Tales of the Rays is Shutting Down in the West

I didn’t post on Friday because of the holiday, but now I’m back to discuss the impending shutdown of Tales of the Rays.

Tales of the Rays came out in the West last August, and since it actually looked like a Tales game despite being mobile, I was more interested in it than in most mobile games.

It used a simplified version of the Tales combat system, told a new story despite having characters from across the series, and restricted its gacha system to mainly weapons/equipment.

I didn’t get too far, but I intended to go back to it eventually (especially when I learned Mithos had been added as a playable character in Japan).

Unfortunately, it’s shutting down in the west.

Tales of the Rays will be shut down outside of Japan on May 29. From what I understand, it will finish out the first story arc, but there’s still plenty of story content that will never make it to the west. And since it’s an online game, you won’t be able to play it at all once it ends.

It sounds as though not enough people played it to make it worthwhile. The non-intrusive gacha system might have contributed, too. Whatever the reason is, it’s disappointing news.

Some fans did start a petition to keep Tales of the Rays active, if you want to join one final effort to save it. Aside from that, you have until May 29 to play the Tales of the Rays content we did get.

Did you play Tales of the Rays? How do you feel about the global version being shut down?