When is club penguin going to end

The Reveller. The Optimist. ES Best. ES Mag. Follow us:. Password Please enter a valid password. Vine, the short-form video app that was also shut down in , can only be viewed through YouTube compilations and TikTok imitations. In recent years, media companies like Deadspin have been hollowed out and sometimes twisted into advertising farms. Club Penguin wasn't even the first avian-based game to be taken offline with little warning. That title belongs to Flappy Bird. Following Club Penguin's shutdown, even the blog post itself has been lost to the pixelated sands of time.

Navigating to clubpenguin. Only by using the Wayback Machine, a service that periodically crawls webpages for archival, are we able to see the original announcement , preserved in digital amber. Unlike the rest of the internet, the comment section on this page is important. While the shutdown did garner many, understandably, angry reactions, others rocketed past the seven stages of grief and landed on acceptance.

By , the digital decay had become an established part of the internet tradition. Nothing on the internet is forever. There is no guarantee that your favorite corner of web will continue to exist a decade from now.

While the news media was undertaking a "pivot to video" based on artificially inflated data , the game industry was attempting a similar turn toward mobile gaming. Buried within the shutdown announcement, there was a reminder that Club Penguin would soon have a 3D, mobile-only sequel, Club Penguin Island.

But all of the items, clothing, and pets earned over the decade of playing the original would not be carried over. Filed under: Gaming Policy Tech. Club Penguin Online shuts down after receiving copyright claim from Disney New, 11 comments. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Next Up In Gaming. Sign up for the newsletter Verge Deals Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Just one more thing!

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