The company now operates over 100 mobile apps in total, and many consumers are aware of it because of its TV commercials running in heavy rotation. The virtual community gained over three million users in six months, but the service closed down in December of last year.ĬyberAgent is now aggressive in moving to mobile. On July 4th, candidates from different parties even gave speeches in the virtual city of Shibuya.Īmeba Pigg lauched its English version back in March of 2010 as Ameba Pico, and was largely accepted by users in Asian countries. Already 120 candidates in the election have opened blogs on Ameba, and over on Ameba Pigg, candidates have created their own avatars, and election patrolled around the virtual city of Shibuya to raise awareness of the election.
The first coupon was a 30 yen discount from Lawson’s signiture sweets, Premium Rollcake.ĬyberAgent also launched a special website on Ameba for the upper house election which will take place on July 21. Lawson opened an official account on the site and delivered coupons that could be used at its stores, of which there are over 10,000 in Japan. Back in May, Japanese convenience store Lawson, launched an O2O advertisement campaign on the social game Pigg World. As a platform with over 15 million users, brands now seek to promote their business on the service, even politicians sometimes as well. These currencies are used to purchase items for user’s avatars, which is a major source of income for the company.Īmeba Pigg has successfully pulled off what Second Life attempted to do. Ameba Pigg’s users are so enthusiastic that recently a middle school girl was arrested for stealing virtual currency from friends’ accounts. According to a study over on Game Business about a year ago, the breakdown of monthly active users was about 35% men and 65% women. This community is especially popular among the younger generation, especially women. After creating an avatar on Ameba Pigg, users can play around in the virtual community and chat with friends. The virtual community was launched back in Feburary of 2009, and has over 15 million registered users to date. In addition, Ameba created two mobile apps, Pigg Party and Pigg Life, which are more interactive and have a closer resemblance to their predecessor.Ameba Pigg is a virtual community operated by Japanese tech giant CyberAgent, perhaps most famous for its Ameba Blog platform. One is a mobile browser version of Pigg, which can be also accessed by desktop computers, but features are limited compared to the original Flash game. They listed on their website three alternatives to Pigg (PC Version).
In early 2019, Ameba announced that the PC version of Pigg and related communities (Pigg Life, Pigg World, Pigg Brave, Pigg Cafe, and Pigg Island) would be shut down by Decemdue to the termination of Adobe Flash in 2020. Selected Items bought with Candy Gold can be alternatively purchased using tokens. Users can and invite other players to their rooms and leave them messages.įor the English version, Gummies and Tokens are game currencies that are earned by doing in-game tasks such as ringing other people's rooms and giving the props, while "Candy Gold" is a currency in the game which users can only acquire by paying real money, Facebook Credits, Phone Balance, or by doing tasks from the game's providers like Paymentwall.
Users can also decorate their own rooms with different types of furniture, bought with virtual currencies called "Gummies", "Tokens", and "Silver Coin". Pigg is a Japanese blog virtual community in which users can customize an avatar, socialize with people around the world using replicas of landmarks around the world like Shibuya 109 and the Statue of Liberty.