Two major MMORPGs from Asia have been announced for 2024, which should come to Europe, on PS5, Xbox Series X and Steam through Amazon: Throne and Liberty from South Korea and Blue Protocol from Japan. Both have already launched in Asia and both have their global release date for 2024. But we haven’t heard anything for months. How is the situation?
When was the last news about Blue Protocol? The MMORPG Blue Protocol had the last official news on Amazon’s western website on November 13, 2023. Amazon thanked that the technical test had been completed.
Next time you open the servers, look forward to hosting an even bigger event that brings new updates from the Japanese server.
That was 5 months ago now.
Since then, there has been no word from Amazon about Blue Protocol, and there has also been radio silence on social media channels.
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When was the last news about Throne and Liberty? Here it was even longer ago. The last official news here was also about a technical test in October 2023. The head of the game at Amazon, Merv Lee Kwai, thanked the participants, published statistics and said he was looking forward to welcoming the players again soon.
That was 6 months ago now. Here too, the social media channels are silent.
It is by no means as if the games are dead and nothing is happening. We regularly receive reports about MMORPGs from our home countries in Asia, even if they don’t sound very happy:
Why is this unusual? Normally you would expect that even if you have nothing to report, signs of life, called “beats”, would periodically appear on the websites and social media channels to slowly build up the hype, but nothing of that sort is forthcoming .
It is actually not intended that you cancel an advertising campaign for a game that you have started.
Circumstances are significantly less rosy in 2024 than they were a few years ago
What could that be about? Both Throne and Liberty and Blue Protocol are not doing as well as expected in their home countries. There also seem to be problems with the implementation:
In addition, the gaming industry is currently in a completely different state than it was a few years ago when Amazon bagged these deals, and the games no longer look as attractive as they did back then.
In November 2023, Amazon also had to lay off 180 employees. However, this shouldn’t have any impact on MMORPGs, on the contrary, they should now receive more attention.
But there is no sign of this 4 months after the wave of layoffs.
Nevertheless, the release for both MMORPGs is still scheduled for 2024. Even if the data has now been moved back a few times:
When will Throne and Liberty be released in Germany? The developer will comment on the release in February 2024