How to Enjoy Your Pogo Experience Without a Prize

Pogo has been around since 2000. They are a brand of the world's foremost publisher and developer of video games, Electronic Arts. There are two main sites, one is the free version and the other is Club Pogo. Club Pogo features all sorts of games for any game enthusiast to enjoy. Their games include various puzzles, versions of solitaire, token casino, card and board, sports and arcade, word, and downloadable games. They also offer cash content games sponsored by WorldWinner.

Club Pogo give members a chance to win twice as much as their sister site. Prizes range from laptop computers to tokens. The newest craze on Club Pogo is their opportunity to purchase gems. These gems are used for purchasing additional badge challenges and animated mini items. Minis are the little images you can use to identify yourself to the rest of the members. These minis have many different capabilities to choose from. Different facial shapes, hairstyles, backgrounds, clothing, and accessories are some of the things you can use to separate yourself from the rest of the members. Where do you get these things? Take a trip to the mini mall. There you can use your accumulated tokens to purchase these many items or purchase the gems to gain access to the animated items and badge albums.

Gems must be purchased, which is an additional cost to your membership. One year's membership is $39.99. Gems costs vary by how many you wish to purchase. 80 gems are $4.99, 170 plus 10 bonus gems are $9.99, and the final option of 350 plus 30 bonus gems are $19.99. Yes, these are great items to have but you can go through these gems like water.

Pogo sports some outlandish figures. For example, there are more than 2.6 million members a day playing. This means they have more than 15.8 million people playing every month. These members average 39 minutes a day playing and spend an average of 7 hours a week playing their games.

They say 55% of the Pogo population is women, ranging from 18 to 49 years of age. 60% of the females playing use the chat rooms frequently, with 70% of their chats being about the games they are currently playing. It is easy to see, who the target market is.

So we can break these numbers down a bit. If just half of the total players are club members, that means 7.2 million members a month are club players. That comes out to over $280 million a month. Now, if we say half of these club members are purchasing 80 gem packages every month, we know 3.6 million players are paying an additional $4.99. This comes out almost $18 million additional a month, meaning they are seeing profits of almost $300 million a month. I do not know about you, but after checking out their prize payouts, this is really nauseating. The chances of winning any real money is slim to none.

Yes, these games are extremely fun and addictive. Personally, I love the mini features. I know my wife loves the chat options and Canasta. If you are just there for a chance to win a cash prize, then you may want to consider an alternative solution. Pogo just does not pay what they could. According to a search I just ran today, no one won anything yesterday.