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There is a small on-line game that is scaring one of the giant technology companies. SuperPoke Pets is a simple game created by Slide Inc.
that quickly grew into a vast social network with over 100 Million visits a month. However, its success may be its undoing.
The growth of SuperPoke Pets, often referred to as just SPP, is unlike most on-line games.
Instead of your typical shooting and destruction program, SPP allows you to adopt a cute virtual pet and raise it from infancy.
You care for your pet the same as with any real pet, and grow to love them just as much.
Your pet lives in a habitat that you can decorate from among the thousands of decorating items that were issued over the last couple of years.
You can use your pet’s habitat to show your passion or your sorrow. Players commemorate weddings, births, deaths,
and other important life moments in their habitats.
Players built a network of friends to support and to support their pet. By caring for their pet and others, and by completing quests;
players earned SPP Coins to spend in the Shop for more items to decorate their pet’s habitat. Slide released new items of various themes
and for all the holidays and seasons. While there was no cost to play the game and SPP coins could be earned to buy most things in the Shop,
great for kids; it was supported by the sale of SPP Gold (10 cents per bar) that could be purchased for real cash
and used to buy special items of higher quality and animation in the Shop.
The frenzy when new items were issued was amazing as players quickly snatched up new items to decorate.
Players regularly swapped and traded items with each other. An important part of the game was the gifting process.
Players could use a simple process to swiftly send decorating items to their friends from their inventory or a selection of free gifts.
This allowed new players to get old items and allowed friends to help each other build habitats.
The game created a vast on-line link of friends. This was expanded when Slide introduced the Club concept.
People could ban together in a Club of common goals to communicate and help each other with quests and tech questions.
This network of friends and Clubs gave rise to a Social Network of players spanning the globe.
This social network was growing so fast and strongly that it caught the attention of mega-giant Google.
Getting ready to launch its own social network app, Google Plus; they were concerned that SPP posed a threat of overshadowing their upstart.
With over $30 BILLION in cash reserves on hand, super rich Google purchased Slide for $187 Million.
It took over Slide’s innovation apps with a promise to devote additional resources to expand and improve the apps., including SPP.
Soon after taking over, Google made substantial changes that seemed designed to drive players away.
Forum censorship took on an almost draconian aspect as dissention and questioning of Google’s plans was banned.
Unacceptable posts were erased and the writers threatened with sanctions and warned to only post “positive” views.
Less resources were devoted to the game as Google mined the game for player information and diverted the Slide technical teams
to other projects. Google continued to push the sale of gold items and stepped up their release to gain additional revenues. Finally,
Google introduced the VIP Status option. For a small monthly fee ($4.95), your pet could enjoy extra benefits in decorating,
but this was optional as you could still play the game without cost. They also introduced the Marketplace where members could sell their
unwanted items for SPP Coins. In June, 2011, less than a year after purchasing Slide, Google dropped a bomb on the game players.
They would terminate the release of all new items effective July 1st, both coin and gold items. They pledged that the game would continue
for “the foreseeable future”. They stated SPP gold would no longer be available for purchase after July 1, 2011; but that if you stocked up
on SPP gold now, you could continue to make purchases. They also stated that all VIP members as of July 1st would remain VIP members with no
additional costs. Players were told that SPP had grown to the point that it could be supported entirely by the players.
The remaining tech support was reassigned.
If it was Google’s plan to drive the players away and make the game die from inactivity; it did not work. Although some left the game,
it was not enough to satisfy Google. Within 60 days of informing players to stock up on SPP gold, VIP status and gold items; Google announced
that they would terminate the game. All of the products of Slide, extremely innovative apps, would be closed except for one app developed
and owned by Chinese offices. Now the truth became known. As a rich, stagnant techno giant recognized competition and innovation outside of
its control; it reached out to squash it.
So far, several game vendors have expressed an interest in acquiring the game; Google seems bent on termination. The $187 Million investment
will be written off on the backs of the US taxpayer as they deduct it from their tax liability. The millions of pets adopted and nourished
by their owners will be killed by Google. Millions of friendships forged through the game will be endangered. All for the sake of Google’s
domination of the Internet.
SPP players are determined to survive. They are fashioning habitats to save a picture in their off game scrapbooks.
Friends are banding together in groups through Facebook to maintain relationships after Google terminats the game in March, 2012.
Many of the players, like myself are shut-ins or have limited mobility outside of the Internet. These will suffer the most as their outside
world is cut off.
There were times when riots rocked England that I used the game to check in every day to make sure friends were safe over there.
When disasters struck in Haiti, Japan and the US; the SPP community banned together to lend support with special habitats and buying
special items donating the monies raised to relief efforts. I know of one grandmother who taught her grandson how to coordinate his outfits
by having him dress her pet on a regular basis. I have seen friends go through good times and bad. They were more than just names on a
social network page, they were family. All to be lost so soon.
Those outside of SPP may question why people are so passionate about an on-line game to pour so much time, money and heart into it.
It is not easy to explain. We love these pets with the same love you would a real pet. For those of us who are unable to have a real pet
because of housing restrictions, this allowed us the same joy owners of real pets can receive. I can not explain the hole that will be left
in my life as the end comes. Only those who have lost a cherished pet all too soon can understand. Maybe they are only virtual,
but they are real to us.
There is a lot of anger in the SPP community. Although some vent it by saying they hate Google, the truth is something else.
We don’t hate Google, we hate the disregard Google has shown us. As a business person myself, I can not understand the blind drive to
domination that propels Google to kill a profitable venture, or at least sell it off for some recovery. As a concerned citizen,
I see this as an example of the squashing of innovation and small businesses by a faceless corporate giant at a time our economy is
struggling to maintain jobs. As a taxpayer, I am insulted that the American public will have to underwrite the willingness of a
Giant Corporation to squash small business by buy out the competition just to kill it and take it as a tax write-off.
But most of all, I am saddened as the owner of a virtual pet, that I will be once again left alone when they kill my pet.
We Don’t Hurt Anyone In This On Line Game. So WHY Hurt This Vast Family Of Pet Lovers And Friendships!
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I just wanna to show you how much we love Justin Bieber…
Three weeks ago the big news was on the news paper-
JUSTIN BIEBER IS GOING TO COME TO ISRAEL IN APRIL 14, 2011
So I made this-
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So I hope you will publish it and maybe Justin will see it
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