{"id":9328,"date":"2010-07-26T20:40:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9328"},"modified":"2010-07-26T20:40:52","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T11:40:52","slug":"dena-mobage-town-shuts-down-social-game-bandit-nation-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/dena-mobage-town-shuts-down-social-game-bandit-nation-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"DeNA (Mobage-town) Shuts Down Social Game &#8220;Bandit Nation&#8221; On Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/minination-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8449\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/minination-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"151\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/10\/dena-begins-free-games-and-community-on-english-iphoneipad\/\">Back in May<\/a>, Japan&#8217;s mobile gaming juggernaut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dena.jp\/en\/index.html\">DeNA<\/a> ($3.8 billion market cap at the Tokyo Stock Exchange) took a serious step to bring Mobage-town (its <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/04\/dena-reports-usd100m-on-quarterly-profit-they-to-focus-on-social-app-business\/\">highly successful<\/a> mobile game community) global. DeNA formed a separate company for that endeavor (MiniNation KK) and localized a total of four games for Non-Japanese players, which were <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/11\/japanese-mobile-gaming-giant-dena-goes-global-with-iphone-social-network-minination\/\">offered to iPhone users<\/a> under a social network called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mininat.com\/index.html\">MiniNation<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat social network and the four games it&#8217;s currently built around are still alive [<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/de\/artist\/minination-inc\/id360167692\">iTunes link<\/a>]. But today, MiniNation KK <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/banditnation\/closing.html\">announced<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apps\/application.php?id=116637165028507&amp;v=info&amp;ref=ts\">Facebook version of Bandit Nation<\/a>, the MiniNation game with the biggest potential, will be shut down on August 31. Bandit Nation, whose basic gameplay resembles that of Mafia Wars, is DeNA&#8217;s flagship game and biggest cash machine in the Japanese Mobage-town network (it&#8217;s called &#8220;Kaitou Rowaiyaru&#8221; there).<br \/>\nOn Facebook, however, new user registration for Bandit Nation will stop as early as\u00a0 July 31. It won&#8217;t be possible to purchase MiniCoins, MiniNation&#8217;s virtual currency, from that date on either. All users are urged to use their MiniCoins up before the service shuts down one month later.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a pretty quick death, but DeNA has good reason to pull the plug: With around 250 new games appearing on Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/games.venturebeat.com\/2010\/07\/23\/playdom-ceo-john-pleasants-why-social-gaming-will-die\/\">every day<\/a>, Bandit Nation has just attracted around 40,000 monthly active users on Facebook (and just over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.appdata.com\/apps\/facebook\/116637165028507\">3,000 people<\/a> appear to play it on a daily basis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in May, Japan&#8217;s mobile gaming juggernaut DeNA ($3.8 billion market cap at the Tokyo Stock Exchange) took a serious step to bring Mobage-town (its highly successful mobile game community) global. DeNA formed a separate company for that endeavor (MiniNation KK) and localized a total of four games for Non-Japanese players, which were offered to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/dena-mobage-town-shuts-down-social-game-bandit-nation-on-facebook\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DeNA (Mobage-town) Shuts Down Social Game &#8220;Bandit Nation&#8221; On Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[17,24],"tags":[281,372,883,1131,2324,2370,2386,2387,3413,3414],"class_list":["post-9328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-apps","tag-bandit-nation","tag-dena","tag-facebook","tag-minination","tag-mobage-town","tag-mobile-games","tag-mobile-gaming","tag-social-games","tag-social-gaming","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}