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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:09 pm Post subject: US Cyworld Will No Longer Be Able To Service |
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/05/us-cyworld-will-no-longer-be-able-to-service/
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Thank you to all members with Cyworld.
Due to Cyworld shuts down US service, US Cyworld will no longer be able to service.
We sincerely apologize for shutting down the service with unavoidable reason.
Before US cyworld close the service, you will continue to access to US cyworld contents but not
purchase items. Also, you will not use your acorns.
If you have unused acorns, you will be given a full refund for paid acorns only.
Refunds and data backup service is in progress, using the acorn will no longer be able to purchase for miniroom items, skins, etc.
@ Schedule for closing US Cyworld service
Due to Data Back-up and closing service issues, the service will be unavailable.
* Shop service will be unavailable since Nov 03, 2009
o Club service, Profile photo/data upload serivce will be unavailable since Nov 23, 2009 |
If that's the actual letter they wrote, no wonder they failed. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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The American social networking sites, facebook and myspace and others, all have foreign language versions but they put you into the same original network.
I think cyworld, with its separate foreign network, was a boneheaded idea. Why wouldn't they just connect it to the original cyworld?
Not that it would've necessarily saved it, but still. |
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OculisOrbis
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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I think cyworld, with its separate foreign network, was a boneheaded idea. Why wouldn't they just connect it to the original cyworld?
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Real Name Identification for korean sites with over 100 000 visitors and korean ID #'s were probably the biggest reasons why it wasnt connected. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 4:39 pm Post subject: |
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| reactionary wrote: |
I think cyworld, with its separate foreign network, was a boneheaded idea. Why wouldn't they just connect it to the original cyworld?
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Real Name Identification for korean sites with over 100 000 visitors and korean ID #'s were probably the biggest reasons why it wasnt connected. |
Exactly. Korean Internet isn't compatible with the rest of the world's Internet. I'm happy to see Youtube and Google making inroads and maybe digging Koreans out of this nonsense "portal"-centric and vast-animated-GIF-landscape web design they're so fond of. |
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red_devil
Joined: 30 Jun 2008
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Underwaterbob wrote: |
| OculisOrbis wrote: |
| reactionary wrote: |
I think cyworld, with its separate foreign network, was a boneheaded idea. Why wouldn't they just connect it to the original cyworld?
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Real Name Identification for korean sites with over 100 000 visitors and korean ID #'s were probably the biggest reasons why it wasnt connected. |
Exactly. Korean Internet isn't compatible with the rest of the world's Internet. I'm happy to see Youtube and Google making inroads and maybe digging Koreans out of this nonsense "portal"-centric and vast-animated-GIF-landscape web design they're so fond of. |
Then again for people like online gamers and those that do a lot of financial transactions online (like me) having real name verification is great. No cheaters, hackers, bot users in the game servers, and no Russian, Nigerian, or etc, scammers and hackers...a closed network has its advantages too. |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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I think the fact that it was 'closed sourced' hurt it.
No people making home-made apps |
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