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Back in March of 2023, Nintendo announced that the 3DS game and its DLC were no longer available to purchase as the Nintendo eShop for the Nintendo 3DS was being discontinued. This won't happen until later in the year, but the game has gone and disappeared early.
As you may remember, on September 4 of last year, the game's online servers were taken offline for "emergency maintenance." And then it never came back online. Fast-forward to this week, and Nintendo has relayed word the game is done. According to it, there is "no hope of recovery." It does not divulge why though. That said, with online play for all 3DS games set to shut down on April 8, there's probably little to no incentive to continue to beat the game with a hammer and wrench just to extend its life a few months, especially since servers are probably dead to begin with.
"Regarding the Nintendo 3DS software "Steeldriver Subwars" released on February 14, 2014, we have been conducting emergency maintenance from September 4, 2023, but there is no hope of recovery, so we apologize for the inconvenience. The service has ended," writes Nintendo. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to customers using Steeldriver Subwars and ask for your understanding. Thank you for your continued patronage of Steeldriver Subwars."
It's worth noting the original message is in Japanese, so the message above comes through translation. Sometimes vital meaning and context is loss in translation. If any more information or a more precise translation surfaces, we will be sure to update the story accordingly.
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