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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This is when it gets scary & eXciting!! I have noticed on mobile if I try to garden it just shows the picture of the seed package for each plant. How long will WW be down while you make the change? So many questions, can’t wait for the new look! Good Luck-
I’m glad webkinz X is almost here, and I really hope EVERYTHING works well. Happy Webkinz X, everybody! LOL XD
Wow it took them 2 years to make Webkinz X! Cool I can’t wait to see what Webkinz X is like in person in my game.
Wow, another decade! I would really like to introduce Webkinz to my baby brother, and my kids if I were to have any! So Xcited that Webkinz will be sticking around for so long! :D
Wow! I didn’t x-actly know that this was going to be such a big update! Thank you for the heads’ up! I’m getting really x-cited for Webkinz X!
Hey Webkinz World team, just wanted to say thanks for working so hard on these things for us. Honestly I haven’t liked them all but we all still apprieciate the long hours you put in to create new and sometimes-not always-better things. Thanks from all of us!~SpringerSpaniel32
Ganz, while I appreciate the warning and the provided lists, this is very alarming! What happens to the items stored in the chests and other storage containers, that are on these lists? What about the pets currently asleep in the beds, that are listed? Players with many accounts and hundreds of pets, ( and even those of us with fewer ) simply do not have time to remove items stored, or to move pets about. I’ve spent all my allotted time, so far today, just removing clothes from my pets’ dress windows, ( in case the storage feature there disappears ) and have stored them in many of these chests that will be nonworking! Please tell us these items will NOT disappear along with the containers. With upwards of 5,000 items in my docks, I cannot just dump more items there, they MUST be stored! Could y’all not have continued to work on this HUGE change, throughout the rest of this year, and implemented all this after everything was working properly? Why, now, Ganz? WHY?
Calm. It’s gunna be okay. Maybe not great, for a while, but okay. I have no idea about any of your questions (wow, weird sentence). But it’s gunna be okay. I hope. I mean, I haven’t tried it yet!
Hey y’all, I just wanted to say, having just gotten a beta reader for my writing, I realize how hard it can be to take harsh and continuous criticism on something you’ve put a ton of effort and time and love into, and are excited about. That being said, the glitches I’ve suffered from Webkinz ever since getting a decent computer (and thus being able to judge accurately,) have undermined my faith in a change this vast being successful. I’ve just dabbled my toes in the massive lake of programming enough to realize the monumental effort that must be put into it to even release it once, no matter all the constant updates and additions y’all put in. Still, as aforementioned, the amount of bugs I’ve encountered have me watching this whole process with strong reservations. I can’t say as I’m fond of the new graphics, at all, but I will be interested to see how the playing experience goes, now.
Thank you all SO MUCH! I’m so excited for this update and I really appreciate all that y’all do to make Webkinz World enjoyable, bigger, and better. <3
Pet actions I hope to be able to dance again ! I hope you took changes in these from AMAZING World pet actions. Can you make th Kinz Academy really DOABLE! It cant be finished in most classed only to level 5 most no more .