Thread:BubbaJoe's/@comment-22439-20140617125407/@comment-1140008-20140617235538

Thanks for the heartfelt response, Bubba. Like Joshua said, we don't work for Disney. We were players of POTCO just like you.

While we can't say for sure why the game was closed, it does point to budget problems. Disney's gaming division has been losing money for a good many years now. A few years ago it got to a certain point where they had to make major budget cuts. These budget cuts laid off or reassigned most of POTCO's development team. Afterward, POTCO stayed open a full year without any content updates. Because no content was being added, player population plummeted, as did subscriptions. That detriment, added along with even more budgetary problems at Disney Interactive, POTCO, Toontown, and Pixie Hollow were all closed. Club Penguin is the only online game currently open by Disney, but they do have a Star Wars themed one down the pipeline.