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I'm a staff member from the English version coolcamels.com and I have to say I was kinda saddened by the review it received. I've been on the site since it reopened in 2003, when I was just a kid, and I have to say it really is a great site.
You can't just make an account and stay on for two days and get to know it. It's not a huge community. It's this small close knit community with tons of great people.
Now when the review says, "The site originally being in Hungarian proves to be a problem for the English version of the site." I agree with that translation issues aside. The company is Hungarian and therefore the majority of effort and whatnot goes into the Hungarian site. However, that doesn't mean no effort goes into the English site.
The moderation staff (which is what I'm a part of) is very dedicated to making it a better site. We've cleaned it up a tonne since June (which is when I can assume the review was written). We don't get paid for it; we do it because we love the actual site. So it's disheartening when you read something like that. Because then you know people aren't going to join and that's what CC needs. More people to breathe life into it.
I just wish I could more to show people this. Don't go into the 3D chat. It's horrible. Go into the regular chat. I can assure that you'll meet some amazing people.
I requesting a new review of Coolcamels.com by BBmmo.
I am the staff at coolcamels.com English version.We have been battling cleaning up coolcamels.com, the english version.The english version stands out from the rest of it version's in the fight to get it's leading site at the Hungarian version to reform it sites and update us.And become a leading force for kids.Coolcamels community has been highly unrated here.We have been here fighting to clean up coolcamels and highly friendly site.Even tho again staff are hidden on the site because the lack of Hungarian site to move forward.We have plenty of leading youth here that are role models.And BBMMO has highly under rated the force of the staff there.That is trying to lead coolcamels into the future to be a powerful site not of just a browser based game, but be here for the youth of today.
We are making changes on coolcamels and coming up with fresh idea's.It's just a battle to get the Hungarian site to move from the pass and coolcamel bad rep also.We're here to see that coolcamels does clean up it's act and is a safe site again for kids and teenagers to use.If you have any questions feel free to mail us on the site at coolcamels.com.My name is Sweet_whispers and Dark Flame,we are head administrator's of coolcamels.
Come make a camel, stay a while and you'll see how this small community can change your life .Not to many browser based game can say that.
Last edited by Sweet_whispers (2009-02-28 14:18:54)
My son tried coolcamels in maybe November of December of 2008. He found it incredibly boring. He goes to these sites to play, not chat, so I can't vouch for the chat portion. It was the game that didn't hook him.
It's not a game site though. I'm sorry he found it boring, but it's not meant for gaming.
Faded wrote:
It's not a game site though. I'm sorry he found it boring, but it's not meant for gaming.
See that's the point. If it looks like a virtual pet gamin site, but it isn't, what's the point of being there? The few games there are are very ordinary, and can be found almost anywhere. What is the reason for going there to chat? There are countless sites out there to chat, especially where people have a common interest. Usually, that interest is the topic/theme of the site. Feeding virtual camels isn't enough of a hook for me (or most people I know) to want to go there and take the time to see if it is worth it.
I'm sorry if I sound overly negative, I don't mean to. I'm just being realistic. coolcamels has a lot of competition out there that is a lot more compelling.
I'm not saying there isn't. CC isn't my life. I go on almost every other site listed on here. But it's a great site if you realize its purpose. I go on there for the people because I haven't found a group that compares to them on all of the other sites I go on. I go on there because I enjoy being an admin and keeping it safe for people to use. It's a kids site! Like, made for little kids. Not teenagers, not college students, not adults, little kids. I know older people go on there (including myself). The majority of people on there now are over the age of twelve. I've met people on there from the ages of two to sixty-two. I started on there when I was ten-years-old. Back then I thought feeding and training your camel was the best thing ever. This was waaaay before the chat and the games, and I fell in love with it.
I'm not saying it isn't dull or nearly as exciting as numerous other sites. Believe me, if I had any power or even a voice in what that company does to the site big changes would be made. It's just the review made me really angry because they didn't understand what they were talking about. In fact, a tonne of things they said were incorrect about the content in general. Personally I'm not asking for another review, what's done is done. I just wish they spent a little more time trying to actually understand what's the site for. It's not like all the other sites. It never was meant to be. Especially the English version. There's also a Hungarian and German version, but each version is completely different from the next. They just happen to have (mainly) the same content.
Faded, I understand your point completely. I know that feeding and training a camel can be fun, but when you an do that and so much more at other sites, even the little kids will get bored fairly quickly.
I also understand that the current English site is very different from the review, which maybe can be changed somehow to reflect your "improved" site.
For some reason I couldn't get on Cool Camels, I signed up but it wouldn't let me play with my camel!
So to get to the games you need to go to the GamingZone? How do you get to that!?!