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California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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This game is a scam. You spend alot of money on the membership, and then they suspend your child's game. They say it will be for a day, but it still says she is suspended. No explanation given by the game, but as best we can determine, she stated, "If you send me a gift, I will send you a gift" just prior to the shut down. No phone number to call, probably because they know this is a scam. It really isn't even connected to National Geographic, a company I thought was trustworthy, which is why I trusted the site to be honorable without actually looking into it. National Geographic needs to remove any affiliation to this group, because it makes them look bad. Unless you want to hand over your money to a company who can at any point suspend your service without explanation for who knows how long, I would keep way away from this game.

Date of experience: January 1, 2016
Virginia
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I think animal jam is a fun game to play. In my opinion the only problem is the fact that a lot (i mean A LOT) of the things you can get are for members (which you have to pay for). But otherwise, this is a pretty good game.

Date of experience: March 14, 2017
Illinois
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My child loves this game but we have been having issues playing so to get help I need to login to my parent account but I can't. I changed my e-mail so what do I do now? Can't send link to reset password when the email is no longer in use?

Date of experience: March 1, 2019
Indiana
3 reviews
5 helpful votes
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How animal jam is!
June 17, 2017

Animal jam is a good game but there's some things i don't like for example Hackers, Scammers, Show off's, Bullies, Memberships. I love animal jam but nonmembers get left behind what if they can't afford a membership or there parents can't get them 1 and there's a lot of show off's in the game now its rude and get people sad and makes them wanna quit animal jam. But its a very good game I've played ever since it came out i don't play much now. Written by (Ajrocksforbffs)

Date of experience: June 17, 2017
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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FILLED WITH HORRIBLE CRUEL PEPOLE! I AM EMOTIONALLY SCARRED! SCAMMERS AND HACKERS ALL OVER! Very addictive!

DO
NOT
PLAY
THIS
GAME!

Ps if you are a scammer or a hacker, may you die a slow and painfull death very very soon. I hate you.

Date of experience: November 27, 2022
Nevada
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Please get out of this game. This game is too addictive to me.do not play this game it is crazy. I warn everyone to stop playing now. There is also scammers. Play other game but animal jam. I am also trying to stay away. Even if you have a spike or rainbow spike stay away.if your playing this game and your mom or dad is reading this you should also read this. I am going crazy of this game.if you dont have this game and you want it do not get this game.if you play this you forget homework and don't listen to your parents.it will get more addictive to you i promise.

Date of experience: October 4, 2017
Canada
3 reviews
9 helpful votes
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The problem with this game is the bullys, scammers and people who have so much time on their hands they spend it by being inapropriate online report the jammer not the game. Animal jam itself is a great game for learning about animals and fair trading.

Date of experience: April 19, 2018
Georgia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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FUN GAME
July 19, 2021

This is a fun game (even though the security is trash). Better upgrade the security (I saw animals teleporting around and changing colors AGAIN a few days ago). Parents: teach your kids to stand up to chat filter dodging bullies and hackers. Tell them not to get upset and just get up and tell the hackers to deal with the fact that they don't care about them stealing pixels. PIXELS ARE ONLY PIXELS ON SCREENS! Kids: Stand up to bullies, trash talk hackers, don't cry over pixels, and avoid scammers. Play safely! -Beware4 (BWYTN).

Date of experience: July 17, 2021
Pennsylvania
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Its great in all...
April 15, 2020

But most of the item's are for members. I really did appreciate the two weeks of free membership but, I think the people who work for animal jam just want to take your money. They do show opportunities for kids to learn and have fun. Lots of of people are mean on animal jam. And once your membership is over they take away all of your stuff! Its great in a lot of ways to learn but, I wouldn't recomend it.

Date of experience: April 15, 2020
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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My 11 year old's account was hacked and AJHQ has refused to take any action or resolve. Over the last year or so she has spent considerable allowance money buying sapphires and trading and creating dens, items, animals and pets. This has been her world during the lockdowns from the pandemic. She knows internet safety, creating complex passwords, not sharing passwords etc. but unfortunately her account was hacked and the hacker emptied her account to basically "factory" settings so all her dens, items, animals and pets are gone. She is distraught and AJHQ refuses to do anything by way of support. The ask was to revert her account to the day before the hack but they have refused.

Warning to parents - do not waste your money making any purchases on this site. It is not secure and AJHQ will not stand by their systems and ensure security on their site.

Date of experience: February 3, 2021
Virginia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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I've been playing animal jam for years- now I've quit. In the earlier stages of the game, there was a lot of role playing, like playing house online and pretending to date. There were a lot of users saying stuff like "if you like me come to my den". So it was a lot like a chatroom of sorts. Recently, there have been restrictions on chat, so now the game is entirely about "trading"- meaning who can get the most and rarest possessions. So in a nutshell, animal jam is a very materialistic game, and it teaches an unhealthy policy of consumerism. Ironically, animal jam was never meant to be a materialistic game. It was supposed to be an educational game, and teach kids about nature. But really, kids are being deprived of nature because they are sitting in front of screens, measuring all of their self worth on how many accessories they have.

Date of experience: September 13, 2017
California
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Yall listen up
February 21, 2019

I really like Animal Jam, its fun. But about all this scamming and inappropriate stuff, people just need to use common sense and stand up for themselves. AJHQ tries as hard as they can to ban all the hackers, scammers, and the people who do inappropriate things.

Date of experience: February 19, 2019
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Amazing game.
June 13, 2018

This is a very fun game. Whilst educational it also offers alot of other choices to do in-game so you can also have fun. An amazing community with the chat system limited so it is hard to bully somebody unlike Roblox and other games. Highly reccomend it

Date of experience: June 13, 2018
Texas
3 reviews
8 helpful votes
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This is the worst site I have ever seen! People do the most INAPPROPRIATE things on this site! The accounts are way to easy to hack into I was hacked into at least 15 times if not more! National Geographic has nothing to do with the site this site just slaps the NG name on there stuff and ruins the NG reputation. My mom had a friend look at the site and they said that it was SUPER easy to hack into the accounts. This site teaches kids absolutely nothing except the most inappropriate things. People have word workarounds and cuss each other out. If your smart you will get your kid away from this site. I quit months ago and my life is WAY better then when I was on that crud of a site. From a 12 year old.

Date of experience: September 7, 2015
Texas
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Being rare in this game is what jammers love. I get it. It's fun becoming more rare and getting things you want. But jammers often have problems with this. If you decline a trade, often a jammer will complain that it was fair and it will start a whole argument. In my opinion, it's just a pixel. So I don't get upset when a jammer says no to my trade. There are tons of arguments in this game which makes this less fun and upsetting for some jammers. The arguments normally have to do with rares. If a declined trade happens, an argument happens. If trust happens, then normally a jammer gets scammed and locked out.

Date of experience: October 28, 2017
North Carolina
3 reviews
7 helpful votes
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Its okay but not okay
September 4, 2017

The game is nice and all the graphics are amazing everyone loves it but tons have had problems like hackers and scammers, I think non members shouldn't be left behind they shouldn't be allowed to be so rude to nonmembers. A lot of members should be nicer to nonmembers.The worst thing is animal jam does not care. They should also put the rares back in stores so everyone wont be so sad because they don't have that item. Then scammers will just scam them for it. Then they will be sad. I'm happy animal jam got filtered chat but people can still find their way around it. Animal jam head quarters should be more concerned about this. I was addicted to this game for a long time but all the items i worked so hard on were lost because i lost my password. So if you let your child play this game i suggest they be careful.

Date of experience: September 4, 2017
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scams money
December 23, 2018

I paid for a year of membership only to get one month of that taken away because they chose to take away my chat and turn it into bubble chat for a whole entire $#*!ing month MY username is honey******* and this $#*! is $#*!ing $#*!ed.

Date of experience: December 23, 2018
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Hello. I have played animal jam since 2012 (no i'm not old) and i still play it to this day because it is classic to me and i never get tired of it. There are so many fun things to do, you can buy and decorate your dens, animals, and pets, you can trade, you can do adventures, you can socialize, you can do fashion shows and so much more. Ajhq is very good about the chat system and they don't let anything inappropriate get through, and nothing regarding personal info. There are three chat settings: bubble chat, where there are phrases you can click on that ajhq made, safe chat, where you can type from a large list of approved words, and safe chat plus "free chat" where you can type your own messages but ajhq is still not gonna let you say anything bad. Animal jam is a great and fun game for all ages, and there is lots of education involved. Ty for reading this -icyfrosting

Date of experience: May 6, 2020
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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COOL BUT BAD LAUGAGE
March 10, 2018

Great game but there is so many ways around the chat filters people have sex and online date and ajhq dosent do anything its true its addicting but the things saying "it will change your kids" is not always true it depends on how you raise your kids and what your kids are like.

Date of experience: March 10, 2018
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Hello if you are here to know my opinion of aj here it IS

BACK THEN: Animal jam was kinda cool when it came out, with everyone caring about friends and stuff.

Now: It's getting stupid aj.The only thing making them play the game is rares and showing off. Also aj is LEAVING non members behind :(. Also once a member was being mean to me bc i was nm but they were super nice to a member.

Addiction: One thing thats bad is the addiction of aj. I used to be really addicted to this game because in 2013 - 2014 AJ did really appeal with addiction to me.

Now in 2017 it's just stupid:(

From, XxkawaiimaddyXx(aj name)

Date of experience: June 16, 2017

Overview

AnimalJam has a rating of 2.3 stars from 122 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with AnimalJam most frequently mention customer service, non members and rare items. AnimalJam ranks 118th among Games sites.

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value
16
shipping
3
returns
10
quality
15