Service for western version of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent to transfer to NetEase on January 16, 2025

Square Enix has announced that service for the western version of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent will transfer from Square Enix to NetEase Interactive Entertainment on January 16, 2025. NetEase already operates the Chinese and Southeast Asian servers for the game.

Champions of the Continent originally released in Japan in October 2020, followed by the western English release in July 2022. The Chinese and Asian versions followed in 2023.

The message from producers Hirohito Suzuki and Takahiro Inoue can be found below.

First, we'd like to thank all the players of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent.

As of Thursday, January 16, 2025, service operations for Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent will be transferred to NetEase Interactive Entertainment. 

With the 2.5-year anniversary approaching in January 2025, we decided that the best way to continue to provide quality content for everyone was to work in collaboration with NetEase. As for additional main story content and such for which we've received many requests, everything is planned for release after operations have been transferred to NetEase. 

Players will of course be able to transfer their game data and continue their adventures. Please see the in-game notices for more information regarding the data transfer process. 

We are sincerely grateful for all the support we have received for Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent. We hope you look forward to future developments that we will continue to offer with our partner, NetEase. 

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent
Producers
Hirohito Suzuki
Takahiro Inoue