stuff and planned to maybe pull)
To cap that off, there's no trading, no economy, which makes skins and customization even worse, combining outfit pieces to make fits you want to wear is a huge part of games like PSO2, and social mmo's. Having virtually no way to do that besides 'collect everything and horde' is just a horrible model.
imo should have been a auction house using premium currency for outfits and pieces, mounts etc so could recoop loses or even sell goods that are rare from several banners ago, or just even a specific pair of shoes from few banners ago etc. Its completely ridiculous and anti-player way the game was designed.
That was one of the big sticking points for me, its sad cuz i loved the enviroment, and was engaged with story but they really fell down live service slop rabbit hole :(
100%. For how much inspiration they got from games like PSO2, I'm surprised with the direction they went with monetization.
@@acactoos yeah i was really expecting it to be closer to PSO2 and I think PSO2 nailed that aspect. just NGS flopped for many other reasons.
I've played a lot of Bandai games and I don't know why I keep expecting them to get better, honestly not sure how they're still in business T.T
i was really excited for this game but only just recently realized it was bandai namco developing it. it'll be a miracle if it makes it to its second anniversary with how that company handles their games. it's really depressing. i just hope i'll at least be able to give it a try before it comes crashing down
everyone expected amazon to fumble the western release but the game is already dead in japan. i'll still give it a go once it comes to the west, but i doubt it will do well. since this is bandai they will swiftly shut it down once they realize no one cares about it in the west either
That game won't even make it to west anymore. You can bank on that.
The next news we hear from Amazon will be the cancellation of the release.
They should have never region locked. That hurt them the most.
We already forgot this game now lmao and new games are coming and its so sad that this happens in JP
i didnt even know it was released
私は、３か月で我慢ができなくなりやめました。 お疲れさまでした。
This is just a reskinned console release of Blessed Unleashed. Had a feeling they were going to release with minimum content and a flooded cash shop.
It not releasing the beginning of the year really hurt this game considering other games came out.
waited for this game for so long i dont even care anymore
Thanks, homie.
the combat is okay, you first got 4 skills out of all skills you get, plus the alpha and beta skills are crazy to get (or beta, I think). After reaching end game I just did raids but then got bored. When I stopped I got my CP to the maximum possible number, right after spear got released.
I generally thought that the game was dead, there was no worldwide release, and this is very sad
the grind is not just engaging for parties, personally
Man I remember people talked about this more than Genshin Impact before Genshin came out.
So sad. If only this was going to get hit with something similar to a Yoshi P moment. I was so hyped for this too.
great video man!