Panfu

Panfu is a kids MMORPG for kids aged between 6 and 13. Each player can create their own panda. With this avatar the players can chat with each other, play games, learn in a playful atmosphere and complete quests in the different places of the island Panfu.

History

The two founders of goodbeans, Kay Kühne and Moritz Hohl, started Panfu in December 2007. Panfu is an artificial term composed of the words "panda" and the Chinese word for happiness, “fu“. In June 2009 the website had 11 million users worldwide and became the biggest children's virtual world in Europe. In the meantime, according to the owners, the amount of users has grown to 15 million and the service has been translated to 9 languages. [Young Internet GmbH is now goodbeans GmbH] Panfu has been declining in the last two years or so. In 2015 someone contacted one of Panfu's upper bosses, Verena Delius. She said "There isn't enough money to maintain Panfu anymore" which obviously explains the rapidly declining player base.