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News Online Pac-Man 99 end of service on October 8th, 2023

I lost all interest once I managed to win once. It’s just not the same as Tetris 99.
 
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Nintendo/Arika really hate keeping the lights on apparently. Pac-Man 99 is my favorite out of the series, shame it's dying.
 
I bought the DLC so at least I can still play the offline modes, but it's another cool game that's going to be lost to time and that sucks. Now there are five games that I own on Switch that have been (or will be) delisted, all of them from Nintendo and Bandai Namco! (Mario 3D All-Stars, Fire Emblem 1, Mario 35, Jump Force and soon Pac-Man 99.)
 
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This one never hooked me, but sad to see it taken down all the same. Just stinks these games have relatively short shelf lives.
 
Mario and Pac-man last a few months to like 2 years, but the true God Tetris remains none the less

inb4 we get that's cancellation soon too
 
Johna X said:
Mario and Pac-man last a few months to like 2 years, but the true God Tetris remains none the less

inb4 we get that's cancellation soon too
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At least that’s still getting themes. Honestly works great as a marketing machine.
 
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Andre3333456 said:
Can't wait to see what is their next 99 game.
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Probably nothing. Though I think the best options (in terms of gameplay translation and not what would actually be popular) would be puyo puyo or space invaders. I think galaga is actually a great options but doubt Bamco would license another game. Nintendo I guess could do panel de pon
 
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Adored this back on release, but it just didn’t manage post launch support well at all. Shocked they didn’t borrow the Tetris model.

I always wanted to play it with a proper arcade stick, maybe I’ll pick one up before it
goes down.
 
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It was a great experience, but last few times I've played it was mostly bots I was playing against. Shame really, it was a pretty neat idea.
 
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MrBones said:
Nintendo/Arika really hate keeping the lights on apparently. Pac-Man 99 is my favorite out of the series, shame it's dying.
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They're probably very expensive games to run server-side, and they have very limited monitisation opportunities to pay for those serves.

They're essentially freebies to entice NSO subscriptions, so I wouldn't expect them to last all that long. Same goes for Tetris 99, despite it being much more popular and the progenitor of the "99" concept.
 
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I'm sad about this, I've been playing it recently. I much prefer it to Tetris 99 just because I'm a Pac-Man fan. When I play it's usually around 70% real players, which is fine.
 
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Likely the weakest of the 99 series. Wonder how much of a playerbase it has by now.

Not saying the game is bad, mind you, but it definitely doesn't work as well as Tetris and Mario did.
 
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oh no 😰 this is such a shame. i haven’t played it much recently, but i always enjoyed this more than tetris 99
 
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