Death of a Game: Club Penguin

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[neetchan]

Disney shutting down all their iconic mmos always makes me sad

[sukamadik]

Your videos makes hearing about dead games and dreams a delightful experience.

[Indigo_Gaming]

I was all aboard the first few expansions, The Freezing Crusade and Wrath of the Lich Peng, but as soon as Mists of Penguaria released, I checked out.

[rachelblake]

Maybe I spent too much time on 4Chan as a teenager, but I have to say this was a weird, slightly uncomfortable watching experience with "CP" constantly being mentioned. Kinda funny too.

[celtictheknight]

Club Penguin will always have a place in my heart, where I'll remember it fondly. RIP

[detectiverick]

God dame Disney shutting down this classic game for another, worse game, they simply shut down later.

[aheahe]

Hopefully you do a video on VMK - Virtual Magic Kingdom, which was Disney's OFFICIAL, direct competition to Club Penguin.
It was literally the exact same game, a flash based social hub with minigames meant for an audience of kids but everything was Disneyland theme'd.
Funnily enough, Disney actually bought Club Penguin 9 months before shutting down VMK in 2007, which screams very obviously that the reason they shut it down was to focus on Club Penguin. Feel like that would be an important piece to the Club Penguin story and why Disney did the things they did with Club Penguin.

[timothy]

Dropped to my knees in the middle of a Walmart parking lot

[bellabella]

I grew up playing this as a kid, it was a nice escape from family drama and was the first place I got to express myself as a girl. I remember collecting a lot of stuff in the game and even collecting the trading card game IRL. Hearing that it was being shut down made me very sad.

[N]

This is the first game I truly experienced that you covered here. As a part of the well known "flash generation", who also grew without a console up until 2011, I LOVED that game as a kid, kinda obsessed with it and the cute puffles and the vegetarian polar bear... but I noticed the game started to have a bit of a downfall when stuff that used to be free became paid content, which even my 13 year old me could understand as unfair.
I'm sure after that point I moved to Wii, then 3DS, then the abyss who is LoL and Mobile, then recovered. It's just a great place where people was just ridiculous and the minigames creative. I wouldn't say is MMO game, not RPG in the current meaning, but a Multiplayer Online and OG definition of Role-Play Game, and that made the game unique.

[Jazzybellshouse]

Club penguin journey is as good as rewritten and it has no ads.

[PlayBoxWii]

My little brother and his friends use to play this when they were kids
He passed at age 21 in 2020😔
Thanks for the uploads

[CarlolucaS]

I beg you all to not abreviate Clup Penguin.

[dullsunrise]

Already feeling the nostalgia thanks to the thumbnail alone :”)

[TasteThRambo]

I’m surprised Disney hasn’t tried to make a CP movie yet. I feel like it’s a no brainer.

[Cecekcz]

Step 1: try not to cry
Step 2: cry a lot

[SliminBlue]

I'm really hopeful that Box Critters does well. The same creator behind both, a similar vibe to both, but now Lance Priebe/Rocket Snail has WAY more experience making games and can make Box Critters the best product possible without the Disney "agenda" forcing crossovers into the game every other month and the absolute need to profit constantly. If Box Critters can become the Club Penguin 2 that never was, I'll be very happy. We need to honor Club Penguin's legacy in some way, and with fan run private servers being controversial to say the least, Box Critters may be the best way to do that.

[crusadingcomrade]

I remember growing up with club penguin, I had left by the time there was the more blatant Disney additions, but I still enjoyed every minute of it.

Also abbreviating Club Penguin as c p made a lot of the sentences sound off, especially if taken out of context... Though all it did was make me laugh :)

[MrFrigid]

watching this and realizing I actually remember playing penguin football chat, and when club penguin originally launched on miniclip. As a kid penguins were my favorite animal, it was so crazy when club penguin came out, it was like they had made a game just for me. Seeing what has become of it really breaks my heart. I swear every year of adulthood another part of my childhood dies.

[Tempest-jcme]

This one has been a long time coming. The death of this icon with never be forgotten.

Also in regards to Disney targeting CP reworks feels the same as Cartoon Network targeting FusionFall reworks. If they were in it for the money they would just hire these people on and restart the franchise. They just do it because copyright laws can be total BS sometimes, and they are salty that someone else did a better job then they could.