Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32646150-20170721201629

''This article is quite long. Please read and understand it with patience. I also plan to upload the visualised version of this article to YouTube. Thank you.'' We all know that Disney has developed and released a replacement of Club Penguin under the name of Club Penguin Island. Although the game became more innovated and has been released in 3D, many players seem to hate it, spamming with one star rates. After a brief analysis of the players' reviews, we can say that the main reason why they dislike CPI is the so-called "division" of players made by Disney. But what if Disney didn't want to divide players but to unite them? Are all the bad reviews just influenced by the angry society of people who don't know what they are talking about? Let's find it out. To prove our point of view, we have divided all the reviews in large groups and decided to extract the main ideas out of them. But first let's talk about the actual reason why CP was closed. As you know, the Flash Player is about to die. Nowadays no more new Flash games are coming out. Most of them are either mobile or client-side. Even Adobe, the manufacturer of Flash Player, has officially announced its end. (google for proof) That is why all Flash games are now in a great danger, as it would be impossible to find a Flash designer in ten or fifteen years. It would be too unprofitable. Also Flash is too vulnerable to hacks. Many people used to hack CP by using web clients (Penguin Lodge) or even client-side programs (Cloud Penguin). But now you can't find even a coins hack for CPI on the Web (those which are published on the Internet are fake). Also the old Club Penguin had many bugs which couldn't be patched. For all those reasons in late 2013 Disney did a great thing, in my opinion. They spent all the efforts into getting rid of Flash. The parties in CP became less funny. Less rooms were decorated, and mascots barely logged in-game. Club Penguin developers devoted all their time to the development of CPI, and therefore they cannot be called lazy, like many players do. Game designers have even used old features to make sure players had at least some fun while the CPI was being constructed (for example, throwing paint was an old feature from April Fools Party that returned in the Operation: Crustacean) And now, when their hard work is finally done, some people somehow dare to ruin all that with those reviews. Would you be able to create all those things in a very short amount of time? Could you create the graphics, rooms, clothing customizers, thousands of clothes descriptions and their translations to three more languages in three years? I guess no. That is why all players are unsatisfied with Club Penguin Island commit a mistake. They even try to blame the community managers (like Megg, Joe, Spike Hike, etc) which are not even responsible for the changes in the game. All they have to do is to announce the news to the community and make Club Penguin popular. The game developers have put their souls in the game, they had sleepless nights of construction, and now you insult them with your one or two star reviews. That's why all people who have posted bad reviews on the CPI page need to change their opinion. Many players mentioned that they began to cry when they heard Club Penguin close, although it didn't really close. But that cry is much better than what could have happened. If Club Penguin didn't make people change to the mobile platform and waited for all those years, it would be too late. The Club Penguin community would be disbanded forever. All the good game designers would be working somewhere else, and Disney wouldn't be able to create such an island. That is why all these screams are pointless. You should be grateful that the community is at least saved for now. Some people say that membership prices are too high and that they need to be changed. Even some old players whose accounts are thousands of days old complain about it. That is definitely awkward. The monthly cost of a membership is five dollars. It used to be eight dollars in the original CP. What are you complaining for? Do some maths and see that Disney has even lowered the membership costs. By the way, the membership price for a year remains the same: sixty dollars (see the Membership wiki page for proof). Judging from this we can say that people who complain about membership and even put low ratings to the game are incorrect. People also mention that members can barely do anything in the game. That is right, but aren't the reviewers old CP players? I used to be a non-member back in two thousand ten. Non-members who registered at that time didn't have a chance of wearing clothes except for silly hats like the Chilly Track Hat given at the Mountain Expedition or the Bucket hat given for the Card-Jitsu Water storm. The only chance when non-members could wear a body item was Operation: Hibernation, when an Unlock Items Online code for two hoodies was released. Back in these days I could not buy a membership as I lived in Russia and no one in my family owned a credit card. When CP released umbrellas, I was really jealous of people who could buy and wear them, who could play all the levels of Jet Pack Adventure and Catching Waves, who could bring their puffles to the game and have fun with them, who could access all the Puffle Launch levels and much more. I couldn't play the new Card-Jitsu Water or access exclusive rooms like the Dance Club roof at some parties. I also remember my disappointment at the Wilderness Expedition 2011 when I couldn't buy a life jacket required to cross the island on a boat and couldn't obtain a Brown Puffle. I also have been pointlessly trying to solve the Hidden Lake door mystery not knowing that I need a membership to play the Puffle Rescue game. Hence we shall not compare CPI to the original CP by saying it is pay to play. It has always been pay to play. Maybe those people who mention this in the reviews have either registered too late (2014 or 2015) when all types of items were available for everyone or they don't remember the life as a non-member. There is also an opinion that the island is really small. Let me agree with that. But it is forgivable as CPI is only three months old. Try to log on a CPPS which recreates an old version of CP, Penguin Chat 3, for example. A little boring, isn't it? The same is about CPI. It is a new game, like CP back in 2005. The developers are trying to make the island better by making new locations, games and clothes. Also Club Penguin made, makes and will make takeovers independently from if you want it or not because they need to make money for the further development of the game, not for personal purposes. Without takeovers, CP wouldn't have existed by now as they wouldn't earn much to hire 3D designers, moderators, community managers and even office janitors. That is why we will have to respect takeovers properly, and even if we dislike them, we should tolerate them and look on the bright side of our life. A large amount of people says that the game is awful because there are no puffles/igloos/ninjas, etc. If you have not realized it yet, I have good news for you. Puffles actually make appearance in the game in the level-up fireworks and in many phrases in adventures. Igloos are not here yet but CPI Staff announced that Rory the Construction Guy will come to the island. He will probably be selling igloo items. Nothing has been announced about ninjas, but remember that Card-Jitsu has been released only in 2008, although the ninja suit was present even in Penguin Chat 3. Also some players seem to be spreading false rumors. They say that they miss Herbert the polar bear, although he is present in the game. It wouldn't be so interesting anyway if all these features would be released in CPI at the same time. As a conclusion, we should wait patiently for all the missing things from Club Penguin. Some people prefer different private servers over Club Penguin Island. Let me explain why they are wrong. All the current staff of CPPses is powerless. All they did is dishonestly took CP's files and launched them on a server to get money. Let's take, for example, one of the most powerful CPPses called Club Penguin Rewritten. After playing it for about two months and after observing the wiki I see what it is about. During a couple months of runtime they did nothing new to the game, except for the new character called DJ Maxx (that was taken from Penguin Chat 3 too). No other custom locations. All parties have been taken from CP without any changes. After that, CP Rewritten runs on the Action Script 2 language. That means that if it doesn't close soon, it will have a very limited choice of parties. You will see neither the Operation Blackout, nor Operation Puffle, nor any other great party which came in 2012 or later. You won't be even able to meet Herbert. If you still do not believe me, I can prove it. Log on the game and open your stamp book at the Characters page. The Herbert stamp has been replaced with the DJ Maxx stamp (as of 7/7/2017). Another proof of that is the event of CPR being hacked. When some person got all the mascots’ passwords, he didn’t log into Herbert but logged in all the other existent mascots. That fact also proves that the CPR staff is not capable of bringing original content to the game. That is why it is only a temporary shelter to CP fans. I think that creating CPPSes is very offensive to all those people who developed Club Penguin. All CPPS fans should get used to CPI because only Disney can keep CP running. Some players prefer to post reviews without any comments. I suppose that is because they are just angry at the staff members. That can be explained by the fact that our mind remembers bad things better than good ones. Yes, I have been disappointed by some events that occurred in Club Penguin. I was sick from the endless limitations for non-members on CP. I got really upset when the Russian version of Club Penguin shut down. The moment when CP closed was also depressing, but I knew that Disney is doing the right thing. I did not also get the Alumni jacket with the proud number of seven years (I couldn't sign into my penguin as it contained Cyrillic letters in it). Despite all that, I am still in the community, even as a non-member. Try to remember all the good things CP did to you. It had been entertaining you for all your childhood. Club Penguin has helped me a lot to expand my vocabulary and grammar knowledge in English. Without CP I wouldn't be writing here now. And I am glad that Disney revived the game, not let it die with all the other Flash games. Not many players understand the fact that Disney didn't even try to kill the Club Penguin community, but only tried to make it better. After all, the former CP motto is 'Waddle around and meet new friends'. And that's the thing that we should do in CPI independently from any circumstances. Let us finally conclude. In my opinion, the splash of bad rates doesn't make any sense. The current opinion about Club Penguin Island is influenced by an angry mob. The bad rates are mainly caused by psychological issues such as angriness, misunderstanding of the role of memberships and takeovers in the game and the will to get all the missing features from the old CP at one time. If we don’t pay attention to all those people who convince others not to play CPI, we may actually realize that it is not a bad game. It is an excellent one. Disney did the right thing by replacing Club Penguin with Club Penguin Island. And we, the community, must respect CPI and its developers to make sure that our future and contemporary children have a place where to entertain themselves. If you still have any questions about the destiny of CPI, CP or Disney, want to share your opinion with me or with other players, feel free to comment down below or message me via the following e-mail address:mogobeast@gmail.com. You can also find the address in the description. I will try to answer you as soon as I can. If your opinion changed after reading that article or essay, try to spread my ideas among other players of our community. Just don’t spam everywhere and try to rephrase the ideas. Thank you for being patient to read and understand everything. Yours truly, Ammonium, one of the loyal members of CP/CPI community 