{"id":18238,"date":"2012-12-08T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=18238"},"modified":"2012-12-08T00:00:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T15:00:58","slug":"english-2d-virtual-space-ameba-pico-to-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/english-2d-virtual-space-ameba-pico-to-close\/","title":{"rendered":"English 2D Virtual Space &#8220;Ameba Pico&#8221; To Close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/qZ7Gh5Q8jdOVJe1OTLiJINbjY0vSDWaGUcTIAkGifYZxWFGC5F7UvtHf-Q8caJ0TWCCniBddOeHWrSAucPSez4mUGTfLyKfQyvFrKmkBj_3rJatAceU\" alt=\"\" width=\"600px;\" height=\"221px;\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberagent.co.jp\/\">CyberAgent Inc.<\/a> [J] has announced that they will terminate service of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/pico.ameba.net\/\">AmebaPico<\/a>\u201d [J], their overseas 2D virtual space, by December 17th.<br \/>\nAmebaPico is a virtual space opened in March of 2010 as an English version of Ameba Pigg, and a Facebook app is also available. \u00a0Also <a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2010\/09\/10\/amebapico_mochi-media\/\">they linked up with the American Mochi Media<\/a> [J], who maintain online networks, and they offered official avatars for this service. \u00a0However according to <a href=\"http:\/\/info.pico.ameba.net\/2012\/10\/29\/say-good-bye-to-pico-world\/\">the official blog announcement<\/a> [J], due to limited development resources, they are no longer able to continue to offer new versions. \u00a0The same blog post calls for the use of all points, virtual currency, tokens, etc, by the service termination date.<br \/>\nrelated articles<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2010\/04\/09\/ameba-pico%e3%80%81%e6%97%a9%e3%81%8f%e3%82%82%e3%83%a6%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b6%e3%83%bc%e6%95%b0150%e4%b8%87%e4%ba%ba%e7%aa%81%e7%a0%b4\/\">Ameba Pico, already number of users tops 1.5 million [J]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2010\/04\/05\/ameba-pico%e3%80%81%e3%83%a6%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b6%e3%83%bc%e6%95%b0100%e4%b8%87%e4%ba%ba%e7%aa%81%e7%a0%b4\/\">Ameba Pico tops 1 million users [J] <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2010\/03\/29\/ameba-pico%e3%80%81%e3%83%a6%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b6%e3%83%bc%e6%95%b050%e4%b8%87%e4%ba%ba%e7%aa%81%e7%a0%b4\/\">Ameba Pico tops 500,000 users [J]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2010\/03\/10\/ameba-pico-facebook%e3%82%a2%e3%83%97%e3%83%aa%e7%89%88%e3%80%81%e6%97%a9%e3%81%8f%e3%82%82%e3%83%a6%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b6%e3%83%bc%e6%95%b010%e4%b8%87%e4%ba%ba%e7%aa%81%e7%a0%b4\/\">Ameba Pico Facebook app version, already user number tops 100,000 [J]<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2010\/03\/08\/ameba-pigg%e3%81%8c%e9%81%82%e3%81%ab%e6%b5%b7%e5%a4%96%e9%80%b2%e5%87%ba%e3%80%80%e8%8b%b1%e8%aa%9e%e7%89%88%e3%80%8cameba-pico%e3%80%8d%e3%82%92%e3%83%aa%e3%83%aa%e3%83%bc%e3%82%b9\/\">Ameba Pigg finally heads overseas &#8211; English version \u201cAmeba Pico\u201d Released [J]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Translation authorized by <a href=\"http:\/\/vsmedia.info\/2012\/11\/03\/ameba-pico_over\/\">VSMedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CyberAgent Inc. [J] has announced that they will terminate service of \u201cAmebaPico\u201d [J], their overseas 2D virtual space, by December 17th. AmebaPico is a virtual space opened in March of 2010 as an English version of Ameba Pigg, and a Facebook app is also available. \u00a0Also they linked up with the American Mochi Media [J],&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/english-2d-virtual-space-ameba-pico-to-close\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English 2D Virtual Space &#8220;Ameba Pico&#8221; To Close<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,40],"tags":[207,808],"class_list":["post-18238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-game-2","category-vsmedia","tag-ameba-pico","tag-cyberagent","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}