Blue Protocol Has Exceeded 600K Players Since Its Japanese Launch
Blue Protocol finally launched in Japan last week after years in development, and Bandai Namco Online is celebrating some of the anime MMO's milestones from its first week.
According to Bandai Namco Online (via their PR agency), since the June 14th launch of Blue Protocol, the MMO has seen over 600,000 players join the MMO with a concurrent player count that reached over 200K during that first week. According to BNO, the MMO was the fasted game to reach these player count milestones than any other title in its history in the PC online market in Japan. And while the launch wasn't smooth — it ran into the same issues we typically see with MMO launches nowadays — it seems the MMO has some staying power.
Blue Protocol has been anticipated for years, with the team sharing development updates throughout the process leading up to its free-to-play drop last week. The MMO is so anticipated by those of us here in the West that some of that 600K player count number might not actually be from Japan, but Western players jumping in through VPNs and other means.
Either way, it makes for an exciting lead up to Amazon Games' upcoming launch, which got pushed back to 2024 recently. The MMO will be published by Amazon here in the West on PC first, then on Xbox Series S/X and PlayStation 5, and while 2024 might seem like a long ways away, there will be a closed beta test here in the West this year to give players a taste of what to expect.
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