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.
Glad that at least some of it was rolled back. If you want to know why it seems like no one does kinzchat plus it’s because one they get band for things they didn’t do two they don’t know how to sign up for it. I mean it is pretty confusing to do so. The clubhouse rooms with kinzchat+ will be missed for me. I’ve been with webkinz for 7 years and I’ve seen good things happen and bad. The best was the clubhouse update and the worst was this. I don’t know why you would choose to change something that tons of people enjoy but I personally feel it was a mistake.
thank you ganz and webkinz i know that what we like and what you have to do to make that happened is way more hard, but thanks this is great i think this will work well, and i know when school and all the storms get over than we your webkinz family will be on more to enjoy friendly talks with our friends in the park that is how i have meet my best friends was in the park, thank you for all you do.
OMG! Thank you so much! It was sad and extremely frustrating today not to be able to find our friends. Bless you! I cannot tell you how happy this makes me and many others as well. You are the greatest!!!
I still really don’t like this update. I think they should at least allow us to find our friends.
Thank you Ganz for considering all your members. It is very much appreciated.
Is this way I can’t log in today 3/11/14
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Hello Ganz, I think you should allow all member they freedom to be able to have KinzChat PLUS, so everyone can tell the other person what they are looking for and so every member can have the freedom to talk to there friends. -FavForever
YAAAAAAYYY!!! Thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!! I am glad that you are letting KinzChat Plus be in the park! Thanks again!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
I’m glad the park is coming back! I was most worried about the park, I like chatting there. One question; The Clubhouse has changed numerous times today. Earlier today, the Garden Room was there. Later, all the rooms changed, the Reading Room is back. Is it going to be constantly changing? Also, the KinzChat PLUS rooms are back. They were gone and returned a little later. Are those staying or going? Thanks (: *+*WL*+*