{"id":11742,"date":"2022-04-20T14:53:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=11742"},"modified":"2022-04-20T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T05:55:30","slug":"20220420-11742","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20220420-11742\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idolmaster Pop Links to end service 1.5 years after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Written by. Ryuki Ishii based on the <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/articles\/newsjp\/20220420-199699\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">original Japanese article<\/a> (original article&#8217;s publication date: 2022-04-20 14:33<\/em> <em>JST)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Bandai Namco Entertainment has <a href=\"https:\/\/poplinks.idolmaster-official.jp\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced <\/a>that they are ending service for <em><strong>The Idolmaster Pop Links<\/strong><\/em> on July 21, 2022. The game launched in January of 2021 for iOS and Android in Japan. They\u2019ll continue to hold new events until the sunset date so that players can enjoy the game until its final moments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/16l6dpeuuPg\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Idolmaster Pop Links<\/em> is an idol-raising puzzle game that features idol units from <em>The Idolmaster<\/em>, <em>The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls<\/em>, <em>The Idolmaster Million Live!<\/em> <em>The Idolmaster SideM<\/em>, and <em>The Idolmaster Shiny Colors<\/em>. Players can choose 3 out of over 100 characters to form a unit and perform in the Poplinks Festival, where you play a short session of a puzzle game about linking same-colored boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game came out in 2021 as a 15<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary project for <em>The Idolmaster<\/em> series, but unfortunately, the service is coming to an end. Although there have been other titles in the series that ended their services, <em>The Idolmaster Million Live!<\/em> and<em> The Idolmaster SideM Live on St@ge! <\/em>to be specific, both of them have successors that still operate to this day (<em>The Idolmaster Million Live! Theater Days<\/em> and <em>The Idolmaster SideM Growing Stars<\/em>). <em>The Idolmaster Pop Links<\/em> is an unusual case of pure service termination.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9\u7d42\u4e86\u306e\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b\u3011<br>\u300c\u30a2\u30a4\u30c9\u30eb\u30de\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc \u30dd\u30c3\u30d7\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\u30b9\u300d\u306f2022\u5e747\u670821\u65e5(\u6728) \u3092\u3082\u3061\u307e\u3057\u3066\u3001\u30b5\u30fc\u30d3\u30b9\u3092\u7d42\u4e86\u3055\u305b\u3066\u3044\u305f\u3060\u304f\u3053\u3068\u3068\u306a\u308a\u307e\u3057\u305f\uff61<br><br>\u8a73\u7d30\u306f\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\u307e\u305f\u306f\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u5185\u306e\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b\u3088\u308a\u3054\u78ba\u8a8d\u304f\u3060\u3055\u3044\u3002<br><br>URL\uff1a<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5TvvHAOCx\">https:\/\/t.co\/G5TvvHAOCx<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u30a2\u30a4\u30c9\u30eb\u30de\u30b9\u30bf\u30fc \u30dd\u30c3\u30d7\u30ea\u30f3\u30af\u30b9\u516c\u5f0f (@imas_poplinks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/imas_poplinks\/status\/1516628963363553284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 20, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Idolmaster Pop Links to end service 1.5 years after launch. 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