We hope you played Chain Chronicle when you had the chance because SEGA is shutting down the game.
A Gumi representative posted the news on the official Chain Chronicle forums today. Effective immediately, the game has been removed from the App Store and Google Play Store, and there will be no more sale of Prysma, however, players can continue to use Prysma they currently have. The game will continue to operate until Feb. 28 at midnight PST.
Gumi is also looking into ways to refund players with unused Prysma.
“It was a very hard choice to make, but despite the overwhelming support of our loyal fan base, it was the way it had to go,” the post announced. “We appreciate your participation in what ended up being a very positive experience for us all, and we would like you all to know that it was thanks to you that Chain Chronicle Global made it as far as it did.”
The news of the closure certainly surprises us as the game has been a massive success in Japan, and Gumi announced it reached one million users last May. A huge “version 2.0” update for the game was released in October that overhauled the user interface, added new characters and items, and opened up an entirely new continent.
It seems it wasn’t enough for SEGA to continue to support the game, though. Definitely sad news for those of us who enjoyed Chain Chronicle.
This decision was made by Gumi and Gumi alone. SEGA handled the rights to the western publishing, and that’s it. They don’t decide anything about how the game is handled in the West, and the several [and recurrent] bugs are a proof of it. The game closure is a result of Gumi inability to provide faster updates and bug correction and their poor costumer service. Honestly, I stil think they handled the game better than SEGA America ever would.
There’s a petition to try to save the game. Don’t know if it will do any good, but it doesn’t hurt to try.
https://www.change.org/p/gumi-save-chain-chronicle-global
i think petition is useless, no matter how many people will sign, it’ll still closed down like agg in the end.
Even if they did not close the game in the end, how to compensate to many player who already abandoned or given their id to other people upon closed announcement, when another player still play the game and wasting their time with 1 ap quest (it will make unfair to the player who already quit before the game finally closed). In the end it will make more people to quit this game, cause untrustworthy information.
If they closed the game in the end (which they will do), people who still play the game with 1 ap quest and have hope for game to continue will ended up frustrated (wasting time and no more game to play). But i think it is not company’s fault, because they have already announced it will closed, and people still play it like there is tomorrow.
So i think if they announced it closed, it will closed permanently regardless what player or petition does. It is just my opinion anyway.
The issue as to why people stopped playing is due to the season 2, the first season was perfect enough and people didnt want change, but they took the game in a wierd direction after the release of gunslinger, the ending of the black king was superb and was a great way to finish the story line but they wanted it to continue however there was no way for it to be natural but they went ahead and tried anyway, epic fail people stopped playing as did I, a man who cried after seeing the 4 star archer female with grey hairs story ( i forgot her name now after so many years ) maybe Selena? But reguardless, the reason it failed was the season2, same with 7knights which I hope gets canceled soon due to it disgracing its perfect season 1
Its almost the end for 2017, still reminiscing the bonds we have with my party in this game. I would never forget the hardships we’ve gone thru and the happiness in every achievements we have. It was Guild built to last in my heart. I truly love this game and my Guild.
Meanwhile in Japan. This game is coming to PC.
Mobile players will be able to sync their save data to the PC version of the game. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d2e24320134aa91fc01fd7ba999f4dd5ab9fd2d9d5925e694610f434dfb28377.jpg