PonyIsland
Reviews and Complaints

I’ve been a member of this site for years- and have found it an overall positive experience. I am mostly into breeding. I love playing with the gen and the dream gen.

Yes, there are rules. Whenever a new person introduces themselves on the forums someone inevitably makes sure to mention the rule guide- sometimes via link and sometimes by telling them where it’s located (at the bottom of every page)- often times both.

Are the forums strict? Kind of. First of all the game is PG. Yeah, there are more adults than children, but there are still children. Secondly, English isn’t everyone’s first language, so it’s important to write things clearly. Is it annoying when the MODs swoop in to change the title of your thread, or hide a comment because you didn’t write it by the rules- sure. But no more annoying than I find it to read paragraphs With Every First Letter Capitalized, For Reasons. KnOw WHat I meAn? ENOUGH OF THIS FOR NOW. Mab more L8R.

Seriously, it’s not even that big of an inconvenience. Many/most adults on the site have discord. If you’re vibing with someone on the forums, and want to be friends and have conversations that aren’t PG, just take it to Discord.

A few years ago I put in an application for the PIE team (extravaganza. A week of games and events. There are four a year) I was accepted and it was a very fun year; it was also a lot of work. In doing so, I had many encounters with MODS and site artists, something that I hadn’t had before this experience- I found them to be very kind and giving people.

They act like they run the site… because they run the site. The admin isn’t interested in it- it is what it is. They put in so much of their time and effort into this site. They make items, host events like the extravaganzas, birthday celebration, Christmas in July and the Advent Calendar to name a few- all things that they don’t HAVE to do. They make new genes. They make new pony breeds, and have to fix thousands of items to go over them, so that they are wearable to said new breeds. MODS and artists get DVS slots for their work (which imo is well earned, with the amount of work hrs they are clocking)- if their friends have more DVSs than us normal users- it’s because they often gift those slots to their friends instead of using it themselves. It’s not a huge mystery, and it’s their slots to do with what they will. Not to mention that every week you can find someone on the forums selling a DVS slot- and some people can afford to buy a few.

Every year they take applications for PIE. They occasionally post applications for new MODS to join the team. Applications for the team that picks Pony of the Week. Many opportunities to be more intimately involved.

I've been using PonyIsland.net for quite some time, but I must say, I am disappointed with the overall experience. Despite the fact that players and their cash are important for any game site, the moderators and their clique make all the rules here. They seem to be too proud of themselves and forget about the players who invest their time and money into the site.

Unfortunately, it's not a pleasant interaction when you have an issue on PonyIsland. The moderators are often rude and disrespectful to anyone, regardless of whether they have a real issue or if they are completely innocent. They always seem to be spoiling for a fight and looking for ways to impose their rules. It's very frustrating and can sometimes result in a ban, even if it's your first time making a mistake.

For instance, if you use capital letters, colored text or even words that aren't swear words, you're likely to get banned without warning. These rules may seem a little strict, but it's nothing compared to the moderators' need to control everything on the site. They seem to forget that the site is supposed to be fun for everyone, not just for them.

All in all, I suggest you save your time and money when it comes to PonyIsland.net. There are so many other great pet simulations out there that provide a less stressful and more enjoyable experience. PonyIsland may have been great at some point, but it has become too restrictive and not worth your investment anymore. I hope the moderators will take heed and make changes for the better.

PonyIsland is one of those games where you can breed adorable virtual ponies and show them off to the community. It's a pretty average breeding game overall, with a nice collection of artwork and a decent number of breeding options available. The game's designers are top-notch, and the art community is incredibly talented, but in the end, it's not something that stands out among others in the same genre.

If you're looking for a more immersive and exciting virtual pet game, then Flight Rising might be a better option for you. I find that Flight Rising has a lot more to offer, and the gameplay experience is much more engaging.

One thing that I need to mention about PonyIsland is the quality of their MODS. To be honest, they are HORRIBLE. In my experience, they are often unwilling to listen to the players and often make things much worse. Their behavior undermines the overall goal of having a fair and enjoyable gaming experience for everyone.

After several years of playing, I eventually quit the game due to the behavior of their MODS. They played favorites and made things uncomfortable if you were not part of their clique. Unless you constantly tried to kiss up to them, you were treated unfairly and made to feel unwelcome.

Overall, I would advise investing your money and time into games where the staff genuinely cares about your experience, and you feel comfortable being a part of the community. Unfortunately, PonyIsland doesn't offer that.

So, I was on this website called PonyIsland and I gotta say, it's pretty expensive. Like, you gotta pay between $23 and $28 a YEAR to have ONE account. That's crazy, right? But what's even crazier is that if you abuse the BBC code by posting in all color, you can get banned. Like, seriously? I didn't know that. And I'm not the only one. I've seen a lot of users get banned for that.

But here's the thing, the mods on this site ain't much help. They're super authoritative and biased. It's like they have their own little clique and if you're not in it, good luck getting any help from them. And get this, they get gifted really rare and expensive ponies for "modding" the site. And then they gift them to their little friends who are in the cool group. It's like, come on man, that's not fair.

And if you try to suck up to the mods by using chat speak or misspelling words, you're screwed. That'll get you banned too. So, it's like you gotta be perfect or you're outta there.

It's just sad to see the users who actually keep this site going getting treated like garbage. Like, they're the reason PonyIsland is still around today. Without them, the mods wouldn't have anything to mod. But some users think it's funny to watch others get abused and cheated on. That's just despicable, man.

Overall, I think PonyIsland is a cool site, but it's got some issues to work out. They need to be fairer to their users and not let the mods abuse their power. And they need to cut back on the banning for small things like misspelled words or using all color in a post. It's just not right.

This place, PonyIsland, has been switchin' stuff around so dang much I lost count. Ain't no point in spendin' any money on this site 'cause they don't give a hoot about loyalty or respectin' their long-time players. They'll even spit in yer face. The game play is all controlled by the mods, not the admin. It's all about pickin' favorites on this site, and there's this user named JWard who is two-faced as heck and is on PIE, some kinda group who celebrates stuff. She went and told like 20 players not to contact her for made-up reasons, and now, thanks to the site rules, those players can't even participate in events even though they're PAYIN' to be on the site in the first place. It's the craziest dang thing I ever saw. When you first come to PonyIsland, you'll be all, "Wow this is so freakin' cool!" but before too long, reality will hit ya and you'll start realizin' how big-time censored and corrupt this site is. But if yer a kid aged 10-12, it might be aight to play on. As long as you ain't expectin' to get too serious about buildin' up characters or playin' the game for real, then this place might be safe enough for ya. Just be careful not to say nothin' on them discussion boards.

Rules on PonyIsland are so restrictive, it's ridiculous. MOD Abuse and Mod Favoritism happen more often than not, and it's disheartening to see that some users haven't experienced it at all, yet they still deny that it's a real issue. Let me tell you, it IS a real issue on this site, and it's more prevalent here than on any other site I've been on. The approach they have is so non-empathetic and belittling, and asking for help is usually frowned upon. As someone who's been using this site since 2005 on and off, I've seen how admin has done old users dirty too. It's just not fair at all.

If you're an artist, stay away from this site because the rules they have are infinite and ridiculous. Even some God-level artists have been driven away from PonyIsland. It's such a shame because this site used to be a fun place for artists to showcase their talents, but now it's just a mess. My advice is that if you want to make some pretty ponies, go ahead and put in $14, but don't invest any real money into this site. You never know when your account could get taken away or when all the stuff you bought could become worthless in a blink of an eye.

Overall, I'm done with this site for good and I'm not looking back. It's just not worth it anymore, and I hope that they can improve their rules and their approach to users in the future.

Me and my whole dang family are a bunch of PonyIsland fanatics, it's like our favorite game online or something. We've got Lin and Margret and Sue and Ari and Charlie and all them with their own trial accounts, because we can't shell out all that flashy cash for just one account. But then we got hit with the suspension! They said we couldn't have more than one trial account per person, but we never did that, we all just made our own accounts fair and square. I tried to get 'em to see sense, but they were just stubborn as a mule.

The biggest, baddest thing about it all is that there ain't even no rule about it in the official rules section! But they just don't care about nothin' except money, I guess. They told us we had to pick which account we wanted to keep and ditch the rest, but that's like asking us to pick our favorite child, it just ain't happening. Lin wouldn't give up her ponies for a million bucks, and neither would the others. We were all torn up about it, 'cause we couldn't play on none of our accounts without the fear of getting suspended again.

The staff and support people we talked to were meaner than a snake with a toothache, too. They basically told us to kick rocks, because we were too broke to play or something. I can tell you right now, that ain't no way to treat customers. Especially considering how doggone expensive it is to play for real. I mean, the trial accounts can barely do nothin' as it is, and then they wanna take them away from us too?

PonyIsland is a great game, don't get me wrong. We love our ponies and all the cool stuff you can do in the game. But dang, they need to be more understanding of us poor folks who can't afford to play for real. If things don't change, we might just have to up and leave for good. Which is a real shame, 'cause we've spent so much time and effort getting our ponies just right.

I love PonyIsland, especially the artwork, it's so amazing. The best thing about PonyIsland is that you can breed ponies, I think that's such a cool feature. However, I have to say, if I knew that the admins and mods were such control freaks, I wouldn't have joined in the first place.

I really like my account now, and I've spent a lot of money on it, so I work hard to keep it up. But I'm really getting tired of those messages, glowing in red, that I keep receiving. They keep telling me that my posts are in the wrong place or forum or whatever. I mean, I wrote a post about breeding in the "Advanced Breeding" forum and it was moved to "Generator Tips" or someplace like that just because someone mentioned color combos. Come on.

Also, if you suggest anything that requires some effort or work, you just get bashed and scolded. They always ask, "Why would you do that to the poor MODs and ADMIN?!" I mean, seriously? The only ideas that they're even interested in are suggestions about new S-Genes and if you're lucky, a new breed.

Another thing that really sucks is that you're not even allowed to tell people if you're pregnant or anything like that on the forums. What's up with that?

To be honest, the bottom line is that you can't give your opinion on anything. You can't even talk about yourself properly. And for crying out loud, you can't even show that you're unhappy. You just have to smile and pretend that you love the admins and mods. And you have to keep repeating, "We pay for wonderful coding and hard work. We're lucky to be graced with such a site and have no thoughts and opinions of our own."

Despite all these issues, I still love PonyIsland. The artwork and the features are amazing. However, I wish the admins and mods were more accepting and open-minded. It would be so much better if they valued the opinions of their users. I hope they can improve their attitude towards their users in the future.

Me been hangin' around Ponysland for quite some years now. At da beginning I was basically a lil' scribbler, tryna get better at my art, ya know? But the mods on there, they thought they can take advantage of me and my art and all that jazz. They knew I could draw pretty fast and good, and they kept pushin' me and pushin' me to break my word when one of da players didn't keep their side of da deal. But I wasn't no fool, and I wasn't gonna let nobody pressure me into nothin'.

So I stood up to 'em, every step of da way, even when they was givin' me all them short-term bans. I always tried to stay respectful, cuz I really liked the site, ya know? But they got so power-hungry and unjust, they even banned me altogether! I ain't even allowed to take on no customers anymore, just cuz I refused to break an agreement that they wanted me to ignore.

And listen to this - they still trackin' me down to this day, even though I ain't even been going on the site no more. Ain't nobody on there ever knew my side of da story, cuz I just wanted to keep things peaceful and whatnot. But them mods, they was straight-up lovin' all that attention they was gettin' and all that "support" they thought they had.

Don't get me started on the prices either! If you wanna have multiple accounts, you gotta pay for every single one, just to keep it up for a whole year or half a year. That's just plain extortion if ya ask me.

Overall, I ain't gonna lie, my time on Ponysland was pretty much ruined by the mods and their behavior. I hope they get a handle on it one day, so others don't gotta go through what I went through.

The people who run the PonyIsland website are not helpful. They can be rude and they do not care about their customers. If you get banned from the site, you will not be able to appeal it. This is because the admin, "Veez," believes that if the moderator says you were wrong, then you were wrong, no matter what. Bans are given out way too often, even if you are a paying customer. Even worse, if you are banned permanently, you will not get your money back.

The website is not very good either. It goes down a lot because of the crappy servers they use. The admin will blame the servers and claim that it is necessary to charge users $30 a year, but they will not give you any extra time or refunds because of the downtime. When the site is actually up, it is still very slow, even on fast internet connections. This is because they use bad servers that cannot handle the amount of traffic to the site.

Every hour, for about five minutes, the site becomes unusable due to something called the "hourly tick." The admin "Zarqx" is too lazy to fix this, so you will lose about two hours of your day, every day, if you use the site. This means that out of the 12 months you pay for, 30.4 days will be completely unusable. It is crazy!

Finally, the moderators and admins do not like to be criticized. They will bully users on the forums and, if you criticize them, you will be banned, like so many others. This creates a culture of fear among users who are afraid to speak out about problems they see. This is not a very good way to run a website!

The way this site is run is terrible. It is shameful that the admin, Zarqx, even thinks it is a good example of his coding and web design skills. Instead of creating more bad sites, he should focus on fixing this one!

I gotta say, I never had any problems with PonyIsland myself, but I've seen some stuff go down that makes me question the fairness of it all. Like, for example, the Mods have access to all these super valuable items that they just hand out to whoever they want. And sometimes they sell them for like, hundreds of dollars on the forums! It's crazy!

Meanwhile, us regular folks gotta either buy these items from other players or hope we get lucky in a giveaway. And most people only have, like, one or two of the good items. It just doesn't seem fair that the Mods and their pals have all the good stuff.

And you can't even question them about it or else you might get kicked off the site! I've seen it happen! It's like they can do whatever they want and no one can say anything about it. And it's not like we even know if the Mods are getting paid or not. They say they're all just volunteers, but come on, they've been around forever and they all seem to be really good friends. It seems fishy to me.

And the rules! Oh man, the rules are so confusing sometimes. And if you accidentally break one, even if it's just a little one, you could get like, a warning or something. And if you get three warnings, you're out! It's crazy!

I mean, the game itself is fun. It's a cute little virtual pony world and you can do all sorts of stuff with your ponies. But if you wanna stay out of trouble, you really gotta avoid the forums and just keep to yourself. It's kinda sad, really. But I guess that's just how it is.