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Will the website shut down or will it stay
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I doubt it will last beyond 2020.
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> I doubt it will last beyond 2020.
Yeah, exactly. But for now it will just be not accepting new games and badges, and disabling it's most of social features, but the site will stay, yes. But, as said above, I doubt it will last when the flash shuts down.
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i like to think of it as milking a dead cow, once people get bored of the current games its finished there is no new life coming for old games, and that will be the end, no more milk to be drained
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It's removing a lot of incentive for people to come back and visit the site by removing the chat rooms, forums and the ability to upload new games. The site will completely shut down eventually once its user traffic has declined to a minimum and the least amount of people would be affected by just getting locked out cold turkey. At least doing it this way gives people time to move on before they can never come back again.
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Most likely by the end of the year. There truly is no reason for any new person to make an account here now, and management gave a big screw you to the current community by removing features that cost barely anything to maintain. They even closed some mmo chat rooms, which is the player base that is responsible for almost their entire source of income.
This can be compared to a liquidation sale. The company is just getting rid of everything it has in a last ditch effort to scrape together a few dollars, before turning the lights off for the final time.
Kongregate will be effectively dead by the end of the year. My guess is it will still be up in 2021, but it will be almost unrecognizable. They might even change the name, because now the name "Kongregate" is forever tainted, and they will want to move away from it.
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The forums are being locked. It's related to this right? Damn, I was just about to post to find a collab :(
edit: yep I saw it later. I just don't understand the reasoning :/
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Most of these games were working under flash, and since flash will stop-dead at the end of the year, kong won't survive.
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