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Yeah that's one thing that we've got on GBL that they don't do on the JPN banner, we're having time to breathe and gather stones. They've had great banner back to back and it doesn't stop which results in them not only losing stones but money, just crazy. For all the crap we get here at least we can say we're using less money than they are.
So if they're closing the in-game shops, the banner must be coming out later today/tonight, then, right? They wouldn't shut down their revenue stream for more than a couple of hours.