Every year, Pogo puts out (via Ms. Netiquette) a guide to commonly-used chat abbreviations, aka the “Player’s Guide to Netspeak”. This year, as with every year, it lists not only the common but the obscure, the downright useless and the game-specific. It’s a pretty comprehensive list for Pogo’s chatrooms — including a lot we’ve never seen before in our many multitudes of hours on Pogo — even if it is totally sanitized. (Who the heck ever uses LFMBO? Ms. Net apparently. She’s such a pain in the appendix.)
We’d always hoped the year would come where STFU would be added on to the list, but apparently nobody could come up with a saccharine-sweet word for F. *snicker*
Our friend Steph wrote in to let us know that for her, Pogo has been on the blitz this morning. Every time she’s changed pages on the site her token amount, gem amount, favorite badge, and messages are displaying improper amounts. She’s written in to tech support with screen shots and hopefully they’ll get it resolved, but she wanted to make sure that if anyone else was out there experiencing problems with the site: you aren’t alone! Thanks Steph!
Hey US folk: Happy Memorial Day from those of us here at BadgeHungry! Whether you’re BBQing with friends or relaxing at home with a little Pogo, or no matter what you’re doing, we hope you have a great holiday!
Our BadgeFairy went on her honeymoon and all you got were these blurry cameraphone shots of Poppit! Slots! LOL!
Click either thumbnail for full-size.
The Poppit Slots were a LOT of fun. At the Borgata in Atlantic City they were penny slots and for a max bet it was 250 credits (or $2.50) per spin. (You could change the credit denomination to 2 or 5 cents as well!) The first time I played, Spike gobbled up $80 or so, but the second time I slid in a cool $100 bill and walked away with nearly double that. The real winnings on this machine are the prizes, both in the regular spins (across the multiple lines) and in the bonus round. The bonus round is just like Poppit!, and the prizes you release are worth credits.
As I pointed out to the nice lady next to me (who plays Pogo all the time at home, she said), if you rub Spike on the touchscreen, he giggles and wiggles around on the screen. It’s Poppit cuteness overload.
I’ll get you back to regular postings soon — thanks for your patience while my husband and I enjoyed our new lives together over the past few weeks!
Love, BadgeFairy
Posts will be sporadic until next weekend as BadgeFairy is off on her honeymoon! Have a great week and good luck with your ranks and badges!
Do you hear that? It sounds like wedding bells to us!
We’re taking this weekend off to celebrate (our fearless blogger) BadgeFairy’s wedding. We’ll be back to our regular postings on Monday with all of the Pogo news and information and juicy rumors you love! Have a great weekend!
by Lura on April 30, 2008
Don’t forget to visit our page of free tokens and get your 10,000 tokens this week (the week resets on Wednesdays). In addition, some people have been able to get the EA Web Soccer tokens (5,000 of ‘em!) twice, so try that too.
Enjoy!
by Lura on April 15, 2008
Okay, you guys can stop emailing us now! We know it’s been three (!) whole (!!) days (!!!) since our last post, but there isn’t anything else to report yet. We thought there was surely to be a new game released this week (like Golf Solitaire), but instead there wasn’t an apparent maintenance at its scheduled time this morning and therefore nothing new on the site…yet.
Regular readers will know that we’ll be the first to update you as soon as there is news to report!
When you’re trying to get into a game room and get a message reading “This service is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.”, it means there’s a problem with the Pogo game servers. They may be performing some kind of emergency maintenance, the servers may have crashed or gone down, or it may have been planned.
Other messages and errors you might get include the following:
- “System Too Busy” error: “Our server is currently busy and can not process your request at this moment.”
- “Tokens Unavailable” (or your token amount may be zero — gasp) and “This Pogo Mini is unavailable” where your mini should be on your home page
- “Your info could not be accessed at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience.” when you try to view Badge Central
- The Mini Mall may be replaced with a message that reads “Sorry! The Mini Mall is down for maintenance. Please try back later.”
Do not panic!
We repeat: PLEASE. Do. Not. Panic.
Pogo will be back up soon. Your tokens, mini, badges, albums, gems, and everything else will be just the way they were before the servers went down. And you might get a new game, new mini items, or absolutely nothing out of the harrowing ordeal of being Pogo-less for a few minutes (or — dread the thought — hours)!
These outages don’t always affect the servers for deluxe games, so if you have (and haven’t finished) Tri-Peaks 2, Lottso! Deluxe
, The Poppit Show
, or Mahjong Garden Deluxe
, you might check to see if you can catch up on ranks for those until Pogo returns.
by Lura on February 23, 2008
In this week’s Letters to the Editor on the Pogo UK site, the Editor responded to a few burning topics that are lighting up the Pogo community world-wide.
Everyone was disappointed with the distinct lack of hearts and shmoopie-type Valentine’s mini items. We know that the “bling” was created last October and was waiting in the wings for an appropriate release date, however none of us really feel that Valentine’s Day was remotely appropriate. Well, the UK Editor actually apologized and admitted that they “somewhat overlooked” the mini mall amidst other Valentine’s Day celebrations on the site (the greeting card creator, the homepage adornments, the wallpapers, and more).
With respect to the two outages we all experienced last week, the UK Editor apologized twice for the outages, once to a writer who was just wondering what happened to the games and the other to a writer who felt it was unfair that the outages happened during a time when most US and Canadian players were asleep. Of course, outages are totally unplanned; it’s the maintenance that happens at scheduled times.
Perhaps being apologetic to your (cough, paying) customers is more acceptable in the UK than it is in the US? (The US Letters to the Editor this week didn’t mention this, nor the outages.)
