[Blue Protocol] The JP Situation Is NOT Good | June 2024
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- Global wants BP to release 2024, but it is not ready. It is for the best that BP is delayed further.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:26 - Statistics
3:00 - Core Problems
4:46 - Clarify
7:13 - Core Problems 2
8:37 - Bugs
10:22 - Hope 
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
Every one of my friends got banned so we kinda stopped playing too lol
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
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.
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.
industry veteran already make bank via other game , this game is a cash grab trend chasing after genshin success at best , they have no exp and no "push" power to do so . and japan live service game industry doesn't have much exp and innovate to product and running new IP live service game . their entire record running life service game come from cheap quality , mass product turn base IP depend gacha
Great video man, very informative
actually haven't heard any news about the game since forever
Omg ty for this update. I've been wondering what happened to BP for a while.
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.
Thanks for in a very easy to understand way , talk about your experiance with this game after playing it so much.
Honestly any hype this game had in the west has been destroyed by how AGS has been handling it even outside of the JP issues. I'd be wiling to give it a chance if another publisher that can be trusted starts over with this one in the west, other than that I don't even see this coming out here anymore.
its like the devs have never played an MMO before and have no idea how to create a gameplay loop
That was a good video. Thank you for the information and perspective!
I was so excited for this game the last few years but I honestly forgot this existed till I saw ur vid
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.
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.
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 thought this was supposed to kill PSO2:NGS?
I mean pso2ngs is already dead without anything trying to kill it.
@@saito853 take a look at 1:38 at 11 and 12th rank
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
The area where your character is staying in for most of the video is so cool! I love the mood of it
Dang and i thought PSO2 NGS wasnt being upkept
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.
i hope whenever it does come out its a lot better because i really love the graphics
great video man!
Thanks for the update. I was wondering when would it come to play station in Europe, but it looks that it will not be in the near future if it comes at all. Hope the same doesn't happen to Wuwa.
My eagerness to play died long ago, all the wating. This happened across my feed & though I'd give it a watch, nice vid.
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.
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..
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
*Bans all foreign players
*Low playerbase
Developers - surprised Pikachu face 😲
Now, I heard the Online department of BANDAI NAMCO has been losing money since 2023. Then the genius over there somehow decides to outsource the global publishing rights to AGS?! I see no benefits of doing that except them being lazy, or them having no faith in the project.
BANDAI is rich AF even if you only counted the sales of Elden Ring, the least they could've done is increase the budget and publish the game themselves 🤦
played the game till january this year, was a really fun experience. hoping it can bounce back.
wow, i feel better playing pso2ngs after watching this video.
so basically it has the PSO2NGS issue were the base game is quite good but the amount of bugs and content to be play is quite lacking, once you done the content there very little reason to repeat
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.
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
Damn, I was so excited for this game before release, it seems like its bad from the core up, instead of just being buggy (like some people thought at release). Similar situation to PSO2 NG.
sad to see this happens, I hope the devs figure out something soon.
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.
You can't forget the casual playerbase. I play GW2 alot and will likely never touch raids in that games. Luckily, they focus alot more on other forms of content that don't require dps meters or highly coordinated teams to clear.
Send this video to BP devs
you're doing god's work
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
Bamco being Bamco is no surprise
Is the same problems i saw on the launch tbh, is a shame but i hope it bounce back and we can get a fun version here on the west too
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.
2000 hours? Damn, respect bro
the grind is not just engaging for parties, personally
I was hyped for this game until i watched this video. I thought this would be my main game when it came here.
1:40 Huh.. Tower of Fantasy surprisingly doing well
It's actually not that bad of a game imo, they have done a lot of work to it. It was just a reaaaally rough launch that gave it a bad name that has stigmatized it. LOL
Tof doing well. It just it overly hated by genshin players for no reason and had rough launch (cn and glb). They keep improving tbf in faster speed than bp
It amazes me how many shit eaters there are in gaming.
ToF have too much powercreeping, almost on the same level of scamming.
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
That's disappointing, was looking forward to this one and was hoping it would be getting polished in JP until amazon gets around to their global release. Fingers crossed that they can pull it together.
Im surprised to see this, I thought since BP is mostly jp exclusive since the aggressive banning of overseas acounts, they would enjoy this exclusivity and keep on playing as a united playerbase.
I have been playing PSo2 and is feeling the content drought on our side of things, but the only thing keeping me there is the combat and character customization.
I hoped bp would be better since bamco had a solid mmo template with the SAO ggo game and its successors but i guess that system is SAO only now.
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
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.
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 !
ima be honest, this is just another case of "the game should've been released gloabally".
JP MMOs are pretty notorious for failing in JP, there's just not enough people to support an MMO in the country, especially when mobile games and consoles rule the market over there.
the one successful MMO they had, besides FF14, was PSO2 and the second it released globally it basically failed because they didn't get a global publisher. The only reason FF14 is doing well globally is because after the failure and closure of the OG FF14, A Realm Reborn released globally, all at once. That and the strong brand recognition that is Final Fantasy. If 14 was only released in JP and didn't launch global for 3-5 years, I promise you it wouldn't be as popular as it is today. It probably wouldn't be around today. And developing for the Global audience absolutely changes their gameplan and mindset of how to release content and manage expectations. Though FF has pretty much been recycling the same events over and over for the past 10 years, they sprinkle enough new ones in to keep player interest, and with housing systems, RP and various other player focused features, people have pretty given their lives to FF14 so it's close to impossible for it to ever fail now.
What makes a good JP MMO doesn't make a good Global MMO, PSO2 learned this the hard way and they'll never recover from it. And now, JP players have been exposed to a lot more Western/Global MMOs that what makes a good JP MMO isn't working in JP anymore. The signs were there when Monster Hunter Online shut down. When Dragon's Dogma Online shut down. As their own statistics show. JP is not a MMO market. They love consoles and mobiles. Why would you release a PC game, optimized for PC to a console audience??
yeah no i disagree thats not at all why pso2 NGS failed and pso2 base never really spiraled the main problem came with the release of NGS which happened two years after base's global release (base's replacement basically)
and NGS problem had nothing to do with global the problem was that the game was nowhere near ready as shown by basic features available in the last game (REALLY BASIC features) where missing just so they could reach a internal release date the player base didn't even know until around 2 months before its release
the retem update which already was much better then the original launch release that only featured the tutorial in terms of story and content released later that same year showcasing even more that the release date should have been then if not even later
pso2 base itself was doing fine before NGS's release and could have easily extended its active lifespan if needed for better results and overall player retention
yeah, no i disagree that’s not at all why pso2 NGS “failed”, and pso2 base never really spiraled. The main problem came with the release of NGS which happened two years after base's global release.
Besides SEGA is large enough to be able to handle the publishing themselves, even more so with help from azure to do the hosting of the global servers.
And NGS’s problem had nothing to do with global. The reason was because the game was nowhere near ready to release, as shown by basic features available in base (REALLY BASIC features) were missing. Just so they could reach an internal release date the playerbase didn't even know until about 1-2 months before its release.
The retem update which was already in a much better state than the original launch version, came out December 2021 meanwhile NGS itself came out June 2021 that same year showcasing even more that the release date should have been then, if not even later to allow more content and systems to be made for the game.
For context the original release only featured the tutorial in terms of story and content in the game.
pso2 base itself was doing fine before NGS's release and could have easily extended its active lifespan if needed, for better results and overall player retention.
Getting into “conspiracy mode” a likely answer to these issues is funnily enough a healthy mix of covid related issues, and sonic frontiers cross development. (which clearly uses the same engine and very likely borrowed people from pso2)
Of course, the games current state is VERY different now and current opinions on it will very strongly depending on who you ask.
But it’s still not in a state where you can play it hardcore and nolife it since there simply isn't enough enjoyable long term content for that making the game better enjoyed more casually and socially instead.
Which is primarily the ones who still play besides some more hardcore veterans who refuse to give up (I don’t blame them even if unrewarding)
(i had fun writing this so whether you care to read all this or not i don't really mind have a nice day (genuinely))
@@blessedbow720
first off, looks like your comment repeats itself so I ended up reading the same thing twice. secondly, I don't mind reading arguments from differing perspective, conversations are good.
on to the topic:
everything you're mentioning is pretty much the result of the JPs design philosophy when it comes to games and especially live service games. even their successful ones follow a similar pattern and achieve success purely based on how addictive or enjoyable the game itself is. take monster hunter for example. when a new title firsts releases, there is no end game, for months you go through a monotonous grind of the same 6 or 7 monsters, not getting any better gear or weapons, just grinding for the sake of grinding. then, almost a year or 2 later, a massive dlc drops that adds 100-200 hours of endgame grinding. and it works, because even by itself, monster hunter is just that good of a game but also because it's not an MMO, there's no pressure or fomo to force you to play everyday for 2 years. beat the game, wait for dlc while playing something else.
for pso2, that same strategy doesn't work for a number of reasons:
1. by the time it released, it was a 10 year old game. everyone who was interested in playing pso2, already did so via jp servers and unofficial translation patches. which is why the game launched in 2021 to a meager audience of 20,000 concurrent players on steam. most of the global players who were still playing pso2, stuck with the server they were already on because they didn't want to start over. not to mention they decided to drip feed 10 years of content that already existed. to the point where bugs that existed and were patched out 7 years ago, now existed in global. features that fixed problems from old patches weren't there in global, forcing players to deal with problems the jp server hasn't seen in 5 years. THIS is why, shortly before NGS, the playercount dropped to 5k daily concurrent.
2. yes the NGS launch was handled terribly with no end game, but again, this is why jp devs always do. they want you to play the game normally and wait months for another update that finally adds an end game grind. just look at the personal series, they do the same thing since p3. release the game then a year later release the same game with a bunch of changes to get people to play again. FES, Golden and Royal all did this. it was their version of NGS. despite that, the interest in NGS wasn't that high. it launched to 60,000 concurrent players and has dwindled to 1,000 today.
3. when it comes down to it. pso2 is outdated, it's a game from 2012 that uses a lobby instance system that has mostly gone out of style. but jp loves lobbies. street fighter 6, Tekken 8, Granblu fantasy versus, guilty gear strive all have lobbies that people only use because they're kinda forced to. a majority of ff14 is just one big lobby, all the real content is in dungeons and raids, the over world content is just story and events.
so I reiterate again. jp doesn't know what makes a good MMO, good. or rather, the jp audience don't want to play mmos. ff14 is more of a social hangout than anything and you can tackle it's massive story the same way you'd play a single player RPG. try googling Japanese mmos, they're all dead or dying besides FF.
one site even ranked them. 1 was FF, 2 was blue protocol, which we already know is dying. 3 was FF 11 which I don't think is around anymore. 4 was dragon quest which never launched globally, 5 was pso2 NGS, which is also dying. 6 is Uncharted Waters which I've never even heard of and doubt it's playerbase numbers above 10k. 7 is Craftopia which I question if it's even an MMO. 8 is Dragons Dogma Online, easily the best MMO ever that got shafted like 2 years after launching for the exact same reason as I'm saying, not releasing globally day one. 9 is onigiri, who is playing that, let's be real, since being added to steam it's had an all time peak of 368 players in 5 years.. from 2019. and finally wizardry online at 10, which is dead.
JP isn't a MMO society, their only good MMOs are the ones they release globally. PSO2 died because it released globally too late and NGS wasn't good enough to get interest back.
I hope they work on the problems because I'm really looking forward to the game. :(
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.
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.
I remember being excited for this game and I didn't even know it came out 😂
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
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.
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
the moment when BP locked my region on steam....i already forgot about it.
Luckily devs have been listening the player base and the Beyond update does bring a lot of features and some new modes to the game and also combat improvements too.
The problem with Blue Protocol is that while the gacha is only cosmetics, the price of the gacha is a bit expensive for a mechanism that won't give you the outfit you want. It should have been a cosmetics shop instead, that and the lack of Endgame is what was hurting the game.
Doubt Bamco will remove the gacha system but they do have more Endgame content planned and they are planning on adding more social interactions to the game too
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.
I didnt even know the game WAS released.
I was so hyped for global. But the radio silence has just made me lose pretty much all hope. Dawntrail is out in a few days, and even Brighter Shores releases later this year so I won't have much time for BP anyway. Shame, because the potential for this game looked so good but they just don't want to tell us anything.
I think Dawntrail will be the final blow, cause all CC's and MMO related news will be about DT for at least a month
If we somehow get it I’ll play it
do you know if it's possible to play the game at 3440x1440 resolution now? i played BP 2 weeks in jp and couldn't use my full monitor size cause the game didn't allow it. When i reached out to them they just answered me that it's unfair to other players to have a bigger fov and i was honestly shocked by that answer cause a lot of people buy those monitors just for games like BP with a open world
Oh no 😢 I haven’t even tried it
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?
How is this situation compared with PSO2 NGS?
It's kinda sad because not forcing gacha or paywalling strengh is very player friendly and the game really deserves more success for not going that route. "Pointless" activities and grinding is the crux of older MMOs, like it is not just there for the battles, it is also supposed to be a social experience, where you find friends and log in to hang out with people or doing mindless fishing while chatting with your people on voice call.
But I guess seeing how the action rpg market shifts more and more towards single player, gacha, doing dailies in 5 minutes types of game, I guess players might simply feel like not having enough time for a grindy game, that requires some proper time investment and interacting and forming social communities with other players. I mean just look how much hate multiplayer content gets every time someone even dares to suggest it for games like genshin.
I personally don't play Blue Protocol because I don't speak japanese and I don't like Amazon Games as a publisher for the western version with their censorship, so there is currently simply no version of it I can properly play, but I want to see more games like this being made with more social features, high production value and no paywalling characters or strengh.
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
I think them deciding to delay this game until everyone is dead so nobody can enjoy it outside of japan was WILD! This game was peak hype in 2023, now that the JP servers have basically spoiled/leaked basically everything and have data sheets to show how to play the game. I don't see how this game survives in the west unless they make it another Pay 2 win mess. . . Not to mention the state of the game in Japan isn't the best from what I heard in the community, can someone explain WHY would I as a consumer see a failing product and decide to give it a chance? It's failing for a reason and I am sure it's only gonna be same in the west, since I doubt we are gonna get the game in the current state. This game went from the only game I've ever to play, to Blue what? Damn I can't even remember this game exists. The only reason I am even here is because RUclips decided to give me this a random recommendation probably because I've been watching videos on anime style Jrpg/Mmo games recently.
I didn't even know this game released
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 used to be so hype for this game when Genshin released.
I once so hype for the game. Until I tired of waiting. Is this game released on global?
The real question is, what's doing worst, this or PSO2NGS?
Wait I didnt even know the game is playable
i might get hated on, but eventhough the many negatives BP has, im still very much hoping for the best and for global release!
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.
Tbh this is coming from someone who hasn't played the game yet and is waiting for the EU release.
But my biggest gripe with the game just looking at gameplay it just looks (nothing about the systems & the content) is how combat while having a very nice core, looks like it's just spam left click maybe right click sometimes and just spamming skills off cooldown without much thought behind it.
It just looks like there's either no timing required on skills or any sorty of rotation or combos.
If you have played it and i'm just flat out wrong about it, fair enough. This is just what it looks like to me.
It also sucks if content can be cheesed with tons of damage reduction. Really looks like they don't know how to balance the game properly.
Being able to cheese things with damage reduction doesn't seem too out of line if people complaining about content being too difficult to complete. Not a great solution but it is a solution at least.
Was hit with a ban that was it for me, glad they are doing well enough to ban me
guys, is the game is playable now?
like the banwave that happened on early release days etc.
Honestly, I just want them fo FECKIN localize it already. Even if the localization sucks, even if the game still sucks in many areas. I've watched the videos and realized what problems tehre are. I still really want to play it! And I'm sure even in it's current state, the localization would pay off enough (if combined with good advertising) that they'd at least have more resources and feedback to improve what they need to.
At this point, I'm really just scared we NEVER get it, because they keep not releasing it out of fear, running themselves into a corner where it's eventually too late and some higher up pulls the plug. I've waited for this game for at least 6 years now!
Genshin also had little content at the ebginning, and it still runs. It's way too easy for like 70% of the player base too. There are tons of games that are lackluster and repetitive, and they still become decently successful enough. I mean, it's also not like we're talking about delaying the games release outright - we're talking about delaying the localization!
So... people often complain about the lack of endgame or challenge. But only 5% actually plays that?
They need to focus on the bugs, implement housing (something that people love and enjoy for hours on any MMO) and give it to Amazon already
the fact they not truly release the game on "Global", yes NA release is not Global, already kill any hype I had for this game.
This is so sad man I was hype for years all to be letdown
I know exactly how you feel. As a top-tier player in many games that turned to shit being ignored (not just me but an entire community) feels like a slap to the face.
I spent time testing a shitty game to help it turn into a gem i know it can be for a menager to have a Joe Biden moment lasting for MONTHS and ruin it all.
I really hope this game succeeds and pops off. I played Genshin Impact, Honkai Star Rail, Wuthering Waves and Blue Protocol is the next game I'm looking forward to, alongside Azur Promilia and Zenless Zone Zero. I just like good open world games with beautiful stylized graphics. Bought both Tears of the Kingdom and Palworld as well and enjoyed it, along with my host of gacha games I've been on a hunt for these types of games and enjoying it since.
Amazon the Midas touch