Time of Transition

Hello everyone!

Well, it's been a pretty exciting week for me. Lots of things have happened, and a lot of them are related to what I am about to say in this post.

So, when I came back to WCC after my few months of absence, one of the first things I did was to put up a poll, which ten readers voted on (plus me, since I always vote on my own polls, since I'm cheap, so that I don't have to keep clicking "View Results" over and over... XD). The results were as follows:

Look for a new game to try!	6 (54%)
Party!	4 (36%)
Start a community story!	0 (0%)
You just go back to doing your update thing now! :D	1 (9%)

Minus my vote on the last choice, that's six out of ten (60%) that wanted to look for a new game to check out.

(As for the four of you that wanted to party, I'm still trying to find a place in my schedule that'll work. It might be a belated Fourth of July party on the 5th or something :D)

So you know what I did?
I looked for games, new and old, to check out.

And guess what I found?
Two really good ones.

One an old favorite...
 ...and one that's famous.

Let's get down to business.


The reason WCC was called WCC was that when it first started, it was intended to be about all kinds of games. I had started off with three, and quickly dropped the other two after the Fuzzy Crisis. Several months later in August of 2011, I did reviews of the three games I had originally started with: Animal Jam, Free Realms, and Wizard101. Out of those three, Free Realms, on the scale of 1-5 stars that I rated them, got a five.

It's been about two years now since I last played Free Realms.

With all of the stuff they've added and changed, today I would give ten stars out of five.

Why? Multiple reasons.

Thing one is that, even though I'm not a member on either game, Free Realm's membership is much less expensive than Animal Jam's (for their yearly membership prices, Animal Jam is $49.95... and Free Realms is $39.60, ten dollars cheaper per year) AND you can do much more with a Free Realms membership than you can with an Animal Jam one.
(Yes, Animal Jam is giving some percentage of membership money to a charity to help big cats, it isn't stated anywhere what percentage of it is going to the charity. For all we know, .5% of the money is going to the charity and the remaining 99.5% is going to overhead expenses and profit.)
With an Animal Jam membership you get to beta-test a lot of the cool new features, get extra animal characters, pets, etc., but you can do all that on Free Realms as well, along with doing members-only quests, buy pets that do multiple tricks, unlock all of the jobs, get a premium house for free, get item discounts and monthly reward packs, and get double coins for the first hour you log on every day.

If I haven't sold you yet on getting even just a Free Realms account, just wait. THERE'S MORE.

Within the past two years since I've last played, they've added a whole new expansion and new combat modes, as well as a huge new questline. The best part about all of this change, though? They gave their non-members more freedom in the process.
While you used to be able to only go up to level 5 on any job except Adventurer, now a non-member can go up to level 20 (the maximum level) on Adventurer and Brawler (one of the combat jobs). I'm not sure how many other jobs you can go this far with; I'm still leveling up my character.
Plus, that huge new questline I mentioned? Non-members can go all the way to the current end without having to pay a single cent.

Other pros for Free Realms include that it's got a massive playerbase (it's had over ten million players since it's first year, I'm pretty sure, while Animal Jam only just hit that mark a few months ago) and a massive world to match, with lots of neat areas to explore and secret things to find. It's so big that even I don't think I've explored all of it.

If I haven't sold you on Free Realms, you're almost a hopeless case. XD


And now, on to the second game. It's one I know a few of you know and love, and that I've used my brother's account on for a long time. Just last night, however, I was finally able to convince my mom to use her credit card to pay $26.95 to get my own account (I paid her back right afterward, and she got five extra cents to boot, because it's cheap to just count out 95 cents when you can fork over another dollar XP).

What is this game?

Minecraft.

For those of you that don't know, Minecraft is an insanely addicting block-based game where you can build anything you can imagine. Literally anything. If I wanted to build a giant sheep, I could build a giant sheep. If I wanted to make a huge castle with all sorts of secret entrances, I could do that, too.

The best part is that there's a large community that is determined to make the best of your experience. Minecraft supports the option for custom skins (infinite possibilities on what you can make your player look like), texture packs (to change what blocks, items, and mobs look like), and mods (to add or change functionality of different things). Also, Minecraft has thousands of multiplayer servers to play on, and on the Downloads page (where you can download Minecraft), you can get software to set up a server of your own. In fact, if we do choose to move our focus to Minecraft, I could even set up an official WCC server for us! :D

The thing that's both good and bad about this game, however, is that you have to pay for it. It's a one-time payment of $26.95 (far more affordable than having to pay for Animal Jam's or Free Realms' memberships for several years), and you get to keep the game and all of its updates forever. However, there is no free-to-play option for this game (well, there's Minecraft Classic; it's ancient and way out-of-date, but it's free).

So, my friends. We have now reached a point of decision.

Do we stick with Animal Jam, spread our focus over any combination of these three games, or move our focus to another game?

I'll put up a poll. Go vote!

Bye for now!

MERICA

Because AJ's having Fourth of July celebrations, sooooooo...

Quitting

Hey guys,
Wolbes here. I am officially quitting animal jam.
It is so stupid now.
Now that Im a non member, it seems like animal jam is disrespecting me.
Anyway.
I had a meltdown about it.
But.
Uh.
Yeah.
bye.

...immacurlupinaholeanddienow...

...hi everyone...

...anyway...

...adventures look super cool.

and now i'm sad.

because i can't beta test.

yes i am going to type like this until i can adventure because i am sad so you better just deal with it.

also look at this.

it makes me sad.

first to explore, which means that they're going to make nonmembers lag behind for ages and ages between adventures. not to mention that ajhq will probably never release the last few adventures to give players more reasons to upgrade to the club
and secret areas, which means rare loot and possibly even battles or bosses that i can't show you.

it's not like i didn't expect it, though, knowing ajhq.
i guess i'll just have to deal with it, since i have no way to pay for a membership.

there's no way you can tell that i have been looking forward to this for centuries.
that was so sarcastic i won't even comment on its sarcasticness, thus causing a sarcastic paradox.

also they have levels.

in other words, my guesses about general quests and experience gaining were correct.
probably.
i can't check.

anyway, the new dot on the left side of a player's nametag shows their level, and their rank.
circle is rank one, levels 1-4. star is rank two, probably 6-10, but the highest i've seen is a level 7, and since some person that i saw outside this picture was shouting about "how'd you get to level 7" or whatever i would assume that it's 'glitched' or cheated. perhaps if we are actually fighting phantoms, they simply ground the mobs for a few levels?

whatever.

there's a new mystery shop of mystery in the home base camp.
i think i know what it's for, but i don't really know what they are. perhaps if the tooltip is correct, they are weapons.
the clothing sort calls them items, though.

see that?
i wouldn't be surprised if soon they reveal that those swords you were equipping to your back before get moved to the item slot.
and get used as weapons.
they'll probably have magic wands or something too.
because they basically have to.

and so, since i have to end this thing somewhere, i have to end it.

this is much less hopeful than it seems on the surface.
let's take a look at another 'still-being-tested' feature.

when did that begin testing?
oh, just over a year ago.

in other words they didn't give us a set release time either.
so they've stuck us non-members in the same loop as they still have us snared in with writing personalized jam-a-grams.

so i think i'll end this overly depressing post with that.
see why this suddenly became the worst update ever for me?

bye for now.

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?

Okay, is it just me, or was this practically the best update in all of AJ's history?

Let's see: The first page of the newspaper is kinda meh: Pet raccoons are on sale in the Diamond Shop. Kind of a bad first choice for the front page of the newspaper, since everything else is truly amazing.

Second page: Pet hamsters are for everyone. Not just members. ALL. JAMMERS.
Why isn't that on the front page? If there's one thing I have left to complain about, it's that AJ designs their newspapers badly XD

Third page: All Jammers can win Diamonds on the Daily Spin. We already knew that, but it's still good for confirmation. And there's the winner of the Summer Jam-A-Gram.

Fourth page: It's just some of the Diamonds information again.

Fifth page:

Just... Fifth page.

My theories were confirmed. QUESTS.

WHAT SORCERY IS THIS????????

Seriously. I mean, nonmembers get more freedom, everyone will get quests, everyone can get Diamonds... It's like all of my 'prayers' were answered in one update.

Well, the second one isn't confirmed... I'm getting scared now.

Anyway, this is probably the best update of all time, and the only better one will be the one where they add QUESTS!

Bye for now!

PS: Speaking of best-updates-of-all-time, maybe they're trying to trump this one by adding the NEW LAND AND QUESTS at the same time! :D

Raccoons, Hamsters and Adventure!

Hey Jammers! In today's update there are brand new Pet Raccoons only sold at the Diamond shop and currently on sale too!

Isn't it cute?

But that's not all! 

All jammers are now able to get a cute and cuddly Hamster just for 400 gems! Don't believe me? 

Well take a look at this:

And that's not even the most exciting part! On the last page of the Jamaa Journal you can see this image! 

What could this mean? Quests? Something else? Post what you think in the comments and who knows? Maybe you'll be right!

Bye for now!

AJ UPDATE: HELLO PAY STORE! NO ONE REALLY WANTS YOU

Hello everyone!

Well, sorry for the somewhat delayed update... but this update was huge.

Thing is, it wasn't the good kind of huge.

See, the thing is, AJ added a new currency to Jamaa - Diamonds. Hooray, it's a big feature for once in forever!

Wait a second, though. A new currency means that there are items that can be bought with that currency.

So what can be bought with Diamonds? Well, as the name suggests, Diamonds are rarer than Gems, just as in the real world.

So, thus, cool stuff.

But wait a second! If Diamonds are rare and they buy cool stuff... well, all the cool stuff is members only!

Well, not quite. You see, Diamonds are AJ's new equivalent of any sort of real-money currency. For instance, in Free Realms, there's Station Cash; Wizard101 has Crowns. I was actually expecting something like this for a long time, starting to truly suspect shortly after the first Monthly Gift came out, and even before that, too.

The thing with all of these real-money currencies is that nonmembers in all three games I've mentioned can get it elsewhere - in AJ you can get diamonds on the Daily Spin (based on the appearance of the wheel, it's got equal chance as getting 500 gems, but each of the wedges is probably 'weighted' differently (weighted in terms of probability) such that there's actually an extremely low probability of getting a diamond); in Free Realms you used to start with 250 SC (after a while it decreased to an allowance of 99, and now I'm pretty sure you don't start with any); in Wizard101 and its sister games (Pirate101) you start with a total of 75 crowns connected with your account, if I've done it right, that is.

So what's wrong with AJ's Diamonds?

Well, let's compare the currencies.

	Diamonds (AJ)	SC (SOE Games)	Crowns (101 Games)
How to Obtain?	Card, Daily Spin, Weekly (Members)	Card, Account allowance, Weekly (Members)	Card, Account allowance
Obtainable Without Paying?	Yes; Daily Spin	Yes; Allowance at account creation	Yes; Allowance at account creation
What Nonmembers Can Buy?	Diamond/Gem currency conversion	Everything not marked explicitly for members	Everything not marked explicitly for members

See that? If AJ is going to truly be successful with this new currency, they have to even the market first. Yes, they are allowing non-members to obtain Diamonds for free with the Daily Spin, but they could still even the market a bit and add a few things there that can be bought by non-members.

Then again, of course, the Diamonds were supposed to be a replacement for the Monthly Gift... so perhaps we should be thankful that non-members can now get in on the extra gems every now and then.

Well, bye for now!

Are The 'Scams' True?

Hello everyone!

We've all experienced it. There's that one jerk that tells everyone "Jump on the *insert ice/Coral Canyons bridge* to help them break so that everyone can win *insert extremely rare item here*.
Of course, after you sit there and jump for an hour or two everyone starts to realize that it's all a scam, and start leaving.

Thankfully, this problem is avoidable if you stick on the small servers - the fewer people there are online, the less likely it is to attract a crowd and break the bridge.

But take a look at what was posted on TDE recently:

Breaking The Ice And The Bridge

We know many Jammers have tried breaking the ice in Mt. Shiveer and the bridge in Coral Canyons. Have you noticed that they crack when three or more Jammers jump on them?
Unfortunately, we haven’t heard of any Jammers that have successfully broken either one yet. Can you imagine what would happen if you were the lucky Jammer to finally break one of them? We’d be careful though… those cracks look pretty dangerous!

Has AJ HQ made it official? Have they turned that old-time scam into something more? Have they really added the 'secret prize room' envisioned by many of the scams?
Or is this all a "Here, we'll give you something to keep yourselves entertained with so we get more leeway to work on this new land" moment?

Only time will tell, I suppose. Cross your fingers, though - this could be something amazing!

Bye for now!

AJ UPDATE: QUESTS!

Hello everyone!

Well, when I first saw AJ's update, I wasn't intrigued. Some new snake video in Brady Barr's lab was the main feature...

...wait a minute, EXPEDITIONS?

Main Entry:	expedition  [ek-spi-dish-uhn] Show IPA
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	journey; people on a journey
Synonyms:	campaign, caravan, cavalcade, company, crew, crowd, cruise, crusade, enterprise, entrada, excursion, exploration, explorers, fleet, jaunt, junket, mission, outing, party, patrol, peregrination, picnic, posse, quest, safari, squadron, swing, team, tour, travel, travellers, trek, trip, undertaking, voyage, voyagers, wayfarers

This was taken from Thesaurus.com.

See the word in pink higlighted in blue?

QUEST.

So, maybe they didn't come in the form we expected... Personally, I was expecting some sort of object-hunting, or talking-to-new-NPCs quest.

But they came. They kept their promise.

So, as for the quest itself!

The content and action was nicely designed. What it is is a series of videos divided into 'chapters', and in almost every chapter (except for the first, the introduction, and the last, the finale) you're asked to make a choice.

The choices are very easy and logical, and you shouldn't have a hard time figuring out the choices. Also, if you make the wrong choice, you aren't penalized - the choice that you picked is removed from the list, so you can try another.

Every few chapters, after you finish the chapter, you'll get a prize. The first is a spiderweb hammock, the second a snake banner, and the third a snake throne.

The videos are very entertaining and easy to follow. It's a good format.

The best part about this is that AJ HQ explicitly called them 'Brady Barr's Expeditions', so there's a chance that there will be generic quests in Jamaa itself, exploring for hidden objects, defeating Phantoms, and talking to still-to-come NPCs.

And then, of course, there'll probably be a version of these for Tierney Thy's, too.

So we have a lot to look forward to in the future now: more quests (for ALL JAMMERS! HOORAY!), a new land, and possibly new battling features, NPCs, and more!

Anyway, I'm too excited for this update. There's other things, but they're all small compared to this.

Bye for now!

Things have changed.

Hello everyone.

Well, I'm back. It's been a while. Things have changed.

I suppose I should explain myself.

Guys, I just had to take a break. I couldn't stand it anymore. I officially decided to 'quit' this blog a few days before WCC's second birthday.

Happy birthday, WCC, by the way. Sorry it's belated, and sorry I don't have a gift.

After about a week, I got rid of Blogger from my Firefox favorites, but I couldn't make myself get rid of AJ. It's been there for all these months.

But old habits die hard, and it's strange how traditions work. Strange how I also quit AJ once before.

Strange how I decided to come back.

So I logged into AJ several days ago, just to check up on the stuff. There's a lot that's new, but nothing much. No animals; in fact, some animals have 'left' to go help find a new land. Is the corner land finally coming to us?

Maybe it'll come soon. Then again, maybe not. They've made promises like this before, too. Like with quests.

Moving on.

Now I see that some of you have read this post, and it's not what you're thinking.

I want to return, guys. And I want to stick with Animal Jam, and some of the other games we have.

I just had to take a break.

I saw all of your messages to me in my AJ inbox. And it made me sad that AJ doesn't tell you how old they are.

I've replied to them now, if you look.

So read this post.

I'm sorry about all of this.

Bye for now.

Ode to the Old Age

Perhaps you'd like to journey
Through memories now lost.
I would have liked to go on with you,
But in my life, it was a cost.
I was taxed by school and others,
I wanted to take a break,
I'm sorry I didn't tell you,
I didn't know what was at stake.

To be honest, my opinions
About Animal Jam have moved.
In the past, I can remember,
I came back, and I had proved
That this game, though it is merciless
On those who do not pay,
It has a way about it
That makes me want to stay.

I left once, if you remember,
To be honest, I was sad.
A game that I adored
Had taken back what it had had.
Now I left twice, and like fate,
I have seemingly returned,
Though I cannot count the timeframe,
It is similar, I have learned.

Though I have harped about it,
And will continue, I am sure,
I had quite forgotten about the truth
About all that it can cure.
My loss has been forgiven,
My debt has been forgot.
Now, my friends, let us gather,
And ever separate not.

Carnival and almost nothing else (Little tidbit at end of 6 words)

The summer carnival is back,nothing else.


WCC is dying,
We are almost sure of it.
But it's not our fault.
AJ is getting greedy
They don't give a **** about nonmembers
They give horrid updates
Very rarely good
AJ just isn't fun anymore
 Moral of the story: Maybe it's time to give up AJ
Maybe we should try a new game
And resurrect all the greatness we've left behind
Yet with a new idea
It's not WCC falling
WCC was never going to turn up like AJR
And it never will
My friends, it is AJ falling



P.S After starting new game, a memorial page might be nessecary
This is just a suggestion,
it's up to woods if she likes it or not


-Funwow


If we do decide to quit, Funwow, a memorial page will be written.
But I don't want to. 

THE MOST EPIC DAY EVER!!!!!!!

OMG OMG OMG WOODS ACTUALLY PLAYED ON AJ TODAY WOOOOOHOOOOOO!!!!!


Another weird post by

~Myth

Tail armor glitches.

I know this is way off topic, but most know that the Tail armor member gift item glitches. When you go and roll over an object in your acessories, then you roll over the tail armor, that name shows up. But something very weird was a new glitch. I wish I could get pics. but this is what the Tail armor name shows up as if you open to your clothing, and roll over nothing but the Tail armor. It says


                                                                            Tooltip
                                                                       Ranged Attack + 20
                                                                                    Fierce + 20



When I found this out today, I was going crazy. This might be a refrence to future battling and what woodswolf sought after, QUESTS!



Woodswolf:
...If you can look at this again and get screencaps, please send them to me. Immediately.
                                                            

Jam Session~

Hello Jammers gamers or whatever you are!
New update on AJ!
Jam Session!
You can make music buddies and go on stage in the NEW party- Jam Session!
You buy musical accessories at the parties C:
Okay, so. Because I'm a little lazy to type about this:

So no more Elephants rhinos or giraffes for a while~ get 'em now!
Any notice how like, the animals are ALWAYS the least used? Monkeys -I think pandas- Koalas and now these.
There is a new Photo Booth Contest! Submit your best pictures! The entries are due on May 1st~
There is a new fruit and veggie garden where you can plant a fruit or veggie and watch them grow!
And...
The summer carnival is coming back!
I never went to the carnival... I was gone most of that summer! xD

 New Den Items

New Instruments:

Once they add a flute I'll be happy C:

~DARLING~

We Won't Go Down

Hi guys.
All of you have been worrying. Worrying that WCC is coming to an end. And it will if YOU let it. So ,we may not have as many posts as before BUT we have more viewers ,mods and columnists. And as long as they're here, we have ourselves a strong little blog. Woodswolf made a promise to us all (if you were here in the time of AJR) She promised that this blog wouldn't end like AJR, not until WW is buried in her grave.
 So. If you don't want this blog to end, I suggest we start looking for ways to get in update posts, any posts. Doesn't matter. As long as we have columnists we got our blog. Alive and kicking. Woodswolf will return. She might just be busy with real life. Homework school all that stuff.

So please,

JUST QUIT WORRYING!

WE WONT GO DOWN LIKE AJR!

-Darling (Who hasn't posted/commented but is always here C: )

The last post?

Ummmm... I'm really wondering,.....IS WCC PERISHING LIKE AJR!? I know, the updates are pretty cruddy, but there is nothing on. Honestly, no one's posted since Feb. 24. Not critisizing(spelled wrong) you, but this is a remake of the Fuzzy crisis. Kind of. Goodbye everyone. if you even see this


-Funwow

P.S the goodbye does not mean forever, and Happy April Fool's Day!

Well this is awkward..

hehe,heyyyy guys....long time no see? well um here is a pic... i guess....

WCC becoming...WAJC...?

Hey jammers...see? I called you jammers! Ugh! I mean gamers!
Have you noticed how WCC is becoming more and more of an AJ blog? I mean, WCC stands for Woodswolf's Code Central. It's kinda becoming a sort of...WAJC, Woodswolf's Animal Jam Central. Most of the posts are about AJ...How about Feral Heart? Tinkatolli? Free Realms? Wolf Quest? And all the others...If you ask me, AJ is taking over...Goodbye, WCC. Hello, WAJB.

WHAT?! HOW DARE I WRITE THAT!…WCC ISN'T OVER!!! COMMENT IF YOU AGREE!!


YAY WCC!!! YAY WOODSWOLF!!!

~Myth da Weirdo

That was a weird post... XS

Bluestar and Firestar as Firepaw

Mentor and apprentice, future leader and deputy :•3

Artist: Myth
Name: Bluestar and the Fire that saved the Clans




~Myth da Weirdo