Pogo has a lot of great games in many different genres and new ones come out every few months. There are many word games and games such as chess, checkers, and dominoes but if you are a loner you will find many different types of solitaire available.
Every game allows you to chat with others who are in the same room or at the same game table as you are. After you have been a member for a while you will meet some big players who can become fast friends. If you like to meet other people you can quickly find yourself with a long list of buddies.
The different games and the people you can meet on Pogo is one of the things that makes this game site great. However a few years after the Pogo first opened, they began something called badges. Before you would just play the games for fun but with badges it soon became addicting. Badges were only available for a tiny amount of games at first and you receive them by reaching different pre-determined levels in a game. Most games have 50 ranks and usually at ranks 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 you will receive a badge for each of those ranks. Pogo soon began to switch it up and would put badges in different numbers as an added surprise. Later on they added mystery badges. You needed to do something special to obtain the badge but no one new what it was.
Weekly badges were something that was added to regular games. Every Wednesday at 10am EST, you can login to your account and see the new badges that Pogo had posted and you could work on them until the following Tuesday night. You were given two different badges from two different games and you had a specific task to do to get the badge. Some games you simply had to get a certain amount of points, or you had to win the game a certain amount of times and those are honest two of many ways to bag a weekly badge. If you missed a badge you were out of luck until finally Pogo added a third weekly badge. This unusual spot that opened, allowed you to go back to past badges and complete them. The website was soon redesigned and we now had albums that allowed us to contemplate all the badges we had completed and those that we still needed to collect. This last feature is what made the game so addicting. When you see missing badges, you wanted to do your best to get them so that you could have a completed game album.
Another great feature of Pogo is the ability to win money if you are lucky. Most of the games gave you a jackpot spin that would give you points or you could hit the jackpot. The jackpot started low and would sustain going up until it hit $4,999. It would then stay that arrangement until someone rolled a jackpot in which case they would receive a check within a few months. Besides money you can also win small items such as t-shirts, coffee mugs and more.
Some of the first games were later redesigned and given an updated observe. These older games did not have badges to win but when they were re-released you could now play them to move up in rank and score some beautiful badges.
Pogo Mini’s were added in 2006 and became a big hit with most of the players. Minis are 3-D cartoon-like people, who you get to dress and makeup anyway you resolve. You can change everything from their hair to their shoes and make them look just like you if you choose to. Attractive soon some very wacky clothing, costumes and backgrounds were added and we got quite a laugh from seeing some of the crazier minis that people made.
Pretty early on when Pogo was only a few months primitive, websites like myleague.com began to pop up that held team competitions. This added a whole novel twist to the game because each league is different and they have different rules for different games and competition. Games that you have been playing for a long time will become fresh again once you learn the rules and see what you can and can’t do.
The newest feature added is the Pogo gems. These gems allow you buy different badges whenever you feel like, instead of having to wait every week for recent ones. You get to mix and match different badges and the gems are very cheap at the moment.
The best thing about Pogo is that the list of games that you can play continues to grow. At least once a month something new happens and it’s rare for them to not release a new game in two months or less. The website itself is also frequently updated with a new look and novel surprises are always right around the corner. Your minis can now have moving objects in them and badges are getting more colorful and exciting every month. If you love games, Pogo is a place to visit.
