Thursday, October 08, 2015

Club Penguin Update The 'Create Your Penguin' Page

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The account creation page has updated on the Club Penguin official website, sporting an entire new look and simplified way to create and customise your account when creating a new penguin. They have added an around-the-clock colour chooser, the removal of confirming the parent email, and a new 'captcha' system. The new captcha system asks you to choose an image to prove you're a human (or penguin should I say) right before moving to the next step. Overall, I think it looks pretty new, and the update is more modern and refreshing. It has that social network sort of feel, and the fresh design compliments Club Penguin's current era. Below I will show the current new design, and further I will preview the old page for the sake of comparison.



The picture above gives us a look at the captcha system. Robots cannot tell the difference between two objects when asked for the names of them, as there is no one perfect form of an object that the robots can be trained or learn to distinguish from, only we (humans) can. So, this system's purpose is to rule out bots that create accounts, hopefully leading to the suppression of bots and army advertisers we see around the island of Club Penguin, hopefully leading to a safer environment. I have emailed Disney's support team for CP and they've persisted in telling me that they are getting it under control behind the scenes, and I believe this is one of the more upfront methods they are taking, and I do think it would work well.

Here is what the Create a Penguin page looked like before, for comparison. Notice the change in how colours are chosen, and the starburst that has now been removed, surrounding the model penguin. 


Do you agree that the update was worthwhile? I think it is nice to see pages being updated now and again, especially since great improvement has been made with the functionality still remaining. Good job, Club Penguin!