Why do so many people have such a dislike and distrust for Gumi? Coming from Puzzle and Dragons, I thought Brave Frontier was surprisingly generous. They made some nice Quality-of-life changes before PnD did too, and their stages were never as annoying, the compensations seemed more substantial, and all in all, I enjoyed their product more.
With Chain Chronicles, they had a bunch of issues, but the game was never as popular as hoped, right? So if it took the B-Team being in operation to ensure that the game continued to get content and characters and such released, so what? Being down an extra 24hrs isn't that big a deal, for a game that ask one to play daily. And the compensations, again, were fairly nice.
Also the idea that "Gumi has harmed the brand" and "Sega would have done a better job!" both seem laughable to me. If they wanted the characters and world cultivated in this game to have a more solid world-wide presence, nothing that's happened so far is so bad that it couldn't happen.
The problem is that SEGA (USA? Europe?) suck at this stuff, and has, for the past decade or so, at least. They never bring out any of their RPGs beyond Japanese shores. They don't commission development projects to keep their IPs alive, and when they do, they're either low-tier groups, or they cancel the projects before release. The way they treat their IPs is the very reason why they made commentary about how much they could learn from now being in bed with ATLUS, who know how to properly manage, distribute, and hype their titles.
And while I can understand the salt from the release of the current events that COULD have pulled many people into buying prysma and such... from a F2P angle, I'm glad it went out with some events (even the current reduced stamina and few new characters) that let it go out with a bang. I'm happy all this stuff got out, and I get to experience it, rather than it being prepared for months on the backburner, and left to rot, already translated, but never accessible. Even if I did spend some money then (which I'd have been likely to do if not for MEH rates often), I'd have still gotten over 2 months of use out of what I purchased back in late DEC. Not ideal in the slightest, but much better than game shutting off Jan. 1st or something.
Really though, you'd think there'd be a way to migrate everything over, and keep a player base, just maybe with slower updates, or on a different hardware. I find it silly how companies are willing to throw out world building and likable characters so casually. As Steam gets more and more JP games, you'd think a series that has an approaching anime would be dumped there, before just being... dumped.