It's shame I waited to join this year, but I met some good people. So that's something.
It was my first year In CP (expect Holiday Party 2015, when I joined), and I don't liked it so much. Non-membera could only get pins and background. Frozen Fever Party was a 2 month joke, and the only good parties In this year were Puffle Party, Music Jam and the Holiday Party. But the Advent Calendar is un-fair! Last year there were nice things to non-members, but in this year there are only pins and a background! Expect of Sweet Swirl Igloo. Also since Wildness Expedition started and ended, we couldn't see normal CP! 4 things need to change: - we need shorter parties - more things for non-members - appearance of normal CP - no useless trash parties, like Frozen Party!
My reactions-
2013: worst year- all because of disney
2014: Worst year of CP
2015: better than 2014, still horrible
2016:
I had to a big sorry to 2013, 2014 and 2015 when I saw this.
Aleksio567 wrote: It was my first year In CP (expect Holiday Party 2015, when I joined), and I don't liked it so much. Non-membera could only get pins and background. Frozen Fever Party was a 2 month joke, and the only good parties In this year were Puffle Party, Music Jam and the Holiday Party. But the Advent Calendar is un-fair! Last year there were nice things to non-members, but in this year there are only pins and a background! Expect of Sweet Swirl Igloo. Also since Wildness Expedition started and ended, we couldn't see normal CP! 4 things need to change: - we need shorter parties - more things for non-members - appearance of normal CP - no useless trash parties, like Frozen Party!
4 things that may or may not happen: - Not likely as CP needs to stall until the Flash version dies. - Impossible. - Impossible x2. - Your wish is CP's command!
Overall thoughts 2005-2016 (even though I wasn't a player until 2009)
2005: OK year, but I guess it is the first year so it makes up for that.
2006: Had some good parties but were pretty small.
2007: Some more cool parties like the Summer Party.
2008: Great parties like the Holiday, Music Jam and Halloween.
2009: Holiday Party for real is introduced, new Colour Vote, 101 Days of Fun and 4th anniversary! Also Card Jitsu Fire.
2010: Great year.
2011: Some great parties like Hibernation, Holiday Party, Puffle Party, Expedition, and the 6th Anniversary Party.
2012: Fantastic Summer Parties, Holiday Party and Halloween were fantastic, Blackout was very cool. Also mini-parties rocked.
2013: Meh year, a few good ones.
2014: Great year!
2015: Mixed year.
2016: Terrible year until October.
2016 (Oct-December): Fantastic!
IcyCocoaCream wrote: Overall thoughts 2005-2016 (even though I wasn't a player until 2009)
2005: OK year, but I guess it is the first year so it makes up for that.
2006: Had some good parties but were pretty small.
2007: Some more cool parties like the Summer Party.
2008: Great parties like the Holiday, Music Jam and Halloween.
2009: Holiday Party for real is introduced, new Colour Vote, 101 Days of Fun and 4th anniversary! Also Card Jitsu Fire.
2010: Great year.
2011: Some great parties like Hibernation, Holiday Party, Puffle Party, Expedition, and the 6th Anniversary Party.
2012: Fantastic Summer Parties, Holiday Party and Halloween were fantastic, Blackout was very cool. Also mini-parties rocked.
2013: Meh year, a few good ones.
2014: Great year!
2015: Mixed year.
2016: Terrible year until October.
2016 (Oct-December): Fantastic!
Totally agree!! (Even though I joined in middle 2012 XD)
Pinkie Pie Puffle wrote:
IcyCocoaCream wrote: Overall thoughts 2005-2016 (even though I wasn't a player until 2009)
2005: OK year, but I guess it is the first year so it makes up for that.
2006: Had some good parties but were pretty small.
2007: Some more cool parties like the Summer Party.
2008: Great parties like the Holiday, Music Jam and Halloween.
2009: Holiday Party for real is introduced, new Colour Vote, 101 Days of Fun and 4th anniversary! Also Card Jitsu Fire.
2010: Great year.
2011: Some great parties like Hibernation, Holiday Party, Puffle Party, Expedition, and the 6th Anniversary Party.
2012: Fantastic Summer Parties, Holiday Party and Halloween were fantastic, Blackout was very cool. Also mini-parties rocked.
2013: Meh year, a few good ones.
2014: Great year!
2015: Mixed year.
2016: Terrible year until October.
2016 (Oct-December): Fantastic!
Totally agree!! (Even though I joined in middle 2012 XD)
Yup lol
2016 was bleh. I don't really log on Club Penguin anymore, but I experienced most of the parties, and they were plain. Almost every single party made you find and click items, which was boring. They were pointless if you were a non-member because they got backgrounds for going on these "quests." Some parties were also insanely long, which was one of the main reasons why I don't use Club Penguin anymore. As the parties continued, it got more tiring and old. Luckily, they had some fun parties near the beginning and end of the year, but 2016 still suffered.
2016:
Prehistoric Party: OK, but boring as it was related to Operation Crustacean, one of the worst operations ever.
Operation Tri-umph: Fail (probably even worse than Crustacean). Only one pin was available for non-members. (along with mascot giveaways which were very old)
Puffle Party: Not bad. The hide and seek challenges took few seconds. Once they were done, you wouldn't have anything to do.
Wilderness Expedition: Same maze as the one in 2011 (no problem with that). New items, but all were only for members. (other than the giveaway)
Zootopia Party: Extremely long. New items, but members only.
Finding Dory Party: Good, at least something for non-members. Rooms were well decorated. (but only few)
Frozen Fever Party: Don't ask me to tell you about this. I shall forgive the 2015 frozen fever party as it at least had 2 new rooms and new pins.
Halloween Party: One of the golden tickets of the year. Many rooms decorated. The quests were harder than previous parties of 2016.
11th Anniversary: Where is the yearbook? Anniversary Parties are always favored though.
Music Jam: Another Golden Ticket. Finally, an original music jam without those sponsors! It featured old party rooms along with new items. Again, please give non-members something better than pins! The quests were too easy, just click on a character.
Holiday Party: The 3rd golden ticket. The Holiday Giveaway had nice new items (please spare something to non-members better than pins!). There were wonderful decorations around the island along with some very old rooms! This is probably the last holiday party on the original CP (unless it still exists even though CPI is open), so better check it out!
Conclusion: CP was working hard on creating Club Penguin Island. Its not really their problem for creating parties like the Frozen Fever Party.
For me, 2016:
Prehistoric Party 2016: Mediocre party. I liked the return of the Prehistoric Party but nothing new except for a slight change of the Trekker's location and just 1 new pin.
Operation: Tri-Umph: OK Party. I liked the items and the concept CP was going for but it was pulled off pretty badly and led to a disappointing conclusion to a less-than-fine operation.
Puffle Party 2016: Full of ups and downs. Great new items and lots of decorated rooms, on the other hand, no new decorated rooms and pretty much 2015 + transformations returning.
Wilderness Expedition 2016: Overall a fine party. Great new items and the Sasquatch Village is a fantastic room, sadly there wasn't many rooms, most of the rooms comprised of a returning Maze, and overall it wasn't as exciting.
Zootopia Party: Good rooms and items, but was extremely long and became boring after a while.
Finding Dory Party: Yet again another takeover, and also long, but at least there were some great new rooms spread out and simple decorations as well, although some items looked really weird. Overall a not bad party.
Frozen Fever Party 2016: Lowest CP has gone in-well-all of their time. Nothing new and it was already a controversial party, CP lost a significant amount of penguins in these months. Also it took longer than any other Frozen, so it was basically the worst times of CP History. 2015's party seems completely amazing compared to this.
Halloween Party 2016: Good party. Although no new rooms and most of the items were returning, and most of the new items fit mostly for girl penguins, at least a "scavenger hunt" was there and great rooms from last year returned.
Music Jam 2016: Fantastic party, one of the highest CP has went in 2016. New and old mixture of rooms, fantastic new items and quest to get autographs, performance of all songs is fantastic, great merge of old and new styles. CP redeemed themselves after months of terrible parties.
Holiday Party 2016: Best party of 2016, better than 90% of 2015 (exceptions being 10th Ann and Halloween), and better than 70% of 2014. Best Holiday Party since 2012/2013, and has a ton of new things; rooms, items, emotes, etc...Old rooms return plus ton of spreader out rooms. Forgivable amount of length, Advent Calendar makes up for the extra 2 weeks or so, better than it starting in no party at all.
Overall: 2016 was overall a pretty crushing year for CP. Despite the last few months or so becoming outstanding and fantastic, they were not able to salvage the horror that is known as 2016. Although CP started out and continued a lot of the year with a similar pattern from 2015 with 95% old rooms/items, the end finally fixed things up and for the first time since 2013/2014, majority new items and rooms. CP Island has drained the last of CP's blood and hopefully, the last part of 2D's CP's history (January and February, possibly March and/or April) will continue November/December's trends.