Closing
In early 2003, Online Bomberman in Japan was shut down. The official website stated that the game was stopped for debugging and was in development for a commercial release.
In October 2005, The Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau site announced that they were closing the websites and all the servers involved with the game. This announcement caused a wave of shock amongst many players in that region. In response, several users in the forums declared that they will attempt to clone the game and setup private servers with no moderators or administrators doing anything to stop it.
On November 1, 2005, the game went out of business in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
The Japanese version went back online on December 1, 2005, but then closed again on July 31, 2007.
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