World of Cars closing Feb 8th

[Batleth]

TO ALL OUR CARS PLAYERS

The World of Cars Online will be closing on February 8, 2012.

Thank you for playing in the online world and being part of the Cars Community. ALL players can log into the online world and enjoy unlimited access for free through February 8, 2012.

Here's what you need to know:

Memberships are no longer available for purchase.
Emails will be sent to all current paid Members with details about Membership including refund options.
Promotional codes can be redeemed until the world closes on February 8, 2012.

Players that own Cars 2: The Video Game can link accounts and unlock rewards until February 8, 2012.
If you have questions or would like additional information, please contact us or visit our FAQs.

Be sure to check out all of the exciting games and activities currently available at the official Cars website.

[wmah]

No surprise to me it didn't seem all that good to me. Just hope it doesn't carry over to the pirates online.

[Kat Five Knives]

This scares the noodles out of me.....

[Eliza Creststeel]

Yeah, I agree Kat. Disney may start cutting losses and keep only Penguins and maybe the Pixies. Are many people even playing Toontown anymore?

[Dark_Pixie]

I would be devastated if POTCO closed. But it will probably stay open because of the sheer amount of paying members (and it's the best MMOG Disney are running, in my opinion). I guess World Of Cars closed because it wasn't very popular. Seriously, I only heard about it when I saw one of my friends playing it when I was online on POTCO.

Hopefully it's a one-off like VMK.

[HammyTheSquirrel]

The game definitely wasn't that active. I played it a little and you don't come across packs of cars like you might on Abassa. I also think the concept wasn't strong enough to keep it going, and the time it lasted seemed right for it (IMO). I don't see POTCO or Toontown closing any time soon with the amount of players on them. POTCO and Toontown are also more complex than Cars Online, and keep more interest. Their version of our Grog Blog also hinted at another MMO coming eventually, so maybe they'll come up with another good game like POTCO and Toontown.

[Stephen O'Malley]

Originally Posted by Eliza Creststeel

Yeah, I agree Kat. Disney may start cutting losses and keep only Penguins and maybe the Pixies. Are many people even playing Toontown anymore?

They reached the 50,000,000 toon mark a while ago and a third party evaluated that there are a minimum of 600 toons online at any single time in the busiest server alone, so I'd say they're doing pretty well.

If this is foreshadowing for POTCo, then I would expect the game to close after a bit of time after all the POTC movies have been made. Or maybe the game will be even more popular by then with a stronger fan-base, and we won't see it close in 10 years.

Anyways, the Cars movie was terrible, so I still stand unsurprised.