Of course, there are other gathering spots for players of Blazing - namely Twitter and Discord. The Blazing Community’s ResponseĪs I touched on before, the Blazing subreddit is largely filled with posts mourning the game right now. GREE added seven star units to Blazing in a last-ditch attempt to rescue the game, but it only put it on life support. No one can pull out their wallet two to three times a month for years on end. PvE was not much different, with increasing “difficulty” artificially introduced to force players to need to summon on every single new banner if they had any chance of keeping up. The PvP function was broken and accessible only to people willing to swipe their credit card. Here’s the thing – GREE very clearly cared about only one thing: money. The shutdown announcement did not surprise me, though it saddened me. I’ve felt the game has been going downhill for some time now. I don’t disagree with the complaints coming from the community. This meant veteran players had nearly no way to earn new ninja pearls but needed them more than ever.
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Yet, they pushed out new units constantly. GREE did not add any Story Mode missions for over two years. Players critiqued GREE, calling them “GREED,” for ignoring quality of life issues in favor of adding more “subtle” pay walls. For years, redditors have flooded the subreddit with posts discussing the failures of the game. While the subreddit for the game is currently flooded with players sharing images of their favorite units and mourning the end of the game, threads have not always been so kind.
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GREE hasn’t exactly been the most popular developer team throughout the history of Naruto Blazing. Looking back, Blazing shutting down is not that big of a shock.
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Yet, with the release of Naruto x Boruto: Shinobi Tribes, some in the anime mobile gaming community have been predicting this shutdown for months. GREE released the game on Jmaking Blazing one of the most long-running Naruto mobile games. On December 7, 2020, the developers of Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Blazing announced they would be shutting down on February 9, 2021. What happened? Image Courtesy of Shonen Jump Naruto Blazing was one of the most popular gacha-style mobile games for four years.