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.
I am the only one that cant get into webkinz right now??? I try logging on, and it just shows the loading W, and the then it disappears! I am so frustrated! WHATS GOING ON!?!?!?
Hi imSanta. Please go to Webkinz.com and try pressing CTRL and F5 at the same time, then logging in again.
I really, really don’t like the changes. I guess this makes it a little better, but we still can’t use friend finder. And we aren’t allowed to say numbers in kinzchat plus, so we can’t even decide on a park to visit with our friends. Ganz, this isn’t an improvement. Please just make it the way it was before.
plz plz plz can u add something so we can find our friends plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Thanks for giving Kinz Chat Plus back to the park. While I do not know who any of the people are who I chat with at the fire pit, I consider them my friends and would have really missed our nightly ritual.
I still don’t like that you can’t find your friends at the clubhouse can you put that back up ? OH! and I’m getting warnings for no reason and if i get banned again for no reason then i may have to stop playing webkinz once and for all! don’t get me wrong i love webkinz and i might still collect them but won’t go online until you fix the clubhouse! Thanks for reading <3
Can anybody else NOT log into webkinz since these updates have been happening?
yeah i couldnt all day! i was soooo mad
yeah but it was fixed
WOW! Thanks GANZ!
Thanks for listening to your loyal customers!
Thank you for the effort, Ganz, but i preffered it how it used to be. now me and my bffs cant play ‘house’ anymore (i know, i know. its silly, but fun :) )
Dear Ganz, Thank you for bringing back Plus to the park, me and many others appreciate this. A few things though: why is there not a Friend Finder in the Plus Clubhouse? It’s really annoying wandering aimlessly through the rooms trying to find my friends, and then freezing sometimes for no reason. And also, I can’t log in on the Google Chrome and Opera Browsers, I click the ‘Begin Playing’ button and nothing happens. I am now using Safari, which seems to be working, but I like Chrome more, because it is faster for me. I hope you can fix this and add Friend Finder back. *~*Angel*~*