Updated to add info regarding a recent blog post regarding the closure of Millennium War Aigis.
Nutaku’s free-to-play tower defense RPG, Millennium War Aigis, will soon be facing a closure of service.
Sad new struck today for fans of the free-to-play hentai game, Millennium War Aigis. Nutaku made an announcement on Facebook that the long-standing erotic tower defense game will soon be facing a closure of service.
Millennium War Aigis is a tower defense RPG where you take the role of a prince, the last surviving member of the royal family. A band of survivors have begun a war to reclaim their lands from the forces of darkness, and they need your guidance in battle. The title has been on Nutaku since 2015.
More information on the closure was also reported in the “News and Updates” section of Millennium War Aigis’ game page. It’s somewhat contradictory, as it gives a specific timeline for the shutdown of the service even though it was posted prior to the post made on Facebook. Keep that in mind with regard to the specific time and dates. You can read the post below:
◆ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING “MILLENNIUM WAR AIGIS” SERVICE CLOSURE◆10/31/2017 03:02AM
Thank you for playing Millennium War Aigis.
We are contacting you to inform you that the tower defence RPG “Millennium War Aigis”,
which opened on the Feburary 12th 2015, will come to an end on Tuesday December 26th 2017.
We of the Aigis development team would like to express our gratitude to all you who have played until now.
The closure of this game will proceed as follows:
・2:00 (EST) Tuesday October 31st 2017
Last game content update
・2:00 (EST) Tuesday November 28th 2017
End of sale of “Sacred Crystals” and “New Prince Support Packs”
・2:00 (EST) Tuesday December 26th 2017
End of all services
There is still a short period before the end of service, and we hope you can enjoy the game until then.
The Millennium War Aigis Development Team
To reiterate what was mentioned in the Facebook post, the decision for a closure came from the developers and not Nutaku. No additional information is available at this time. You can still access and play this title on Nutaku until its scheduled end date on December 26, 2017.
[UPDATE: 11-05-2017] Nutaku has made a blog post to answer a few questions about Millennium War Aigis’ closure. Below is an excerpt, but the full post can be found here.
Why is Millennium War Aigis closing?
Maintaining a game as polished and complicated as Aigis is very expensive, in terms of server costs, translation, and developer resources. Over the last 12 months Aigis has seen a decrease in revenue which unfortunately made it impossible for the developers to continue supporting the game, as they were operating at a loss. Though they have a massive and very active player-base, not many players were supporting the title by purchasing in-game content.
Why didn’t Nutaku stop the game from closing?
Nutaku is a platform much like Steam, which is dedicated to distributing games to their user-bases. This means that every game is managed and developed by third party developers and publishers. Nutaku has formed partnerships with many development studios and we allow the developers to act in the interest of their studios well-being.
That said, last year the developers of Aigis did propose shutting down the title, but after many talks internally we were able to keep the game running on Nutaku. We worked hard to constantly compile and send community feedback to the developers so that they could hopefully bring the game up to the level where it was both a financial and player success. Unfortunately after giving the game another 18 months of support the developers have not been able to reach the goals they set for themselves and have made the final decision to remove the title from Nutaku.
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