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anyone here play webkinz. I want to talk about the kiwi plague of april 29 2021

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okay so. for webkinz day (today) the game gave away to all players a prize box containing 25 kiwi medallions, 100 of which can be cashed in for a virtual kiwi pet. the problem is…. opening the box didn’t get rid of it. players were able to open their boxes over, and over, and over. some players adopted over 50 kiwis in a single night.

when ganz finally addressed the glitch at around noon, all hell broke loose. hundreds of accounts got banned for glitch abuse but nobody knows what the criteria was for being banned because some people who opened the box multiple times got banned and some didn’t. a ton of players who opened the box multiple times emailed ganz about the glitch to beg them not to ban their accounts. people scrambled to find ways to hide their ips in case ganz decided to ip block people with multiple accounts. it’s been absolute fucking chaos. I highly recommend just skimming some of the recent threads on the webkinz reddit page because it’s a disaster.