The end is near for FFBE Global...

Apologies for the clickbaity title, but it's honestly how I feel right now...

[@Killerb567]

You were right

[@WizelBalan]

Pretty much everybody feels like this that is on Discord and Facebook. Gumi has to have been giving the EoS papers, they are just doing as little as possible now to minimize costs and max profits before they are forced to say yeah the game is toast. If they say anything early the shops have to close and pretty much everybody will stop any spending they might have had in mind. So Gumi's plan seems to be to just go radio silent and keep the players guessing for as long as possible, some profit is better than zero.

[@dariohernandez674]

I can not believe they are doing this to our beloved FFbe game. Gumi is letting such a beautiful game die, literally and they dont seem to care at all. Such a pity.

[@sumirsookdeo9443]

it's crazy!

[@octronix84]

give them money

[@dariohernandez674]

@@octronix84 I´m a whale.

[@Jepegish]

It's not their first rodeo. They killed Brave Frontier years back as well. Gumi is a blight on the gaming community.

[@slcemily]

Sartre, my dude. It’s the end times. I’m like, the last cheerleader left for global! What’s a girl to do? My heart hurts. 💔

[@unload80]

There's news in the GameSpot website about Square Enix cancelling projects and deciding to focus more on releasing big titles. FFBE is probably among the projects getting the axe soon. I was about to send a ticket to ask for a refund for my CoW Bracer thing that got nerfed but meh, why bother.

[@OrderofthePipe]

It’s obvious that they’re going to EOS shortly after Cloud is released because they want that one last money grab. They can’t even be bothered to pretend to put in any effort.

[@JJ-dm3lt]

This will probably be the last anniversary coming up.....

[@SartreBraveX]

Truth

[@chelsthegameruiner8669]

Just got confirmation today that it ends service on October 31st. Actually sad considering that we just got NV+ characters

[@kimochi-kun6729]

Seeing how it's been going for the past 2 years, even more so in the past 6 months, that title is not necessarily a clickbait imo T_T

[@moralindigantion]

Yeah, I think the writing is on the wall. Many FFBE players are still in denial while others have accepted and moved on. I will do what little content they have available just in case they attempt to pull the game back from the brink of death, but I'm not holding my breath. If they are keeping silent in an attempt to milk whatever profit they can until they announce EoS that is pretty dishonorable and would lead to an absolute loss of trust for Gumi and SQEX by me, personally. I have enjoyed your content and look forward to your future content regardless of whether it is FFBE-related or not.

[@Wesleykuun]

Thanks to you Sartre :) Don't know for the EoS because global version has made 400K on Junuary, 200K on Feb & March. Its not like JP version but, its not low.

[@SartreBraveX]

Yeah, I think it'll keep limping along for the rest of this year, but despite still seeing sales, it's on a downward trajectory.

[@LucVNO]

ngl....... Ive been longing to get kicked off the servers for a while now. I like the game, I still play daily, Ive missed 6 days in 8 years..... Im just.... im hoping I can uninstall it soon, cuz I wont do it on my own, lol.

[@SartreBraveX]

I get this big time, I feel the same way. It's not exactly sunken cost fallacy, because it isn't even about how much money anyone has spent on the game (if any), but it is a kind of sunken time/memory/emotion personal crisis that keeps some of us playing even through the worst of times. I'll stick around to sink with the ship or watch the house burn down around me, or whatever metaphor fits the picture.

[@Scien1211]

Whats so hurtful is that there are some people that spend hundreds or thousands on almost every banner and they won't even keep clash of wills up and running.

[@Alberto-ec5um]

Thank you Sartre! You contents helped me a lot in this ffbe journey!

[@timothyjohnston6314]

This news frustrates me for a few reasons. If they cannot financially support I would rather see them go out in a blaze of glory to honour the player base that has been here since day one, then let the flame drown in the candle wax👍🇨🇦

[@MattDBOM]

Now Sartre, maybe it’s not for you, but with my growing frustration with global earlier this year I decided to give the JP server a whirl. Sure it’s a pain to get used to the Kanji and what not but once you do using resources the ffbe discord has made, it’s a blast to get consistent content every week (10 days actually but you get the point) If you just want to move on, well, I don’t blame you either

[@SartreBraveX]

Yeah, I think I'm just going to ride out the end of the world with GL and call it after that.

[@Jasseu]

I played this game from launch until 5 years ago. The power creep and pull rates go so bad units were hardly good for a few weeks to a month. Every time I come back to look for nostalgia reasons it look like it continued to get so much worse. It amazing you guys put yourself through this. Hope you find something better to play.

[@MrSkybane]

After 2 years, I came back to the game last month and have been trying to catch up. Spending waaaay too much. basically I pulled on everything that was available to pull on, lapis and Paid haha. I was finally able to get rank 1 on COW and that's without some key units... and now this.... Don't care much about the money, frustrated I spent so much time, got hooked again and now ....

[@SartreBraveX]

I feel you, and it's sad to see the state of the game. Hopefully you had fun and there will still be some stuff to do before EoS, just not as frequent as it used to be.

[@MrSkybane]

@@SartreBraveX Amen to that. I did enjoy how hard it was to get rank 1 without Melissa. The boss hits so hard:) maybe not as hard for the other folks who seemed to get rank 1 on the first day without Celeste:).

[@MrSkybane]

Oh forgot to add. I complained:) Told them I dumped 1k in 3 weeks and I expected more. hahaha. They said sorry to disappoint... we care...

[@ZatohRondohoon3227]

No SaGa event? Not following the schedule? Not extending the farming/banners for a LIIIIIITTTTLE extra time.... They axed their own tree that beared them the fruits for profits. EoS to the game. 🤦

[@kingsora3087]

I.M.O. this is a sign that end of service is coming, we get hardly any content and people r leaving in DROVES so.....

[@WizelBalan]

Yeah I'm done after Xenogears, I don't care about future units cause what are we gonna use them on? Global cuts every fight beyond farming stuff. I don't need the new super powerful Cloud and Clive that came out on JPN, Global will remove all the content like they did with the Esper of Destruction event and the Xenogears event. Just here is your farming stage that 7-star units can kill but please spend money pulling for these new NV+ units, you really need them honest!

[@lfranklin118]

We will be here when you get back, until then enjoy life enjoy the family👍🏽👍🏽

[@shawnvogt888]

Don't apologize about your frustration. They've been showing us blatant signs of where this game is heading for quite some time. Straight to EOS. As someone who has also been playing for 7 years, I share in your frustrations. This game has nothing to do anymore, not even pull for new units to play with in COW, and just isn't fun.

[@SartreBraveX]

Yeah, I still think Gumi should either refund people the cost of the bracer and fix it or don't refund people and leave it bugged.

[@benjaminaguilar5517]

Hi Sartre, Razgriz here. As much as I love the game, it frustrates me how tiring has become. I used to log in daily, now I find myself letting go weeks without opening the app. I'm still gonna keep it until the end, but at a more relaxed pace Thank you for you work, see ya on discord

[@SartreBraveX]

Hey Raz, great to hear from ya! Definitely understand not logging in much anymore, because there's really no point, there's nothing to do, nothing to draw us in anymore. I still do my dailies, but even that feels like a chore these days. We'll see this thing thru to the end, and celebrate our eventual freedom on the Discord H7

[@MrBlitz665]

i honestly think its time to bow out. Probably, even during the 2 month long anniversary this year, it will be like this month, nothing to do except 1 hour worth of content for a entire month.

[@Denesav]

Well.. finally it's really the end

[@ksuvana]

What is happening to even cause this? Are there three people working on this game, or have they truly given up trying? I've never seen a gacha game die agonizingly slowly like this

[@SartreBraveX]

It appears that some of the GL team have been pulled over to the JP server, so the GL crew must be quite small at this point.

[@adrianrile9188]

He called it. Dang.

[@Chengyuan79]

Sigh ... old forum-mate, maybe I use another analogy instead - my uncle recently passed away at 84yo-ish. Before that, his filial son drove 6hrs across the borders north of Gumi-isle EVERY FRIDAY, and then 6hrs back to Gumi-isle country EVERY SUNDAY. For YEARS ... right after CNY, the uncle had a fall, had a stroke ... 1 month later, he was gone. Everyone was crying, but I was reflecting - he had a good life, and was surrounded by filial children and relatives on his deathbed. Had a grand sendoff ... that one month was for them to accept his inevitable demise. It's better than pulling the plug suddenly ... Same with Exvius. Using the time here wisely to accept the EoS is the better choice. But, also, NEVER support another SqEnix and Gumi gacha again. Their management made mistakes upon mistakes, and we are the ones who ended up losing a game that still has so much potential~!? Quite nonsensical, but hey, I live and work in Gumi-isle. I know how the place functions. It's our norm. *shrugs.

[@dude-zr8gi]

I just hope they provide a way for people to still play the game once support dies out. This game has been around for too long to allow it to go to the shadow realm of unplayable games.

[@olicapone]

Thank you for all the videos over the years, and thank you for being so blunt. Some other creators are dancing around saying what needs to be said. It's End of Service for this game, and it's sad, and it sucks, but we should all really move on at this point. I'll still support you Sartre and stay subscribed.

[@Kainteeka]

It sucks too. I've saved up 200k lapis hoping for some decent banners. Now its like im not going to be able to use it before its over. Either because nothing worth a damn will come out, or no time to enjoy whatever you pulled when you do.

[@SartreBraveX]

Same, been saving for awhile now. It was fun to pull for Celeste, but the excitement of having this new unit just drained out of me after this.

[@APlaceNtheWoods]

There’s nothing for you to make videos on until VW, so we could never be mad. Gumi ended the game with the FFXV event in January. They’ve been lazy for 2 years but giving us 2 dead weeks every month and no DV in 3 months is clown-town!

[@grymmreaper9577]

I agree they are taking so much out of the game. & now there is no clash. I hope gumi/alim loses more money because of this. Shame on the corporate heads. For cutting the funding & transferring people out that actually care for this game.

[@BahamutLord888]

Same as Mine, Brother... As a Content Creator, I really disappoint to this game developer. They cut the contents, free lapis, free upgrade, even their own primary content (Clash of Wills), see you in other game (maybe)...

[@ramenran7518]

I've been looking forward for this game's EOS- What once was a game I'm excited for every update- To completely benching off the game completely... Sad to see what was once beloved, turned into this mess, but hey- I've got to meet this community... but hey, it's alr, there's other games we could enjoy-

[@simsimma1304]

I agree 100% all the signs are there.... nothing

[@yahozak]

Wonder if this has anything to do with the $120 million loss Square Enix had recently.

[@SartreBraveX]

That certainly doesn't help their situation :-\

[@rockored04]

It’s the last app game I spend money on!

[@Renkencen]

Sorry but I'm laughing at this news! Look like I made the right call on quiting the game a few years ago during Keaton NVA banner and they introduce NV and CoW! I played this game several months after launch when the banner was Fencer, Juggler and Thief! Back then the game was good when the non 6* units were usable including some of the 4*! Realise the introduction to CoW, the game had become p2w as f2p units wasn't enough to clear CoW on 100!

[@VM-gy8bm]

It must be near. I got back to back good summons. 2 guaranteed neos that were supposed to be duds gave me NV+ Celeste, and D.o.W. Taivas. Plus I got a Adventurer Locke. Definitely feels like an EoS summon 😬😬

[@SartreBraveX]

They're preparing us for the EoS 90% NV rates

[@gerihutchins]

Contact convergence... could it be server convergence?

[@SartreBraveX]

Anything is possible. People have theorized that GL is heading towards a merger with the JP server, like they did with WoTV. That could be the future of this game, but who knows, as Gumi never communicates things like this with the community.

[@Renkencen]

Sorry but I'm just laughing at this news! Look like it was a good call when I left the game a few years ago (during Keaton NVA). I started playing the game several months after global launch when during the Fencer, Juggler and thief banner! Back then, the game was good when 6* wasn't a thing and some 4* units were even "good"! Anyway I quit when they introduce Neovision and CoW just killed it for me. Was clear the game became more P2W as using the f2p units for CoW was not enough!

[@selgeaus]

Played since day one but stopped playing about 3 or so years ago (can't remember when it was) because it kept getting boring and there was nothing to look forward to

[@clairefarron2476]

Bro i just hop in to the game and ppl suddenly talking bout EoS? Bruh😢

[@SartreBraveX]

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this game is over 7 years old now (going on our 8th anni this June/July) so it is to be expected and has essentially been forecast for about a year now. There was still some hope until the last couple of months where content dropped to basically non-existent. The game isn't going to close tomorrow. We'll get our 8th anniversary, but will the game make it to the end of this year? That's questionable.

[@Rafaelts8000]

The game started to fall down after the "Giveaway".. =/

[@wolvy0U812]

Absolutely! That’s the point where most content was cut. I think they got SO much hate that they turned on the base. Now they don’t care anymore

[@paularcilla570]

I've already accepted this inevitable fate that global is obviously dying. I'm not wishing FFGE GL to just die out, I loved this game and I've been playing ever since release. I just wish the devs find a spark to reignite this game. This game used to be so lively.

[@juliahall2776]

I think b3 hasn't even logged in, in weeks. I keep logging in but it's becoming pointless 😭

[@SartreBraveX]

Always love hearing from old forum-mates :-D happy to know you and b3 are doing well, even if the game isn't giving us any enjoyment at the moment. We'll still have the memories of the good ol days, Gumi can't remove that content, thankfully.

[@fullhouse831]

Feel sad for ppl who continuing support the games by purchasing monthly pass.... including myself

[@originsix754]

I wouldn’t even call this click bate. The game is dead.

[@majo0303]

October 30 seems like the tentative EoS day

[@akadlibking325]

Try FF7 Ever Crisis. It's been out for about a half a year and it saved me from caring about FFBE 😊

[@SartreBraveX]

I've heard mixed reviews about it, and maybe once FFBE closes its doors I'll give it a try. As much as I am frustrated with the game, I'm going to play until EoS because it's not that far off now so might as well go down with the ship.

[@1977Garland]

Sadness...

[@amdsqex]

Thank u

[@LongHoang88884]

Damn ff mobius to ff record keeper dffoo which was the best mobile game just too f2p. Now ffbe , wotv n crisis core left now.

[@mayleelove4332]

I just started again last month, last time being when KH Cloud came out. Noticed there not a lot going on. Theres 2 events in vortex for a clear campaign with 1st clear rewards i see no exchange for. Am I wrong and there is a place to exchange? Or is it really gotten that bad?

[@SartreBraveX]

Yep, they're both old rerun events, the exchange tickets are worthless because the shops closed back when the original events ended. It's an thinly veiled attempt to keep people playing the game during this dead month, because we supposedly get rewards for a certain number of clears of each event.

[@mayleelove4332]

@SartreBraveX That's terribly lazy. And here I was, considering buying the 24+24 summon. That sucks. I remember when Gummi had Brave Frontier, and that closed as well.

[@Shirodragoon]

Sinzar has the same opinion. I'm glad I stopped putting money into the game. But I think that's why its dying too. Gumi screws up multiple times, we pull our money, they tank this game. I'm so mad the Karoshi'd Shally for this crap.

[@MegaKeikoku]

Goodbye ffbe ~

[@sumirsookdeo9443]

Form a petition to save this game please!!!!!!!

[@SartreBraveX]

Not enough people play this game to even make a legal petition, I don't think.

[@FrenzyFlame96]

It's got a ton of players doesn't it

[@TanyaParker-h5v]

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[@Greatestnesss]

Play FFBE: War of the Visions! We accept you all with open arms!

[@soundingsea3419]

the mechanic is so difrent, ffbe is a clasical turn based JRPG with some chain mechanic, while wotv is tactical rpg ff tactics, some people r uncomfy with this genre n get confuse by it. also, ffbe is fast build character, u pull certain unit, n build it within a day n its possible. while u know, wotv is a marathon. it even takes three month if u decided to slowly build a unit to 140 not to mention the repetitive process if u want to fully stat it. so the psychological approach to the game is a way to diffrent. n i'm among who enjoyed both of this game, but many has drop their flag when they know wotv is a marathon game

[@Masta_jay]

I moved on a couple of years ago. Gumi is just so greedy & their business practices are shady

[@octronix84]

you should spend more money next time

[@FrenzyFlame96]

Noooo I just found this Game last week n I love it

[@Sharkenite]

There goes $3000 over the years down the drain...