Panfu, massively, multiplayer, online, game, children, aged, between, involving, virtual, world, where, players, could, create, their, panda, explore, island, players, were, able, complete, quests, play, mini, games, chat, with, other, pandas, according, creat. In 2013, a lifetime Gold Panda-offer was made, which was originally intended to be limited only to the spring of that year, but instead ended up remaining until the game was closed. 'Gold Panda' gave players the opportunity to decorate their treehouse, purchase clothes, adopt a pet and visit the 'Underwater School'. Players could tell which pandas were sheriffs by the star-badge they had on their profiles.įor some features in Panfu, players had to purchase a membership known as 'Gold Panda' in order to gain access to them. This worked only a few times, after which the sheriffs had to bring another sheriff or a moderator to help. They could mute other players for 30 minutes or freeze them, so they could not do anything for a minute.

In July 2009, the first Panda sheriffs were introduced to help the moderators keep Panfu safe.

It allowed the child to select chats from a menu of premade greetings, questions, phrases, feelings, and options for action.

Parents could also opt-in to allow their child to only see the high security-chat. At the same time, the chat was strictly moderated by moderators from all over the world who watched over the chat. A word filter prevented verbal attacks and warned players when they didn't follow the rules. The chat was closed from 3 AM to 8 AM on weekdays and from 8 PM to 11 AM on weekends. Panfu finally closed in November 2016.Īccording to the creators, security was the biggest priority in Panfu. Instead of shutting Panfu down completely, the creators decided to let it stay up until it ran out, and thus never properly announced that they were closing. In January 2015 Goodbeans filed for bankruptcy, after Panfu had not been updated since December 2014. The last team-members were laid off in December 2014, and in February 2015 there were only two employees left. With the new focus on mobile-only, their focus slowly drifted away from Panfu.

In April 2012, Young Internet was renamed to Goodbeans and shifted their focus to mobile gaming. In the meantime, the number of users grew to over 15 million and the game was translated into 12 languages.

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