Thread: Why was Idol Wars Retired?

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

Originally Posted by sniddy

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

Unless someone states that it's an opinion and not factual reasoning, then I will believe it to be the latter, which in this case is and what they posted is completely wrong. But if that's how you see it, then take it as you will.

It was obnoxiously P2W. The pool of girls (and the specific variants of) that the various regular tickets drew from basically never updated for most of the game's life here.

I couldn't even figure out what the game was really supposed to be about. So many different upgrade materials everywhere. And was the battle system really just the girls' still-arts repeating a bunch of quotes at each other as health bars went down or something?

Super P2W and the rewards for playing were crap, not to mention the time slots for pvp that are a pain in your life if you want to achieve any of the miniscule rewards it offered.