This week, Pogo added a new feature to their game windows: bars that appear at the top and bottom of their game screens. These bars contain your token amount, the jackpot amount, and links to mute the game and to turn chat on or off. In games that have them, the bars also link to badges and other game features. For example, in the screenshot of Yahtzee below, the bars also include links to a game feature, such as changing the style. Here’s a screenshot from Pogo themselves:
According to the latest update to the Known Issues page, which was the source of the screenshot above, these bars are supposed to appear “on top and at the bottom of all games” and if you do not see them, you should follow their instructions for what to do if your game window is cropped. With that said, it does not appear the roll-out of these new bars is complete as some games simply do not have the bars (yet?) and that cannot be fixed by allowing your browser to open windows without status bars. For example, take the games from this week’s challenges: the bars have been added to Sweet Tooth 2 but not Hog Heaven Slots. It’s probably safe to expect all games to have the new bars within a few weeks as the developers and designers re-work the game windows to include the new bars.
According to the Pogo News, the bars are a “strange issue” that will be fixed soon:
Well, *that’s* communication at Pogo for you — two entirely different and conflicting messages about the same thing! At this point I’d probably side with customer support’s Known Issues page, as they’ve got a screenshot and everyone knows “screenshot or it didn’t happen”. Nice one, Pogo.
Whether you like them or not, the new bars might be here to stay (and as explained, they’re likely to be soon added to the rest of the games as well). I have received so much email about this and it’s been mentioned in a few comments already across the site, so I figure I’d better open this one up for comments too. What do you think of the bars? Are there any other changes you’d like to see Pogo make to their game windows? Leave your thoughts in a comment below.
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Today, Pogo released the long-awaited Spike’s Casino Premium Badge Album. It contains the following ten challenges and badges, plus the album completion badge. As usual, it will set you back $5.99 or 86 gems. Completing each badge in this album will also award you 5,000 tokens!
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Last night’s update to the Pogo Facebook Connect feature has resolved the 
