Thread: Why was Idol Wars Retired?

I was off of Nutaku for a couple weeks, then I came back and the game was gone. Why?

The answer is the same for any discontinued Nutaku game...it ceased to make enough money.

Was a tough IP to make work outside Japan. Idols are not really a male thing in the West

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I was off of Nutaku for a couple weeks, then I came back and the game was gone. Why?

Small selection of girls. A lot of the same girls with different outfits and abilities. All the girls had far too much clothing to be appealing. Also why games like War Aigis, Girls Kingdom, Angelic Saga, and Lord of Valkyrie shut down.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Small selection of girls. A lot of the same girls with different outfits and abilities. All the girls had far too much clothing to be appealing. Also why games like War Aigis, Girls Kingdom, Angelic Saga, and Lord of Valkyrie shut down.

Someone clearly has no idea what they're talking about.

Probably cause it was a reskin of dragon prov. Its a real shame though since the game had a much greater, eheh, "variety" of scenes rather than doggy style and missionary than DF had

As Anon pointed out, it wasn't making enough money. If I had to throw an ignorant theory to the wind I would say that it's because people in the western world are generally "poor" compared to our neighbors across the river. To elaborate, the cost of living seems to generally be higher, or at least that's the conclusion I came to after watching various YouTube personalities that talk about the subject.

Some people do have money, but causal spending is put more towards normie activities. Also there is the western bred stigma about sexuality that may turn people away too.

On another topic, pointing out Anon's "All the girls had far too much clothing to be appealing." comment. That may be partly true to some, many of us like the drawn out romanticism that is used in most games made in Japan.

One of the main things that turns me away from western games is they tend to lean on western porn tropes in their narrative. While this may appeal to others, I much prefer the romance driven style that is more akin to how romance novels are written.

I agree with Arkinum. Also, the most accepted theory at the time of the closure (well, because we never received any better explanation than "Devs at DMM decided to close it") was that they decided to keep only one of DP and IWZ afloat (they might have thought the community would simply migrate to the other as they were similar games) and IWZ was chosen for the purge as DP had some heavy whales while IWZ didn't manage to gather as many though there were still numbers. We will probably never be able to get any further than speculating regarding that anyways.

DP/IWZ is/was clunky and nigh-unplayable if your schedule didn't line up for the PvP. A game should never restrict PvP to fixed time slots.

Personally as I've said before it was all noise and colour, and I had no idea what I was doing how to progress and basically WTF was going on.

I also hear it turned heavily P2W on the competative side

Originally Posted by Aidoru

Someone clearly has no idea what they're talking about.

And I have to stop and refute this, that's HIS opinion and it's got legs - for the market aimed at most of the girls didn't grab you and the time spent to get them going....aye, it's a valid point for some people