Originally Posted By Admin This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=2908" target="_blank">Latest: Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom (VMK) Closi</a>
Originally Posted By rlcoolastic I am shocked that i heard that VMK will close i have played this game since it opened and still playing it. thx for the news btw
Originally Posted By eww4 That's too bad. I just logged onto it for the first time 2 weeks ago. Thanks for the news.
Originally Posted By Doobie For anyone interested, <a href="http://www.VMKMagic.com" target="_blank">http://www.VMKMagic.com</a> has a petition to try to save VMK. Doobie.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 It's a free game, and with Disney really getting into the MMORPG's with POTC , Toontown and the upcoming Cars online game, this was expected. Why give away something for free when it's smarter to charge for it.
Originally Posted By PirateGirl121 WAIT WHY IS VMK CLOSING??I WILL MISS IT SO MUCH I WORKED SO HARD TO GET ALL MY STUFF!!THEY CANT CLOSE IT!
Originally Posted By ni_teach I'm sorry to see this game close. It is a lot of fun and their mini-games were outstanding. Also it made me feel like I was at the park when I was home.
Originally Posted By PirateGirl121 VMK is like a virtual Disney Park. You create your own little character and you walk around play mini games and talk with other people
Originally Posted By Elderp It was a boring game, the only thing I am going to miss about it is the real park quests. That was something different, but the virtual world was boring.
Originally Posted By ForeverWDW VirtualWorldsNews.com is running a story on the closing of VMK Virtual World News - Business news, Strategy, Insight, and Analysis is currently running a story about the closing of VMK. Several people have already shared their stories there in the hopes it will reach the right people. Many more have yet to find this place to voice out against the closing. Please take a moment and read (bring tissues). If you can please leave a comment or share your story. <a href="http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html" target="_blank">http://www.virtualworldsnews.c...ual.html</a> If the real life stories there dont break your heart, nothing will. Disney is doing more then just simply shutting down a project. They are destroying childrens hopes and dreams. They are taking away the one place where children of all ages can be free to explore, learn, commincate, grow, imagine, heal, florish, and DREAM. I know "Yavn" is watching out there somewhere in cyber space. Please fight for us Yavn. I find it difficult to believe that your sitting back watching your own project go down the drain while thousands of children are crying out in despair and your doing nothing to stop it. Please help bring the magic you once believed in back to life. Please help dry the eyes of the children you have touched worldwide.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 If the real life stories there dont break your heart, nothing will. Disney is doing more then just simply shutting down a project. They are destroying childrens hopes and dreams. They are taking away the one place where children of all ages can be free to explore, learn, commincate, grow, imagine, heal, florish, and DREAM. << It's a video game, I can give you a dozen different video games where children of all ages can be free to explore, learn, commincate, grow, imagine, heal, florish, and DREAM. But let's up the stakes, if Disney charged 10 dollars a month, would these supporters still be there? Online games are not cheap to implement. I have no doubt this decision is partly financially motivated.
Originally Posted By ForeverWDW See thats the thing, people are asking to let them pay to play. Most people there realize that this can be partailly to blame for the closing. However Disney has chosen to ignore the plea of so many willing to play this online game and instead are trying to shuffle us off to another of it's pay to play games. Yes I have seen those games and they dont offer anywhere near the family/community experience VMK offers. Those games only appeal to specific age groups and likes. You wont be finding me playing POTC online thats for sure and what about my younger son playing with his older brother? Disney offers no such game that an entire family can play together and enjoy.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 You might want to try out Toon Town Online. I love the game and so do others way younger than me.
Originally Posted By Elderp It is just a game. A boring one at that, the hope was it would help influence more people to go to the parks. The reality is it didn't.
Originally Posted By PirateGirl121 Ok well Elderp I am sure there are ppl that agree with you but the truth is that most people <3 vmk and thats the truth so stop posting hate comments! Anyways yes I am sure that toontown is great and the fact that vmk is free may be while there closing it but it dosnt give the same experiance as vmk does
