Mobile Game AKB48 Cherry Bay Blaze (Discontinued)

It looked very promising indeed...what a shame...

 

Terminating service without even getting released (English version) . What a shame, the game looks promising, and it's an idol management game which is a kind of game the west rarely get.

 

Damm it looked so promising. What a shame it never got released world wide

 

i can't say that I am surprised it ended this way.
After all what characterized the most the game communication was ....... silence.

Obviously, nothing was ready when they 1st anounced the game during the 1st Asia Festival 2 years ago, one can even wonder if the producing company wasn't lauched the same day.

After that they failed their communication around the game.
For some time, their topic was "so and so" is included in the game, but what kind of game was it ?
Just the official game authorized by AKB48, and big mistery around it. Nothing about the developpement, no words about a release calendar or beta. Just a few mysterious words between 2 long periods of silence. And when they were asked on their social medias, the answers were allways the same. "Wait a little, be patient, etc ....". No wonder people may have lost interest despite the super enthousiastic messages they left from time to time
In the gaming industry, even modest companies have better communication than that.
There were far worst in the industry though (*cough* Heart of darkness), but the final product wasn't too bad (except *cough* Duke nuked, /pun intended)

On another hand Just look at how other AKB48 mobile games are launched. (whatever they failed or not)
The games are anounced, and usually in the following weeks / days they are launched. So the products are almost ready on the anouncement day instead of the company is almost ready to be build on the anouncement day.

So poor communication, slow informations flow. It could only lead to such a result IMO

 

We got to talking about CBB on the TSH thread, and I wanted to share the link to the Chinese website as well as the Weibo because of how kinda shocking they were to me. The website is missing people like the Japanese one, but the Weibo is way better maintained then anything. There are several girls in the game that the Twitter, and websites never mentions, most notably HKT's Yabuki Nako(since July), SKE's Matsuri Jurina(since August), and STU's Takino Yumiko(since May). It is possible that they're only in the Chinese version, but personally I kinda doubt that.
《樱桃湾之夏》手游官方网站-AKB48偶像经营互动手游-AKB48 CHERRY BAY BLAZE (sdo.com)

微博 (weibo.cn)


Scrolling through the Weibo you'll see that they gave birthday shoutouts to other members too so I'm thinking most likely those people are in the game as well or were at the very least suppose to be added at some point in time.

Edit: Oba Mina and Okada Nana