Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10927269-20160519154642/@comment-28057040-20160520003252

SetoKaybola wrote: From what I've seen there are many indications that the game's future might not be that "bright" as they say.



- Club Penguin ended their support on some foreign languages mid-2015 (Russian and German versions.) If you remember, Toontown, another game owned by Disney, faced the similar direction. Years before the closure of the game foreign versions of it were shut down.

- The staff laid off 28 employees earlier this year. High numbers.

- They also ended their support on membership cards weeks ago, possibly because printing them is a huge pain on the wallet, and subscription on digital is more profitable.

- Their playerbase seems to fall very quickly. Next to this text is a comparison between the 2010 frontpage server list and today. (Funny how they are just battlefields for armies now.)

- It seems that many old players quit the game too, as because Sleet is nothing but a ghost town now.

- Active users with membership seems to decrease too. The latest parties were very restricted against non-members. Possibly because Club Penguin wants to encourage players to subscribe to the game.

- Parties late 2016 and this year were dramatically less worked on. Not many rooms were decorated. Yes, Holiday Party, Puffle Party, Prehistoric Party have many rooms but they are just re-used assets. What happened to all those artists? Had to fire them off?

I believe Project Super Secret may attract players but the fact that it looks too mobile-designed suggests that it might replace the base game as it is, but also mean that the web version of the game might shut down, making it a mobile-exclusive.

I want to see your thoughts on this topic. Well, you do know that people grow older and so they leave because of that and they have to move on, and that's a large factor, but also that they played for so long now it's no longer fun so that's as well, and that some just don't like Disney and are going to other games. Plus, they added a bunch more servers which spreads out the players more and Blizzard still is in 4-5 bars, and sometimes full. There are still some servers that get full so CP is not as abandoned as you think, plus they're not able to make these fantastic parties as you think because over 50% of their staff is working on the big update and many left, like the 2D artists so they can't really make as much as large parties until after PSS is released.