Well, that’s embarrassing. It looks as though every single HTML5 Quick Game on LINE Messenger is undergoing “maintenance” for the month of November.

This must be egg on the face for LINE, since they released the Quick Game platform barely two months ago. I quickly became a fan, mainly because I found it far less cluttered than its counterpart at Facebook Messenger Instant Games. [Of course, I’m not impartial, as my portfolio company CoolGames publishes one of the nine featured games on the platform.]

I’m endeavouring to glean some behind-the-scenes insights into what’s going on with LINE’s across-the-board maintenance here. My suspicion, however, is that this is less about technical glitches at LINE and more a case of Apple holding them by the 玉子 (that’s Japanese for huevos).