project mugan was announced over 9 months ago the announcement trailer received over 720,000 views on the PlayStation Channel and several million across every major gaming channel combined some of the biggest names in the gacha genre covered it myself included and while I've never personally been of the opinion that this is going to be yet another genjin killer there's no denying at the same time that it's main competition is definitely going to be both genin impact and weathering waves possibly even Azure prelia I'm seeing as Azure prmia will probably release before this game [Music] does with millions of views split between thousands of different channels and more hype than almost any other gotcha game right now what happened are they still working on the game have they abandoned it like so many Asian Games in the past a couple weeks ago I was tagged in a post by wind Valley where he linked me to net E's 520 game conference on billybilly the live stream happened on May 20th and while there were dozens of games on display there were four games in development not included one specifically being project mugan this was evidently a cause for alarm for many interested players project mugan is arguably one of Net's biggest gacha project and could potentially rival the biggest gacha games out right now thankfully another user named multi cleared this out by showing job listings on Ed E's official website as of May 28 2024 specifically 2D special effect engineers and Senior substance designers this information alone confirms that the game isn't dead that they haven't given up on it but they have gone quiet and given their hiring new Talent it's likely that they've just hit a small speed bump due to the size and scale of the project and a lack of programmers to success F completed when doing a search for Project mugan online there were dozens of news websites all speculating on the release date like PC games who speculate the game will release within the next 6 months having undergone absolutely no testing whatsoever while they're still actively hiring people to develop a largely unfinished game without a second trailer having even been released this article from MSN states that it was posted just 3 days ago and goes on to claim earlier today an official Twitter account for the game shared some official artwork yet the tweeting question as you can see was posted on August 17 2023 also can we just take a moment to laugh at the fact that they think project mugan looks like genjin impact Nah if there's a game that this looks like it's zenist Zone zero but even that's a bit of a stretch Talk Android says that the game is launching in sometime in late 2024 pocket tactics also says late 2024 I I I wonder I genuinely wonder where they're getting all this information from are they're all getting it from the same Source these blog posts were all made within roughly the last month and have absolutely no basis with which to even begin to formulate any type of estimate on a release date they're they're all like the game is releasing except damage 2024 rather than doing any type of research into the state of the game at present journalism in 20124 but that's what I'm here for papa staks is here to take this to the next level before we delve any deeper into project mugan though I want to take a moment to thank my incredible patrons over on patreon and my YouTube channel members who allow for me to continue to do dedicated videos like this every single week you guys are phenomenal and I cannot thank you all enough for the support now I navigated on over to the official net EAS corporate website so could investigate their quarterly financials since this is where companies typically tend to have listings pertaining to current and future game releases it's how they keep their investors happy unfortunately while there were plenty of games listed here no mention of mugan was made for 2024 anywhere which obviously isn't proof that the game isn't releasing within 2024 but you'd think that this would be something they'd be using to Garner additional Investments if it were approaching a point where they could successfully monetize it the last time the devs naked rain made any type of public comment was when they had a small interview in March 2024 where they discussed the game its future its features not a whole lot was divulged I did do a dedicated video on this going over everything that they revealed and giving my opinions on it to actually think I was the only person to do a dedicated video on this topic while we're on the topic of the interview back in March there were two questions that were asked that had very certain answers are you planning to have an open or close beta test to get player feedback before a full release to which they responded with we need the players feedback and the arrangements for subsequent testing are also being planned a direct confirmation that testing will happen prior to the full release we've heard absolutely nothing about any test phases yet and typically there are multiple test phases before a game launches evidently this is researched none of the aforementioned websites did Even though this is their job the second question can we expect it to arrive later this year or will it get pushed into 2025 this had a much more vague answer but it was clear they were not at all confident in a 2024 release perhaps even a 2025 release going on to State our game is planned for a global crossplatform simultaneous release there are some uncontrollable fact in the scheduling and any new developments will be communicated to the players evidently every single one of these websites that speculated 2024 we talking out of their asses there is no indication absolutely none at all that project mugan will be releasing in 2024 if you take their comment about there being uncontrollable factors in these scheduling and their recent job listings it's evident a 2025 release date might be off the table as well well but this is in no way a confirmation of either and is not at all entirely indicative of the state the game is currently in so what happened to project mugan well It ultimately turned out to be a larger undertaking than they had originally planned they required a larger development team and have begun expanding to hopefully finalize the game at some point next year they've been quiet because they've likely fallen behind schedule and have nothing to actually show players yet that at least nothing that would impress players they're probably hard at work and will continue to be until their team is fully staffed I have faith in project mugan and I I genuinely do hope for the best it's a hell of a game so far and they can really only improve from here also before we end the video we just appreciate that even without a second trailer no confirmation thus far about beta tests no release date in sight whatsoever the game is still managed to accumulate over 5 million pre-registered players yeah people are excited [Music]