It's a shocking official announcement from TKA that Virtualand in Bugis Junction will be closing down in January 3 due to the mall's redevelopment. It should remind us of other famous places that closed down for redevelopment as well like Funan Digitalife Mall for instance. It's not that we can be sad over this like why would we want to over such announcements like that but I might have seen certain radicialized nerds going emotional or depressed over the fact that some of the games have to come to a good end according to the official announcements. Same thing can go to the idols in Japan where they switch careers after years of performance which is obviously one dark part if you don't have the passion on something else.
In terms of mobile gaming, most of the modern mobile games on IOS and Android may be on-going for few to several years before being shut down for good. Who knows if there will be a sequel or not for those games? However, it doesn't mean that it's all over for you because of that. You may have other games to go through or maybe other important things in your life.
In case of Virtualand arcade in Bugis Junction being shut down, who knows if that main game center will be located at one day? Also, we already have alternatives which are way too easy to find like the Century Square branch of the arcade which is called Star Factory. Various machines from the main game center in Bugis Junction will be relocated to many branches.
Dark parts within you due to closure of your favorite place or perhaps your favorite mobile game being shutdown/ending services for good may involve things like cussing the corporation that manages the place or the game, getting depressed like you have nothing in your life or perhaps, some other bad things you may end up doing out of your rage. They are what you SHOULD NOT do.
What about a cartoon franchise that ends development for good like the story's all finished and that's that? I'm sure many fans will be sad like that but you should know how to move on after that, right?
Out of the comments coming from the repeat players of Bugis Junction branch of Virtualand, one of them thinks that the complete end is coming closer or something. Seriously? I can imagine that he's getting depressed over that closure like he thinks that either some global disaster is coming or maybe he's trying to take his own life which is a bad thing. But since this is more or less an imagination, I have already figured out that everyone has already moved on with alternate strategies. Obviously, there isn't any proper evidence about some global disaster going to happen this month but such kinds of rumors would take me back five years ago where such kinds of rumors circulated like that and they turned out to be false. Stop this kind of bullshit! It's traumatizing and terrifying to me ever since such discoveries way back in 2008 unless you're stupid enough to spread those kinds of scary bullshits that put horror stuffs to shame.
Grow up now. We're already mature adults and good nerds but if you're too radicalized until now like thinking that some cartoon franchise or character is your only life, perhaps, there will be more of those similar franchises in stores for you to no end and especially that some loser ambition like Love Liver popped up in the list of what do you want to be in the future. Unfortunately, that ambition doesn't even count and especially for becoming a gamer in which you ALREADY ARE! GET A REAL AMBITION or something like Doctor, Firefighter, Sports-person, Engineer, Musician, Programmer, System Administrator, IT Professional, etc. That's a professional ambition you're going to get unless you don't care for one at all that you end up cussing me like that.
What about the amount of money you spent for getting additional in-game premium currency in mobile games, then? For me, I don't do this kind of bullshit because it's a DANGEROUS feature. Certain losers already did just to get specific virtual cards via Premium Gacha feature. Sure, I admitted that I bought one PSN card for adding premium currency for Toro's Friendly Network on PS Vita or something but the thing is, there's no gacha feature whatsoever for that game. Like other modern mobile games, it was pretty much shutdown for good. What if the mobile game you play regularly starts to become unplayable? Or better yet, what were your goals in certain games in the first place? Have you gone beyond them? Sure, the in-game events in Bemani games take up too much credits which can be bought with tons of money but I'm SURE there are other ways to unlock whatever songs we want. In fact, rather than spending a few thousands of dollars for a specific stuff in mobile games, you could have bought something expensive with that.
Back then, it may seem that arcade gaming scene was still sensitive financially over how difficult those games were in which you end up spending tons of dollars to complete one game provided that the game has the immediate respawn feature but checkpoint based revival prevented average players from making further progress that only experts are able to get through in a credit, saving them tons of money but nowadays, with increased replay value thanks to on-going in-game events, this is where things are starting to become as dangerous as free-to-play mobile games with microtransactions. Completing an in-game event for one arcade game is already a dangerous idea for me as it takes so much credits and time and it can be worse than games on other platforms since other players also want to play it as well.
In fact, it may seem that the console/computer/smartphone gaming has pretty much taken over but the arcade gaming scene is still active and popular thanks to such increased replay value I mentioned above. However, the article writer at Mothership.sg about this news had the inferior guts to mention Fl***y B**d in the list of mobile games as viral example WITHOUT even mentioning computer/console games. What else is dangerous is that some of the console/arcade games already have the elements borrowed from mobile games like Gacha feature, microtransactions, etc.
Anyway, the future arcade trip will be at Century Square and at least, that should save me all the transport costs although there will be still be public transport costs on somewhere else.
