![]() This suggests that Fantage’s sales revenue dropped big time after users gained eCoins and Stars with ease in Trade N Sell, so their solution may have been to inflate the value of Stars in a last-ditch attempt to push users into buying the slightly more valuable alternative currency, eCoins. But it was also possible for eCoins to drop in value as well. ![]() No one is quite sure who bought these items for the max prices, though.ĭuring this time period of Trade N Sell, the value of Stars rapidly inflated, suggesting this was done on purpose to get more users to purchase eCoins. YouTube user Puff圓62 also explains how she used to sell LeShop items for the maximum selling price and they were purchased. No one knows for sure if it was really the admins or not however, this used to be widely speculated.Īccording to a user’s comment on The Fantage Trio, items listed for 9,999,999 eCoins were also purchased. The value of starred items diminished as Fantage admins allegedly bought ( citation needed) random LeShop items in Trade N Sell at the maximum selling price for 9,999,999 stars, according to speculation in the Fantage Facebook community at the time. However, there was more to it than a scamming problem. Indeed, a big reason why it was closed down was the large amount of scamming. Fantage also got a lot of complaints due to this shop, which eventually led to the Trade N Sell being completely replaced.” Many users were quitting due to people overusing, and abusing the shop’s features. Selling an item for eCoins warranted an in-game sales tax ( The Fantage Wiki!).Īlso according to The Fantage Wiki!, the Trade N Sell article states, “The shop was believed to be closed due to scamming going on when trading items. For instance, you could trade an item worth 1,500 Stars for another item within the same price range, plus or minus a couple hundred stars and the same with eCoins. Users had the ability to purchase items sold by other users, sell their own items, and trade items that fell within their respective price ranges. In October 2012, Fantage created a shop called “Trade N Sell,” which was located in Uptown, as a replacement to Vintage Classic. ![]() The Biggest Blunders Trade N Sell & MyMall Trade N Sell Trade N Sell (“TNS”) in November 2013, my Fantage Photo Album. I am not affiliated with Fantage, its employees, nor any former administrators. (All links in this article open in new tab.) EDT.īefore I kick off this essay, I’d like to draw your attention to the following sources if you are reading this and are unfamiliar with Fantage, or you don’t remember much and need a refresher. Fantage shut down on July 1, 2018, at 12:36 A.M. I joined Fantage in May 2009 and quit in 2015, though I visited a handful of times between 2016-2018 before I returned in late May 2018 to witness the shock of my favorite childhood Flash MMO shutting down within a month. As I am writing this, I am currently a 20-year-old junior in college studying financial accounting. So, with some knowledge of economics, finance, and accounting, speculation, and information about some big factors within the history of problems that lead up to Fantage shutting down, I will explain away the problems leading up to Fantage’s shut down in as much detail as I possibly can.įor anyone wondering who I am, I’m writing to you as a former Fantagian myself. I never once saw a comprehensive in-depth explanation or any official statement written in an online article as to why Fantage had shut down just one single headline from Venturebeat entitled, “ Fantage kids virtual world will shut after 10 years.” The former CEO did not reveal very much as to why it shut down. Occasionally, users in the Discord server would send links to resources including articles, company reviews, screenshots, documents, and videos into the chat. Why did Fantage shut down? Throughout the rest of 2018, I was wondering myself. Many former Fantagians are probably wondering what exactly lead to Fantage‘s demise in July 2018.
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