AnimalJam

Disclaimer: This is my experience!

If you have no idea what Animal Jam is, it is basically a online game. I've been playing animal jam for literally 4 years now. When I first played I thought it was a very fun game. About 60% of the den and clothing items you can get are for members but I didn't mind. I was playing for fun and it seemed like a very decent game, me and my sister played it together. 1 year later both of us got membership. And the both of us always loved animal jam. But I obviously noticed the bad side. Many scammers and very mean players. The chat filtering was so bad, since I didn't have free chat I couldn't even say numbers. As usual I just let it slide. I admit I was bored after 3 years because Animal Jam barely updates anymore. It is just the same thing repeated year by year. And the content is for kids and kids only. So why not I take a break? I know many other online games! A month later I logged onto my account, I was hacked. Such a waste of 3 years of my life and my money. Not like I can do anything about it. Ugh life goes on, and you have to move along with it.

To sum it up, it's any typical game

Once I cried on the game just because a jammer called me the opposite of pretty the u word a four letter word ugly. Ugly is a mean word I call it the u word. But it's called ugly in general. Concepts that I hate bullies and I hate the word ugly. When I locked my den I continued crying about it. I hate it. Stop the word ugly now.

There are a few times it has broken on me, like it just tries to log me on with me actually not putting my username or password, and there was a time the adventures wouldn't load properly I am also writing this while waiting for it to load into my den.

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?

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.

UPDATE REVIEW!
I love this game actually but there is still have a problem as long as I play this game.
I had told you about the caste system in AJ Classic. But there's a new problem when I play in AJ Play Wild.

ONE. The Trades: It seems unfair and the most of annoying experience when I play AJPW is trading. Once, I was just enjoy walking around in Jamaa, Crystal Sands, or places in there. Then, there was a bunny wants to trade with me. Well... okay. As I can say, I am always not ready to trade pets and my pets are not for trade because they're got by my efforts from collected sapphires by games or event rewards. I can only buy membership once a year because I don't have money that much. Then, she/he asked me to trade pets, but I answered "No, I'm sorry. I am not ready to trade my pets. Maybe next time if I am ready.". And you know what happen? She/he just kept forcing me to accept trade and it's so ANNOYING. Even the bunnies always want to trade my pets with bees. It's boring and annoying! And I don't like bees. Most of them are bunnies ( and idk why :/ ) and they want to trade pets with me by forcing to accept! I only trade things in my trade list. That's it!

TWO. Moku'ahi. I hate this new island, tbh. The new island only sell MEMBER ITEMS and it's so UNFAIR! Also, when I want to click a place (such as Jamaa Township) in AJ map, I am always sent to Moku'ahi for no reason. It happens every time and so ANNOYING! Then, Leilani. Bruh... the trades from her are so UNFAIR! How am I suppose to trade with her if the things are so hard to get?! Even, I don't know how to get them!

*Summary*: So, what do I get from this game? Yeah... It's still enjoyable for me, but still annoying too, especially the first one.

Sorry if I have bad language. That's my point of view. How about you?

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.