Return Spike Collars to Animal Jam's Forgotten Desert
Return Spike Collars to Animal Jam's Forgotten Desert
The Issue
Animal Jam was a significant part of my childhood, with countless hours spent journeying through the forgotten desert. These trips were made even more special by discovering treasured items, such as spiked collars. But now, the thrill of exploration and the thriving in-game economy has been severely impacted, with spike collars no longer being a prize.
The absence of these items has caused an inflation in their value, with black longs becoming excessively expensive. This has taken away the joy of trading, a vital part of the gaming experience. My proposal is for the game developers to re-introduce spike collars into ground chests in the forgotten desert, which cannot be accessed by ending the adventure automatically. By doing this, we can restore the balance of the trading economy and reintroduce the thrill of the hunt in the exploration we cherished.
If you remember the excitement of finding a treasured item, or if you've felt the impact of this change on your game experience, join me in calling on the game developers to bring back the spike collars to the ground chests. Together, we can rekindle the fun and dynamic in-game economy of Animal Jam. Sign this petition to support its return.
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The Issue
Animal Jam was a significant part of my childhood, with countless hours spent journeying through the forgotten desert. These trips were made even more special by discovering treasured items, such as spiked collars. But now, the thrill of exploration and the thriving in-game economy has been severely impacted, with spike collars no longer being a prize.
The absence of these items has caused an inflation in their value, with black longs becoming excessively expensive. This has taken away the joy of trading, a vital part of the gaming experience. My proposal is for the game developers to re-introduce spike collars into ground chests in the forgotten desert, which cannot be accessed by ending the adventure automatically. By doing this, we can restore the balance of the trading economy and reintroduce the thrill of the hunt in the exploration we cherished.
If you remember the excitement of finding a treasured item, or if you've felt the impact of this change on your game experience, join me in calling on the game developers to bring back the spike collars to the ground chests. Together, we can rekindle the fun and dynamic in-game economy of Animal Jam. Sign this petition to support its return.
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The Supporters
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I have always loved this game. Returning after many years to see how unfriendly the “economy” is to new players has been disheartening. I have even seen players dropping real money on purchasing items from ebay. For it being such a big issue and against animal jams terms of service, they make it more likely for this issue to happen because rares are unobtainable.
Any long time player of Animal Jam knows what a crucial role trading plays in the game and after the removal of spike collars from The Forgotten Desert, the economy has become absolutely insane. As they are increasingly more rare, players are hardly able to get spikes which leads to players hoarding them and hardly accepting any trades for them. This has also resulted in spikes being sold for outrageous prices in diamond shops. A single black long spike is now up to 1000 diamonds of in game worth which is absolutely unacceptable. If you were to purchase one of these black long spike collars, you would need to buy the biggest pack of diamonds from the AJ shop (75 diamonds), which retails at $23.95 14 TIMES. This is $335 in real world money (before tax) just to get the ONE spike collar that most players dream of. This is a children’s game and with AJHQ really standing up & enforcing their rules to make it a child-friendly place, they also need to do something to fix the economy and worth of their items so that the children they are optimizing the game for can also attain these items. A great way of doing so would be putting spike collars back into The Forgotten Desert adventure, as then players would still need to work to earn these spikes by going on the adventure & then more spikes would be in circulation thus helping the overall economy. The best part of playing Animal Jam as a kid was trading up for my dream items, but this is just not really attainable with how the game currently is. Something needs to be done.
Many Animal Jam classic players like myself have lost their original accounts with an array of rare items in our collections that we no longer have access to. For AJHQ to remove spiked collars out of The Forgotten Desert after the mass data breach terminating accounts is absolutely crazy. It's gotten to the point where people are selling stuff like spiked collars for real USD or money. Nobody should be selling pixels from a kid's animal game to put food on the table. I understand we have a real-world financial inflation going on but this does not mean Animal Jam should be reflecting real-world economics. It's a kids game! And many of us older players have returned to our beloved childhood computer game to escape the real world. Like who on earth would want to play a game that reflects real-world issues and tragedies? We play games to escape reality not to emulate it.
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Petition created on March 2, 2025