Square Enix has announced a change in developer for the mobile game Octopath Traveler: Champions Of The Continent.

As stated in a message from producers Hirohito Suzuki and Takahiro Inoue, Netease will be taking over management of the game starting from January 16th 2025. Netease will be in charge of developing new content of the game moving forward, and the change is not expected to affect current players much. However, players who have backed up their save data previously and wish to pick up where they left of will need to do a data transfer.

You can read the full message about the change below:

“First, we’d like to thank all the players of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent.

As of Thursday, January 16, 2025, service operations for Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent will be transferred to NetEase Interactive Entertainment.

With the 2.5-year anniversary approaching in January 2025, we decided that the best way to continue to provide quality content for everyone was to work in collaboration with NetEase.

As for additional main story content and such for which we’ve received many requests, everything is planned for release after operations have been transferred to NetEase.

Players will of course be able to transfer their game data and continue their adventures. Please see the in-game notices for more information regarding the data transfer process.

We are sincerely grateful for all the support we have received for Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent. We hope you look forward to future developments that we will continue to offer with our partner, NetEase.”

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