We have listened to the concerns of our Webkinz fans and decided that we will rollback the Kinzville Park change made today. As of noon tomorrow (March 13th) players will once again be able to enjoy chatting with KinzChat PLUS while visiting the park.
Our decision to reduce KinzChat PLUS was not taken lightly. Our numbers were showing that the system was not being well used, with the large majority of rooms available completely empty. Over 90% of social play was happening in regular KinzChat. The most used KinzChat PLUS area has always been the Trading Room, as it is much easier to make a difficult trade when you can use a full dictionary of words. As such we never even considered removing KinzChat PLUS from the Trading Room. It was our belief that with so much of our current chatting occurring in the Trading Room, that this would be enough.
After making the initial announcement, we heard from numerous fans about their concerns about the change. One of the most impactful concerns was the ability for players to enjoy chatting without getting interrupted by continuous trading requests. We agree that this would have been a problem.
In the end we decided that the best course of action was to just open the Park back up again. We feel this gives our KinzChat PLUS players a large area in which to chat, while allowing our monitors to focus their efforts so to provide the best service possible. The Coral Cove and Clubhouse KinzChat PLUS features will not be returning.
We will be making a few more small changes, but we are committed to making the Kinzville Park your go-to location for fun KinzChat PLUS chatting.
We thank all of our fans for their input on this change and look forward to your feedback as we continue to refine Webkinz World in 2014!
- Your Furry Friends in Webkinz World.
Wow thanks so much for listening to your fans, Ganz! I know this makes a lot of people really happy. Thanks for trying so hard to make webkinz world a great place. Webkinz is awesome!
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!! GANZ.
Thank you sooooo much!!
great idea ganz! its very fair!!!! you guys are awesome! what exactly are small changes? does it affect the park?
Yay! Thanks Webkinz!
YEA!! Thank you So Much!
thank you SO much!
Well, glad you at least made that adjustment. I am still not sure how you see the other rooms weren’t being used because I couldn’t really ever find a room that was empty. My friend and I love to be in the games room to play pool and talk. Not sure this will make me stay but at least I see you responding to your customers.
Still not happy with this change.. Why can’t people room jump to their friends? :( It’d be halfway okay with this change, if the room jump feature was still available.
I do miss the jump option. :(
Wait…. in kinzchat plus u could FREE CHAT?!? :O