Shin Megami Tensei transferred to Atlus in North America

@Unshra I dunno... Atlus Online have a tendency to kill games, hope this wont happen here.

@(Unverified)

what games have they "killed"?

Neo Steam? that wasn't their property, it belongs to Hanabit (ya know the guys who jacked up Hellgate 7 Mythos) Atlus was just licensing it.

.... even then AO's version of the game was the last one to close down, I'm not even sure if the game is runing in Korea anymore.

what else? S.U.N. was the only other game they used to offer services for, but that was only a cross platform promotion between AO and Ijji and it only ended because Ijji lost it's contract to host the game.

SMT:i is owned by Atlus, Aeria was just licensing it from them and their contract predated the formation of "Atlus Online." the contract ran out so Atlus took it back ....

you want to bitch about AO's lack of titles, some what crappy cash shop prices in Pandora Saga, how often they turn over GMs that they may as well be playing musical chairs, or that their games are rather outdated in comparison to the rest of the market; go right ahead!

but one thing that AO is not bad on is keeping what games they do have up and running.

@Space Cobra

Aeria had the game licensed before Atlus decided to start up it's own MMO portal, it always was one of the weirder elements to AO's first MMO being Neo Steam (a licensed title from Hanabit).

by how Aeria's launch of "Imagination" wasn't all that far ahead of the launching of Atlus Online just goes to show how long licensing & localization gets started in advance of a game's actual release.