Online Safety Post: 2018

Hello Wizards!

It's been about a year since I've last made an online safety post so I thought that it's about time that I make another one of these posts. Staying safe online is very important when you're playing Wizard101, interacting on social media, or visiting websites. So let's talk about the various ways you can stay safe online!

Staying Safe Online: Kingsisle Games

Wizard101 and Pirate101 are family-friendly games, but you will still come across people who have an alternative motive. There are people who may say they're going to give you gifts (such as crowns or memberships) in return of your password. Others may ask you for your personal information because they say that they're your friends. The best thing to do if you're facing this situation is to use the Ignore option in-game. If it comes to harassment, you can use the report option.

The Wizard101 Ignore Option

The Pirate101 Ignore Option

Did you know that Kingsisle employees are also impersonated in-game? Someone in-game may say that they or a relative of theirs work at KI when that's not factual. Most of the reasons people say that is to get personal information from you. If someone says that they're a KI employee in-game, ask them for their badge. If they don't show you their badge, report that player. You should see a badge called "Kingsisle Support" under their name if they indeed work for the games.

Staying Safe Online: Social Media

My advice for staying safe on social media really relates to the games. You should remember to never give away personal information to anyone no matter what. There are ways to ignore and report people on social media. Check out the images below to see how to ignore/report on social media. Remember to report only when it's required such as someone pretending to be a Kingsisle employee, harassment, etc - depending on the rules of the site you're reporting the person from. Scroll over the Hyperlinks below to access guides on how to report someone on each social media network listed:

Report On Facebook

Report On Twitter

Report On Tumblr

Report On Twitch

Report On YouTube

Report On Instagram

Speaking of social media, Kingsisle does have official social media accounts, including email. If someone emails you from a random email or message from someone asking you for your password to your account - they do not work at Kingsisle. Ignore any emails/messages like that! Kingsisle has an official list of emails that you can contact them by. They will never ask you for your password:

Wizard101 Social Media

Follow @Wizard101

support@wizard101.com

community@wizard101.com

Pirate101 Social Media

Follow @Pirate101

support@pirate101.com

community@pirate101.com

Kingsisle Social Media

Follow @Kingsisle  Follow @KingsisleLive

help@kingsisle.com

billing@kingsisle.com
community@kingsisle.com

Staying Safe Online: Websites

There are many different types of KI-game related sites out there. It's best to keep a close eye out there for scammers. They can also ask for personal information in return for "gifts". If they do, it's best to avoid or even report the site to Kingsisle. If they're asking for your personal information, you should not pay any attention to them. There are fansites out there that you can get stuff from when they have contests, in which the codes are provided by Kingsisle. If you would like to see a list of trustworthy websites, you can click on the hyperlinks below to access the Wizard101 and Pirate101 fansites. 

Official Wizard101 Fansites

Official Pirate101 Fansites

There have been times in the past where people have made websites that looked like official websites from Kingsisle, but they were not. As I've stated above, report any website that's not official Kingsisle websites to Kingsisle. There are several official Kingsisle websites. Most of these websites are linked from their main websites. If you would like to access these websites, scroll over and click on the images below:

Wizard101 Website

Pirate101 Website

Keep in mind that there are different versions of Wizard101 based on language/area. For example, Wizard101 UK is a different version of Wizard101 based in the United Kingdom from Gameforge. For a full list of these websites, you can view the image below. You can also click on the image to access this list at the bottom of the Fansites list! 

Online Safety Tips: The Main Message

I have already shared so much with you, but there's actually a lot more than you should know. The main message I'd like you to get out of this post is to NEVER give away any personal information with anyone. Whether it's where you live, your password, or billing information. It's called personal information for a reason. Please keep it personal and continue to stay safe online. Although this is mostly focused around Wizard101 and Pirate101, it really goes beyond the games. This is an internet safety post. Please continue to stay safe online! If you would like more online safety tips beyond this post (including links that provide nice online safety tips), please click on the link below! Thank you so much for reading! Until next time, I'll see you around the spiral.

Online Safety Page

http://www.edward.p101/p/online-safety.html

Do you have any online safety tips you'd like to share with the community? Comment them below!

Sixth Pirateversary!

Ahoy Pirates!

Happy Arrrgust! I hope you're having a wonderful first day of Arrrgust. Today is a very special day for me because it's officially been six years since I joined Pirate101. P101 opened around October of 2012, but I was lucky enough to be invited to be apart of the last few days of P101 Alpha! I created a Privateer during the last days of Alpha. A few days later, I officially joined Beta and created a Buccaneer.

I have so many amazing memories from trying out P101 for the first time. I was placed under an NDA so I couldn't share anything about the game until a certain day. But this made time for hundreds of different screenshots. I had a chance to take a few amazing screenshots during my gameplay during Beta and compile it into a slideshow for a video spoiler for those who couldn't access Beta. Codes were given away by Official Fansites, but many thousands were wanting to try it out. Around Mid-August, Kingsisle allowed us to share spoilers of the game. 

Pirate101 was officially released to the public on October 15th, 2012. I created a witchdoctor this time around! Witchdoctor then became my favorite school because it reminds me of wizards, but way more awesome! I definitely recommend to the wizards reading this post to create a witchdoctor first. You'll feel more at home, but you'll notice an amazing difference. Kingsisle did an amazing job on this school and all other schools. I've enjoyed my time as a pirate and I look forward to more time as one! Thank you, Kingsisle, for creating an amazing game with a whole lot of potential. Thank you for allowing me to try out your games, KI. If you ever want me to try anything else, reach out to me. ;)

Read My Pirate101 Beta Party Post

http://www.edward.p101/2012/09/pirate101-super-beta-bash.html

You didn't think I'd forget Edward Cringle, did you? Look for new EC posts soon! :D

Kingsisle Live: New Wizard City Look, Christmas in July, & New CM

Hello Wizards!

Last Thursday, Kingsisle had an amazing new episode of Kingsisle Live. As you may have read from the title, many things were discussed during this recent episode of KI Live. Thank you so much, Tom, for all of the amazing episodes over the past few years. We will miss seeing you on the show, but we also look forward to seeing our new CM, Mathew aka Manderson, on the show starting in August!

Vanessa Mythdust, from The Untold Spiral, got everyone together to dress up as Dworgyn or in all black for Tom's last episode. If you're now just finding out the news, there's no need to worry! Tom will still work at Kingsisle as a Game Designer for Kingsisle's mobile game, Animal Cove. I hope to see him on the show again to hear more about Animal Cove. In the meantime, I'll leave you all to listen to this awesome episode of Kingsisle Live. Thank you again, Tom, for everything that you've done for this community! 

Code for Crowns 

triplecrowns

We got the moves! :D 

Holiday Mashup 2018: Recap Post

Hello Wizards!

I hope you're having a wonderful weekend! Yesterday was especially wonderful for me because I got to eat cake and host an event for this awesome community. As many of you already know, we had our Holiday Mashup yesterday. This event was my favorite event out of all of the events we've currently had. Thank you for making yesterday such an amazing Birthday! Keep reading this post to see what we did for our First Annual Holiday Mashup and a Halloween Run 2018 Announcement!

I logged in very early on the event day to say hello to the very early birds - one of them being Victoria Thundershard which helped out a lot yesterday teleporting everyone - thank you, Victoria! Yes, around 5:00 am (seven hours before our stream would even begin), I was talking to amazing people in-game. Talking to them really reminded me why we have events like this in the first place. We have them to bring everyone together to something good that removes all negative stuff going on in your personal life to have fun. Most events, whether they're hosted by us or by other great people in the community, are a great way to make new friends and talk with old friends. I've stated this in the past, but I'll state it again.. Our main goal for these events is to bring everything in this amazing community together for fun. We love this community! Yesterday was a nice reminder of how amazing this community is.

We started streaming this awesome event around 12:00 pm Central with a Dance Party. We streamed various activities and the main event for about  4 hours and 30 minutes! This was less time than our previous event, but that was because I was not going to miss out on my Birthday Ice Cream Cake. :D I love this community, but... I mean look at the image below. You can't tell me that doesn't look good! I'm pretty sure a lot of you weren't expecting to see that, but there you go. This Twix Ice Cream Cake was delicious. Yum!

So other than the delicious cake above, I have to say that yesterday was one of my best Birthdays. I had a great time online and offline. It was so nice hanging out with all of you! I already wish we could have another major event, but these do take many hours to plan out. There is no way I could prepare all of this on my own, so I really would like to thank our hosts and port wizards for all of their hard work helping me put this together for this community. Behind the scenes, it takes quite some time to prepare events like these, so each time we have an event, please thank the hosts as well. Now, it may seem like I'm done with my Recap Post, but I'm not. I'm now going to list a few favorite moments of this event! 

Happy Birthday To Me? (Blushing)

One amazing thing during this event was that Autumn Dreamwalker planned out a surprise for me for everyone to sing Happy Birthday to me. I later found out that she was going to have this surprise, but that didn't keep me from blushing for about 20 minutes after! This community truly is amazing. I'll always remember this moment. Thank you so much for all of your Birthday wishes yesterday. There were so many that I was unable to thank everyone. I'll thank everyone here on this post for now. Thank you again for making my 25th Birthday an amazing Birthday.

Christmas Caroling

Another great moment of this event was the Christmas Caroling. We started caroling for events last Christmas. We went all over Wizard City from the Shopping District to The Arena singing our favorite Christmas Carols. This activity was one of my favorite activities from yesterday. An amazing moment from this was that we went up to a wizard named Sierra Soultamer in the Shopping District. We started singing "Hot Chocolate" by Tom Hanks. Now at first, she was confused, and rightfully so! And after we told her what was going on, she appreciated our caroling! She even joined the event, which was amazing. Thank you so much, Sierra, for joining this event. We hope you had a lot of fun at the remainder of the event.

Duck, Duck, Run!

Our main event, the Holiday Mashup Run, began around 3:00 pm Central. This time was a little different from other times though.. We had Rubber Ducky mounts! I'd like to thank Tom Purdue for making codes for a 1-Day Duck Mounts to be given away during our event. It really was cute to see these ducks hopping around Wizard City. The codes quickly ran out, so a few were unable to get these and I apologize for that. If we ever do something like this again, I'll be sure to ask for a few more just in case. Other than that, this was my favorite moment! I think everyone had a laugh or two, especially when we started playing "The Duck Song" while running around Wizard City!

Help From Amazing People

Shortly after the Run, our amazing port wizards teleported everyone to the afterparty houses. These houses were decorated and put together by Michael Wildflame (Battlemage Keep) and Sarah Skystrider (Massive Fantasy Palace). These houses were amazing and it was so nice seeing everyone have fun. Did you know that they also had contests of their own? They are amazing. Thank you so much, Sarah & Michael, for your hard work. Speaking of our amazing co-hosts, I'd like to formally shout-out everyone that helped us out with this event. Please give them a follow if you get a chance!

Autumn Dreamwalker

https://twitter.com/ADreamwalker101

Michael Wildflame 

https://twitter.com/MWildflame

Sarah Skystrider 

https://twitter.com/SarahSkyStrider

Gabby 

https://twitter.com/GabbyGames929

Austin 

https://twitter.com/AussieThorn

WhiteTiger93 

https://twitter.com/MysticTiger93

Cameron Shadowspear

https://twitter.com/pianoman4490

I'd also like to thank all of you for supporting our events. A lot goes into preparing for events like this, but at the end of the day, all of you make all that work well worth it. Keep supporting those who make a positive change in the community. That's one way we can all work to bring the community together. This is one community. It's the Wizard101 Community. Thank you again for your support. I hope to see you at our next major event, our 3rd Annual Halloween Run! Spread the word. We'll share more information about this event over the next few months. In the meantime, you can watch our stream from this year's Holiday Mashup by clicking on the link below.

View Our Holiday Mashup Stream:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/290265354

Ramble About Events / Holiday Mashup Tomorrow

Hello Wizards!

I hope you're having a wonderful Friday. It's finally the weekend! I'm looking forward to this weekend because of the Holiday Mashup plus I get to eat cake & ice cream tomorrow. I am looking forward to this event since I spent most of this Summer with amazing people preparing for it.

I can't believe that tomorrow finally the day of one our best-planned events that we've ever had. We continue to improve our events as we go. If you've been here a while, you'll know that we first started streaming our events during the Halloween Run. Since then, we've had many amazing new activities. These activities range from hide & seek to caroling. We've been adding and testing new things as we continue these events. Not one event will be the same as another event, which is amazing! I love having these events because even I don't know what to expect. :D

Speaking of not knowing what to expect. I think a few of the amazing co-hosts of this event know how nervous I get the day and even a few minutes before an event. My main goal is to bring the community together for a fun event. I think I overwork on some event details to make everything perfect. Sometimes I need to remind myself that nothing is perfect. However, I never boast, but I am extremely proud of what our events have become. It's never been about numbers, so I am most proud that the events have brought many people together to make new friends or to just hang out with old friends! So our main goal for tomorrow will be to bring everyone together for some fun Wizard101 event fun. I want to thank all of you for your support, whether you're able to attend or not. Thank you! If you would like more information about our Holiday Mashup event, please click on the link below:

http://www.edward.p101/2018/07/holiday-mashup-event-saturday-july-28th.html