Chocobo GP To Get "No Further Large Scale Updates", Mythril Sales Discontinued

Not even an year of support?
Guess the new model didn't work out?

I'll join the choir of 'told you so' I guess... still a shame though, this could have really been a great Mario kart alternative.

It's baffling how a company like Square-Enix flip-flops for good to bad in a single year. I really want to know what parts of the company are going what.

Maybe I'll buy the game now!

So how do people access those items after the shop is closed? Is there an ingame currency that doesn’t tie to IRL transactions to replace it?

Tried the demo back when it was released. It was awful, deleted it after going through the tutorial and first race. My love of Final Fantasy finally kicked in a few days ago and I caved and bought it. A few races in I'm really liking it now. Not sure if my attitude just changed or if the game just improved over patches. It's fun now.

@Dogorilla It's a f2p game. Nothing to buy.

Game was okay when I tried it but it obviously doesn't come close to MK8D.

Maybe the PS4 or PS5 version with all contents in disc will be revealed.

@bonjong23 only the abridged "Lite" version is free; the full package is retail (incidentally on sale right now), so all the new content it got used to feel like "pay-or-grind" DLC rather than the usual "live service" song and dance.

After the stupid FF7 battle royale they recently discontinued, Square really needs better business advice. It doesn't take a genius to know these silly FF7 spinoff games are going to fail.

@Zilock I'm pretty sure the FF VII game you're talking about was an unofficial release rather than something made by Squeenix.

Trying to do a f2p model on top of making people pay for it was bound to fail. They should have switched to f2p after the first season or two if they ever wanted this to last.

@TowaHerschel7 Final Fantasy VII The First Soldier is a real FTP mobile battle royale game from Square Enix that's shutting down in January. Square Enix just seem to be obsessed with live service nowadays, probably wanting to chase the Fortnite money like loads of other publishers are doing.

Not holding my breath but hopefully someday the traditional DLC approach (e.g. MK8 Deluxe Booster Course Pass) returns as the most common post-launch support approach like it was in the 360/PS3 era which is massively better than all this live service microtransactions stuff.

@bonjong23 Not true at all. The whole reason this game is controversial is because its a paid game AND there are season passes + microtransactions to get all the courses and characters. And even once you pay to get the Season Pass, you have to grind hundreds of online races to unlock the characters within a limited time frame. Its FOMO tactics at its worst and it sucks.

I hope with Mythril sales ending, there are easier ways to get the previously exclusive characters.

@LexKitteh sadly and thankfully only Season 1 was atrocious on how much you had to grind to even get Cloud at Level 60, and to level-up you would spend quite some time in it (don't exactly recall how much time I spent to get him but around 10-15 hours of playtime). Even SE realized how awful lot you had to play to advance on the season pass that they actually tweak the level system and gave 3000+ mythril as an apology.

By the time Season 2 started the prize pass was waaaay less grindy, getting everything at level 20 (about an hour or two of playtime). Same thing went with S3 & S4, and on each season SE 800 mythril, enough to get the prize pass and within the pass you got even more mythril.

To this day the only character missing from previous Seasons in the game's shop is Cloud (he should return on this last season or afterwards through the shop), everyone else from Squall to Rafaello and Cid's Treasure hunter you can get them with tickets or gil, that you earn by playing the game online and no extra cash needed (although of course you need a NSO subscription to do so).

Now they need to have every single thing be obtainable in the game without microtransactions and I'll happily begin burning rubber on FF tracks at long last.

Too bad. Never liked the business model, that’s why I stayed away from it.

Would love a to pay for a kart racer that is fun, exciting, yet different to Mario kart.
This wasn’t it.

@bonjong23 I forgot there was a free version but as nhSnork, there's also a paid version which has a physical release. I'm not entirely sure what the difference is though.

After the failure of this, babylon's fall, the first soldier, and the avengers, I hope square has learned its lesson that people don't like these shoehorned GaaS games.

I got it after someone here suggested it. I couldn't do the character designs.

@Dogorilla The free version only lets you play the online tournaments, and only has the beginning of story mode. The full version has the full story mode (obviously), more characters, a time trial mode and a series mode (basically like grand prix in Mario Kart), local multiplayer, and probably some more unlockables. The free version is like an expanded demo.

@Krisi Thanks, sounds like the full version will be worth it then once the microtransactions are gone.

@TowaHerschel7 eh, Square not developing that thing doesn't make it unofficial. They still published it.

@Dogorilla It actually is pretty fun! And as of today, the microtransactions are completely gone.

@TowaHerschel7 You're pretty wrong. It's 100% official. Square Enix is just like every other company: happy to ***** out a popular property for a cheap buck.

its my goty so Im sad to hear this

The problem with this game was that players want to play games for fun.

Whoa, that was fast. I feel like it just started 343 days ago...
OH WAIT, IT DID
But seriously, they were just like "Yeah, we're telling you we're ending support about 3 weeks before they do it". Wow. That was fast lol

@bonjong23 Where did you get the idea that it's f2p?

Hmm think I'll actually buy it now.

As a kart racing game, it's one of the best on the Switch I would say, I'm a big fan of the first two Sonic Racing games and I would put this in the same league as them. As for the online stuff it was very mis-managed with all the microtransactions, if you see it cheap it is 100% worth a purchase.

I actually thought this was going to be a spiritual successor to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, being announced as a partial Nintendo Switch exclusive. Turns out I was wrong, and Nintendo released the DLC for MK8DX.

About time they abandon the old model, this game shouldn't had microtransactions to begin with. It just destroy the fun aspect of it and with it gone it'll actually be more fun now.

What a shame. Chocobo GP was one of my most played games of 2022, and it is absolutely wonderful with no qualifiers. I payed $50 on launch day and not a penny since, and I’ve gotten every character and every costume I wanted. It was essentially free content disguised as a season pass. Even with no new updates, the game still has a wealth of content, and I’ll keep playing it until they shut the servers down.

@Zilock This is not a FFVII spin-off though. But yeah I get what you mean. Square Enix used to be better at making spin-off titles.
Just think about the Dissidia games for PSP, Tactics, Tactics Advance, the mana series and the Sa-ga series.

But now it feels like it's either based on FFVII, or it's cute and silly like Chocobo Racing, Chocobo Dungeon, World of Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy XV pocket edition and more.. Yuck..

I mean I get Square Enix, it's fan service. But what fans are they trying to service?? It's like giving Doom fans an unarmed Doom Guy doll in a pink ballerina dress...

@Ryu_Niiyama Gil and Tickets are in-game currency you can earn by playing, and basically everything to buy is done in-game without needing to access internet (assuming you have the latest update downloaded).