Remaining Fantasy VII The First Soldier, the cellular multiplayer battle royale, is being shut down in January. The information comes a month shy of the sport's one-year anniversary, having launched for iOS and Android in November 2021.
Sq. Enix states that it feels it hasn’t delivered the expertise it aimed for, so it'll start winding down service beginning as we speak. A roadmap on the sport’s web site lists a three-step sunsetting schedule. At the moment, you possibly can now not buy Shinra credit from the store, however you possibly can nonetheless spend the credit you personal till the sport shuts down. On November 1, assist for non-English localization ends (which means textual content will solely be displayed in English going ahead). Lastly, on January 11, The First Soldier goes offline for good.
This is the total Finish of Service announcement by way of Twitter:
It's with a heavy coronary heart that we're asserting the top of service for Remaining Fantasy VII The First Soldier. We will likely be ending service at 07:00 UTC on January 11, 2022.
Regardless of all our efforts to convey you common updates with recent and thrilling content material, we haven’t been in a position to ship the expertise that we had been hoping to, and that you just all deserve, so we've made the extraordinarily robust resolution to finish service for Remaining Fantasy VII The First Soldier.
We wish to thanks all for supporting us over the previous yr.
Though there's solely rather less than 3 months till service ends, we'll proceed to make updates throughout this time, so we hope you'll proceed to take pleasure in Remaining Fantasy VII The First Soldier till the very finish.
October 12, 2022 – From everybody on the FF7FS group
The First Soldier was revealed in February 2021 alongside one other cellular FFVII RPG, Ever Disaster (which has but to launch however has a closed beta deliberate for this yr). The third-person battle royale happened earlier than the occasions of FFVII and pit 75 gamers in opposition to one another as SOLDIER candidates. Along with utilizing firearms, gamers wield magic and even summons. Sq. beforehand acknowledged The First Soldier was an try to draw a wider fanbase to the FFVII universe whereas giving current followers a brand new option to take pleasure in its mythos.
Sadly, this is not the primary Sq. Enix revealed multiplayer sport to get the axe this yr. Babylon's Fall, Platinum Video games' live-service motion RPG, can be being shutdown in February, lower than a yr after its ill-received launch.
Whereas The First Soldier goes away, loads of FFVII content material is within the pipeline. As beforehand talked about, Ever Disaster stays on the docket, and Disaster Core: Remaining Fantasy VII Reunion releases on December 13. Remaining Fantasy VII Rebirth, the follow-up to Remake, is scheduled to launch subsequent winter.
