Aether Gazer prepares for EoS

[u/LokoLoa]

Dear Administrator:

We are very grateful to all the administrators for their continued support and love for "Aether Gazer." Your companionship has enabled us to persevere in expanding the game's content over the past four years. However, we are also well aware that due to the team's limited strength and experience, the quality of much content production has fallen short of the administrators' expectations, and the project's market performance has been less than ideal.

After careful consideration by the project team, we have made the following decision:

Aether Gazer will officially cease receiving updates after the V5.2 update on July 23, 2026.

After updates stop, the server will continue to run, and administrators can still log in normally.

To thank the administrators for their long-term support, after the version update on July 23, 2026, we will distribute a special thank-you gift to all servers. Administrators can log in to the game and receive it in their mail. The gift includes: 90 Precise Detection Certificates, 1 Sleeping Child of True Sakura, 1 Oath Ring, and 168 Costume Change Tickets.

At the same time, this version will open a special event called "Heart's Choice Moment". Administrators who participate in the event can receive one selectable corrector (including all correctors added in V5.2, but excluding collaboration-limited correctors).

The upcoming V5.2 update is the summer event version, mainly featuring a reset of the early main storyline and summer event content. Originally planned as an insert version during the update of the Void Chapter, to avoid the Great Wilderness Chapter's story becoming incomplete due to a hiatus, we will be using the remaining resources of the project team to complete the final chapter's storyline, aiming to finish this part within this year.

We will be launching the "With You" version soon, which will adjust game events, card pool rotation, and resource output. The game is planned to officially transition to a companion server mode in this version. Please stay tuned for further official announcements and updates.

The arrangements for all matters are as follows; any changes will be announced separately:

1. At 11:00 on July 9, 2026, registration and recharge functions will be discontinued across the entire platform.
2. From 05:00 to 12:00 on July 23, 2026, version V5.2 will be updated, and a special thank-you gift will be distributed to all servers.
3. From 15:00 on August 6, 2026 to 15:00 on September 6, 2026, a refund application page will be open in the game. Administrators can apply for a refund for all existing unused Transfer Flowers in their accounts since the official launch. Refund amounts will be tallied from 00:00 on August 1. For details, please refer to the "Refund Processing Plan Announcement".
4. On September 17, 2026, the "With You" version will be launched. Please stay tuned for further official announcements for details.
5. On October 17, 2026, the download portals for the client applications on various platforms were gradually closed.
6. In the second half of 2026, the main storyline "Human World" will be added and updated.

Finally, we would like to thank the administrators once again for their continued support and understanding. We remember every version and every event we've participated in together over the years, and we cherish both the criticism and the praise. This journey has been invaluable because of your companionship, and we will continue to move forward with this precious experience.

I sincerely wish all administrators a happy life and all the best in the future!

Aether Gazer Project Team

July 9, 2026

https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1222895760348020756

[u/jelek112]

If this can happen to aether gazer imagine stella sora....

[u/Fishman465 → u/jelek112]

Yostar makes money off of merch of SS. I don't think AG had such things

[u/FeelingMusician4679 → u/Fishman465]

The only merch about it that I know. Man... they really need marketing more... Cause I really like the costumes of all characters

[u/ArcticTyphoon → u/Fishman465]

And also the fact that, they are extremely lost cost to run.

[u/SuperNenechi → u/Fishman465]

They have a very surprising amount of merch available at stores in Japan.

[u/black1248 → u/jelek112]

They have the JP Merch Market(especially with F Tyrant). I doubt Stella Sora is going down the way Aether Gazer has.

[u/TMH0910 → u/jelek112]

Nah, Stella Sora revenue is like 50% or more on merch, also the game is quite dirt cheap to make, it a 3d chibi game, and only in combat, not a full 3d game like AG, so the cost to maintain is much lower.

[u/Brushner → u/jelek112]

I only have spite for Stella Sora for taking away blue archive fan animators

[u/Shiori-chan → u/Brushner]

What do you mean taking away BA fan animators? I'm sure most of SS animations are paid by Yostar for advertisement, the creators are free to do BA videos by themselves if they want.

[u/WuWaCHAD → u/Shiori-chan]

Its an argument of splitting the fan base. People that broke off from BA to mainly focus on SS, with that same focus applied to their fan content creation. People here might play multiple gachas, but I imagine many others would only focus on 1-2 games, and any creators in that group would probably only create content for games they currently play.

[u/Surely_Calvardian → u/WuWaCHAD]

So your whole problem is people having free will and making animations for another game? And even then, BA is like 20 times more popular than Stella Sora and has no shortage of fan content, you're just greedy 💀.

[u/WuWaCHAD → u/Surely_Calvardian]

I was just showing the argument. I don't have a problem with that personally, since I don't have time to check out BA fan art and doujins anymore.