
It’s a shame that this game had to shut down because it was one of the most popular massively multiplayer online game with more than 300 million user accounts and had become almost well known with every online gamer. Its successor Club Penguin Island was launched soon but users complained the game wasn’t just good enough as compared to its predecessor. The game also had plenty of criticism targeted especially over the fact that it encouraged consumerism and allowed players to cheat Unfortunately like most online games, Club Penguin started to decline in 2015 due to low popularity and in March 2017, the game was discontinued. With time, the game’s private servers were becoming vulnerable to DDOS attacks and database leaks due to insufficient security measures. Disney who had acquired the company just two years after the game had launched did a terrific job to keep the game running. The missions were actually well designed and each mission had an intriguing plot to test your detective skills. You could also train your penguin in a game of card-jitsu where your penguin could obtain a black belt.īut the best part of the game was the Club Penguin PSA missions where your penguin had to take on the role of that of a secret agent and tackle missions which used to be so fun and entertaining. The game also boasted of so many cool adventures like surfing, toboggan races, jetpack sailing, racing on mine carts, ice hockey etc. There is also a nightclub where you could train your penguin in mastering his dance moves. There are shops in the world of Club Penguin where you could buy goodies and sweets. Maybe Banned from Club Penguin will open its doors again when Club Penguin Island, the free-to-play smartphone take of the classic game, launches.What makes the dynamics of the game so good is that the penguins were humanized in order to behave and feel like us. There’s also a revamped version of the game hitting mobile phones tomorrow, so there will be more opportunities to be banned.

The shutdown may seem premature to the players still checking out the game one last time before midnight, however - surely there are those who wanted to wait until Club Penguin’s final day to get permanently banned from the game. That spun off into the dedicated subreddit about people’s most obscene ways of getting their membership revoked, amassing thousands of subscribers over the years. Getting intentionally banned from Club Penguin began in earnest in 2009, as a favorite pasttime of 4chan’s gaming section. It’s a bittersweet end for a forum that spawned a new category of speedrunning and reignited adult interest in the browser game that defined many of our preteen years.

When the subreddit loads, it has a pretty clear message for visitors: “You’ve all been banned from /r/bannedfromclubpenguin.” RedditĪfter years of courting eternal banishment from Club Penguin, the moderators of the prankster community get to be in the driver’s seat. Banned from Club Penguin, a subreddit where players catalogued ways they got their penguins kicked out for good, has gone private, and it’s left behind a perfect goodbye note. PT, a Reddit forum dedicated to the kid-friendly browser game has closed up shop a little early. Although Club Penguin shuts down tonight at 12:01 a.m.
