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.
Although I don’t go play on Kinzville park very often, I feel as if this would be a great change that might impact Webkinz World.
Thank you, Ganz! This is fantastic news!!! I noticed there is no longer the option to “find friends” while in the chat plus trading rooms. Is this a glitch or a permanant change? I am sad that my sisiter and I cannot find each other in the trading room.
just go in and out till you guys find each other hopes this helps ;)
Thanks for listening to us. This seems like a fair change.
YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Oh yeah!
Thank you for listening, Ganz! :)
Thank you so much Ganz! And I think I’m speaking for the entire population of Webkinz World when I say that I am so glad that the KinzChat Plus park will be coming back. But I do have one question…are we still able to look for the Leprechaun in the KC Plus Trading Room or do we have to go to the regular KC clubhouse rooms?
Good to know, and one more thing why do I automatically go to my room? I like to read the Newspaper before going to my room. To see what happening, and also why did you make some of the Blooming Room and Superfun theme’s items Deluxe? I think everyone should have a chance to buy them, since you made the Winter theme items for everyone? Thank You for listing to us. P.S. the new Wshop isn’t alphabetically organized I can’t find things ‘easier’ (just saying).
Also GANZ, I was wondering when the webkinz log in would be fixed. I tried everything, including clicking CTRL+F5 and then logging in again, but I just can’t log in. I also see other player are reporting this, so I was just wondering if it was a glitch?
Thank You SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!!!!!!!!!