Lions roar, eagles soar, nonmembers DON'T deserve more!

V2, because V1 needed further explanation.


"Lions roar, eagles soar, nonmembers deserve more!"
There's one word for that: No. The reason nonmembers don't have as much as members do is because it's encouragement to buy membership. If nonmembers were to receive more, the amount of players buying membership may be lowered by a lot - and with millions of players, that's a huge difference. Animal Jam has a huge server to run for all of its players. Some MMOs use multiple servers for different areas of the map - Animal Jam could be hosting a different server for each of the worlds you go into. Let's say each room in a server holds 20 players. 20 players, x the amount of rooms there are (township, coral canyons, mt. shiveer, appondale, kimbara outback, sarepia forest, crystal sands, temple of zios, deep blue, crystal reef, bahari bay, and kani cove), 20 x 12 = 240. Now currently displayed on my screen are 28 worlds to go to. 240 x 28 = 6,720. This example is 20 players in each room in each world at the same time, not counting dens, the juice hut, canyons pathway, minigame servers, parties, dens, all smaller rooms, or even the duplicate servers (sometimes one may go to aldan but be put into a different version of aldan). Plus the processing of every game, every interaction, storage for all of the models and animations, and general gfx. Let's say it only costs 1$ per player (bandwidth, player storage, gfx data, everything), x 6,720 players active at one time is of course, 6,720. Multiply that by 30, for an account being active for 30 days, we get a whopping 201k. If every single one of those online members bought a 1 month recurring membership, 6.95 x 6720 = 46704, x 30 = 1.4m. Minus the amount it costs for 30 days, they only make 120k profits, and that's not much for a huge business. 8.5% of the money made remains.

Let's try this a different way. According to data in 2011, there are 11 million active accounts in World of Warcraft, and it costs 130k per day to run the WoW servers. If every account were to play every day for one month, 130k x 30 = 3,900,000. It costs 3.9m per month, at this rate, to keep WoW running with 11 million accounts - but as I previously stated, this data was collected in 2011. And this is not even counting the bandwidth costs, which could be another 100k per month, or possibly even day. If we count how much it is for a monthly subscription, say 15$, 11m x 15 = 165m. So they're making a TON of profit, aren't they? But these expenses have to go into the server; - 3.9m, (100k for bandwidth x 30 = 3m) -3m, and we're down to 158.1m. This extra money can be used to fund more developments, patches, pay their employees, backup money in case something goes wrong, and more expansion packs.
Now this can be applied to Animal Jam as well. Let's half the amounts, since Animal Jam may have less active accounts at once.

5.5m accounts, 65k per day. 65k x 30 = 1.9m - cost per month.
6.95 (cost of monthly membership) x 5.5m = 38.2m - money the members spend.
38.2m, -1.9m, -1.5m, 34m - profits in the end. 4.9% of the money made remains.

In addition, look at how much nonmembers have received recently - diamonds on every other Jamaaliday gift, the ability to change the color of clothes, at least one 2D adventure, the chat history, pigs, giraffes, sea turtles, masterpieces all through December, and even lots of nonmember clothes. In Club Penguin, there are far fewer items able to be purchased, at least, from last I played, while you don't have a club membership. Take a good look at what nonmembers still can do - there's a lot of features, everyone is just so caught up in it being "equal" that they don't understand that that's not how it's supposed to be. Animal Jam would lose lots of profits if they give too much to nonmembers. A small change can make a HUGE difference. Every feature they give to members is encouragement to get people to buy membership - the more people buy membership, the more they have to fund new additions to the game. Remember - it takes a LOT of time, resources, and effort to make one new animal.

TL;DR: It costs a TON of money to keep a server running and based on my own possibly uneducated calculations they only make 4.9% profit - estimating that half of the online players bought a 1 month recurring membership. I did go through and research costs beforehand through a lot of different sources. I may be wrong on this, but maybe this can give you an idea on just how much it is to actually run a massive game. Animal Jam even has 30m+ players in its database.

"How about just one more animal?"
There's two things that can happen.
The addition of this new animal can cause them to lose profits in two ways - the extensive resources it takes or the fact that a slightly smaller percentage of people may be buying membership.
Then there's the fact that after nonmembers get another animal, they become more spoiled and demand another animal. Since Animal Jam can't do this, said players quit and Animal Jam loses potential memberships, thus losing profits again.

"I want the Forgotten Desert!"
Again, encouragement to buy membership. A lot of people may want membership specifically for the Forgotten Desert. Even if they added a flying nonmember animal, in no adventure does it let nonmembers receive member prizes - so there would be a new nonmember box, and nonmembers would still not be able to earn spikes like they would want.

In addition to these, more Animal Jam players have been quitting recently, so Animal Jam is losing profits. All of these new promo items are likely because of this - back in 2011, Aldan was entirely packed with people. Even Appondale and Mt. Shiveer were full. Now, usually Crystal Sands is full at most, with the rare day that you're put into Appondale instead.

Though it is true that nonmembers make the game in the first place, the game would be cancelled very quickly if nobody were to buy memberships. Then there's another alternative to memberships - in-game purchases, and lots of them. Say instead of buying a piece of armor in the Diamond Shop for a few diamonds, you'd have to pay a dollar. 5$ for an entire armor set. When instead, you could pay 6.95$ for a one month recurring membership, cancel it whenever you'd like, and be able to buy the diamond armor set and so much more, especially with the new Member Spin coming in January.

TL;DR (again): Animal Jam needs to make sure members have quite a bit more than nonmembers do to keep the game alive at all.

End; I apologize in advance if I seem rude, I just want to firmly get the point across so people understand. Don't agree with me? Voice your opinion! I want to see arguments to see how I can improve my wall of text. If you read all of it, I congratulate you, it really is a lot to read.

Animal Jam - Rares Guide (WiP)

So! I know a lot of people have difficulties knowing which spike is worth what. So I've decided to come up with a rares guide. The den beta amount is ESTIMATED, take this with a grain of salt!

Black Long Collar: 3 good longs OR 40 - 60 den betas
Red Long Collar: 2 bad longs and add OR 25 den betas
Purple Long Collar: 2 bad longs OR 20 den betas
Blue Long Collar: 2 bad longs(?) OR 18 den betas
--gap--
Yellow Long Collar: 4 shorts(need color)(?) OR 15 den betas
Pink Long Collar: 3 - 4 shorts(need color)(?) OR 13 - 15 den betas
Green Long Collar: 3 - 4 shorts(need color)(?) OR 12 den betas
Orange Long Collar: 3 shorts (need color)(?) OR 10 den betas
--gap--
Black Short Collar: Green/pink long (needs confirmation) OR 10-12 den betas (needs confirmation
Red Short Collar: 2 - 3 long wristbands OR 8 den betas
Purple Short Collar: 2 - 3 long wristbands OR 8 den betas
Blue Short Collar: 2 - 3 long wristbands OR 8 den betas
Yellow Short Collar: 2 long wristbands OR 8 den betas
Green Short Collar: 2 long wristbands OR 8 den betas
Pink Short Collar: 2 long wristbands OR 6 - 8 den betas
Orange Short Collar: 2 long wristbands OR 6 - 8 den betas
--gap--
Black Long Wristband: Bad short OR 6 - 8 den betas
Red Long Wristband: 2 short wristbands OR 4 den betas
Purple Long Wristband: 2 short wristbands OR 4 den betas
Blue Long Wristband: 2 short wristbands OR 4 den betas
Yellow Long Wristband: 2 short wristbands OR 4 den betas
Green Long Wristband: 2 short wristbands OR 4 den betas
Orange Long Wristband: 2 short wristbands OR 4 den betas
--gap--
Black Short Wristband: Long wristband OR 3 - 4 den betas
Red Short Wristband: 3 - 4 den betas
Purple Short Wristband: 3 - 4 den betas
Blue Short Wristband: 3 - 4 den betas
Yellow Short Wristband: 2 - 3 den betas
Green Short Wristband: 2 - 3 den betas
Pink Short Wristband: 2 den betas
Orange Short Wristband: 2 den betas

Credit so far to TigerMint & MexicanGrizzlyBear (need AJ usernames)

AJ Jump - gem making secrets!

Hello! Today I have a guide in making gems easy in AJ Jump.
Now most of you likely have AJ Jump, and perhaps want to make gems quickly. First off, let's start with the requirements-

• Ability to survive for 2 minutes (roughly 5k - 7k height)
• Largest gem magnet (120 seconds, costs 125 gems)

Now, to start off, you'll have to buy the largest gem magnet. This is called the GIANT MAGNET. Afterwards, you'll want to enter the game (survivor mode if possible, otherwise you'll be tempted to buy a revival balloon).

Then, just play on and reach a profit! This tactic - if done right - will ALWAYS award you with a 200 - 400 gem profit. Remember though, you must hit every JUMP BOOST you can, as not only do they award gems, but the higher you get, the more each gem collected will give you.

That's it, Jammers!

Jam on!

Secret colors!

Hello Jammers!
Today I've discovered two SECRET COLORS that may grab your interest.

The first one is a nice ICY BLUE, achieved by clicking the BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER of the color square.

The second color is a VERY LIGHT PINK. It is also achieved by clicking the BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER, but this only works in Best Dressed.

Well, that's the SECRET COLORS discovered today!
Jam on!

Members VS. Nonmembers

Members vs. Nonmembers

Okay, the first point should come across.
Members and nonmembers should NOT be equal.
Why? Members pay for their membership which supports Animal Jam. It is true, however, that we need nonmembers in order to get members. But if they were equal, why would anyone spend money for a membership when you don't get anything extra? Exactly.

Nonmembers should get more!
While I do agree with this on part, nonmembers don't have much because it's encouragement to buy membership. If nonmembers were hit with a steady supply of new cool items and animals, why would they have reason to buy a membership? True, we haven't had a nonmember animal in a few years, and I agree they should put out a new one. Besides - Oh, members should get a flying animal for the Forgotten! WRONG. This was made for members, another encouragement to get membership. While nonmembers don't have much, think about Club Penguin. People who don't buy membership get just about NOTHING. And though Animal Jam may feel 'unequal', it ISN'T. Nonmembers do NOT pay Animal Jam and support the huge server it has to run on. Would you rather nonmembers have less, or no Animal Jam at all? Exactly.

They SHOULD come out with a new nonmember animal.
The reason I believe this is that, as stated before, about 1/3 users create an account only to quit. Overall, Animal Jam is losing a chunk of its players by providing nonmembers with no new animals. If they were to slowly and gradually work and make a new nonmember animal, it would grab the attention of many and perhaps it could be 1/5 or even 1/10 players quitting. By slowly and gradually working on it, it won't take so much effort and thus will not be 'not worth it'.

Once again, Animal Jam needs the money coming from memberships to support their massive server!

Again, here comes the big question.
Would you rather nonmembers have less, or no Animal Jam at all?

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