Square-Enix‘s Mafia Wars clone, Knights of the Crystals, will be shutting down its servers and be removed from Facebook on February 29th of this year.
Being in service for a little over a year, Knights of the Crystals went live on November 3rd, 2010 and will run its course through the end of next month. With characters designed by Ryoma Ito, the game attracted many casual Facebookers with a lot of love for Final Fantasy to endlessly click the same quests and acquire new jobs to defeat strong in-game enemies and other Facebook players.
Below is the official announcement for the game’s upcoming demise.
The game will be playable until its end, but you will no longer be able to purchase in-game items or the game’s currency, Square-Enix Coins.
WHAT? I LOVED THIS GAME THOUGH!!! I even got all my university gaming club ppl playing it- this is so heart breaking!! I loved all the character designs, they’re stunning!! How could Square do this??
@Maaya, They weren’t making any money off of it, probably.
this fucking sucks.. i love the game and play it many times a day.. and i would actully want a prob. cause for doing this.. i hate its going to an end :S
@Kim Thomsen, The only likely reason that they’re shutting it down is because it wasn’t making any money.
I want this game to come back. I really in joyed it and I hope that it will come back at some point. I hope that they will bring it back at some point. Please bring it back to play.