Closers World Strikes Back Again

Part 1

Just as I and everyone else thought Closers was done for outside of East Asia last month, the international servers are now back with a new publisher a mere 2 weeks after Closers World (the one that was managed by the now-defunct En Masse from 2017 to 2020 and Naddic (the developers of the game) 3 months after said publisher's bankruptcy until June 2026) was shutdown.

Fast forward 2 weeks after the last update on the other post, the new team under Papaya Play took over the Facebook page and made a post saying that they had started preregistrations for their own version of the game on their website.

Little did they know, players from the original Closers World version have seen everything and started calling them out in the comments of their Facebook post through words and memes.

Turns out, from what I've seen on their Q&A in their own Discord server, they had cooperated with the developers to wipe almost 9 years of data and progress from the original Closers World version to make their players start from scratch again, not to mention having the sheer audacity of calling it a "fresh new global server" when everyone knows that it's a relaunch.

Honestly, knowing the game's history of relaunches in different servers with different publishers (with the JP server going through publishers before going back to HappyTuk after the latter acquired the developers in September 2024 due to financial difficulties) but for this instance, since it has been launched thrice under different publishers, they could've named their version Reopeners Global instead. 

That's all about the current situation with Closers, or better, Reopeners Online.

July Character Introductions (University Drama Special)

Hello everyone.

It's been a month since the last character introductions, and this time, a lot has changed from the last time.

Recently, like as I mentioned in my previous posts outside of the announcement about my game Abyss Legends, I managed to graduate from high school without any problems, except that there were problems with my university enrollment procedure and turns out, the staff went on summer break a while ago.

Aside from some drama, here's what happened throughout this week. While my mother recently came back from her trip to La Réunion, my dad had to get a new phone because when we checked everything with his old one, its display connector was broken beyond repair.

2 days later, the university and their online registration portal are now closed for summer break, which has now given me the opportunity to enjoy the remainder of my summer vacations until August 17th.

In the meantime, I made a new male character last week and will be introducing him, along with a female character that I originally drew 2 days after Cyclone Chido hit my area back in December 2024.

1) Laurin (July 12th, 2026)

"I wonder what's for today."

A somewhat eccentric and generous young man, who likes to dress in girl clothing despite his very unfortunate background.

Originally from northern Slovenia, he was the middle of three siblings, whose entire family was torn apart after his mother stole the savings and kidnapped his younger brother after his parents' divorce, leaving him, his older sister and father behind in the latter's home country of Austria.

Fast forward 9 years later, after graduating from high school and becoming fluent in multiple languages, he sets out to save his younger brother from his mother while also pursuing his dreams of becoming a fashion designer at the same time.

2) Xχnox (December 16th, 2024)

"What the hell is going on here..."

A mysterious entity, who mysteriously wanders in the middle of nowhere.

Prior to becoming Xχnox, she was an ordinary dark elf from the same world as her friends Yunoki and Sylvan, having known the latter for a very long time since prior to him arriving in Sakurahama Island and becoming friends with the former of the two of them.

After her friends left the island, she hung out with the bad people, who stabbed her in the back over false accusations that she moved on from them and started calling herself Xχnox.

14 months after the betrayal, she became the newest member of Omakase Cafeteria's marketing team, working alongside her new colleagues in working on and maintaining the café's marketing campaigns.

Well, even though it's almost 1AM in my area, that's all I have to say about Laurin and Xχnox for today, so I'm heading to bed. Good night!

The End of Abyss Legends on Kongregate

Hello everyone, I have a new update regarding Abyss Legends.

Although it's been 6 years since the game was first released back in May 2020, players on Kongregate, who were looking forward to play the game on their browser, found out and made complaints that the game was completely broken.

Turns out, they weren't wrong about the black screen and as a result, I recommended them to download the game from itch.io and moved on with my life.

Fast-forward 6 years later, I received a player feedback email and took matters into my own hands by reaching out to Kongregate themselves to remove the game for good.

As a result, due to the game's removal from their platform an hour ago, I decided to end support for their version of the game as of today.

Thanks for playing the Kongregate version of Abyss Legends while it lasted.

The beginning of the university years

Hi everyone, it's been a week since the last post. 

Throughout this time, after my mom left for La Réunion due to her reproductive health issues, on the day after I received my baccalaureate results from the internet and high school, I permanently accepted the offer from a local university in my area through Parcoursup and started the procedure to enroll in that university online.

However, just before I was about to start the university enrollment procedure, I got stuck in the login page, which prevented me from doing said procedure.

As a result, I and my family tried everything we can to reach out to them through email and phone throughout the day, except that their phone numbers (including the one they had provided on Parcoursup, their website and social media pages and the others) were unreachable in the afternoon.

Just as it turns out, from what I've heard, the reason why I couldn't get past through the login page was because they didn't create and give me the credentials needed to get past through the page to do and complete my university enrollment process.

Rest assured, this is just the beginning of my university years, as I'll update when I get a email response from them within the next few days and once things get sorted out with my enrollment process.

That's all for now, so stay tuned for more updates.

UPDATE (as of July 10th, 2026):

The next day, after I wrote this post, I went to campus with my father by car, where the people that were there at the time know him.

Apparently, from what I've heard, it was all of the new students at the university who didn't have their login credentials and were in the same situation as I, due to their server being unable to retrieve all of our data from Parcoursup.

In the meantime, let's hope that things get sorted out before my mother gets back home from her trip in La Réunion.

UPDATE (as of July 11th, 2026):

After we visited the campus, I finally received the login credentials in question, so I decided to do my university enrollment process online, except that towards the end of said process, we couldn't pay the tuition fees to complete it because one of their administrators has yet to approve the documents that I've provided on their database.

I'll update once the college enrollment process is done so that I can enjoy the remainder of my summer vacation until August 19th.