Wizard101Reviews 34

I was addicted to the game. Despite being a player from overseas, I would try to purchase their memberships. The thing is, I have no access to a credit card and my Paypal is not linked to a credit card as well. Since I wanted to enjoy their game, I asked help from some acquaintances of mine to help me make the payments for me in return for cash. There was no issue for 12 years until one day my acquaintance's bank was acting up and pulled the charges made on their card. Kingisle sent me an email saying my accounts were banned. And after they noticed my payment history, they perma-banned them because they didn't come from the same source. My acquaintance managed to solve the issue with their bank, but despite getting the money back in their wallet, Kingsisle would not do anything else and used their no acc sharing policy excuse. Yes even after I told them it was to help me purchase their thing and play their game for 12 years.

They cared NONE. AT ALL.

They are the worst after spending so much in the game they banned my account and I don't have the original email anymore and they won't help me at all they really are the worst.

This game is full of paywalls, make their advertisements look so amazing, but really the game is absolute garbage. You spend loads and loads of money on membership and crowns only to get something for a limited amount of time. The worlds take way too long to complete, the customer service is absolute trash, and they ban people for no apparent reason. The game shouldn't cost money as it's nothing compared to the commercials. I remember playing as a child back in 2012 when the game was brand new, running around and getting hit by these annoying a** paywalls. They have this annoying chat filter preventing people from saying more "Gen Z" terms and use abbreviations such as "ur" or other shortening terms. They take the chat system way too seriously and it overall ruins the game for others. Each year or so they just repeat adding more and more sh*tty worlds and it just gets super repetatvie. The packs, mounts, pets, etc, are complete scams, and not worth your money.

Pretty sure some day they gonna get a class action lawsuit against them some days for falsely advertising their games and actually forcing kids to gamble or macro buy a bundle. All I can say is don't come back to this game because of how it use to be, it all money now, all bs we hated and saw coming in with spellments. Even after you cancel properly, they will find a loop hole to take your membership money again. They wont address a *glitch* that makes them more money.

Wizard101 is and was a popular game that I liked when I was younger, but now it is pointless because I played a lot MMORPG games and they don't beg you for money to progress any further into the game. Wizard101 has not improved on its market leniency on crowns neither any easier and less agenizing ways to earn crowns without being questioned by a bunch of fact that don't benefit a lot of people who is not from the US. I understand that you have to make money but people are not gonna spend that much forever on a game that don't benefit their life at the end... My suggestion is to work around your profit scheme on in game items, premium purchases and skins.

Wasted over $2000 on this game, it is a gambling menace masquerading as a "kids game".
Updates have ruined the game, only the whales left.
DO NOT COME BACK FOR "NOSTALGA' its long gone.

Game charges for membershipe when the player base is less then 100. I played it for about a week and got to know everyone in the game is full of npc players and moderators. They charg for membershipe and have a bunch on play to win items in there store. Is hard to get the play to win items do to the fact u have to get the packs they sell making it a 75 percent chance of u gettig the rare items maybe a higher rate. You spend a bunch of money trying to get the items and gear u want. When they player base is really low. I started playing when the max lvl was 50 they play base was high you were able to do 4v4 player vs player now the max lvl is 150 and the game started to die at lvl 90. Theres only 1v1s in ranked cuz the player base is so low. Npcs and moderators run the game making it seem like they have a player base play to win game gotaa pay for membership on a dying game is sad to say not worth it when the player base is lesss then 500 players maybe less then 100

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I'm sure it's fine for some people, but for folks like me, it's very AGGRAVATING to play. In fact, I get f****** ANGRY at times! But, it's not bad at first, the first couple of worlds. But when the bosses who cheat come along, and you HAVE to go with a group or you'll die -- even if you spend hundreds of tokens on Henchmen, that's RIDICULOUS! SOME people like the cheating bosses because they are harder/more challenging. Not me. I often can't GET a group to go with, for DAYS. I'd rather just go solo. But nope, can't do it with some bosses, the ones who cheat a LOT. IMPOSSIBLE to do solo, EVEN when spending up to 500 crowns for a Henchmen. AT THE VERY LEAST THEY SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO ATTACK OUR HENCHMEN, so they can keep us alive! All KI wants is our money (we have to spend money if you want crowns, packs, whatever), and when you do, there are ZERO promises they will actually help you!

So the game is fun great to play with kids but the problem is my level 71 got an error locked bot playable. Contacted support 48 hrs later responded need more information then responded 48 hrs later they said to delete file reboot and let them know. Did not work responded and here another 48 hrs and no response. So if you plan on playing if you have any problem expect to wait a month to get it fixed.

I played wizard 101 as a babysitter to an 8 year old boy when the game was new. The game (and it's players) have changed drastically. Many on there are now the young kids who played when the game started and are typically in college or college age. Most are not friendly, helpful or nice. Also there is an extremely large amount of profanity used in the game. There is a whole system to misspelling words to get around the filter system for cursing and it is used a LOT. Under different ownership, the game has massive game glitch problems making the game both frustrating as it malfunctions as well a waste of time. Customer support for Kings Isle is horrible and often rude, if they even answer you at all. Find a good game with a good company backing it. They also have a "no refund" policy which is why they act aloof. Once they have your money, they treat customers horrible. Prepaying for membership is like asking for a beating.

I had been playing this game from the day it came out up until midway through this year. While it was fun at first it quickly became apparent over the yeas that the company itself didn't care at all about it's players or their opinions unless these players were the big spenders. They rarely listened to ideas and only cared about getting as much money out of you as they possibly can. Don't spend a lot of money, your opinions don't matter. Updates to actual storyline were not often. Updates to dungeons that cost money, packs that rarely dropped good items, and other such items were a lot more common. Often with high, very high, price tags. Recently they'd been throwing out a lot of events that if you do the math would cost nearly 300 USD to complete. Mind you this is game mainly pointed at kids between the ages of 11-17 so that's quite a price tag on a one week event. What really sealed this game for me and why I left though was this years summer update where they very clearly didn't listen to any outcry of the players. Destroyed any and all hard work of the players, some of which have been playing for over a decade, and made the long grinding efforts practically useless. Spells that were critical to those schools of choice were destroyed and rendered useless, gear (crafted, bought, dropped) was rendered pointless, and Kingsisle didn't even care when people were crying out and saying stop. Nobody asked for this update, very few liked it, and I am one of the many long term players that hung up their wand and said enough. I am done being ignored by a company that clearly doesn't care for it's player base, throws bans around like candy, and only cares about money. While money is important, your player base's opinions should be just as important if not more.

Firstly - fraudulently takes more money from your account than authorized. Usually days after - 80c here 1.20 there. They hope nobody notices. Nice little racket, as there is no accountability in business. Certainly do not make the purchaser aware in advance. Using the banking system to their advantage, playing the numbers game in the hope the majority of customers won't notice or care. If legit in any way - declare it.

Secondly - KingsIsle will actively watch in-game chats in real time with the intent of banning accounts to the point of uselessness. (10 Year mute for example). This benefits the business by not having to ever upgrade servers, just reduce the member-base AFTER they've paid.
Filtering and chat gestapo is outdated in this day and age. Kids have access to so many other platforms to chat through. The dystopian type filtering on this site only pushes its young users to other (more risky) platforms with which to communicate.

Overall the game is outdated by today's standard. Graphics most definitely - pretty; but lacking for the subscription price. And it is only that, a subscription - other items are only obtainable through further expense as you cannot achieve them in-game - even if a full paying member.
Micro payments are anything but Micro. I buy entire games for my games console for the same money.

The games was much better when it first came out with people working together and A LOT less expensive to play. Now the boss battles are incredibly variable to cost you more money (henchmen or better equipment), drop rates are horrible, customer service is combative and unreasonable and they have constant programming issues which result in loss of items (and customer service gives YOU a hard time). It's a game, it should at least be enjoyable. They need to look at what they did when the game was NEW... the philosophy now is horrible.

Okay, this message might sound a bit harsh, so be prepared; I used to play this game when I was younger, thus making me very unaware of money and how it can be wasted on things I don't need. I got this game in 2013, and played it non-stop for about 4-5 years. I loved it when I was younger, I apparently liked the absolute garbage graphics, the experience of having to pay hundreds of dollars to be able to play, the inability to talk to other players unless you lied about being 18 and up, and having people make fun of me for not having things I had to pay for. This game made me spend over half a grand to feel good about myself, and literally is only a money-making game that won't give you any gameplay unless you empty your wallets. I know, I know, some people might be thinking, "Why didn't you just take the vanilla experience, and not buy anything?", well, I WANTED to not spend any money on it, even as a child, but if I were to continue to the second world, which can be unlocked after about and hour or so of gameplay, I would have to either buy a membership for ONE month for $10.00, or buy it with ingame currency that I have to buy as well. Any money I got, I would spend on the game, which I know is my own fault. I will give the game credit for being addictive, it was INCREDIBLY addictive, but only so if you can play the full game. I look back in shame for how much money and time I put into this piece of garbage, because unless you are swimming in cash or want to spend every penny you have on it, don't waste your time. This game has a great concept and story, but it's just not worth it.

I'm an adult who has played this game off and on since 2009. I've paid for items, zones, etc. I took a break and came back to find that my account had been tampered with so I alerted KI thinking surely they would help. They did nothing of the sort. They said they couldn't do anything and kept dodging my question of, "Has my account been accessed anywhere outside my state?" They just don't know and don't care. This is shameful. They take your credit card and then have 0 security measures in place. They brushed me off and told me to start over. Instead, I logged into my account and deleted my credit card information. Working with a company like this is how you get your identity stolen, not smart.

The game is designed to create inequality among player. To get better stats and keep up with others you have to spend a lot of money and a lot of time. It means it can waste one's life on mindless farming. The company will change the rules of the game quite frequently and it may appear that the item you spent and lot of money and time to achieve becomes useless and you need to pay for another one. It makes the people busy and on their toes. It seems like the game has been losing their paying players, but the ones who keep playing seems frustrated but stay, it reminds me of a toxic hate love relationship.

To make people addicted and get their money they apply a lot of technics:
1. Intermittent rewarding - it makes people keep doing mindless, repetitive and costly tasks over and over again. To get the most desirable objects you need to spend a lot of money on what is similar to a lottery or a slot machine. To win you are either extremely lucky or try multiple times. This is actually hazard and it can may addict people, especially children.

2. Make people withdraw from real life. The game is designed to take immense amount of time including daily chores. It also makes you use a special vocabulary only the players would understand. The time in life is limited, use it wisely

The game used to have a wonderfully designed PVP system which unfortunately was ruined. The people have been complaining about it a lot, however the company's efforts did not help much. The game become like a malevolent totalitarian dictatorship. The only way is to leave.

My daughter found this game 3 years ago and we play it together. I never thought I would get so into a game online but we both love it. It is made by KingsIsle and they really care about their customers, their customer service has been exceptional and efficient when we have had needed extra help with things. Of course it is a business and as such they do provide opportunity to spend, but it is NOT pay to win which keeps it appealing. All you need to enjoy the entire game in full (including side activities) is available for membership fees, which you can get for as little as $5 (US) a month... kids say it is expensive but membership is less than one beer a month, or one meal out a year or for the pair of us to have accounts it is less than one trip to the theatre a year! Unlimited access, 6 wizards each and more content and things to do than we can ever complete... totally worth it and our best online discovery so far! :)