I love superpoke pets , I’ve had so much fun playing it & teach my 2 grandsons different things on it . My oldest grandson is 3 1/2 & loves to spin the daily wheel & take care of the pet . I have around 20 pets in all & I love them all . Superpoke pets are so sweet they are like having a real pet without the mess lol . My main one is a dragon as I have always wanted a real dragon since I was small . I know there are no real dragons , but my Fireball is so sweet , she breaths fire & is always happy , she loves to dress up & likes to go out & play . But what Google is doing is KILLING my sweet Fireball . I really hope you can help us with this , we all love our pets & the friends we have made .

I have already removed all GOOGLE associated products from my computer! I have one thing to say of the don’t stop this! SCREW YOU GOOGLE

BOGUS!!!THIS IS BOGUS!!!>:( why the heck are u trying 2 delete SuperPoke!Pets??? its probably the only game i play on the internet and ever will. its the best!!! PLEASE DONT DELETE IT!!!! lots of people like SuperPoke!Pets alot. just dont delete SuperPoke!Pets!!!!!

The Halloween costume analogy is a SLAP IN THE FACE!!! I am deeply offended. I have been playing SPP since April 2009. I love my little bunny named Snowball and I don’t understand why they can’t offer SPP on Google+. Playing social games is the ONLY reason I was going to try out Google+
I am disabled and SPP is art therapy and social interaction for me.

I wish I could say I only spent $100′s… One thing I can say though is I WILL NOT go w/out fight to the end… This is complete B.S & it sickens me to think Google can just mislead us and steal our money like this… It ain’t over till the fat lady sings Google… U really screwed up this time and messed w/ the wrong bunch of people… KARMA’S a bitch & U just showed Ur ass to all of us… U will pay the price!!!

I have been here from almost the very beginning when SPP was brought on myspace…..we have put up with alot of glitches, scammers from other players, but we still stayed with the game, because we love our pets, and we love the friends we have made. The original members are also the ones that started trading our items…then Slide brought us all together…myspace, Hi5, and facebook…starting the forum we have today…..We just want either google to bring this game to google+, or sell to another gaming company

I cannont belive you all are going to take away all of our pets and our extended family. I have been with them since they started out. what did you do with all the money you made off of us? I know you at least made millions and billions off of us. we should get a refund for all we spent and time we used. You see they are not taking the violent games away but the family ones they are. I was mad when you started charging us money but then I thought this is a fun clean game and its worth it, Look how many people of all ages you have on there. some of us you have kept out of trouble. And most of us have found a “new Family” The Halloween costume analogy is a joke and i am affended by it. You are making fun of each and every person who is or has used this. since you guys think its funny why not give all the money you have taked from us and loan it to the government to get them out of debt. Or better yet return it to us since you sold things to us. You are unfair by doing this I know a lot of eldery people on here that this is their life line to the outside world and with out spp they would be lonly and sad.

think about other people for once.
jennifer

I would say the Halloween costume analogy is not a good one. To the players of SPP I think a nightgown would be a better analogy. You are not (hopefully) going to wear your nightgown all the time, but you will wear it for a while each day, a comfortable cozy part.

Google clearly does not get what this game means to the people who play it. It is a unique way to interact with friends and family, with the guilty pleasure of an escape from the stresses of daily life.

Clearly everyone who plays will survive without the game, we will just be sleeping in a burlap nightgown.

It is a shame that you guys are doing us this way, It keeps teenagers from getting in trouble and elderly company. I have spent a lot of money in gold. This I have used to teach my granddaughter how to share and to make friends. Take off the violent games and keep the fun and innocent games. You all should sit down and play the game before you judge it. I would even pay a small membership fee to keep it going. What is it costing you to take off the game?
Must be more than making millions of people happy. Where is the money we all gave you in the first place. The gold stuff isnt like it cost anything to make. a very concerned grandma and senior citizen.

The Halloween analogy is so off base. If I buy a Halloween costume I can use it as many times and as long as I like.
I don’t really care so much about the money. I just want to keep all my stuff and my pets. I have several pets on SPP they are all named after my real pets, alive and no longer with me. Now Google is making me loose my deceased and beloved Hali again. Hali is a puppy pet on SPP(SuperPoke Pets)I love my SPP pets and I love all of my SPP pets “pets”. Dogs are my pasion so now I will loose all of my dogs that I paid for, as well as my Pets too.
We were assured by SPP that the game was going to be around for a long time, even after they announced no new releases. They did continue to release gold items for us to buy and encouraged us to buy them, saying that we could continue to use them for the years to come. They even went so far as to create 2 new “badges” to signify at least 2 more years of play.
This in my opinion is fraud pure and simple. I would imagine it’s call bait and switch. Which I do believe is illegal.
As I said all I want is to keep my pets and all the stuff I bought for my pets. Wish I could say it was only a couple of hundred dollars, sadly I cannot. The minimum a gold Item cost was $1.00 usd. Most well over that and I have over 1000 gold items. You do the math.

Google is nothing but a heartless, greedy company. Their sole purpose seems to be buying up smaller companies, chewing them up and then spitting them out. They paid $200,000,000 (yes, that’s million) to purchase Slide/SPP last year. Apparently the only thing Google really wanted from Slide was Max Levchin, the founder of Slide. And now Max has jumped off the titanic Google and set sails for other (better?) seas. Now that the Big Catch has deserted Google, apparently Google wants no reminders of “the one that got away”. In less than a year after paying an extraordinary amount of money for Slide, Google has made the decision to throw all of the Slide apps into the sea to presumably sink to the bottom, never to be heard from again. Oh wait! There is one app that Google is allowing to remain afloat – some app that is used predominately in China! How nice of Google to do this (NOT!!). However, there is one app that is NOT going to go down quietly – SuperPoke Pets (SPP). We will fight this to the very end (and maybe even longer!) to save this game. I have a vision of someday soon seeing a headline reading “Tech giant Google caves in under pressure from animated pets!”.

Yes, SPP is a game, but it is also so much more than “a game”. The people who play this game are not referred to as “players” or “gamers”. We are referred to (by the game itself) as “friends”. And that is what we are – friends. We chat with each other, we send birthday wishes to each other, we commiserate when something bad or sad has happened in the real lives of each other. And some of us have actually become friends outside of the game. I have several people that I now have home phone numbers and e-mails addresses for. We are involved in each others lives outside of the game. I love and care about these people. If it hadn’t been for SPP, I never would have known these people ad would be missing out on some wonderful friendships. I am just one person that plays this game. I would bet my life that there are many, many more stories of “friends on the game” becoming friends in real life. And we owe it all to little animated pets that Google is now wanting to “kill off”. Rest assured Google, you HAVE NOT heard the end of us. In fact, we are growing stronger every day!

This is awful.I love my pet-piggy! I love playing SPP.I play this game with my kids and we have a great time!This is my way of relaxation.Shame on Google for what they are doing!Why dont they just leave us alone-leave SPP alone!The economy is bad enough why is Google making things worse,I cant afford to go out and do things at least with my Piggy I can have some fun with my kids and my friends.I signed the petition and do whatever else I can to help.I have 2 years invested in this game-lots of fun-and I was reassured the game will stay around after the last changes were made so Im very dissapointed.There has to be a way for Spp to be saved and the other sites also that Google wants to shut down.

Why would Google be terminating SuperPoke! Pets? I have been playing this game for over two years and have a lot invested in my pet; time, money, sweat, tears. When SPP restricted my pet for a glitch they themselves created, I was devastated. This is a permanent kill off everyone’s pets. Can Google really live with the guilt of taking away the lives of thousands of pets? How about the guilt of leaving people in a state of depression for losing their pets? Some already in poor health to begin with who connect to others through their pets. If what they posted from SPP in the last few months is true and Google has made SPP to run with a skeleton crew, why make skeletons of all the pets? Would not it be easy for Google to transfer the game to Google Games? Why upset so many people and open themselves unnecessarily to class action lawsuits?

I began playing SPP in November of 2009, after much coaxing from a friend. To my surprise, it wasn’t like any of the other Facebook games I’d encountered. It was both relaxing and creative, and more directly interactive than any of the other games. But you could also step away for a few day and come back without feeling like you missed things. Once I joined a club, the interactions became even more personal, and I made many good friends. Together we celebrated birthdays and other milestones, and supported and consoled each other through difficult times. But the most telling benefit to me was the distraction from my chronic pain, and being able to interact socially despite the restrictions arthritis and fibromyalgia were placing on my body.

Right now I feel lied to and cheated, not because of any monetary investment, but because of the loss of what I receive through playing SuperPoke Pets with my friends. I know nothing is forever, but after being given assurances that the game would continue, albeit with no new items, Google has pulled the rug out from under all of us. I will be keeping in touch via Facebook (you couldn’t pay me to join Google+), but SPP is a commonality that is being lost. Google is not just ending a game, it’s destroying an active community. So much for their touted philosophy of “doing no wrong.”

No, the costume analogy is not a good one. My daughter still uses many of her costumes for dress-up play, and we’ve donated others so that other children can used them. I still have the gloves I modified for my son’s Mickey Mouse costume 23 years ago.

I did not buy very much (two gold items total), so I’m not speaking from any personal desire for money back. The items bought were bought to play the game, and their value is dependent on the game being playable. Many people, especially in June and July, bought these items with the idea that they would still be able to have them be useable for a reasonable amount of time thereafter. Since bits last a long time, six months is not reasonable by any measure.

I can see two solutions that could work for both sides. One would be to sell the game outright to another company. The other would be to find a startup in the gaming business and donate it to them, with whatever tax write-off benefits that might bring. Or work out a pay-as-they-go deal. It doesn’t have to be shut down.