Blue Archive JP Downtime Leaves Fans Waiting for More Than a Day

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It’s not uncommon for gacha games to require emergency maintenance, but the latest Blue Archive JP downtime period certainly takes the biscuit. With an estimation of 15 hours of downtime, the game was unplayable for over 24 hours. 

While this doesn’t seem like an overly long time for a game to be offline, Fortnite tends to go offline for upwards of 48 hours when there’s a new season, it’s certainly an extensive period of time for a gacha game. If you’re unfamiliar with gacha games, there’s a real emphasis on “getting your daily tasks done”. 

So, what happens when you can’t get these daily tasks done? Well, many developers tend to dish out compensation gifts such as in-game currency for pulls, or special upgrade resources. We’re not too sure what compensation the Blue Archive JP downtime includes, but the best place to look for that information is the official Twitter page! We assume they will tweet about it in due time.

By taking a look at the Blue Archive JP Twitter account, we can see that the emergency maintenance was extended quite a few times. It’s clear to see that the team is working hard to keep the servers up, and luckily the players are grateful for the transparency.

The main cause of this sudden maintenance period is the fact that the server had to deal with heavy traffic due to the new character banners. 

The JP servers weren’t able to keep up with the influx of people logging in – a prime example of suffering from success.  Blue Archive is an extremely popular mobile game in Japan, with the game having its own Akihabara festival last year, as well as an anime adaptation that is currently in the works. Additionally, the server overload caused connection issues for a plethora of players, thus the emergency