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At the end of last month, the mobile game "The Lost Dragon Covenant" (hereinafter referred to as "Dragon Covenant") announced that it would stop updating in July this year and officially ceased service after a period of operation.
Objectively speaking, the popularity of "Dragon Covenant" in the mobile game circle has been tepid, compared to the two production companies behind it, Nintendo and Cygames, which are more eye-catching. When it was first launched in September 2018, "Dragon Covenant" was once called "the last hegemon of Heisei", because of its support for Chinese, it also attracted many domestic players into the pit.
However, in this year, the mobile game suspension is not a big deal, why do you suddenly take it out at this time? In fact, during the period of operation of "Dragon Covenant", there was a lawsuit related to Nintendo that became lace news outside the game, and some people even suspected that the direction of the lawsuit directly affected the fate of "Dragon Covenant".
In 2018, Nintendo took Colopl, the developer of the well-known mobile game "White Cat Project", to court, and the two sides fought over the patent infringement case for several years, which ended with Nintendo receiving an out-of-court settlement of 3.3 billion yen in damages.
Due to the delicate relationship between "Dragon Covenant" and "White Cat Project" in operation and perception, players joked that the 3 billion should be counted into the revenue of "Dragon Covenant", so there was a "monthly income of 3 billion". What people did not expect was that the hellish joke made by the forum netizens at that time, "monthly income of 3 billion and then closed" is now also true...
What kind of game is Lost Dragon Covenant? What is the special background of its birth and closure? Why did Nintendo and Cy join forces? In this issue of the mobile game culture center program, we will talk about this controversial game.