Final Fantasy is a series that includes many spin-off games, and one of them was killed off by Square Enix just a few months before it was released.
At the end of 2022, the Final Fantasy franchise celebrates its 35th birthday, as it should, with a big compilation and a huge collector, as well as small events that, above all, have taught us that the Japanese don’t have the same tastes as we do . regarding the license. But this year’s end is also marked by much less happy news, as one of the most recent offshoots of the license is simply doomed to extinction.
Final Fantasy loses its last Chocobo GP
Square Enix just announced the end of the follow-up of Chocobo GP, the last representative of a license that hasn’t had new episodes for many, many years. But at the beginning of 2022 is the saga Chocobo racing came back with me Chocobo GP on Nintendo Switch. A competitor to Mario Kart 8 that will hardly have had time to make its mark. Players obviously didn’t respond, certainly too busy with the MK8 DLCs.
Square Enix So stop the charges and stop updating the game. Season 5, which started yesterday, will be the last and it is no longer possible to buy in-game money in the shop. We also address one of the points of criticism for the game here, its prices. Indeed, Battle Pass and cosmetics were an integral part of the game service experience of it Chocobo GPbut could not convince the players at all, especially because the items offered were far too expensive.
Although there will be no more game updates, Chocobo GP remains playable in both single player and multiplayer. It remains to be seen how long the servers will stay open and if we’ll see the series again one day.
