Club Penguin is shutting down; Opening Mobile Oriented Service

[goodtofufriday]

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/31/club-penguin-is-shutting-down/

Source2: http://www.clubpenguin.com/whats-new/important-announcement-regarding-club-penguin-desktop-and-mobile-devices

 

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Club Penguin, the Disney-owned social network for kids, announced this morning it’s shutting down. In its place, the company will launch a new product for mobile, Club Penguin Island, which has been in development over the past several years. Club Penguin Island will launch in March, while the Club Penguin game on the desktop and mobile devices will shut down on March 29, 2017.

 

Started in 2005, the site featured avatars of animated penguins (hence the name), that lived in its online world. Users could play games, chat, and build their home with virtual accessories. The company sold to Disney in 2007, in a deal that then valued the business at $700 million. At the time, it had over 12 million users. By 2013, that number had grown to 200 million, though there’s some indication that visitors have been on the decline.

 

According to one traffic measurement source, SimilarWeb, the site saw 5.6 million visitors as of December, 2016 – and that figure was down from 7.4 million in July, 2016. The U.S., however, was still the primarily source of that traffic, driving over a quarter of the total visits to the site.

 

The new site, Club Penguin Island, will look to recapture kids’ interest, with a modern-day take on the original virtual world, but one’s that focused on mobile. Though related, Club Penguin Island is its own, standalone app – players can’t bring items or coins from the old site to the new one. Their Club Penguin membership will also not transfer over to the new property.

 

 

 

During that Time I was a GunBound kid, which is still just barely alive as well. I dont know if its sad to see this game go, but im all for hearing their new plans to appeal of this generation.

[TAHIRMIA]

RIP

I used to play this a lot as a kid

[Dackzy]

I thought this died many years ago...

[suchamoneypit]

5.6 million visitors in a month and it has to shut down? How much could it possibly cost to support the servers?

[DildorTheDecent]

SAVE CP!!!

 

Wait that sounds wrong......

[minibois]

 

End of a legacy.

[Matu20]

Periodically went in just to stay nigger or fuck and get banned. Such a shame it's shutting down

[rattacko123]

Oh so that's why Pewdiepie now uses the old club penguin office... RIP

[KnightlyBackUps]

Even as a kid I prefered Runescape over club pinguin >.<

still R.I.P.

I guess it was the choice for many amongst us for blowing their lifespans on.

[PlayStation 2]

Godspeed, you magnificent bastard.

[JAKEBAB]

Wow! bs mobile games smh.

[waterjug]

aw that was the most mlg game ever

[Okjoek]

3 hours ago, KnightlyBackUps said:

Even as a kid I prefered Runescape over club pinguin >.<

still R.I.P.

I guess it was the choice for many amongst us for blowing their lifespans on.

Runescape was my place to talk with people on the internet while playing a game as a kid.

[silberdrachi]

11 hours ago, Okjoek said:

Runescape was my place to talk with people on the internet while playing a game as a kid.

wave:WTB GF/WTS Law Runes 300gp

[Okjoek]

40 minutes ago, silberdrachi said:

wave:WTB GF/WTS Law Runes 300gp

I played for the quests, skilling and PVP minigames like castle/clan/soul wars. At a point though I felt they were turning RS into something it was just never supposed to be with the weird "combat evolved" and those quests that were about killing off the lore gods and stuff. After playing from ~2006-2011 it was such a shame to feel that it wasn't the same game and that I didn't want to play it anymore.

[themctipers]

surprisingly, or not surprisingly i played this a lot back when i was 7

so then i found minecraft, and never looked back

[KnightlyBackUps]

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