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Kongregate is no longer accepting new games, will shut down almost all of their chat/forums in three weeks, and is laying off employees

Posted by Deimos
Tags: kongregate, redundancies, business, work, employees, announcements, games studios, games.browser, games.flash, short read
https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement

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Title
IMPORTANT KONGREGATE ANNOUNCEMENT discussion on Kongregate
Authors
Kongregate
Published
Jul 3 2020
Word count
386 words

6 comments

  1. [3]
    Eabryt
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    Man, I found Kongregate back in like, 2008 and it was amazing. Especially as someone who was still in high school, a lot of classes were spent playing games on it. I suppose it's slightly...

    Man, I found Kongregate back in like, 2008 and it was amazing. Especially as someone who was still in high school, a lot of classes were spent playing games on it.

    I suppose it's slightly inevitable with the demise of Flash.

    15 votes
    1. Silbern
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      Yeah, this really sucks. Kongregate was one of the major flash game sites, along with Andkon arcade, Miniclip, Nitrome, Mofunzone, Newgrounds, Agames.com, Armor Games, etc. that really defined...

      Yeah, this really sucks. Kongregate was one of the major flash game sites, along with Andkon arcade, Miniclip, Nitrome, Mofunzone, Newgrounds, Agames.com, Armor Games, etc. that really defined 2000's era flash games. I hoped they'd be able to do what Nitrome did and use a Flash emulator in the browser to keep their games working, but I guess not... :/

      Probably a good time to mention BlueMaxima's Flashpoint. It's a project that aims to preserve flash games (and other plugin based media) for the future. It's really complete and has pretty much all of them, so at least the games themselves will be preserved for the future to enjoy.

      14 votes
    2. unknown user
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      Kongregate has been hosting HTML games for years now. Flash dying is not a competitive disadvantage for that particular hosting site.

      Kongregate has been hosting HTML games for years now. Flash dying is not a competitive disadvantage for that particular hosting site.

      4 votes
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    1. Death
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      Kartridge? I'm guessing it didn't do well, like many other Steam competitors (Desura tried the same thing years ago and also failed). From their recent history of acquisitions, and being acquired,...

      Kartridge? I'm guessing it didn't do well, like many other Steam competitors (Desura tried the same thing years ago and also failed).

      From their recent history of acquisitions, and being acquired, I'm guessing Kongregate had not been doing well for some time now and their alternate income streams failed to change that, With the global financial downturn they probably were forced to finally reckon with that.

      7 votes
    2. Deimos
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      Gamasutra received a statement from them with some more info, and the article also includes some thoughts about why this seems to be happening: COVID-19 and pivot towards game development lead to...

      Gamasutra received a statement from them with some more info, and the article also includes some thoughts about why this seems to be happening: COVID-19 and pivot towards game development lead to layoffs at Kongregate

      2 votes