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.
thank you so very much
Thanks Ganz! I am glad you listened to our requests about KinzChat PLUS park. Another thing that would be nice is a room choice for the trading room as it is now very hard to get in the same room as our friends to trade.
lol, no more room choice in park anymore. So much for chatting with our friends…. try to find them
Is this change why I can’t log in for any of my houses?
Thank you Webkinz World, for keeping kinzchat plus in the park!
This is welcome news, thank you Ganz!!! An unexpected and appreciated reconsideration in light of users laments. I am walking around with a big “I read the News!” sign, to try and let players know the good news!!!
Thank you sooo much! I love the park and would really have missed chatting with other pets.
THIS IS GREAT NEWS. THANK YOU GANZ FOR BRINGING IT BACK.SPME SAY,THEY ARE USEING CHAT PLUS NOW IN THE PARKS. I CAN’T. I CAN WAIT ANOTHER DAY LOL. THANK YOU AGAIN, GOD BLESS YOU.
Sad-faced. They took away the bowling room :(
Thank you so much. I would really have missed chatting with my friends, putting on plays, and helping new members with their questions.
IM S :D :D :D HAPPY!