Square Enix has announced they are transferring the operations and support for Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent in the west to NetEase Games.

NetEase Games will take over operations and support for the free-to-play smartphone spinoff starting on January 16th, 2025.

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent has been available for smartphone devices in Japan since October 2020 on iOS via the App Store and on Android via Google Play and July 2022 in the west.

Here’s the full word from the team:

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.

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent

Producers

Hirohito Suzuki
Takahiro Inoue