If you happen to have booted up Dragalia Lost in the last few hours (and we'll be totally honest here: we certainly didn't), chances are you'll have been greeted by an end-of-service notification, because Nintendo has shut down the title as planned following its announcement earlier this year?

Nintendo and Cygames began to slow down on releasing new content back in August 2021 before confirming that the game would be shut down entirely in March 2022.

We'd love to hear what you made of Dragalia Lost in the comments below.

Yeah but mobile games always put themself in a position where they must come to an end and cease existence entirely when they do so.

At least when beloved games like Golden Sun and EarthBound 'come to an end', the players can still, you know, play the existing games whenever they like.

@EarthboundBenjy Yeah...I'm not inherently opposed to the idea of gaming on mobile (although honestly I'd always prefer to use a dedicated gaming device, i.e. my Switch), but after a few attempts I've been completely put off by the pushing of microtransaction and game-as-a-service-type models.

Wonder what that says about live games on mobile.

Super Mario Run is the best one Nintendo have done in my opinion.

I really dislike Nintendo for this decision they could have at least made it offline mode to be playable but no lets end the game forever.

Perhaps now Nintendo may wish to consider reconstituting the game into the one-time-fee kind for Switch.

I just wish the game could be purchased outright rather than being "free" with a DLC unlock.

And I wish the game didn't have an always-online requirement as well.

Thanks, Nintendo.

This can be solved by unservicing more games, instead of killing the game entirely to a point no one can even play it, turn the game into an offline game that you don't need constant connection to servers to play it.

Release an offline version on Switch, or even an offline version for mobile works.

@EarthboundBenjy This is not just about mobile games, this is happening on many other games on PC and consoles that follow this service instead of product model, where the game requires a company supporting a game and if they stop, the game can't even be played at all, even Nintendo did this on Switch with Super Mario Bros.

35 despite the fact that the game could be supported with Switch Online subscriptions.

Unfortunately I really do believe that it was Nintendo who kneecapped this game's potential, I mean as far as I know all of Cygames' other mobile efforts are doing fine so I wouldn't blame them for this.

One can hope that Nintendo won't let the IP rot away and maybe try making a console release based on Dragalia Lost, but I doubt that'll ever happen.

One more thing, there was a time in the late 1990s days of PC Gaming and the first major games that could be played with other people on the internet, where you could make your own servers, if the company stopped supporting their game, who cares, you already have the game and you can make your own server to play online with friends and randoms?

Companies realized that this model where you will own nothing and will be happy is better for them, gamers even stopped demanding this, and this led to more and more service-based games where internet and servers became a requirement for playing the game, even on single-player.

Cannot say I feel sorry Dragalia Lost is now lost (pun intended) because the game never came out in my country so I never experienced it.

One more reason to never, ever invest time and money in a mobile (smartphone) game

Not a lover of gacha games and I don't really play any of them nowadays, but there's plenty of mobile games that don't just disappear forever once they're past their prime

For example next year there will be a Touhou mobile game that ended it's service being converted to a Switch and Steam release

I'd blame Nintendo in this situation rather than the medium of mobile games

Really I loved this game, specially the characters..., But sadly, when games are as service or need internet connection for working, the day that they decide shutdown the servers, it's all..., Really this is worse that free to play and gacha mechanics because the game never will be play again in the future (only saved screenshos and gameplay videos for memories...), but sadly and ironic, free to play games are service games...

But for reasons like this, I am adamant about never spending a dime on mobile games

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