アズプロは実際いつリリースされると思う？【海外の反応】

CBT2 just wrapped up. I put together a [CBT2 overview](https://www.reddit.com/r/AzurPromilia/comments/1sj4qxs/ap_cbt2_comprehensive_overview/) \- TL;DR: content is ready but UI, balance, tutorials and side modes all need serious work. Back in Oct 2025 [there was talk](https://x.com/ByteStix/status/1976643501967233408) (Stix’s leaks) that the 1.0 build was already done, but that was before CBT2 and given how rough the UI and tutorials still were in April 2026, take that with a grain of salt.

CBT1 -> CBT2 gap was \~8 months. Realistically there’s at least one more CBT to fix the big issues, then an open beta a month or so before release to catch last-minute bugs. So when are we playing this?

Another important question: **no global publisher has been announced yet**. Do you think EN gets a simul launch with CN, or are we waiting months/a year after? Simultaneous would mean Manjuu has to delay CN to get EN localization, dubs and server infras ready, which CN/KR/JP players won’t be happy about. But launching CN/KR/JP first means EN players get spoiled on everything and the hype dies. What would you prefer?

[View Poll](https://www.reddit.com/poll/1sj8mqp)

Q4 of 2026, global simul, trust.

Imma be real here: I have no clue. So I didn’t vote… lol.

As for the global version… a bitter truth might be that we’ll probably gonna get delayed. Games like this do far better in Asia, and global is often times just a fifth wheel. I know there are some examples where global hits big, but those are more like an exception than a norm. It’s just the way it is.

But that’s fine, I guess. A bit of clairvoyance isn’t necessarily bad, and can help you to plan ahead for pulls and save accordingly. Even Azur Lane had global starting roughly a year behind CN and JP, and the devs still managed to have it catch up and eventually synchronized.

We’ll just have to see. Who knows.

>Games like this do far better in Asia, and global is often times just a fifth wheel. I know there are some examples where global hits big, but those are more like an exception than a norm. It’s just the way it is.

I genuinely hope you’re wrong. I hate being treated like a second class citizen. And as much as I’m hyped up for the release, this could very well be the deciding factor for me – to not play the game.

Yes I know, some ppl might find it silly. I just don’t like being told *We don’t really care about you that much* and I’m honestly surprised that not many ppl feel the same way

I hope I’m wrong too. It would really be great if global also got a simultaneous release.

However, the reality is that anime style gacha games are still quite niche on the global market. Some people just aren’t into the anime style aesthetics. Others aren’t fans of any gacha, period. Yes, Genshin made it big, and even some normies play it, but that’s more of an exception than a rule. Genshin was lucky because it was first of its kind, plus there was Covid to back it up. Things are different now, and there are also more competitions on the market. There’re number of high quality 3D open world (or semi open world) gacha games coming soon (or already released), all vying for a slice of the pie.

Then there’re also the issues with global publishers. We’ve all heard of some horror stories with some publishers, who mismanaged their games and ended up shafting the global audience. I highly doubt that Manjuu wants anything of sort happening to this game, especially considering the rumor that they’re trying to move away from Yostar. Manjuu probably wanted to self-publish AP, but alas, based on how they still ended up teaming with Nexon (for KR version) and Yostar JP (for JP version), it’s obvious that they aren’t able to do so, and the global is no exception. And they’re probably still looking for an acceptable publisher for the global as we speak.

However, there’s no way that the devs will delay the release of the other versions, just to wait for the global. Considering the aforementioned point about how anime gachas are still quite niche, it’s more likely that they’ll just delay the global and have the rest release on schedule.

Still, like I said, we’ll just have to wait and see. If this game has another CBT, and there’s still no news about the global, then I guess it would be safe to assume the global will be delayed for sure. But that hasn’t happened yet, so all we can do it cross our fingers and pray… lol.

>Yes, Genshin made it big
Genshin was lucky because it was first of its kind, plus there was Covid to back it up.

There’s some truth to it, but I don’t like calling Genshin lucky, because it takes away the risk they took and the passion they showed.

I’m not saying covid wasn’t a factor **but** Genshin has a great, engaging and most importantly, easy to follow story – ever recent release like Arknights Endfield showed, that it is not an easy task to accomplish.
I’m not saying it’s a masterpiece of a story, but the way we’re introduced to the world, the way everything unfolds – the fact that many normies played or play it, is no mistake.

Take already mentioned Endfield – the story is hard to follow, maybe it’s just me, maybe I’m simply dumb, but they throw at us lots of made up words and everything is so grand and important and ultimately…. confusing. In genshin we also know we’re important, but it felt more down to earth, more *normal*

Okay, I don’t want to sound like a Genshin fanboy lol. I quit it like 2 years ago, but I’ll never forget the fun that I’ve had. Seriously I’m so glad I was day 1 player and experienced everything myself, unspoiled.
And the music, still listen to many scores. Yu-Peng Chen made a masterpiece of a OST.
I totally sound like a fanboy of Genshin, so be it.

>We’ve all heard of some horror stories with some publishers, who mismanaged their games and ended up shafting the global audience.

That’s a problem many smaller devs are facing. I don’t think Manjuu, after yearts of stedy revenue from AL has to rely on 3rd party publishers and so on. They could, and in my opinion SHOULD do everything themselves.

Plus, the most important factor – simultaneous release brings the whole community together, regardless of region. The hype is bigger, so is the reach. There are no meta slaves saying *don’t pull for X character, because Y is coming 3 months later and is better* \- so even from economic point of view, I believe, simultaneous release is in their best interest.

>it’s obvious that they aren’t able to do so, and the global is no exception.

Maybe they weren’t before, when money was tight.

>Considering the aforementioned point about how anime gachas are still quite niche,

I’m not so sure about that. Not anymore.

>Still, like I said, we’ll just have to wait and see. If this game has another CBT, and there’s still no news about the global, then I guess it would be safe to assume the global will be delayed for sure. But that hasn’t happened yet, so all we can do it cross our fingers and pray… lol.

That I’ll do

true. I agree on genshin is made to be super easy and not text heavy, at least for the first few hours.

You only have like 15 minutes tutorial, then you can explore the whole world with no limit, bypassing all main quest you you want.

That’s something many game got wrong about open world. You can’t lock players out from going to other maps just because they haven’t done main story yet.

Endfield is the worst offender as it is so handholding with tutorials and boring fetch quest for first 2-3 hours.

As much as some of us may not like it, this is just the brutal truth, compared to Asia as a whole, the west makes a minority as far as profit is concerned. Definitely will suck if global is delayed but I’ll manage.

I dunno man this game looks like a really high quality and expensive game to just dump global and NA. I am hopeful for a same time release

The quality of the game itself isn’t the issue here.

Rather, there might be an issue with finding a right publisher for it. We know Manjuu wanted to self-publish, but ended up partnering with other entities for the JP version and the KR version. So who knows if Manjuu is still searching around for the global, but couldn’t find a suitable one in time for a simultaneous release? Afterall, most of us probably heard about how some global publishers ruined the global versions of some gacha games, leading to early closure. We all would want to avoid such thing, right?

And let us not kid ourselves into thinking that the global playerbase for gacha games are as big or as spendy as the prime Asian markets, namely CN, JP, and possibly KR. We just aren’t. We are niche, and depending on what the devs are looking for, we may or may not be even worth the money and effort to set up a separate version. Despite everything that happened in the past, including Covid, the anime style gacha games are still kinda sorta *niche* among the western audiences.

for other games where global releases later than Asia, are the banners usually synchronized to whoever the current banner is for Asia? Or does it start from the way beginning

AFAIK, from the beginning… but it could depend on the game.

The banners usually go tandem with contents, so when global is released late, that means their contents AND banners are behind. Then the devs usually try to play catch up, by giving an accelerated schedule for global.

This was true for Azur Lane, until they fully caught up, and is also true for GFL2, which I’m also playing. GFL2 hasn’t fully caught up to its CN version, but it’s getting there (it used to be 1 year behind, now it’s 6 months behind).

August 2026

Honestly I might be huffing copium but I think the game can still release this year. Endfield released shortly after their CBT 2 and NTE seems to be releasing soon as well after CBT 2, what we already have here is quite packed in terms of content. Yes, I agree that there are issues that needs to be fixed, but I feel that some of them aren’t as high priority and can be fixed after release.

Some issues that I think needs to be resolved before release; free assignment for Kibos, character balancing, difficulty curve, decrease UI clutter, multiplayer bug fixes. Rest of the issues can be patched later on, and I think they should remove mini games and release them as events later on. Other than that, the game seems to be ready but I admit that the game is less polished than the other games I’ve mentioned, which is why I think it’ll take them a few more months before release. Maybe Q4 2026 release window? They’ll have time to do a CBT for JP and Global before that as well.

Why are we not including 2026 🙁 With the ultimate cope I hope it to release around December

I don’t think gta 6 will have any impact on this game’s player base tbh. Maybe if you say that about nte yeah but I dunno

So in your sense no game should release close to gta6? Bro I am pretty sure more than half of the gacha community doesn’t even give a single fk about gta 6. Yeah the hype was real and all but I think it died down for now. I would choose to play any gacha game more than gta 6. Especially azur promalia gta 6 should be scared of this game asnd change its release date xD

You honestly believe that the majority of weebs give a flying hootenanny about GTA VI? Please, I’d choose gacha slop over GTA VI any day.

Safe to assume it will be 2027 for China, Japan and Korea. So far all big gacha games had 3 beta before release, with the release a few months after the last beta so it also depends on when a new beta will be. Personally i expect beta 3 around the end of the year, and release in spring

If EN doesn’t launch day 1 I’m going to kill every kibo in every version of the game like a psychopath

I said it last year but if I had to choose the earliest as to when the game would release it would be between summer and fall of 2026. But realistically I feel that a 2027 release made more sense, Hopefully by spring too.

>Back in Oct 2025 there was talk (Stix’s leaks) that the 1.0 build was already done

you know Stix gets everything from here right?

>**no global publisher has been announced yet**

it’s safe to assume AP will still be handled by Manjuu alongside CN and TW based on the official website, which used to have JP and KR languages but after the announcements from Nexon and Yostar regarding publishing Manjuu removed the KR and JP languages from their website since they have their own dedicated website for each publisher now. EN remains tangled alongside TW, so until anyone makes any type official announcement, Manjuu will be the one publishing for global.

Also the dev cicle between CBT2 and CBT3 in theory should be much shorter than CBT1 to CBT2, given that they probably won’t add any new additional regions to the base game, adding a 3rd one like the Chen Dynasty would be insane.

>you know Stix gets everything from here right?

Proof? Doesn’t he have his own informants?

>AP will still be handled by Manjuu alongside CN and TW based on the official website

manjuu isn’t publishing AP in TW, nijigen is. They don’t even have their own website because Manjuu is basically handling the actual legwork, but they’re still splitting the profits at the end of the day.

>Proof? Doesn’t he have his own informants?

Nah

Somebody from TW told me that nijigen is more of a trade partner CN companies need to have to do business inside TW, they do little in terms of actual publishing, so it’s basically still Manjuu.

I don’t expect a global launch before 2028. But that’s just me trying to prevent disappointment.

I’m mentally preparing to play JP despite not knowing language. And even if global is announced but is not a simultaneous release, there is a possibility that it might get a questionable publisher, in one or other way, so non-global version might end up being a better decision in a long run.

There will be a 3rd CBT since most of CN player that live this game on Bilibili said that most of CN games always run 3 CBT so we need to wait. If the 3rd CBT is fast then we will get the game fast for sure.

If first CBT was in August and the second CBT was April then that’s almost a span of 8 full months. If that trend holds the third beta test will be in December of this year. I’m not sure if that’s a common trend for games though but if launch takes another 8 months from the third beta test that puts it in Q3 of next year.

No way they waste that much time. Game looks pretty done

Most likely 1-2 years after CN’s launch (which is the usual schedule for CN Gacha games)

The fastest would be half a year.

This scheduling is also based on if the game doesn’t actually do simu release for EN.

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Also, hype doesn’t really dies, as pretty much proven by bunch of Gacha games that also have a delay. If anything, it just adds to the hype as people would be able to talk about it longer.

And as said before, it’s also better for the F2P ppls, so they can plan better to get the characters they want, instead of spending all they have on the first character, only to find that the second character is the one they want and isn’t able to pull for them. Which at times does cause people to leave the game out of frustration.

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