The Long Goodbye

Two months ago I was tapping in as usual to the Love Live School Idol Festival All Stars mobile game when, in the course of reading the news updates, I ran into an announcement the game would be shutting down. Having plugged away at the game since it became available in English, the news was a bit of a jolt. No more than a few moments later, though, I was at least telling myself the game really was a time sink for all that I liked it well enough to keep playing, and through an intervention of sorts I’d be getting that time back even if only to fritter away on an assortment of things now. I’d also been thinking that in the summer I’d be at a point at last where I wouldn’t be able to tap into the game every day and would just have to deal with missing out on the daily and weekly items for a while. Having the game shut down altogether before that at least settled things there for me.
( Shutdown preparations )