I've been doing research on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Big Fat Awesome House Party game and I'm trying to find out when the game was shut down. One wiki says June 15th, 2009 while another says July 13th, 2009. There's a video about the game with over 100k views that says it shut down in July 2009. Of course the different dates don't have any sources or evidence.
Does anyone know what date the game was officially shut down? Preferably with any sort of proof? I'm not sure how one could provide proof or a source but it's worth asking.
I should also say that in a way this could be considered "found media" as most of it will be on the next version of BlueMaxima's Flashpoint, but not all of it sadly.
Anywho, hopefully there is someone that can provide some insight!
There's no picture or video evidence but the OP claims the game has "stopped forever" with the date of the post being 6/15/09. A poster seems to corroborate the claim the next day. I assume this is where the 6/15 date that is listed in the Big Fat Awesome House Party wiki comes from.
Does anyone know of any old forums that may have similar threads in it?
I'm just trying to find another potential source before concluding 6/15 is the true shut down date, since I'm not sure where folks got 7/13 from yet.
Here is an edit some kid made to the Wikipedia page (before it got merged), claiming it shut down on 6/17, because he played it the day before. Probably just mistook the date because little kid, but I think that at least proves the shutdown wasn't in July (if that's what you're trying to find evidence for)
Considering the Wikipedia edit was made on June 21, I'd lean towards chalking it up to misremembering the date. However, there's also a chance that there was some time zone issue going on.
The kid's IP address geolocates to New Jersey now, so I'd be confident the edit was made from the US. The only possibility I can think of at the moment is that the kid was overseas and played it on June 16 (but at a time where the date in the America would have been June 15), and the game shut down later the same day.
But for now, I'd take the forum thread as reliable evidence that the game didn't shut down any later than June 15, 2009.