Foamstars to Get Final Season
In a season replace notice posted on its web site Thursday, Square Enix thanked Foamstars gamers and confirmed season updates would halt for the sport subsequent month. “Following the “PARTY GOES ON!” season going down from 13 December 2024 (Friday) to 17 January 2025 (Friday), season updates for FOAMSTARS will likely be coming to an finish,” the corporate stated.
While Foamstars will cease receiving season updates, the sport will keep on-line for gamers. “All on-line companies will stay obtainable after the “PARTY GOES ON!” season ends. In addition, we plan to carry the FOAMSTARS CUP, a collection of in-game occasions named after every character,” Square Enix stated.
Foamstars’ earlier season passes may even be made obtainable once more, the writer confirmed. “Players can swap between Season Passes at any time to proceed alongside the Season Pass monitor of your selection and acquire gadgets from previous seasons. This will make it potential for gamers to acquire all of the gadgets from every season,” Square Enix stated.
The upcoming ultimate season replace will deliver gameplay enhancements like the flexibility to customize photographs of every character. The replace may even add new enhancement components like Prism Gems. Square Enix stated the ultimate season would deliver enhancements geared toward making certain the sport stays satisfying for the foreseeable future.
Square Enix launched Foamstars as a PlayStation unique in February, making the sport obtainable as a PlayStation Plus launch title on PS4 and PS5. The firm had promised free themed seasonal updates, together with cosmetics, playable characters, maps, and extra modes, over the span of 1 yr.
Live Service Woes
The reside service title, nevertheless, fell wanting Square Enix’s gross sales goal, the Japanese firm stated in its quarterly earnings report in May. The writer’s latest PlayStation exclusives, which embrace Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Final Fantasy XVI and Foamstars, didn’t reside as much as income and revenue expectations, forcing it to revise its estimates for 2024 and shift to a multi-platform launch technique.
Square Enix’s choice to halt updates for Foamstars marks one more stumble for reside service titles in 2024. Concord, Sony’s big-budget reside service hero shooter, struggled to draw gamers on PS5 and PC, earlier than it was taken offline two weeks after it launched in August. The PlayStation mother or father later shut down Concord developer Firewalk Studios and completely sunsetted the sport.
Earlier this week, Ubisoft introduced it might discontinue its free-to-play reside service shooter XDefiant and shut down the sport’s servers in June 2025. The writer additionally confirmed it was shutting down its San Francisco and Osaka studios and ramping down its Sydney manufacturing web site, with 277 jobs set to be impacted.
