#Panfu coom update

No official announcement were made ahead of the closure, and no farewell party was held for the occasion. The team decided to let Panfu stay up until the servers expired, and they finally expired on November 1, 2016, marking the end of the official version of Panfu. Goodbeans was shut down in January 2015, and applied for bankruptcy in April 2015. Except for a change in server-domains on March 2015 Panfu would remain in this state until its closure in late 2016.

#Panfu coom update

The last Panfu update occurred on Decem, around the same time the last team-members were let go. īy 2014, there were very few active users, and with the chats shut down, the number of players would only plummet even further, making it difficult to find even slightly populated servers. Soon after, the chats of other language versions followed, with the German and English chats getting shut down in 2015. The Norwegian and Danish chats were shut down on November 15, 2013. The first chat to be shut down, were the Polish and French chats, which was shut down on Madue to a shortage of moderators this occurred despite protests from the player base protests which, with the declining nature of the game, would spread to other languages, but would mostly go unnoticed. Panfu began losing popularity in 2013 mostly due to Goodbeans' own actions, such as trying to cut expenses by firing developers in December 2012 and ending the promotion of Panfu via television spots. The closure of the Arabic Panfu was followed closely by Portuguese Panfu, which shut down on December 9, 2010. The Arabic Panfu, closed on November 1, 2010, having been open for less than a month before the plug was pulled. ĭespite initial plans of expanding the Panfu brand into other parts of the world, things began to take a turn downhill early on. The mascots Max and Ella were renamed to Houssam and Leila, and Kamaria to Marjana. Panfu was opened in Arabic on September 10, 2010, and had over ten thousand users within the first two weeks. The game quickly became a competitor to Club Penguin in Europe. When the new languages were added throughout 2008, Panfu's playerbase exploded in size. Young Internet wanted to expand Panfu, and decided to make it international.

The minigams that were available at this time was limited, with the only ones available being Blub, Happarama, Train your Brain, Fish'n'Fish, Hubi and Bolly Hop.

The only rooms available were the Town, the Ice cream parlor, the Pet shop, the Gift shop, the Library, the Jungle, the Sports field, the Gym, the Swimming pool, the Changing room, the Kiosk and the Volcano. More languages, such as English, were added from 2008 to 2009. Panfu was officially released in December 2007, after beta testing was completed. The virtual world was opened in a beta-period during the month of November 2007 and was available only in Germany. The development of Panfu, (called Pandaland during development Sep–Oct 2007) started in September 2007, a month after Young Internet was founded. The idea for Panfu came when Moritz Hohl and Kay Kühne wanted to make a safe place on the internet for German children.