Neopets?

[Alienfish]

That was the thing that kept worrying me when the company that bought it almost instantly got bought by a mobile games company and fired even more staff. It really feels we're being set up for them dragging this out to milk as much $ as possible then going 'oh, doesn't work anymore' and we're left with a dead site that looks like crap because they changed it for mobile.

Yeah, basically. I mean their support is better than Viacom for sure but yeah, basically ****ing up the site and catering to mobile zoomers is not the way you go. Their priorities really suck, man.

 

[amemome]

I picked it up again for a while but ultimately dropped it because Flash stopped being supported on my browsers and and it was a hassle trying to get things to show up. I feel like flash is what made Neopets so much fun... I wonder how it will be with the new, non-flash content.

My favorite species were the Lupe and Xweetok.

 

[DragonAceSg7]

Yeah, basically. I mean their support is better than Viacom for sure but yeah, basically ****ing up the site and catering to mobile zoomers is not the way you go. Their priorities really suck, man.

Agreed, I think as it goes more mobile it turns even more towards quick monetization and just slowly kills the site.

 

[Snap Crackle Pop]

So I haven't played Neopets since I was in 7th grade maybe? I started playing it when it first launched and I absolutely loved it, but I wasn't exactly the best at it but I loved joining all the little guilds and going to the soup kitchen or soup fairy I think it was. Wocky was one of my favorites and I also liked Shoyru I think and Poogle. I haven't tried to log back into Neopets since like 2003ish? I don't even remember what I signed up with and if my account would even be there. I don't really have an interest to get back into it.

 

[Pupperina]

I started playing neopets at age 5 or 6 thanks to my older cousins. That same account is still up, but I forgot the password now and its been about a year and half since I last accessed it. I had a uni, gelert, christmas zafara, and baby xweetok. the baby neopets are my favorite. I remember watching a video about the black market of neopets a month ago. Didn't know there was a shady side to neopets since then. I only played the game casually for daily stuff and a few of the games, but never grinded my neopets to be strong or obtain lots of neopoints.

 

[Balverine]

I highkey hate the new design and that 7 months after flash player went away, the website is still mostly unusable and awful lol

before the redesign, though, I played quite a bit and have been since I was a kid lol

 

[DragonAceSg7]

I highkey hate the new design and that 7 months after flash player went away, the website is still mostly unusable and awful lol

before the redesign, though, I played quite a bit and have been since I was a kid lol

yeah, I'm hating it more and more as more things get 'converted'. I noticed another physical thing to buy being announced. They really are just milking this until it dies.

 

[Meadows]

I did until about 2 years ago. It was super laggy with the ads, and since they removed flashplayer, the site is a total mess. Half mobile version, half older style, and so many glitches. Not to mention they owners of the site aren't really doing anything with it.

 

[Oldcatlady]

Oh man I used to play that religiously until about three years ago? I was a big PCer at one point, had my share of UCs, but it was so painful trying to trade up that I thought it was more dreadful than fun after a few years so I stopped doing that. I still logged on once in a while to trade on PC/NC until the mobile friendly version and end of flash came. The website just got changed to a worse version each time and everything is just so much harder to use than before??

Also their ticket system is horrible. I once traded for a UC that was hacked and lost my UC that I traded for it even though mine was not hacked?? TNT never did anything about it and it’s been years. Still salty about that

Anyway I think my favourite species is aisha!

 

[DragonAceSg7]

The downward trend continues. They've made the Neopian Times bi-weekly. They say it's to help them get the site done faster but this is what happens when you fire the person who just did the news I'd gather. They already seem to barely answer anything in the editorial.

I'm taking this as a bigger sign to make sure to document all my pets before the site drifts into a slowly dying wasteland.

 

[Alienfish]

The downward trend continues. They've made the Neopian Times bi-weekly. They say it's to help them get the site down faster but this is what happens when you fire the person who just did the news I'd gather. They already seem to barely answer anything in the editorial.

I'm taking this as a bigger sign to make sure to document all my pets before the site drifts into a slowly dying wasteland.

Honestly I think it's for the best, they've basically been bi-weekly and done a lot of fake special issues with pet/npc days that were never really announced. As someone who somewhat regularly tries to submit stuff and getting TMGE because of that or they just don't bother to check stuff properly, I hope it will be for the better. Also the fact they don't check plagiarism and basically let people who screenshot a pose and add a caption in, yeah...

 

[DragonAceSg7]

Honestly I think it's for the best, they've basically been bi-weekly and done a lot of fake special issues with pet/npc days that were never really announced. As someone who somewhat regularly tries to submit stuff and getting TMGE because of that or they just don't bother to check stuff properly, I hope it will be for the better. Also the fact they don't check plagiarism and basically let people who screenshot a pose and add a caption in, yeah...

Ah, didn't realize how terrible the rest of it was. It just bugs me when I've asked a legit question in the editorial and no version is answered and they're always happy to add 'happy thoughts' that feel the focus.

 

[Alienfish]

Ah, didn't realize how terrible the rest of it was. It just bugs me when I've asked a legit question in the editorial and no version is answered and they're always happy to add 'happy thoughts' that feel the focus.

Yeah I've submitted as well and that section has been pure crap for most of this year to be honest basically people praising stuff with like one legit question/criticism a month, so yeah it's been really bad.

 

[DragonAceSg7]

Not like I had much left but there goes my hope of the Faerie Anubis art ever being fixed. Like 15 years of trying to get it fixed. Oy.

 

[Alienfish]

Not like I had much left but there goes my hope of the Faerie Anubis art ever being fixed. Like 15 years of trying to get it fixed. Oy.

Nah too busy messing up the site and catering to zoomers

But yeah I agree a lot of things needs art updates too...

 

[DragonAceSg7]

Nah too busy messing up the site and catering to zoomers

But yeah I agree a lot of things needs art updates too...

The thing with the Faerie Anubis is used to look like this pretty purple and pink thing. But ages ago, when my husband bought me the paintbrush, it had turned into this very lazy base color with some terrible wings. It's been stuck like this for at least 10 years, probably closer to 15. I have no idea why it was ever changed. I don't know if an artist left and they had to take down the art or what but this is so frustrating.

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The thing with the Faerie Anubis is used to look like this pretty purple and pink thing. But ages ago, when my husband bought me the paintbrush, it had turned into this very lazy base color with some terrible wings. It's been stuck like this for at least 10 years, probably closer to 15. I have no idea why it was ever changed. I don't know if an artist left and they had to take down the art or what but this is so frustrating.

I mean, my Lupe's familiar is 18 years old and they were painted within a year at most of being attached.

 

[Alienfish]

Damn I never knew that art, but yeah pretty lame reverting to a basic one with wings -_-

 

[PacV]

Hooray for Lutaris! Till this day i'm still playing daily even when the game is not the same as it used to be years ago...

 

[neoratz]

i love neopets!!! my username came from there. i've hardly played since the redesign though... i'm trying to be optimistic and hoping i'll get adjusted to it once everything's been completely redesigned, but i seriously don't know why they did it! the website looked old but it was fine as is. i can't see a redesign bringing in many new players, most of the userbase likely stays for the nostalgia/novelty of such an old game.

lately i've been trying neopets classic and it's been fun. there's not a lot to do yet, but playing something in such early stages is exciting. i'm praying it never gets taken down, it's a neat project and a nice substitute since i don't like the redesigned neopets

 

[DragonAceSg7]

Hooray for Lutaris! Till this day i'm still playing daily even when the game is not the same as it used to be years ago...

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i love neopets!!! my username came from there. i've hardly played since the redesign though... i'm trying to be optimistic and hoping i'll get adjusted to it once everything's been completely redesigned, but i seriously don't know why they did it! the website looked old but it was fine as is. i can't see a redesign bringing in many new players, most of the userbase likely stays for the nostalgia/novelty of such an old game.

lately i've been trying neopets classic and it's been fun. there's not a lot to do yet, but playing something in such early stages is exciting. i'm praying it never gets taken down, it's a neat project and a nice substitute since i don't like the redesigned neopets

Pretty sure they did it because the company now in charge are a Chinese mobile company. They are calling the shots. They don't wanna bother making it into an app so they're going to change the site.

What's neopets classic?