November 11, 2015
Dear Webkinz Fans,
Two years ago we came up with an idea. An idea to make some big changes to Webkinz.com to prepare it for its second decade of online fun. That idea was affectionately known as Webkinz X. Our goal was to give your pets more life and more importance in your day-to-day Webkinz play, and furthermore, reward you for being a great caregiver to your family of pets.
After two years of hard work by the Webkinz team, including many long nights and weekends, Webkinz X has arrived.
What you will see is just the beginning. Over the next few months we will be dramatically increasing the ways to increase your Family Score, and teach your pets new requests so that you have more ways to care for them. It’s going to be a lot of fun for everyone, whether you’re a collector, a gamer, or just like playing in the room.
This first release of Webkinz X does have some issues. We have not made a release this large since… well since we first launched the game 10 years ago. Included in this release is a completely rewritten My Room. This new Room has built from the ground up to give us the ability to add new, exciting features to the Room, many of which you’ve been asking about for a long time.
As part of this rewrite, all 17,000+ items in Webkinz World had to be reworked for the new Room. While we got most of these items to work, some are not 100% perfect yet. Some items are not animating properly and other are missing their images. We know that these will be of concern to you, so we have a team dedicated to making these items right, and we will be making regular updates (every few days) until every item is done.
Please use the links below to see which items are not working properly. These pages will be kept updated with the latest information, so check them regularly. Additionally, some popular features are currently disabled (Pet Actions) or changed (Gardening) as we continue to make improvements to our new Room. All of these features will be returning to how you know and love them. Thank you for your patience as we make these important and exciting changes to Webkinz World. The future has arrived!
Cheers,
The whole team at Webkinz World.
CLICK HERE to see a list of Fixed Items
CLICK HERE to see a list of Incomplete Items
CLICK HERE to see a list of Missing Items
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Can there be an option to NOT use Webkinz X?
I’m Already Having Trouble With Webkinz x! :(
Got up at 7 couldn’t wait! All I got was a big W. 9 o’clock still big W! The suspense is killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YESSSSSSSSSS FIRST COMMENT!!!!! thanks ganz for Webkinz x! (and the heads up) I know that this is going to be AWE-SOME!!! So thanks! and wow 2 years? that’s not too bad. Disney wanted to make frozen since the early days of Disney. (and when was that?) But good job.
Disney wanted to make Frozen for 75 years!!!!
Wait a minute, 75 years! Wow, that is quite a shock.
Awesome so X-CITED!!!!
I just tried it out, and I gotta ask…is the room going to have more graphical improvements after this initial release? Everything looked a lot crisper in the original site. Also, are you going to bring back the squares in the room so you could see where you were directing your pet? Those were helpful, and it’s a little disorienting without them.
Great!
Ugh the problems start at the login! once i log in, it gives the sign that its loading, then the screen goes blue and nothing happens. Not cool Webkinz!
Maybe you should wait for the launch of X. The homepage did not come up this morning for me. Guess I will try again later if I have time. :c
I can’t even log in yet!