Thanks for playing.

As you know, MONOPOLY City Streets game play has now concluded. We appreciate your enthusiasm and support for the game since the launch in early September. We are especially grateful to those who have been us with from the initial launch in September. Your suggestions, comments and patience were greatly appreciated.

If you’ve enjoyed playing the game, we encourage you to try the MONOPOLY City board game. In the board game you can continue building industrial complexes, skyscrapers or stadiums and even sabotage your friends!

We will be compiling some facts and statistics from the game, including a look at the final global leaderboard, that we will share next week. Please visit www.monopoly.com to view these results.

Thanks again for playing.

MONOPOLY City Streets to end on December 9.

We want to thank you, the loyal players, for making MONOPOLY City Streets a huge success. We know it’s been said many times, but it bears repeating - we are surprised, thrilled and honored with your response to this promotional introduction for the MONOPOLY City board game.

However, MONOPOLY City Streets game play will officially end on Wednesday, December 9.

We hope that you will enjoy spending the next several days negotiating, buying, selling and building right up until game play ends on December 9. And after the game ends, check out MONOPOLY City board game where you can continue building industrial complexes, skyscrapers or stadiums and sabotage your friends!

Thank you all for your passion and enthusiasm for MONOPOLY City Streets!

Design your Own MONOPOLY Building Competition Winners Announced

Since the launch of MONOPOLY City Streets in September, millions of buildings have been built in the game. We’ve enjoyed peeking at the new skylines of cities around the world that you have created, whether you stuck to the traditional green houses or dived in and built skyscrapers or ventured all for the MONOPOLY Tower. We are pleased to announce the introduction of three new buildings to the game.

As many of you know, during the first several weeks that the game was online we hosted a competition with the help of Google SketchUp to find three new MONOPOLY City Streets ‘must have’ properties. We received hundreds of proposed buildings ranging in design from condos and towers to malls and amusement parks and from ice cream parlours to boathouses. It was amazing to see the variety of buildings submitted to the competition.

We have selected three buildings that are now incorporated into the game. The three winning entries have been selected for their beauty, originality and for capturing the fun spirit of MONOPOLY City Streets.

The winners are as follows:

Grand prize winner: Stairway to the Future Tower by Matthew

This building will be available to Level 6 players for 60,000,000.

Second Place: Revolving Restaurant and Blimp by Zoungy

This building will be available to Level 4 players for 11,000,000.

Third Place: Spiral Scraper Luxe by Brendo

This building will be available to Level 3 players for 2,500,000.

Thanks for all the entries. If you’d like to see all of the creations, please visit the competition collection in the Google 3D Warehouse.

We hope you enjoy incorporating these new buildings into your game!

Blog Etiquette Reminders

We're pleased to see that the MONOPOLY City Streets community has been able to use this blog to provide peer assistance to fellow players, negotiate trades and generally keep in touch. However, as the games heat up so, too, can the discussion. We’ve been deleting quite a few comments lately, and to remind everyone about playing (and posting) in the spirit of MONOPOLY, we'd like to share the following reminders about blog etiquette for this family-friendly game.

1. Disparaging remarks about other users are not permitted on this blog. We will also not allow obscenities, profanities, incitements or intimidation.

2. Off-site links should be relevant and appropriate for the content and character of this blog.

3. The MONOPOLY game is a property trading game. Discussion of real-life legal issues on the blog can, therefore, create confusion among players and is not permitted.

4. Please bring suspected cheaters to our attention by reporting them through the in-game “contact us” feature. The comments section of the blog is not the correct venue to make accusations of cheating against other players.

5. We reserve the right to remove any comment from this blog, or suspend any user, but have no responsibility to do so.

If you believe a comment violates any of the above rules or is in some other way abusive, please contact us through the link in the game.

If we continue to receive comments that violate these points, we will disable comments on the blog.

Thanks again for your support of MONOPOLY City Streets.

Yesterday's updates

As you likely noticed, we took the game off line for some time yesterday to implement a few updates. As part of our ongoing effort to continuously improve game play, we added an update to correct inconsistent data relating to streets involved in offers. This should correct the problem that some were seeing about streets appearing to be owned by one player when in fact should have been released to another player.

Additionally, we’re doing more to discourage cheating and have implemented new tools to automate tracking these players. As a result, you’ll notice that hundreds of thousands of abandoned properties have been returned to the bank and are now available for purchase.

In the near future, we also plan to implement a few additional improvements, including addressing the long street building issue so that we can lift building limits on the longer streets.

Thanks for your ongoing patience.

Sorry!

We’re hard at work fixing some of the street data mismatches that a number of you have reported. Unfortunately, it’s taking a bit longer than expected. We’ll expect to be back up and running within 3 hours.

Monday 26 October Maintenance Window

We are aware that some of you have been experiencing issues with streets that have offers attached to them. This is due to corrupt data which occurred when one of our databases went offline. We’ve tried fixing this without interrupting your game play, however to correct some inconsistencies we need to take the game offline for maintenance.

We expect the maintenance window to last between 4 – 8 hours from 8am, GMT Monday 26 October. During this maintenance window we will conduct a full review of the current data set to identify any inconsistencies.

There are 2 main inconsistencies we have indentified with the current data set that we will resolve.

Firstly there are some streets that have been involved in the offer process that are currently in a state of 'limbo’. In this state you can see a street in your portfolio, you own it, but you cannot currently build on it. Once we have run our repairs you will be able to build again.

Secondly, some players own a street but it is not appearing in their property list, again due to lost data from database downtime.

Thank you for your patience and understanding as we work to improve the game.