Bandai Namco introduced the tip of the anime MMO Blue Protocol in August 2024, setting the date for its demise as January 18, 2025. Fans made their displeasure recognized, however when the unhappy day lastly arrived they met it with grace and elegance, dancing and partying into their last oblivion.
As reported by Automaton Media, the final hours of Blue Protocol noticed gamers collect within the sport’s beginning city of Asterliese for an impromptu farewell dance. The numbers had been initially small, but it surely did not take lengthy for others to hitch.
Videos of the digital rave had been shared on X by michsuzu, who wrote, “When the world ends, folks simply dance”:
今日22時にサービス終了するブループロトコル。街中でひたすら踊ってたら、周りのプレイヤーのみんなもひたすら踊ってた。世界が終わる時、人はひたすら踊るのだ・・・ pic.twitter.com/ibROLY8p3QJanuary 18, 2025
Titania Gaming on YouTube caught the ultimate 10 minutes of the festivities, and a a lot bigger crowd, from a unique angle:
As we wrote in 2017 when the Asheron’s Call neighborhood got here collectively to mourn its last moments, saying goodbye is rarely simple. Blue Protocol wasn’t an particularly long-lived MMO—it launched in Japan in 2023, and a deliberate international launch by no means occurred—however even in that comparatively quick time frame, so much can occur: communities are constructed, and mates and memorioes are made. It’s powerful to have that taken away, however if you happen to gotta go, that is the precise strategy to do it.
Shygalgaming obtained some good views too:
Dancing into darkness may even be seen as one thing of a Blue Protocol custom. The similar factor occurred in 2020, throughout the last moments of a Blue Protocol closed beta.
It sucks to lose your sport of selection, particularly when so many mates (and enemies) are a part of it, however the potential excellent news for dedicated followers is that Blue Protocol is being resurrected, to some extent, as Star Resonance, being developed by Chinese studio Bokura, reportedly with funding from Tencent. Some Blue Protocol gamers are slightly doubtful about it, although: Star Resonance is about in the identical sport world however will characteristic “reworked gameplay and storyline,” and might be launched for cellular gadgets in addition to PC.
