For Tencent games, most netizens have quite a lot of opinions, saying that Tencent does not want to give players a high-quality experience, and always wants to let players recharge. Some games do not have any updates and maintenance or suddenly stop serving after they are returned to Tencent, such as Clash Royale, QQ Pet, National Super God, King of Battlefield, etc...
Some people also carefully counted a wave of projects that Tencent shut down in 2022, and everyone was surprised to find that 16 apps including "QQ Video" and "Penguin E-sports", as well as 29 games including "QQ Tang" were all shut down by Tencent! But last year's wave of "outages" does not seem to be over, and recently, Tencent has a number of games to cool down. Just recently, self-developed games are also difficult to escape the fate! "Fairy Tail: Magic Guide Boy" officially issued an announcement recently, saying that due to the adjustment of business development, the server will be officially shut down at 12 o'clock on May 31. In order to express apologies, "Fairy Tail: Magic Guide Boy" has prepared a compensation activity for players, and the official said that the time to participate in the compensation activity is from 12 o'clock on April 3 to 12 o'clock on June 2, and the package/bonds/lottery involved in the compensation activity will also be used as a replacement for the user's game account that has not consumed virtual currency and unexpired game services (if any), and if you do not participate in the compensation activity within the aforementioned period, it will be deemed to automatically waive the right to compensation/replacement.
Just a few days ago, the 3D animation online game "Blade of the Wind", which is published and operated by Tencent, issued a suspension announcement.
Tencent said that the developer could not continue to maintain normal operation and version research and development due to internal adjustments, so it took the initiative to terminate the agency contract with Tencent in advance, and after friendly negotiation between the two parties, Tencent will officially stop the operation of "Blade of the Wind" in Chinese mainland at 11 o'clock on May 30, 2023.
In addition, in accordance with the usual practice, Tencent has prepared compensation activities, and the gift packages/bonds/sweepstakes involved will also be used as a replacement for unconsumed virtual currency and unexpired game servers (if any) in the user's game account, from March 30 to May 30.
In addition to Tencent, the two-dimensional mobile game "Burst Witch" operated by Bilibili Games and NetEase's FPS mobile game "Hyper Front" have also recently issued suspension announcements, announcing that they will officially stop operating from May 30 and April 10 respectively.
In recent years, with the slowdown in the development of game experience related technologies, the game industry has also experienced a "cold winter", and the gameplay is not new, the production is not good, and the optimization is not done well, all of which have become the evaluation of new games by various media and players in recent years.
There are also many people who believe that this is a way to reduce the cost of invalidity, effectively reduce labor maintenance costs, and concentrate more resources on more popular products, and players still pay more attention to official news so as not to miss compensation.