Today is the last day Mario Kart Tour.Nintendo will shut down the mobile racing servers on September 29 at 11:00 pm PT, that is September 30 at 09:00 Moscow time.After this, the game will no longer launch on iOS and Android: there will be no offline version.

Race in Mario Kart Tour
Mario Kart Tour.Image: Nintendo

What will happen to rubies and Gold Pass

Nintendo stopped selling rubies on July 7th.The remaining rubies can be spent until closing time in the Spotlight Shop, Mii Costume Shop, and Coin Rush mode.New subscriptions and Gold Pass auto-renewals are also disabled.From August 4 until the end of the service, the main benefits of the Gold Pass are available to players for free, except for bonuses for continuous subscription.

What happens after disconnection

Nintendo announced the complete end of the Mario Kart Tour service and did not introduce a separate offline version.Once the servers are shut down, you will not be able to continue playing normally.

Almost seven years on smartphones

Mario Kart Tour was released on September 25, 2019 and became one of Nintendo's most downloaded mobile projects.Later, the gacha mechanics were removed from it, and the tracks from Tour formed the basis of the Booster Course Pass add-on for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.We wrote about the new tracks in the main series in the material about the Mario Kart World update.

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