The global release of Bandai Namco's new MMO has been delayed to 2024, but a beta is still coming later this year
Bandai Namco's upcoming action-MMO Blue Protocol, which will be published in the west by Amazon Games, has been delayed. It had been set to come out in the second half of 2023, but Amazon confirmed today that the launch outside of Japan has been pushed to sometime in 2024.
Blue Protocol was revealed in 2019, while confirmation of a global release followed at The Game Awards 2022. The game «takes players on a heroic journey through a planet teetering on the brink of destruction after millennia of conflict and technology overuse,» executive producer Sokichi Shimooka said. «A journey in which we transcend space and time, unlock our memories, defeat powerful foes, and alter the destructive future that threatens all mankind.»
That's a little vague as far as the narrative backdrop goes, and the Steam page doesn't have much more to say about it on that front, except that the game doesn't take place on Earth—it's set on a world called Regnas. It does, however, promise «deep customization» options, action-based combat with simple controls, and quests, boss battles, and «massive online raids against towering monsters.»
Shimooka said in the Game Awards video that Blue Protocol would be out sometime in 2023, and in Japan it will be, on June 14—but the rest of the world is going to have to wait a while longer.
Word of the delay first surfaced in a tweet from the Blue Protocol Database fan site:
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