Ella McWoof here! With your help, I’ve sniffed out some important information about the X-citing new project, Webkinz X!
In my previous Newz story, I told you all about Family Score. Before that, I told you about the Pet Care Heart and said that the fastest way to fill it was responding to Pet Requests.
Now, in my EXCLUSIVE SCOOP, here’s more information straight from the TOP SECRET documents!
The main goal of Webkinz X is to make your pets feel more alive and interactive, and to make them more central to the way you play. Currently, if your pet asks for something, the only reward for responding is boosting their Happiness, Hunger, or Health meters.
With Webkinz X, when your pet requests something, you’ll also earn a big boost to their Pet Care Heart! You’ll have to be quick though—in order to get the boost you’ll have to respond to the request within a certain amount of time. A timer will appear over your pet so you’ll be able to see how much time you have remaining.
What your pet requests will depend on how much you’ve played with them. The more times you fill up their heart, the smarter they will get, and soon they will start making more specific requests, along with a wider variety of requests.
For players that have multiple pets, once you finish filling up your active pet’s heart, another pet will let you know that they have a request. You can either switch right away to that pet and begin filling up their heart, or you can wait until you are ready to switch. That pet’s request won’t start until you switch to them. Only one pet at a time will make a request.
Because you can only get KinzCash and Family Score bonuses for filling up to 10 of your pet’s hearts, only a maximum of 10 pets will make requests on a given day.
Stay tuned to my column on Monday, June 22nd and I’ll reveal MORE about the exciting secret project, Webkinz X!
So, fellow detectives, what do YOU think about Webkinz X so far? Let me know in the comments below!
Want to know MORE? Check out our Webkinz X Newz Article Archive here.
Neat. God bless, Silvermist03
God bless you, too, silvermist03 – another really pretty name! (Avzora) :D
yay! first comment
lol. funny how exciting being the first to comment is . . . and weird that u never know for sure. lol. hang in there, keisija. like ur name, btw.
I really still do like the old dock better :P The prizes do look pretty cool, and I do have to say that I like the bigger picture off the pet instead of the smaller sized ones, one question: people who have deluxe, *not meh :P* will there background still be like it used to, or will they not have a background? The new dock looks okay, but it will take some getting used to xD
I agree lavadragon. Some people may have bought the Deluxe membership for the dock and background and now will there even be any? I personally don’t care for the new dock look they show. I am excited about the prizes but so far I would say the stuff I don’t like is more than what I do like and would not be as happy on webkinz anymore. But I’ll give it a chance and I really want to stay so I hope it turns out okay. What i don’t like is it appears webkinz will be more like zums! By telling us what they want and making sure they get it! I don’t like that about zums it’s why I NEVER see my zum anymore!
I will reserve my judgements about the new dock until it is revealed, but I hope there is a search button or an easier way to find items, since it has become difficult to navigate for players with 500+ items. ☺§
I agree with you Hhayes, because I don’t like the idea of my pets requesting things from me. I don’t think the game will be as fun with our pets requesting stuff from us all the time. I like the prizes from the family score however. Most of Webkinz X looks good except for this.
I I play the Zums because I want the items there for my room but they don’t register if the ZUMMIES score IS OVER 1000 !! I have 1156 pink I am playing there at the same time I am writing this . They in the PRIZE room show it as 115 and it says I don’ have enough :( it’s sad I hope they could someday fix stuff . My MAGIC MIRE the FINAL PRIZE is STUCK !!! It says I need the SOCCER BALL. bUT EACH TIME i DO GET THE SOCCER ball it says I already have it :( :( :( I have asked many times over the full 2 YEARS PLUS and still it’s NOT FIXED :( :( :( AND BEING deluxe hasn’t helped 1 bit .!!!
actually, the pet request shown (at least) is just basically saying that it’s hunger meter is a little low. doesn’t seem very demanding to me. an i hope all those tabs i see through the black rectangle on the dock are ways to sort the dock stuff. and if ur critter wants to play a game u don’t like, u can probably just play something else and the pet will be happy enough. i would think, anyway. let’s try to stay positive. Ganz wants us to have fun, after all. i think it’ll be ok.
Aww no! I just noticed the dock; it’s SO tiny :/ Haha, I already know who my smartest pets will be! (SPARKLE, Strawberry and Cubby if anyone is wondering lol). Question, if we feed our pet(s) BEFORE it asks for something, will we receive the boost in their Pet Care Heart? I’m guessing yes… And PLEASE don’t have them ask for specific foods. Have a great weekend everyone!!! God Bless! -PinkPiano (Anyone can send me a friend request on Webkinz: agsamantha)
hi pinkpiano! probably. i hope our pets don’t ask for specific foods too. oh btw i’m snowbell/marshmellow :D
Oh my goodness!!! That’s awesome!!! :) Hi!
oh! i hope the dock expands to full screen when we click on a tab! and i hope the webkinz world screen will be full screen, too. sometimes, the text is so tiny i can hardly read it. and my vision isn’t all that bad. i’m sure there are players who really can’t read the tiny txt.
I sure hope that the new dock has a search box or something that makes it easier to find stuff in. sometimes it can get a bit challenging. mostly when i am trading.
I know right…
I totally agree! :) Webkinz x might be more fun if you don’t change a lot of stuff…
When does Webkinz X start? Also I’m thinking, from the picture I can see, that it might turn a little childish? Also will our docks change? My opinion is it looks childish.
That’s what I was thinking but webkinz is a website for kids. From the picture it appears our docks will. Webkinz X starts on a day that I totally forgot when it was. I thought I knew but I guess I didn’t.
hey balloonfishy12, I have no clue when it starts, but I somewhat agree with ya. It looks okay, but still it does look a bit childish, and possibly a bit too big? I am really hoping for a new way to find our items in our dock, without having to go through the whole thing to find just 1 item.
That would be a huge improvement. Looking for 1 item among almost 3,000 is really frustrating, especially if you don’t know the exact name of the item you are looking for.
Wow, This is so awesome!!!!
…AWESOME
Awesome – I was a bit wary of the new updated versions of the happiness/health/hunger meters when they were first revealed, but the more Ella tells us about them, the more I begin to look forward to them!
I’m torn – In some ways I like the new direction, such as getting fabulous new prizes, but in other ways I don’t because I don’t want someone telling me how to play the game. I really enjoy being able to pick and choose what I want to do – now I’m going to feel like I have to do what my pet wants or I’m missing out. It’s just more directive by Ganz and I don’t care for that. But I know it won’t be changing now, so I’ll get used to it. Kind of bummer, but I do like the new prizes!
I agree exactly xoingtoby! Friend me I’m Galaya on webkinz :D
I know what you mean. I think the reason § decided to implement these changes is because the game started out as taking care of a pet. And I think as the game grew and more things were added, taking care of pets was no longer the focus. I do think that it is possible to play and not participate in the new changes, but maybe it will make the game more fun! ☺§
yeah. i really like it that it’s completely voluntary. we can try it and keep it up if we like it or forget it if we don’t. thx, Ganz!
hi xoingtoby, emeraldlyn here, & I get what you’re saying. But we do still have the choice to play whatever way suits us. I intend to try to fill pet requests when I can, but refuse to stress out over it. The new prizes are very cool, but they didn’t exist last week & i felt just fine, as I will continue to feel whether I win them all or not. It’s just a chance at some nice extra stuff.
Well said! Good advice, emeraldlyn! ☺§
It’s interesting. I’m not sure if I like that new stuff at the bottom or not though.. I liked it when they were all connected. Now they are separate?
very good advice ,I’m stressed about it already!, and I like this game because it is stressless.
Totally agreed 1emerald1, xoingtoby and bullseyejingles444. I also think that it will take longer switch back and forth between pets and for the players that have a 15-30 minute time limit, it will not be very beneficial.
I’ll try not to stress, but it isn’t in my nature. I’m sure I’ll worry if I don’t take care of a pet request. I just don’t like the idea of being interrupted and from the sounds of it, requests will get more specific as time goes on. I like the freedom we have now to make our own choices. I see it as a way to spend down our kinzcash which will keep us always having to earn more. I don’t know. I like most of the changes, but this one – not so much.
I suspect we will all be pleasantly surprised & it (pet requests) will not turn out to be a bother. Just one more way to win more cool prizes. And we still get to choose what we want to do, and when we want to do it. ;o)
This sounds interesting but I hope it doesn’t get to a point where they ask for things like their favorite food because I can only memorize my first pet’s food. I also don’t want to have to buy something I already have enough of because that just defeats the purpose of the bonus kinzcash. From what I can imagine they will likely only ask for wshop foods and possibly but I doubt simple recipe foods, to go swimming, to bounce on a trampoline, to use a treadmill, maybe turn on a light, sit down, lie in bed, watch television, go for a ride in a vehicle, go down a slide, and maybe cook for them.
And play a game like puzzles or checkers.
Some of us don’t have the time to do all this changing around of rooms and pets, or have the technology to support it in addition to logging in for a specific purpose, and/or have sensory or other sensitivities to animations and colors (and okay, maybe to whining pets, too :p ). This sounds like a whole lot of overload waiting to happen to me, so while the prizes are awesome, I have to stand my original assertion these changes punish players. At least some players.
I agree I ‘m going to play when I want and what pet I want I don’t need to be told I have to do this or that with my pets I spend a lot of money for four deluxe accounts and I don’t have hours to play with pets on four accounts. I do have a life outside of webkinz.
I think it sounds like Webkinz will turn out to be more like a chore than recreation. I don’t want to be distracted by a pet request while doing something timed like an academy class.
I agree completely! I get SO frustrated when time runs out while those auto-play ads are trying to load or play! :/ But the article does say that we have time to complete the request, so maybe it won’t be a problem in that way…
I really like the new care heart systm, but I will miss the deluxe back grounds for your pet and the color changing dock.
Haha i can see through the top secret thing. Now i know what it is. Though i could have guessed it without seeing it
Cool (bah)
OOOOOOOOOOH, Im a sooooo Xcited!
Wow! This is really awesome, it looks like our pets are going to behave so realistically! I don’t have any questions for the moment, I might have some later though. When will Webkinz X be released? ~Horsegirl~
That sounds fun, but I hope my pets don’t start becoming to demanding and start asking for specific things like the Dr. Quack plush or chocolate milk!
Oops, it should be too, not to!
Yes, I hope they don’t start demanding stuff! Webkinz, will they start getting VERY spoiled or demanding?
No, your pet just wants to hang out with you :)
I will admit that was my first thought too, especially seeing how the Zums were. I’m glad that that’s not the case! Especially since there’s more to Webkinz then just taking care of them; like, I wouldn’t want a fun game or a conversation at the clubhouse to be interrupted because my pet wants a bath, haha. I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that, and I’m glad our concerns have been addressed; thanks, Gennelle!
Me too! I’m like, okay, this is a cool update, considering I DO want to take better care of my pets, but I hope it’s not like, TAKE ME TO THE PARK FIVE TIMES TODAY or something. But I’m glad it won’t be that way. I want to hang out with my pets more, too! :)
yeah. i do like the idea of our pets being more interactive. i think that’s a great idea. thx, Ganz!
yes thanks soooo much webkinz is going to be so much more fun once your pet is more interactive!
lol
are they going to request a bunch of stuff we don’t already have? or will they only request things that we don’t have to buy for them? like are we going to lose points if they want a candy bar and we don’t have any and don’t want to feed them junk?
Question: will our pets go bonkers and ask things like “ooh, give me a party” or “take me to play wacky 10 times today”. I only want to know will this make our webkinz bratty and spoiled? i sure hope not. If you agree reply with the hashtag #Xtrabratty?
Genelle, that’s good! Because they seem so realistic sometimes! There is just a few things I don’t like. I don’t like how everything is so far away, and that they get tired so easily. One of my pets is glitching I think. My llama Yzma is sleeping, she’s full on everything, but when I take her off the bed, her food goes to 0! And I’ve fed her a lot, and I’ve spent 200 Kinzcash on her, too! :-(
Untrue. The pet asks for something every couple minutes, and if you don’t get it for them in 3 minutes, they get upset and frown. I made a sticker to put over their face, because I got tired of the bratty, pouty face real quick! I have over 700 WebKinz, and I try to keep each one current. It won’t be long til I can’t tolerate paging through 89 pictures of pouty/frowny/angry/”sad”/ upset/disappointed pets!
Here is a tip. Feed your pets all the way up with their sleep all the way up and keep your pets out of bed when you are off them. that way, they will be happy and we don’t have to deal with their poutie face. I’m happy to help, RornDoone.
I really hope my pets don’t become spoiled like zums.
Yeah, me too, because that would make me really sad :(
I feel like you can sit and play zums for an hour and get nowhere. I hope that is not what Webkinz turns into. But lets wait and see what else webkinz X has in store!
Exactly! That could get so tedious…but maybe more realistic? Anyway, all the changes I’m excited for, I’m still nervous…what if they’re horrible…I don’t know what to expect! :P
I guess asking when Webkinz X will be released is a question :P I meant I currently have no questions about Pet Requests :) ~Horsegirl~
I just thought of a question! What other kinds of Pet Requests will there be? If you cannot say anything, that’s ok :) I will use my imagination! Maybe they will ask you to give them a bath? Or that they’re thirsty? Or they feel like playing a game? Or they want to read a book? Or hang out in the clubhouse? Or go to the park? Or plant a garden? Or rearrange their room? Or go to the Kinzville academy? Or compete in the Webkinz Stadium? Or make a recipe? Or get a new outfit? Or play in the tournament arena? Or take a nap? Or play on a piano? Or go shopping? Or mine for gems? Or have a party? Or play with friends? Or go to the wish factory? Oh my, that’s a lot more ideas than I expected, I think Webkinz X will be great ;) ~Horsegirl~
ww… just wow.. so much o’s i became dizzy
Cool name! I love horses too! But webkinz X will be so eXiting!
That sounds horrible! :( Sorry Webkinz, but that does not sound fun at all! Can you let people choose if they want to swtitch to the new one???
They did say when another pet makes a request, you can either switch to them right away OR you can wait until you are ready to switch to them. I would think that would also mean you can just decide to ignore it and not switch at all if that’s what you want to do. The worst that can happen is you’ll miss a chance to fill up that pet’s heart more, but that’s nothing major. You won’t be forced to do something you don’t want to, so don’t worry about it!
True. No one’s forced to do anything. It’s a way to fill up your heart faster.
Hey Gennelle, I just got a quick question. If your playing as one of your pets, will your other pets be requesting stuff? If so, that would be a little hard because I have around 80 pets.
No, it’ll just be the one you’re currently playing with.
Ok, thank you! :D
Hey CountryKinz! Great meeting you at the park today… nice shades :P
Hello fellow jello! When I saw ya at the park, I was like “………Wha….? Is that….. MICHAEL!!!!!!!” then I came right over there. xD ~Topaz got pizzazz, but she doesn’t listen to jazz!~ ;) Again, thank you, Michael!
Topaz: Wow! I’m gonna tell all my friends about this! xD
:O I WANT TO MEET A WEBKINZ GANZ-ER! :O You guys are awesome! Unfortunately, though, I don’t have KinzChat Plus.
COUNTYKINZ MET MICHAEL WEBKINZ AT THE PARK? :O Lucky duck.
Oops, I meant CountryKinz. Sorry. xP If only there was an edit comment button.
That’s pretty good, so it’s more of an opportunity than an obligation. And I just remembered that earlier it was said that the heart score wouldn’t go down, whoops! Well, at least I know now, haha. On an unrelated note, I like your stylish new post color, Gennelle! On my screen it’s like a pinky-red type color. Cool!
Why, thank you *tips hat*
I love that new pink color too. Steve has a cool purple thing going, too! :D If I could change the color of my comments, they’d be green. :D
i think it really helps with this for the Ganzers to have colored text while we don’t so that we can make sure we read everything they’re telling us. otherwise, they might have to answer the same question over and over again.
Well, at least they give you 3 minutes or more. This does look pretty cool! Just wondering, are they pretty much just changing the whole webkinz dock or something? Either way, this looks awesome. ;)
Heheheh… Virtual Shadow would be like: “May I please have a snack?” When I’m there, but real Shadow’s just like: “Get away from me!” He doesn’t like me much. :P I guess all pets would pretty much have the same personality. Not that I want Shadow’s personality to match his certificate (according to that he’s some jolly chap who likes pizza and jokes).
I was thinking of Shadow when I read this too, haha! It’s funny because right now the Webkinz still kind of “talk” to you in thought bubbles (“I’m so happy you’re my friend!”), which is also pretty funny because Shadow isn’t really one to show such an outward display of affection (or emotion, for that matter).
LOL Pokekinz! xD Topaz would be more like “YO! WHERE’S MY FOOD?! GIVE MEH SOME FoOoOoOoOoD!!!” Yeah, she’s always cranky when she’s hungry. xD
Haha, that’s funny! I bet Poseidon (my Peace Puppy) would have a really tiny speech bubble if these were in character. “Yeah, uhh…could I have something to eat, maybe? I mean, you don’t have to…” But then everyone else would be yelling their heads off for a sandwich. “I say! I do believe that I’m feeling rather peckish today. Would anyone be so kind as to give me a FOOD??” -Blossom the too-loud Guinea Pig
Umm……you guys have…interesting pets. I mean even though my pets are “spies” (or well I PRETEND they are XD) they pretty much just smile and every once in a while “I’M HUNGRY. :)” But it’s okay they’re a bunch of fun. :) Oh yeah…they better not ask to go to the Park too often…they’re kind of obsessed with that place…
Haha, they certainly are. Poseidon’s the most “normal” one in that he’s the least difficult to hold a regular coversation (with the other guys, all bets are off). Also, pet spies are cool!! Are they like, a spy team? Because that would be super neat.
oh! i hope they improve the dock! that would be sooo great! it’s so hard to deal with a bunch of stuff there!
Same here. Can’t wait for it………..one word : Awesome!!!!
I’m VERY eXited! I love how the pets are going to be more like real animals.
Funny… I’m eXited too!
Hmm, if you look hard enough you can see behind that black box. Maybe we will find out what it actually is on Monday… Can’t wait! :D
Did anyone else think of suggesting pet ideas when they saw the title? Because I did, and I almost went bonkers because I was so excited. Which makes no sense, in retrospect, seeing as we already have a forum for that. At any rate, I hope the request box gets small after a while, because I feel like it’d be a bit distracting having a big rectangle in the corner of the screen.
I wonder if we’ll be able to change the color scheme of the new HUD (I think that’s what it’s called). Also, I know it says “Top Secret”, but it’s not really a secret if there’s transparency, and it’s in the location where the inventory is. <xD Although I wonder what the lightning bolt is…
Whoo! I LOVE WEBKINZ X! SO XCITIED!
Hey Gennelle, will our pets favorite food and toys play into this at all?:)
Ha-ha, webkinzforever3520. I get it.
You too, natalierose, though it was funnier the first time.
Me too… I’ve a lot of pets, though… At least the timer waits till you’ve switched, though. ^^
Me, too! This sounds fun!
Ha ha! Xcited! :-P
This is so totally completely entirely purely AWESOME!!!!!
I think that these ideas will take ALOT of getting used too, But I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA