Spark City World

Spark City World (formerly AllGirlArcade) was a virtual world that had a tons of games, lands and it was mainly at a tween girl audience. Its currently unknown what happened to Spark City World, since Fuel Industries went bankrupt, the domain has not renewed and it has shut down since it hasn't updated since February 2015, but the game was still playable until 2017. A tons of users have left the game due of the new chat system. The game was very known since 2010, but the game went downhill in late 2014, many players has quit due of everything is for VIPs only, but it was fun to play games and things. The game was popular at a game platform named Miniclip.com, a game platform that hosts Agar.io, 8 Ball Pool and more but it also could be played from the official website for the virtual world. The game opened as a limited-time beta around January 30th, 2009, but some info in the internet say the game released back in 2008, making it when the game released fully unknown.

Gameplay
You can sign up and you can choose your avatar by 5 types, then, you can choose your username, but then you need to have your parent's email, then, you can have your own apartment, chat with friends, play games, shop things and there was a exclusive VIP membership, which included more clothing, you could get things from the Secret Store (ingame), more furniture and freedom to your apartment, pets, you could date ingame boys (without VIP, you only could be friends with them), monthly gifts and you could also access VIP-exclusive areas. It had a tons of users, which 90% are from the USA.

[https://www.facebook.com/SparkCity/ The last update the game ever had was on February 6th, 2015. They added a new underwater area and a minigame.]

Failure
In 2014, a user by the name of Pinklilac got to the virtual world. Pink was extremely rude and arrogant according to other players. Pinklilac later made a false claim that she had hacking abilities - and if that any user would dare disobey her, she would hack them or their friends. Pink was believed and users obeyed her every command. Pinklilac aside her main account, she had 20 others which were all taken down by reports. Pinklilac was reported multiple times by users for bad language, that means there were 100 reports for foul language against Pinklilac. When the creators saw the amount of reports they were getting because of a user, they took matters into their own hands and created the safechat. Because of Pinklilac, safe chat was created and by time it became even more and more strict after the incident and users mostly quit due to how controlling the chat is. The game is believed to never had safechat beforehand. Months after the whole fiasco, the words  pink  and  lilac  were banned from being used in the chat. According to a blogspot article that explained why SCW shut down, they interviewed Pinklilac herself - a girl named Jamie. She spoke proudly of her accomplishment, saying  It was everything I wanted . Jamie explained she wanted users to suffer for their bullying and arrogance, but she had no means for the website to shut down.

"The plan was, get people to  hate me, but fear me as well. Justin (Flossy302) was friends with everyone, who better than him to get on the worst side of? Once they hated me I'd bother the living hell out of them til they had no other choice but to report me 10x harder. And what would they report me for..BAD LANGUAGE!. Spark City World would have no choice but to make the safe settings on chat even worse. At the time it was genius.

''[http://rockstarscw.blogspot.com/2018/10/spark-city-world-pinklilacs-truth.html I had 0 intention on the site closing, or stopping Fuel Industries' money flow. Cause I don't think I had anything to do with the bankruptcy and I shouldn't be blamed for that. I do realise what I did was soo f-d up and i'm forreal sorry to anyone I hurt. I loved the site just as much as y'all and it hurt me to see it be taken away even if it was partially my fault."] - Pinklilac being interviewed, 2017''

There used to be a video of 2 users explaining the whole situation on YouTube, but the video either got deleted or the account was banned. There are only 2 videos in YouTube left related to Pinklilac. The safechat contributed to SCW's downfall.

A few months before Spark City World was shut down, the creators of the game Fuel Industeries filed for bankruptcy. There isn't much information about why it happened, but it was because of poor business moves and lack of money flow/success. It contributed to SCW's downfall.

Closure
A youtuber named Trendy Games posted a video about Spark City World has shut down. Maybe because of Fuel's bankruptcy. If you try to go on Spark City World website, it has not loaded, and if you try to go on All Girl Arcade website, it will redirect you to a domain parking website. So Spark City World brand has vanished from the internet industry, and it will no longer come back.

There was (and still is, shockingly not closed after 4 years) a change.org petition for bringing back Spark City World, it used to have a goal of 60 signatures but halfway it was changed to 1,000 signatures. There was low demand for the revival of the virtual world and it is currently stuck around 630 signatures (as of July 2021). There is a huge chance SCW won't ever come back unless a rewritten version is made by someone (highly unlikely not to work because SCW orobably has copyright rights).