Yostar has started delivering its promise to cut off account linkages with X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, for its mobile games. Blue Archive was the first game to see the feature completely removed when it received an update on December 27, 2023. The company had also set up similar plans for Azur Lane, Arknights, and Mahjong Soul in the coming days, as 2023 draws to a close.
After the update, Blue Archive player accounts that were only connected to X/Twitter turned into guest accounts. That will render them unable to sync their accounts on re-installs and transfers to other devices. To help address the issue, Yostar has set up a special webpage that lets such users transfer login data from their existing X account to a new Yostar Account.
In early July 2023, important announcements about the eventual cessation of account linkages with the platform previously known as Twitter appeared simultaneously on Japanese Blue Archive, Azur Lane, Arknights, and Mahjong Soul official accounts. All four games share a similarity by having Yostar as their primary publisher in Japan.
Yostar had expressed its concern with the drastic changes made to Twitter’s API in the early months of 2023, even before Elon Musk renamed the platform to X in late July 2023. It ultimately decided to completely remove account linkage features with the platform within 2023. The company had also been encouraging players to move on to other linkage methods, such as Yostar Accounts.
Yostar is not the only game company that removed Twitter integration following the platform’s massive change to X. Sony Interactive Entertainment has also removed features that let PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 users view and post content to the same platform in November 2023.
Blue Archive, Azur Lane, Arknights, and Mahjong Soul are all available worldwide on iOS and Android mobile devices.
