{"id":86021,"date":"2019-03-02T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/bandai_namco_ending_online_service_for_wii_u_exclusive_lost_reavers_on_30th_may"},"modified":"2019-03-02T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T04:00:00","slug":"bandai-namco-ending-online-service-for-wii-u-exclusive-lost-reavers-on-30th-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/bandai-namco-ending-online-service-for-wii-u-exclusive-lost-reavers-on-30th-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandai Namco Ending Online Service For Wii U Exclusive Lost Reavers On 30th May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/db1912226cce2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/db1912226cce2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Lost Reavers\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/db1912226cce2\/lost-reavers.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/db1912226cce2\/lost-reavers.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Lost Reavers\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Remember the Wii U exclusive <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/lost_reavers\">Lost Reavers<\/a><\/strong>? Perhaps you would rather not. Either way, the game\u2019s publisher and developer Bandai Namco will finally be putting it out of its misery on 30th May, by terminating its online services.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t download this free-to-play co-op experience when it was originally released on the Wii U eShop in 2016, you probably made the right choice. As promising as the concept was, it was poorly executed and was rather disappointing compared to more notable multiplayer games such as <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/splatoon\">Splatoon<\/a><\/strong>. In our review, we said it was a &#8220;lifeless&#8221; and &#8220;bitterly frustrating&#8221; experience.<\/p>\n<p>The action-adventure game started life as <strong>Project Treasure<\/strong> and was created by the famed <strong>Tekken<\/strong> producer Katsuhiro Harada along with a team of young developers.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the full details about the closure of the game\u2019s online service, courtesy of the Bandai Namco <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BandaiNamcoUS\/status\/1100983935796797441\">Twitter account<\/a>:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LOST REAVERS service is scheduled to end on 05\/30\/19. We offer our sincere thanks to everyone who supported the game. The schedule is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>3\/28\/19 \u2013 Cease sales of items<br \/>*Items already purchased can be used until the termination date.<\/p>\n<p>05\/30\/19 \u2013 Termination of service <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J7Ice1PWRR\">pic.twitter.com\/J7Ice1PWRR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Bandai Namco US (@BandaiNamcoUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BandaiNamcoUS\/status\/1100983935796797441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Can you believe the online service for this game lasted this long? Did you download and play Lost Reavers when it was first released? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Wii U exclusive Lost Reavers? Perhaps you would rather not. Either way, the game\u2019s publisher and developer Bandai Namco will finally be putting it out of its misery on 30th May, by terminating its online services. If you didn\u2019t download this free-to-play co-op experience when it was originally released on the Wii U [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}