Happy Thursday! It’s your fine-feathered friend, Fiona, here to answer more questions. As always, for my past answers, click here!
Another question: will we ever be able to invite friends over our houses again? Or is that feature always going to be disabled? (: I miss inviting friends over! Now the only way is if I make a house party, and those often don’t work :/ – winterwarriorwolf
It certainly is nice to invite a friend over! Never fear — there are definitely plans to bring that feature back to Webkinz World. In the meantime, you can spend time with your friends in the Kinzville Park or the Clubhouse, as well — and you can share your room designs in the Share Center or send them to letsbuild@ganz.com for Michael Webkinz to potentially share.
Hi Fiona! I was wondering,because I’m kind of scared. Well,on my file where it shows how many pets I have,it says,”Your membership expires November 13,2016.” What does that mean? I know that it is a year more,but still. Does it mean I’ll lose my pets? :( – ssppiiddyy
Oh, goodness! No reason to be scared :) In this case, membership refers to “full membership” — you get exactly one year from the date of your last pet adoption. When your full membership expires, your account becomes a “free” membership. All of your pets and stuff will be there, but there will be a few restrictions on what you can do. But you can always adopt another pet to get another full year of full membership, or you can purchase a Deluxe Membership to get access to everything in Webkinz World!
Hi Fiona. I’d like to know about limits on our Friends lists. I have never refused a friend request in Webkinz World, & I never want to, but I currently have over 480 friends, so I’m getting close to the limit. I wonder whether we are really limited to 500, and if so, why this is the case. Also, if we do top out at 500 friends, will any further requests sent to us be automatically declined? I hope not! Thanks, Fiona! – 1Emerald1
It’s true… 500 is the limit! When you turn your KinzChat phone on, it has to track where all of your friends are, if they’re online and what color zone they are in. That’s a lot of information and can slow things down, which is why there is a limit. You won’t receive any more requests after that, and anyone trying to add you will be told that your friends list is full.
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I loved having friends over too and going to my friends homes. Half the parties I am invited too, I can’t get there after trying and trying. I’ve been invited to about 30 parties since webkinz X and only managed to get to about 5 of them :( . I also miss pet actions, worked so hard to get them now they are not working yet. I’m not complaining, I understand Ganz is working hard on this. I’m just saying I miss them. The not being able to get to all the parties is probably due to the PC operating system I am using! Just want to say thanks to Ganz for everything that is up and running, I am sure it’s a huge task!
barb539, I doubt it’s your computer. My husband is a film editor & I play on professional equipment here, same thing happens. Mac or PC seems to make no difference. I think they’re still working on the party packs, at least I hope so!
Oh yes! UGH. I hated being a free expired player so I wouldn’t recommend going there! Whatever you do, do NOT let your regular membership run out! It is the most annoying thing ever to be a free expired player!!
Is there anyway we can remove friends from our friends list if they no longer play Webkinz so we can add new friends? Can you show the last log in date of our friends so we know who no longer plays?
Yes, please put this on our wish list. It will be great to clean up our friends lists.
I miss having my friends over!!!! Also it would be cool if you could use kinzchat + instead of kinzchat in our rooms. Either that add more stuff to the kinzchat stuff… Also if anyone needs any deluxe membership items that aren’t estore points- ask me DarthCindy22, please list your username and the items you would like!
Yes, you can remove friends from your friends list. Just click on the name, and press the remove button. I don’t think you can keep track of their last date that they played, but it’s a good suggestion!
I just found out on the friends list it shows the family score so if they have a family score of 0 or real low you know that they do not play anymore. Especially if they have been on your list for a long time. I cleaned up my list recently and deleted a tons of old accounts.
I do the same thing peanutluver3!!
You can see how your friends are doing on their family score on your friends list. So if there is no family score or it is zero you know they haven’t played in a while.
I think that’s a great idea too! A lot of kids lose interest and there are probably many who stopped playing when their membership expired before the free access was enabled :) I have some people on the list who were quite active and now aren’t.
There is.
I figured out a way to remove friends that are not active. If you go to the phone where you can check on friends when you are in Webkinz World, if you scroll thru your friends list, any friends that are not active will have no numbers next to their PET CARE Heart that means they haven’t played on Webkinz since Webkinz X started. I figure if they haven’t played since Webkinz X started they are not going to play any more. My account would be inactive if my older sister did noy give it to me. It’s a slow and boring to go through the list but at least you can free up a few spaces on your list at a time to add new friends if you don’t want to go through the whole list at once.
Please help! The new Winterfest challenge is not working! One of the first challenges is to buy an item from the Winter Wonderland theme…Well, this really is a challenge, because even if I buy the item it shows I made no progress. (It says I still need to buy an item from the Winter Wonderland theme.) Please fix this! Thank you!
Which item did you purchase? Did you try purchasing any other items from the theme?
I bought the side table and it works, but the snow bean bag chair does not. Also kbk, try the blender it works for the challenge.
I bought the wallpaper and it worked for both of my accounts.
I had the same problem, @kbk100 and I wasted over 1000 kinzcash trying to do it but when I purchased Snowy the Snow Bernard, it fixed it and continued with the challenge! Try it, maybe it’ll work!
That’s bad! I haven’t had that problem, but I bought Snowy the Snow Bernard, so maybe that’s why. ((I bought him because he was the cheapest item, but I thought we were suppose to buy 3 things when it was actually 1, so I ended up spending a lot of kinzcash anyway…)) ;P
Awww Paperclipp00 I’m sorry to hear that, I’ve done that before too. BTW just wanted to say I like your newsletter in the forum. I’m so glad you’re continuing what a nice feature MidnightQueen started. You’re doing a great job. TTYL chrissysranch
when do wbk plan to start fixing the rides, i have most of them and most still dont work and the pools to?
yes, I’ve been wondering, too. Really miss my pool! and it’s hard to use the ride-on toys because now sometimes the pet will not come off the ride. I wind up riding over to a chair or something and clicking on that to get them off the ride. Would love to have pools back by summer! Lots of things have been fixed…hopefully they are still working on these.
I bought the Snowy the Snow Bernard and that worked for me.
Happy 2016 Fiona!!! Thank you for sorting through and answering our Fan Mail queries. I’n hoping my Return of Academy Actions Question did not get lost and you get to answer it next batch!
I am hoping that soon we will be able to move rooms around, move doors, choose different colored doors, resize rooms, and for us to have an easier way to sort rooms. Also I hope that someday it is easier for us to get family score points. I probably only get a prize a week, even though I work very hard to fill Pet care hearts, now that all three of my accounts have over 150000 as their family score.
congrats on getting featured 1Emerald1!!!!!!!
Yes, good question, 1Emerald1! :D
Yeah, congrats 1Emerald1! ;) Also, congratulations to winterwarriorwolf and ssppiiddyy for getting featured as well! ;)
Awesome questions!!! Congrats to 1Emerald!1, winterwarriorwolf and ssppiiddyy!!! It’s sad that there’s a friends limit but I only have like 50 friends so I won’t reach 500 soon!!! If anyone isn’t my friend and they would like to be, my username is bunnylit!!! :)
Yeah awesome! I would love to be featured sometime! Which btw, Fiona, when will pet actions be coming back??? :)
Oh haha nevermind, that’s 50ishwebbies’s question! Well, hmm… I guess I have to think of something else! :)
Thanks, guys!
Your welcome! ;)
Yes, that was a really good question 1Emerald1, Congrats!!!
Hey, oats34WK! :D *HUGS* :)
Hugs right back at ya!! Fennec!!! do ya mind if i call ya Fennec?
Hi oats!
Hey!!! barb539!!!! loves ya!!!!!
YAY it’s oats! Love ya, oats!
Hey FennecFox!! loves ya too!!!
Sally, can we PLEASE have another art contest this year? That was SO fun last year! :)
YESSS we should really have another contest, Sally!!! That was the highlight of last year for me! The deluxe designer contest was awesome, and then I’m not sure if the design a webkinz was last year, but anyways it was awesome too! Please do another one! :)
I made a really cool Bubble Bear for the contest last year… but i forgot to UPLOAD IT! :O
Aww, that sounds really cool! I made a Jigsaw Tabby or something like that. Jigsaw Cat, Puzzle Cat… It was something =P I thought for sure that might win, but they wanted an anniversary pet.
That was fun, yes, but it always makes me feel like my artwork isn’t that great when nothing happens to them.. =/ Then again I could just not enter. =P I hope they do another for you guys, since you seem to really want another!
Haha don’t feel bad, Emie! I entered about 13 pets in the design a webkinz contest, but nothing ever happened with them! I admit, I was a bit depressed… :) But you never know when you might win, so keep entering the contests! :)
Yeah, _emiemiemiemiemi_! Don’t feel bad… :)
I get it, emiemiemiemiemi, I really do, but you really can’t win if you don’t enter. Nothing I’ve entered in any of the art/drawing contests on here has been shown, but ‘m not discouraged. Even tho everyone in my family is a better artist than me, I just ask them for tips & keep working at it & I am slowly improving! Which is way more important to me than winning an art contest on the Newz, tho that would be fun, of course. For me the real prize is in doing, the making of the art, the satisfaction I get from the creative process.
I suppose. Although, most of the time I feel my artwork is great and could actually win, but ehh.. Oh well. If there was a contest I would probably enter anyway. =P
Cool, I hope you do! You never know what will happen.
I think it’s always worth entering. Even if you are let down, you have a shot at winning! And to me, it’s always worth at least trying. You never know…;)
Emi, you should still enter contests just because it’s fun. I would encourage Webkinz to give out a small entry prize for something like an art contest because of the effort it takes to enter. Just remember there are parts of Webkinz that can be expected to be disappointing most of the time. Bingoz and the daily wish come to mind. It’s not likely I will win those but I still play them almost every day because maybe someday I WILL win. Best of luck to you in the next contest! Hippo
You are so right, hippoopi. After playing for almost 8 years & making the Wish of the Day every day, I finally won my wish right before Christmas this year! I was SO surprised!
Congratulations! You must have been doing the happy dance after that!
oh yes, I was! ;o)
I love art contests. Except for the fact that I couldn’t upload my art last year after the Share Your Score Contest. Hopefully that’s fixed now though. Great idea, FennecFox!
Wow, so many people talking about me and to me — I feel like a celebrity.. =P
Fiona can you tell us what all the prizes are for the magic w floaty clicky?
Great questions! Aw, ssppiiddyy, You thought your pets would disappear? :( That must have been scary! :o Now I’m REALLY glad that pets don’t disappear! ;D
Yes, it really must have! Especially if you have a lot. That would have been a lot of wasted money! :o
Dear Fiona, When will the animated Items work!?
Yeah, Tails! I hope they work SOON! :)
And Tails, I sent you a friends request on your Onepeiceking WW account, but still nothing happened :o
FennecFox, if you have room on your friends list can you add me? You are just so sweet! User is Barb539 same as here.
Oh thanks, barb539! :D Sure, i’ll add you! :)
Can I friend you too, It does not matter if you do or not but can you please?
Thanks for answering more great questions, Fiona! I can’t wait until the invite friends feature works again! Hopefully it will work again soon in the future… Along with the tvs and animated items ;) ~Firestar&Sandstorm~
Yep, me too, TattyKitty! :D
OH GOODNESS! I meant to say *TaffyKitty* not *TattyKitty*! TYPOS! :o
That’s okay, Fennec! Typos… They’re so annoying! It’s okay. The other day I accidentally called you “Fenmec Fox” I really need to start checking my comments for typos! Oh, and yeah, same here! I can’t wait till some more stuff gets fixed. I really my kinz years eve ball to work in time for 2017;)
Haha TYPOS!!!!! That’s why I use autocorrect when I’m texting… Otherwise each text would be something like “Het qhay’s ip?!?” :) I LOVE AUTOCORRECT!!! EVEN THOUGH I HATE IT! :)
Same here! I need autocorrect, but at the same time, I don’t like it. It’s weird. Like a love-hate thing.
AHH TYPOS! and yeah, I hope stuff gets fixed too! :D
Yeah, there’s a lot of items that is love to see fixed! Especially a lot of the stuff that doesn’t work in my WebKinz house. Oh, and yeah, typos are realllllllly annoyimg! Oops, there’s a typo right there as a matter of fact. “Annoyming”? Really?
I hope the Ichiban theme bed works soon and that putting a webkinz pet on that bed raises their pet care heart by 10 points.
I’m looking forward to that too, TaffyKitty12. BTW I left you a response on the Happy New Year post just now. I’m happy to be back from the Land of Way Too Busy!
Thanks Emerald1! It’s also to have you back. I have been busy lately as well so it’s not always as easy getting on here.
IKR, especially during the holidays, for me anyway. The Land of Far, Far Too Busy sounds better, tho, I think. How were your holidays, guys?
I had a great Christmas this year! Thanks for asking! I hope you had a nice holiday as well.
I sure did! We’re technically still celebrating here, my BFF is coming tomorrow for Twelfth Night Tea, slightly belated (12th Night was on January 6th). After that we’ll start the un-decorating process, ending with taking down the tree, a chore I always put off as long as possible because I adore Christmas trees, mine is like a jewel. Sigh. Already looking forward to next Christmas, it’s the best time of the year for me!
Yeah, I miss my animated items. Also, I’m working on designing a store in my Webkinz home! Pretty exciting. :D