There has been made a list of Private Servers for Panfu. Co-founder Moritz Hohl has expressed interest in opening Panfu again as a mobile app, and applied for a trademark for Panfu in 2021, but further updates never happened. The former CEO, Verena Pausder, is the head of mobile gaming company called Fox and Sheep, which owns some of the apps and IPs Goodbeans made. 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.
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The last Panfu update occurred December 1, 2014, around the same time the last team-members were let go. By 2014, there were 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 chat getting shut down in 2015. The first chat to be shut down, was the Polish-chat, which was shut down on March 15th, 2013 due 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 constant television-ads. The first Panfu to close was Arabic Panfu, which closed on November 1, 2010, closely followed by Portugese Panfu, on December 9, 2010. The mascots Max and Ella were renamed to Houssam and Leila, and Kamaria to Marjana. Panfu was opened in Arabic in September 10, 2010, and had 10 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 only minigames available were 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 December 2007, after a month of beta testing. The virtual world was opened in a beta-period November 2007 and was available only in German. The development of Panfu, (then called "Pandaland") started in September 2007, a month after Young Internet was founded. "What are you doing?" "Do you want to stay here?" "Are you mad at me?" "I want a boyfriend." Younger kids may have a hard time understanding when a chat is rejected.The idea for Panfu came when Moritz Hohl and Kay Kühne wanted to make a safe place on the internet for German children. Online interaction: Most of the online interaction observed here is typical of other kids' virtual world sites.
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Ads for many products appear on the free version. Buying a Gold Panda membership is heavily promoted here on almost every area of this game.
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Panfu is heavily promoted with TV ads on children's networks, but it may not live up to the expectations of some younger viewers who beg their parents to visit the site, especially those who cannot read well. Pandas can chat, dress up, and play several minigames, like a balloon-popping game with some physics concepts.
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A nice touch is the welcome crew and the various characters (not actual players) who visit you throughout your time on the site to explain how to play in this world. The cute pandas on their missions in this generally safe virtual world might capture the attention of kids who are good readers and enjoy online virtual world play.