{"id":6158,"date":"2009-10-26T13:28:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T04:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2009-10-26T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T04:28:11","slug":"sunshine-ranch-more-than-2m-japanese-users-join-china-made-flash-game-in-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/sunshine-ranch-more-than-2m-japanese-users-join-china-made-flash-game-in-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunshine Ranch: More Than 2M Japanese Users Join China-made Flash Game In 2 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6159\" title=\"Rekoo's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rekoo_logo.gif\" alt=\"Rekoo's Logo\" width=\"174\" height=\"48\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6162\" title=\"51.com's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/51.com_logo.gif\" alt=\"51.com's Logo\" width=\"122\" height=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Mixis Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mixi-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"41\" \/><br \/>\nMainland China&#8217;s 2nd largest social game maker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rekoo.com\/\">Rekoo[C]<\/a> launched a flash-based social game on Japan&#8217;s largest social network service <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\/\">Mixi[J]<\/a>, which earned more than two million users in less than two months since the launch, and it&#8217;s ranked the 1st in the number of Mixi app users.<br \/>\nThe game is called Sunshine Ranch (click <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\/run_appli.pl?id=7157\">here<\/a> for its Japanese edition requiring log-in to Mixi, or <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.51.com\/farm\">here<\/a> for its Chinese edition requiring log-in to 51.com), and it allows you to grow crops and livestock virtually in a ranch, and you can share the state of your field of vegetables and flowers with your friends online.\u00a0\u00a0 Some users are truly addicted to enjoy it, and it seems they can&#8217;t help thinking about the game even during business hours.\u00a0\u00a0 The key factor to attract the users successfully is several &#8220;social&#8221; functions on the game.\u00a0\u00a0 If you invite someone to the game, you&#8217;ll get a reward item.\u00a0\u00a0 You can water and reap crops your friends have grown, and also add and remove harmful insects on their fields.<br \/>\nYou need to wait several hours to harvest crops after sewing seeds, and the time left until harvest will be appeared accompanied with every crop you&#8217;re growing.\u00a0 If you missed the chance to reap the field, your friends might have taken them away.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6160\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"SunshineFarm_Chinese\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SunshineFarm_Chinese.jpg\" alt=\"SunshineFarm_Chinese\" width=\"456\" height=\"405\" \/><br \/>\nSunshine Ranch on 51.com (Chinese Edition)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6161\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"SunshineFarm_Japanese\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/SunshineFarm_Japanese.jpg\" alt=\"SunshineFarm_Japanese\" width=\"457\" height=\"337\" \/><br \/>\nSunshine Ranch on Mixi (Japanese Edition)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6168\" title=\"Yicha's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/yicha_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Yicha's Logo\" width=\"169\" height=\"41\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6170\" title=\"Rakoo's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/rakoo_logo.gif\" alt=\"Rakoo's Logo\" width=\"124\" height=\"52\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6210\" title=\"Renren.com\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/renren_logo.gif\" alt=\"Renren.com\" width=\"166\" height=\"48\" \/><br \/>\nMeanwhile, another China-made social game called Everyone&#8217;s Farm (click <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\/run_appli.pl?id=6373\">here<\/a> for its Japanese edition requiring log-in to Mixi, or <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.renren.com\/farmgame\/\">here<\/a> for its Chinese edition requiring log-in to renren.com) is also ranked so high, which is currently the third and has engaged 500,000 users.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a service of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rakoo.jp\/\">Rakoo[J]<\/a> (not Rekoo of Sunshine Farm), a flash-based social game portal operated by Mainland China&#8217;s largest search portal for cellphone handsets <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yicha.cn\/\">Yicha[C]<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6209\" title=\"Kaixin Farm\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/KaixinFarm.jpg\" alt=\"Kaixin Farmers\" width=\"460\" height=\"353\" \/><br \/>\nKaixin Farm on Renren.com (Chinese Edition)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6215\" title=\"MinnanoNoen Screenshot\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/MinnanoNoen_Screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"MinnanoNoen Screenshot\" width=\"460\" height=\"382\" \/><br \/>\nEveryone&#8217;s Farm on Mixi (Japanese Edition)<br \/>\nIn this last months, Japanese social network service users are so busy to cultivate the fields prepared by Chinese game developers.<br \/>\n<strong>Oct. 27th Update:<\/strong><br \/>\nSunshine Ranch is being accused of the following points by the users:<br \/>\n1. The game used to be absolutely free, but last week it started providing the users an option to buy virtual fertilizers by paying &#8220;REAL&#8221; cash with their credit cards.<br \/>\n2. The game uses the credit card processor who is known for being usually adopted by erotic sites.<br \/>\n3. For transferring the credit card number entered by the user to the processor from the game app, they seemed to embed it on a user session that could be seen on a browser&#8217;s URL window and it could be vulnerable against tapping his\/her credit card number. (this vulnerability is already fixed)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mainland China&#8217;s 2nd largest social game maker Rekoo[C] launched a flash-based social game on Japan&#8217;s largest social network service Mixi[J], which earned more than two million users in less than two months since the launch, and it&#8217;s ranked the 1st in the number of Mixi app users. The game is called Sunshine Ranch (click here&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/sunshine-ranch-more-than-2m-japanese-users-join-china-made-flash-game-in-2-months\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunshine Ranch: More Than 2M Japanese Users Join China-made Flash Game In 2 Months<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"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":[7,8,9,17,24],"tags":[77,2342,2343,3046,3097,3104,4195],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-community","category-company","category-japan","category-news","tag-51-com","tag-mixi","tag-mixi-appli","tag-rakoo","tag-rekoo","tag-renren-com","tag-yicha","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}