The game was once planned to be released on Amazon Games.
The official X account (formerly Twitter) for Bandai Namco Online's massively multiplayer online game Blue Protocol announced on Wednesday that the game will end service on January 18, 2025.
「PROTOCOL BLUE」サービス終了のお知らせ
誠に勝手ながら2025年1月18日にサービス終了させていただくことになりました。
突然のお知らせYou can do it easily.らせをご確認くださいhttps://t.co/eXy9s9q3GI # Please use #BlueProtocol— BLUEPROTOCOL (@BLUEPROTOCOL_JP) August 28, 2024
Additionally, plans to release the game in the West in partnership with Amazon Games have also been canceled.
In-game purchases of the “Rose Orb” item have been suspended since Wednesday, but game staff claim that they will continue to receive content updates, including new stories, until the end of service.
The game is set to launch on PC in Japan in June 2023. The game was originally scheduled to launch globally in the second half of 2023 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam. 5 and Xbox Series X|S on December 13.
The game's English website describes the story:
You are on a journey to discover the truth about your origins. Along the way, you meet people from many worlds and eventually make new friends with whom you share your adventures. , you find yourself facing an inevitable fate that will determine the fate of the planet Regnas. The misuse of technology has created a distortion in space-time that will eventually engulf the planet Regnas and cause its destruction. To change that fate, you and your friends must travel to an unknown world in search of the truth and a solution.
Project Sky Blue developed the game using Unreal Engine 4 and aims to combine a “theatrical anime” graphical experience with multiplayer features.
Source: X/Twitter of the game Blue Protocol account via Hachima Kikō