Jump Force has officially been delisted from stores across all platforms

sportskeeda.com:

Jump Force, the 2019 fighting game starring fighters from iconic shonen anime/manga franchises like Naruto, Dragon Ball and One Piece was announced back in 2021 to be taken off from online stores.

As of writing, the game can no longer be purchased digitally on Steam, the PlayStation Store, Nintendo eShop, and Xbox Store.

The main reason for being delisted boils down to the expiration of licensing for some of the manga characters. For a game that's representing over a dozen franchises, it doesn't come as a surprise. However, other elements could have played a role towards the game coming to an end only over three years since launch.

For starters, the game was criticized at launch for being shallow with regards to both gameplay and narrative. The PC version of Jump Force has a 60 on Metacritic and a painful 4.1/10 User Score.

Additionally, it was a technically incompetent product that seemed rushed, and this hackjob could be seen in the subpar cutscenes with poor animation and bad writing. Shaky performance on consoles, including bad online play, did it no favors. To top it off, the roster has been called the most disappointing so far in a Jump game with only 16 franchises. Following this, publisher Bandai Namco has also been accused of cutting content from the base game to be sold as DLC.

That's a lot of controversy for one game, so it might not seem surprising that developer Spike Chunsoft chose not to renew the license.

Existing owners of the game need not worry. They will retain the game in their library, including purchased DLC content. However, some servers will be shutting down on August 24, 2022. This means that online play as well as leaderboards, the in-game store and ranked matches will be gone. However, online play