Every Thursday we brought you the latest Transformers: Legends Mobile Game Event News from DeNA. Today we are announcing the closure of the game.
DeNA stated :
Hey TRANSFORMERS Legends fans,It is with heavy hearts that we must announce some bad news today.
We will be retiring TRANSFORMERS: Legends on September 30th, 2015
We’ve worked very hard to keep TRANSFORMERS: Legends for our loyal playerbase for as long as we possibly could, but unfortunately there isn’t anything else we can do to keep things going. With that being said, we’ve decided to give our players the keys to the kingdom during the last few months of TRANSFORMERS: Legends lifespan.
Starting June 25th:
- All MobaCoin/CyberCash purchase will be shut off (you will still be able to spend your remaining balance on resources packages and the Space Bridges)
- A new additional Medal type, “Shanix”, will be added to the game, which will allow players to purchase premium SpaceBridges(Character/Weapon). Items will be bundled with Premium Space Bridges.
- The complete Cyber-dex will be unlocked for all players to view all the cards in the game.
- All player’s Characters and Weapon Base size will be increased
- All Players will receive a free Devastator Combiner card
- The payout of all rewards, including leaderboard rewards, event point rewards, will be increased
We know how hard it is to watch a game you love sunset, but if you’re looking for more TRANSFORMERS action, we hope you’ll download TRANSFORMERS BATTLETACTICS ,”where you can build a dream team of AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS, and go head-to-head against players from around the world in strategic PvP based combat”
2005 Board Members speculated that the game is coming to an end by analyzing the situation that went on for many months. However, we do not have the exact reasons for the Sunset. Currently, the mobile app market has more than 6 Transformers related games and another one by Backflip Studios on the horizon.
The recent popularity of DeNA’s own Transformers: Battle Tactics and the rising of the Transformers: Rising may have also played their part in the discontinuation of Transformers: Legends.
lSoloStyll
Hi fellas, i'm making an app to view all the TF Legends Cards WITH 3D and special effects.
If you still have the last event files on your phone/tablet, you can really help me finish this.
i just need a few files i'm missing from the final events. PM me or just upload the backup or files somewhere. Thanks
I dont need the images. The files i need are game files,(files that end in *.json , *.manifest , etc if you please.)
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/trans…on/1067073-tf-legends-all-3d-card-viewer.html
dragon_lord
There's a way to download the whole album?
SouthtownKid
Purchase…? Why would you purchase artwork that is created digitally, and available digitally free to everyone? What exactly are you paying for? Unless you are talking about something like original pencil sketches used as the basis for the digital paintings, you are getting taken for a ride.
maxxzander
i deleted tis garbage app..wat a waste of phone memory… served them right for being greedy! mobage/dena shud learn by now …not everyone willing to pay to win…
Autovolt 127
Fantastic. Thanks.
T-Hybrid
You're in luck.
flik68
it was boring to me and I quit playing it after 2 days. good riddance.
Wreckgar
I to am going to miss the art. I have been lucky enough to purchase some of it. Looks like I may need to get more
Autovolt 127
The only worthwhile thing the game had was the artwork they'd come up with for each event.
That's all I'll miss.
Esquilax79
Uninstalled.. That didn't last long. It kept crashing. Even tried my tablet with older OS. Used to work on there back in the day. 17 crashes in 17 minutes on 2 different devices. I think I know why they're retiring the game….
knightmare6
I hope they'll give a refund of the unspent Mobacoins or at least transfer to TF Battle tactics?!!!
Esquilax79
I played when the game was new and got burnt out quickly on the "pay to win" but with these new additions.. "hey ..why not?" So I installed it to see what I was missing and maybe get Devastator when he's out later this month. Doing nothing involving battle cubes and the game updates 6 times while I'm just scanning or messing with the space bridge and each time it would steal a battle cube. Haha. What a horrible game.
T-Hybrid
There were only ever 16 or so Best-Of events scheduled (first one was Dark Cybertron a few months ago). The code was all there in the update to kick-off that event. If you want I can go get the list of remaining re-run events.
But you could already see players migrating to Battle Tactics back when that game launched, mostly because most of the Legends community *wanted* to quit but had nothing to move over to.
But let's not pretend this is something they've only now decided. The writing was on the wall the moment "Dark Cybertron" was re-run. Many players with familiarity with the game/code had started warning others at that time.
Steevy Maximus
More than likely that, after nearly a year of "rerun" episodes, the player base (and spending base) has whittled down to a point it's not worth dealing with, and by closing Legends, they can then drive those players to Battle Tactics.
Considering how long they've been doing "Best of" events, I think even DeNA underestimated how active the base was.
At least TF was clearly in a downward spiral (Best of reruns for a while now), GI Joe was just cut down without any real notice.
Omnus
First, no we won't get a book of the art, that isn't in DeNA's business model. Second, why would you want it published in a book where you would have to spend more money to see it?
Hopefully, at least one person with access to the game and can take screenshots (I'm away from home and can't do it with the device I'm on) will get all the artwork and post it up, since the artwork that I saw was well worth preserving (getting some of that on apparel and merchandise would be so much better than the puffy Dreamwave art that doesn't die).
T-Hybrid
Naw, they just discovered Battle Tactics and AoE are making enough money where they don't need to waste their time on Legends.
dragon
I had no problem spending some money on this game but to see same players finish in top five all time one every event that is irritating
Jerrymiru
…. people still playing?
Underlord
That's exactly what I'm going to do! I haven't played this travesty of a game since last October having started in the august of that year. More free space on me tablet now!
Kraken
Coming as a surprise to practically no one. This game has been going through its death throes for months now. It will not be particularly missed.