‘Club Penguin’ comes to India
‘Club Penguin’ comes to India
Though the game is free to play you can buy additional benefits by purchasing subscriptions. These can now be paid for in Indian currency and the charges are ₹ 199 per month.
The game, which is now a global phenomenon and has around 10 million players, was started by two Canadian developers, Lance Priebe and Lane Merrifield, in 2005. Their intention was to build a social networking platform for kids. Disney acquired the game in August 2007.
In India though, Club Penguin will have to fight with an indigenous version. In March, Games2Win
“Beyond getting kids to creatively express themselves, it is increasingly being demonstrated that allowing kids early on to dive into a digital virtual world encourages them to work hard (play games), earn money (receive coins), spend conscientiously (budget coins for clothes for the avatar and items in the virtual house) and helps them understand the dynamics of real life and learn to enjoy the cycle of work and reward," Alok Kejriwal, CEO and founder of Contests2Win, says of Chimpoo.com.
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