Will Asobimo shut down Iruna?

Every good thing comes to an end one day. To be blunt here, I-mode servers are still running, and they started in september 2007. To put that in comparison, English Alpha version servers opened in April 2012, about 5 years later. I-mode is a mostly defunct internet provider that still has an ancient version of Iruna that still is successful, I'm gonna bet we are safe for a little while

Do not compare Celes Arca to Iruna, they opened up very close to each other, but Celes got overtaken with hackers in the early days before money could be made. That led to the closure of the server in October 2012. The server opened up again about a year later, but never caught on and was closed down for lack of interest.

Iruna was hacker free for what seems like a good 2 years before any of us had ever heard the term sh. By that point it had already proven itself as a money making game in the eyes of Asobimo.

i think hacking isnt the only reason why eng ver of celes arca is closed, its because of lesser source of income. afaik, theres no monthly subscription tickets in celes arca. old fashion of turn-based battle system may also contribute to lesser people play celes.

dont worry much about possibilities of premature closure of iruna, but we must keep fight hacking activities in iruna though.

Well asobimo is releasing two new games next year. Iruna might not close down, but will probably have a large decrease in activity.

Also there is still tons of things still to be updated and added to the International Version of Iruna. So I highly doubt it'll close down.

for iruna to shut down, you might have to consider the following.
Celes Arca haven't been updates that much for months before the shut down happen. Iruna is still on going with updates. so if the developer stopped updating the game, it could be either the game is complete or it's over. To know if the game is complete, however, we must compare the eng version to the i-mode and the jp version. You know the answer already ;P

To be honest, i think it should survive for another few yrs but it will decrease in popularity slowly with each new mmo added. Yes asobimo makes some the best mmos out there, but it seems theyve lost their "omf" if you get my meaning. They still need to add the side maps to international and fishing and pet compititions. What's needed most in iruna imo is a way for their app to check if theres been any changes to the files and force people off who got hacks in. Yes this would hurt the game momentary but this is needed badly. Then they need to add more things to do. Raid, farming, and questing can get old. Thats why so many people quit sadly, not so much to do. Even i now-a-days only help people since i got nothing else to do. And ive got a character for every class just about too.

Watafak all rich will cry. Asobimo drained our lives 🙈