Jul 15, 2011 Online pet sites are not new. Moshi Monsters has several competitors, the biggest of which, Club Penguin, was launched in 2005 and bought by Disney in 2007 for $350 million.
Digital resources > Moshi MonstersMoshi Monsters is a social networking website designed for children aged 7 to 11, though I have seen monsters tagged with ages from 5 to 68. The site designers say that fun, education and safety are the guiding themes for the website. The site combines solving puzzles, working to earn points, making purchasing decisions, caring for a pet, and making connections with others on line in a safe environment. Children adopt their own monster pet, which they then play with, care for, and keep happy. There are six monsters to chose between: - the Katsuma—an anime-inspired rabbit;
- the Diavlo—who blows up like a volcano when annoyed;
- the Furi—reminiscent of Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street;
- the Zommer—a zombie doll with a missing eye;
- Luvli—the flirty heart shaped monster;
- and the cuddly little Poppet.
After customizing their monster with different color combinations, children are provided with a home for their monster. Participants play games and puzzles to earn rox (currency that they then use to buy toys, home decor, clothes and food for their monsters). Opportunities to learn about budgeting and making decisions between different expenses are part of this process as well. The fastest way to earn rox is by playing puzzles. Puzzles provide an educational component, challenging children to improve their spelling, arithmetic, spacial skills, logic, vocabulary, and more in entertaining ways. The puzzles get harder if the player is doing well, and get easier if the player is struggling. The child's monster acts as a cheerleader, showing great enthusiasm when a child improves their performance. In addition to puzzles, Moshi Monsters has games. One example is earning rox by serving ice cream cones to impatient monsters. This improves mouse control and speed. It also communicates to youngsters that they must work to earn money before they can spend. It may help some youngsters gain empathy for overworked food service personnel. Monsters get sad if they aren't visited frequently enough, and get sick and hungry if they aren't fed. Monsters do not die, however, unlike some other virtual pet games. Sick and sad monsters can be restored to health with food, tickling, shopping, and doing well on puzzles. Players can meet other players at the forum, or on the street in Monstro City. They can go to see the other players' monster homes and admire the often humorous items they have bought with rox to decorate their homes. A lot of thought has been given to safety. Parents must give approval before a child can join. The site does not collect personal information about users, photographs cannot be posted on the site, notes to friends on their pin boards cannot include phone numbers, email or street addresses. There are automatic filters to prevent inappropriate posts to personal pin boards and forums. Unkind posts do get through sometimes, and when this happens the recipient can report the post or even block the poster. Bullying or abuse of the rules can result in the site owners banning a child from the site. There are no ads from outside companies on the website, and basic adoption of a monster and use of the site is free. However, there are frequent reminders that the paid level provides access to many interesting opportunities. Parents may find themselves being pestered to upgrade their child's access to the website to member access, at the cost (as of late April 2010) of $6 a month, or $30 per half year, or $50 per year. There are quite a number of grownups who play Moshi Monsters—grandparents, parents, teachers, even one or two library students and librarians. The monsters are adorable, the puzzles can be challenging, and it is interesting to see how other players have decorated their monster's homes. Home page: http://www.moshimonsters.com/ Information for parents: http://www.moshimonsters.com/parents Cost of membership: http://www.moshimonsters.com/membership/pricing Tour of Moshi Monsters (2 minute introductory video): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKdAmD_C1p4 Survey of children's online community sites: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/31virtual.html Reviews: http://www.gamezebo.com/online-games/moshi-monsters/review http://prigg.thisislondon.co.uk/2009/04/a-monster-exhibition.html Here is a video of the game in which the work serves ice cream to earn rox: http://www.youtube.com/user/moshimonsters#p/u/5/7ZRuHUEjSaE | Clockwise from top left: orange Katsuma, black and red Diavlo, purple Zommer, red Luvli, pink Poppet, brown Furi
Monster house of a non member.
Fairy Tale Castle, with multiple rooms inside. Children must become paying members for their monster to live in such a house, though non-members can visit all the members' only homes.
Monster tree house, multiple rooms, members only.
Mountain Mill house, multiple rooms, members only.
Monster celebrating its person doing well on a puzzle
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Posted on March 12, 2013 - Comments [70]
We get a lot of request for Moshi Monster Membership codes.
I’m afraid we don’t have any membership codes, and we can’t allow comments discussing membership codes to be published on the site.
Mind Candy, the people behind Moshi Monsters need to make money from the game. They have people working for them who need to be paid for what they do. It enables them to build more cool features into the game (and hire more people!)
Free Moshi Monster Membership codes
Trial Membership Codes
From time to time, Moshi Monsters will give away free Trial Membership access.
These come in the form of a codes such as “TICKET” that was available in 2012.
These codes aren’t entered into the normal IGGY code screen but at: http://www.moshimember.com.
When these turn up we’ll share these on Moshi Secrets. We’re not talking about these trial codes here.
Random number codes for Moshi Monsters Membership
If you’ve done any searching on the internet you may have come across sites suggesting that you can get membership by entering a five digit number and then some random number.
Moshi Monsters have confirmed that they have been made aware of the situation and say:
“We have been made aware of a situation amongst young fans where entering a random selection of numbers along with 25836 will entitle the user to a 3-day membership.”
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“We have made sure that this combination of numbers have been withdrawn from production, so that going forward this won’t be an option.”
I’m sure other combinations that have been spread of YouTube etc. have also been withdrawn.
We asked if these codes would affect people who already had purchased these 3-day memberships. We legitimate purchasers lose out because someone had “guessed” the code on their card?
“Please rest assured that for our genuine customers who have bought these 3-day memberships, we are making sure that they are entitled to their memberships without a problem.
“We also have internal processes to routinely make sure that any children using the site as they shouldn’t be have the appropriate action taken.”
So beware, at best you’re likely to be wasting your time trying to use these codes and although they don’t say what “appropriate action” they’ll take, I’d guess that you’d risk losing your access to Moshi Monsters – at least for a while.
A big thanks to to the Customer Care team at Moshi Monsters for answering our questions.
Beware of Moshi Monsters Membership code generators
Let’s be really clear. These don’t work / don’t really exist.
In most cases they are what’s called “Survey Scam” that promise that you’ll get your download if you complete a survey.
The surveys sound tempting too such as:
- Chance to win an iPhone 5.
- Your chance to win your favorite Apple product!
- Enjoy a competitive rate with an aqua credit card.
- Your Chance to win the new Apple iPad!
- Chance to win £500 to Spend at B&Q UK!
These surveys uses popular brand names to try and entice you to enter your personal data, names, emails, addresses and even credit card numbers.
You WILLNOT get the items promised for completing the survey. There is NO CHANCE that you’d win an iPhone 5. These things are just there to persuade you to complete the survey.
Even when you complete the survey you still do not get access to the supposed Moshi code generator tool.
These applications do not exist and do not work. The videos you see are not of functioning software. Why don’t they ever show your the results – screen-shots of a Moshi Monster account with all the Rox / Membership etc that the tool will supposedly give you.
We’ve seen some very badly faked screen-shots of Moshi Monsters trying to show a large number of Rox!
Again, we asked Moshi Monsters for their view:
“Sadly we don’t have any control over the content posted in sites such as youtube, but we do monitor them, and if we feel that there is anything damaging to the brand then we do arrange to have the content removed; again our internal processes do make sure that our users are playing safely in Monstro-City!”
Watch our for malicious software.
You should always be on the lookout for malicious software – software that says it’ll do something good – but really, installs nasty viruses, trojans (sneaky software that pretends to be something else in order to get access to your computer) and other bad software on your computer.
One final thing – make sure you’ve got a good up to date anti-virus software installed.
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