He may no longer play Club Penguin but he is still helping us stay afloat through uncharted waters.
He has been the guy we looked up to whenever we needed answers for the most troublesome issues. This month, we congratulate Seahorseruler for five years of exceptional leadership! He joined us in early 2009 and quickly became the top contributor with over 12,000 edits. That summer, he was promoted to adminship. Working with Tigernose, they gained the support of the community to bring down the webmaster era to create the Club Penguin Wiki we have today. After both of them were promoted to bureaucrat status in June 2010, the two of them were behind the massive whole-wiki move to this location. Sea is the second longest serving administrator and second longest serving bureaucrat in Club Penguin Wiki history, behind only Hat Pop in both categories. Currently, Sea presides as CEO and head staff of the Club Penguin Wiki Network. Cheers to an amazing milestone!
Club Penguin Investigation: Puffle-Palooza!
Early concepts for the puffle.
In two weeks, Club Penguin’s plaza will go through yet another transformation – this time the replacement of the Stage with a new mall, its name dedicated to what else? Puffles. Puffles have been and always will be an important part of Club Penguin’s identity, but recently it appears that their special treatment has been causing more harm to the game than good. Over the last three years, the number of adoptable puffle species exploded from ten to thirty-six, and the number of places dedicated to puffles have increased by over 500%. Consequently, any move that has to do with puffles in the year 2015 now has a very bad taste.
Club Penguin ran into trouble from the day they decided that different species of puffles would be based on colour. Sure, they could have puffles of every single hex value, but that is unreasonable. As humans, the first colours we learn are those of the colours of the rainbow, along with brown, black, white and pink, therefore severely limiting the number of puffles CP could’ve made based on colour. At some point in time, they would have to look in a new direction.
Things really started to turn once colours were running out. Fans really wondered what would come next, and so came the dinosaur puffles. Seriously, these aren’t puffles. If they wanted new ideas then they should have thought harder because introducing a new, unique species of fauna into Club Penguin would probably have more interesting than a disgusting hybrid. Not to mention that it would have been an easier pill for fans to swallow than seeing plastic surgery gone wrong to their beloved creatures.
The demise of the Stage is only the latest of a chain reaction of errors their staff is making. Its unpopularity can only be attributed to the team, who refused to create new plays for its players to enjoy. The last new stage play premiered in November 2012 for Operation: Blackout and before that, The Vikings that Time Forgot in February 2012 (even that is not quite unique as it was based off of two existing plays). Seriously, if there’s no new items to buy in the Costume Trunk and no new play to at least take a peek at, what is there to enjoy in the Stage? The idea of a mall itself is not too bad – but when its name includes the word 'puffle', it's just overwhelming for players given the fact that everything has been about puffles recently. And having it to replace the stage? It seems like turning Club Penguin from a village into a city is the wrong direction to go, especially with the dwindling number of players.
The bottom line is, Club Penguin is a business that has recently been lacking originality. To survive in the gaming industry, it is crucial that ideas are both unique and appealing to players. People are not going to shell out money for concepts that already exist elsewhere. It's not too late for them to get their fanbase back – they just need to have the mindset of the original Club Penguin creators and put profits behind them, because profits will come once the fanbase comes back.
