What is the Neopets Metaverse, and why am I boycotting the site? Find out! -- I’m adding chapters and links here later but I need to run errands right now! sorry!
i wouldn't be into this regardless, but the fact that they moved forward with this but didn't like.... go for classic pet designs for example.... plot characters.... why do so many companies misunderstand their markets so badly. i am 100% sure (100% sure!!!) that "furries who grew up online playing neopets from 2000-2006 and are now into crypto" is a coherent demographic with money to burn on neopets NFTs, but they clearly have no idea how to tap into that market. i want to do business strategy consulting for netdragon at a billable rate of $250 an hour
I think the discord was also called out for racism too? I saw something under one of neopet's tweets about it. Real gross if neopets doesn't denounce that community/company
Neopets needs to hire someone that understands the user base. Obviously no one working for them does, and they won’t survive much longer if they don’t tap into what the users want.
Okay so I made my first Neopets account when I was 11 years old. I am now 33 and have not been on there in a very, very long time so I appreciate running across this video and seeing what the drama is. I'm honestly surprised that people are still using the site given all the problems listed from the JellyNeo post? Especially as Neopets had literally years to prepare for the change from Flash and just didn't? I'm supporting from the sidelines in this blackout but honestly y'all held on a lot longer than I ever could have.
have not touched neopets in forever but i love your videos, and i suggest subeta for a neopets-like experience, goatlings for a more unique but still grounded experience, and chicken smoothie if you want to instead of worrying over feeding a limited amount of pets, owning as much pets as possible with no responsibility over their needs
lovely video!! i look forward to any neopets history vids or other content you put out! :) if you're gonna try a new petsite i'd recommend either goatlings (pretty similar to neo, but much smaller community and cutesier aesthetic) or flight rising (which i have no doubts you've heard of, considering youre also a petsimmerjulie fan!)
I appreciate this video. I read the whole metaverse road map and was having a hard time interpreting what it actually looked like as game play. I’m very meh about the NFTs myself. I just don’t care about them either way. But I don’t like the idea that they would be integrated into the Neopets game as a major component and I could be forced to participate in NFTs to continue to play Neopets. Thank you for the video!
I used to be a flight rising user, it's pretty fun! plus, I think its games actually STILL WORK lol! it even has the blessed cheap mahjong game... goatlings is also fun, but its games are not very robust, and is more focused on reloading pages and their battle minigame. but Goatlings feels a bit more hollow than Flight Rising or prime neopets, just going off vibes. both are very cute and pretty, though.
I think my main problem with the NFTs is that the site is looking so bad and have so many features missing that I wish they focused more on that, I know the two teams are different but still feel like they are again trying to find their golden goose while leaving the main site to rot and is sad because their merchandizing was starting to look good too... Have a petsite called Icepets found it quite cute, even that wished they didn't take so much of neo and made more of their own thing, but still love the cartoony feeling it has
I felt nostalgic for this game one day, then I hear about NFT's. Maan, what am I supposed to do with my 13 year old account? Edit: No, 15 year old account but still.
It's odd because it feels like no crypto bro alpha male asshole would be caught dead playing neopets. Even if they wanted these just to have them because nfts are just about owning shit and yelling loudly about how many trees you burned to own it, how are they gonna find out about it?? It's not like neopets has far reaching ads. It's also so wild to me because most nfts are ugly as shit, and if you're getting original art there's this wild thing called an invoice that proves you bought it and DOESN'T take a whole server farm to make. Also editing to add: flight rising is fun! If you do wind up joining it I can send you a care package, I've been playing since it opened so my hoard is Full.
I like the idea. It’s means clans can finally go against clans. But will regular neopets still be playable cause I depend on regular neopets livestreams I make a living but will neopets still be free during the meta verse setup this is something I’ve wanted it’s means neopets is going multiplayer that’s epic I can’t wait but will neopets be free we’ll Meta verse is setup cause if not I’ll wait till phase two
