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- Dec 16, 2013 Created by British-based company Mind Candy and launched in 2007, “Moshi Monsters” was conceived as an elaborately interactive game whereby users could adopt a monster — something of a.
What do kids do when they’re too old for Webkinz World but too young for Facebook? Well it seems that they join Moshi Monsters. My daughter wanted to join so I took a quick look at the site and let her sign up. The website combines some of the fun of Webkinz — adopting a virtual pet (in this case a monster), earning points (“Rox”) by playing educational games in order to “buy” things for the monster — with a few of the social networking features of Facebook, like connecting with friends and sending messages.
At first I was a bit worried when my daughter started exhibiting some obsessive behavior with the site, logging on often to see if she had any messages (kind of like me when I first joined Facebook). I asked her to show me how it works and how she interacts with people on the site. Members of the site can add each other as “friends”, just like on Facebook. They have to know each other’s “user names” first and then they can invite them to be listed on their “friend tree”. Once added, they can post messages on each others “pinboards”.
My daughter had a bunch of friends and I asked her, who are these little monsters? Most were friends from her 4th grade class in school. But a few were random people she didn’t know. I explained that while her new friend is probably 9-year old Jenny from Des Moines, it could well be 52-year old Ralph from Denver. So I had her delete them from her “friend tree” and told her she can only be “friends” with people that she knows. Since then she has only befriended classmates.
Then we talked about what kinds of conversations she was having online. Most of it was innocent enough – chit-chat about school and stuff, like a continuation of recess. While some of the “who likes who” and “did you hear what so and so said” were innocent enough, I reminded her that anyone of her Moshi friends can read the messages she “accepts” on the pinboard. (She can also choose to keep a message private). We discussed what types of things would be inappropriate to talk about online. Also of note, messages are screened by the system, and kids can tag messages as inappropriate, which are then reviewed. Evidentially there are forums and portions of the site you have to pay for, but so far my daughter hasn’t mentioned the forums, and there seems to be enough to do on the site without having to pay for more, so we probably won’t go down that road.
In a previous post I talked about things parents should keep in mind if their kids are on Facebook and I would suggest similar guidelines for Moshi or any other site, such as:
- Sign up using an e-mail account that I have access to (it is helpful that on Moshi, parental permission is needed for kids under age 13.)
- Share her password with me so I could log into her account if necessary.
- Set some ground rules, such as only accept a friend request from someone who you actually know.
- Go through all the privacy and account settings with her step-by-step.
The reality is kids go online these days so might as well teach them early how to do it appropriately, in a somewhat safe environment. At this age screen-time limits might not be a bad idea. Everything in moderation.
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We all have played video games in our childhood but some games become special and leave an everlasting memory. Well, a game called Moshi Monsters which is popular among young ones and has 80 million registered players, is shutting down on December 13, 2019.
In the game, players are required to choose a pet that they can nurture. The game features six pets which include the following: Diavlo, Luvli, Katsuma, Poppet, Furi, and Zommer. Players can roam around Monstro City & they can also do daily challenges to earn in-game currency called Rox.
Players can also communicate with each other while playing the game. They can also personalize their room and do other in-game quests. Moshi Monsters game was released on April 16, 2008, and was created by Michael Acton Smith.
Mindy Candy has developed the game. It is an online game that runs on the Adobe Flash Player engine. The success of the game can be inferred by the number of players it garnered in just one year.
Moshi Monsters registered 10 million players by the end of 2009. Mindy Candy extended the Moshi franchise by releasing Moshi Monsters Village in July 2013 for Android devices. Moshi’s universe was further extended with the release of Moshi Karts in February 2014. Moshi Karts is available on iOS devices.
In June 2014, Moshling Rescue game was released for both Android & iOS devices. Amid these new releases, the popularity of Moshi Hunters took a steep fall in 2013 & Mindy Candy suffered a loss of £2.2m due to a drop in sales. The company also planned to re-launch the game in 2015 but it never happened.
Cut to now, Mindy Candy has decided to shut down the game on December 13, 2019. Game developers have also released an official statement on the Moshi Monsters website. You can check its complete details down below.
Dear Moshi Fan, Roary Scrawl here!
The Moshi Monsters web game will be closing down at midday (GMT) on 13th December 2019. Thank you for joining us on the first part of our monsterific journey and helping us make Moshi Monsters such a splat-tastic online experience!
If you are an existing paid subscriber, your subscription will not auto-renew and will lapse within the next 30 days. Regardless of the date on which your subscription stops, you will be able to access the game and enjoy full subscription benefits until the site closes on 13th December.
If you are a free user, nothing will change until the site closes on 13th December.
In the meantime we want you all to enjoy your final days with us, so enter these one-time use codes at http://www.moshimonsters.com/secretcode to unlock special Moshi goodies:
NOV2019ROX
2019FIREWORKS
2019REDRAINBOW
2019ORANRAINBOW
2019YELLRAINBOW
2019GRERAINBOW
2019BLUERAINBOW
Webkinz
2019INDRAINBOW
The closure of Moshi Monsters will surely sadden the fans, but they can still play other Moshi Universe games including: Moshi Twilight Sleep Stories and Moshi Monsters Egg Hunt.
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