Canceled Amazon MMO Blue Protocol has been resurrected, and it's coming soon

15 May 2025PCGamesN

May 16, 2025: Correction - The decision to end service on the original Blue Protocol was Bandai Namco Online's, not Amazon Games'.

Despite my love for colorful, fantasy anime aesthetics, I've never quite gotten on with the likes of Genshin Impact. Perhaps it's the gacha, or having to keep up with what feels like volumes worth of bizarre terminology - I've just never been able to commit to any of HoYoverse's long-running games. That's why Blue Protocol was so exciting to me - to quote Amazon at the time, the MMO was supposed to be about undertaking a "fantastical journey," where the story was at the core of the gameplay. But, that simply wasn't to be; back in August 2024, Bandai Namco Online decided to end service for Blue Protocol, which halted its planned Western launch in collab with Amazon Games.

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