What's Neopets like in current year? I last played in 2000 but I've been feeling nostalgic recently and I'm trying to decide if I get back into Neopets, Dofus, or FFXI.

>>713321108 (OP)
apparently the sites mostly back to full function now after the adobe flash death. and you can have the old pet designs back, pre-clothing feature.

which neopet has the sexiest plushie?

>>713321108 (OP)
Neopets feels like one of those things that should’ve had a much stronger impact/legacy but it just fizzled out due to sheer incompetence

>>713321892
I'm surprised the y2k nostalgia resurgence didn't pick this up like tamagatchis did.

>>713321892
It traded hands too many times. from college kids to scientologists to spongebob

i dont even know who owns it now.

Bedbreaking sex with Hannah

Alright bros I've decided to give Neopets a go.

>>713321108 (OP)
Viacom. Grandma mafia. Scientology. China. India.

broke: playing neopets
woke: gooning to irrelevant autismvoiced neopets youtuber girls

>>713322703
Nothing is stopping me from doing both.

>>713321892
I think they almost got some deal with Nickelodeon but all went to shit

>>713321108 (OP)
I checked out when the dress up stuff started. The Neopets looked so soulless, like writing on the wall of what was to come. I have no fucking clue what it's like now but this website will forever be a fond gap of my preteen years.

>>713321189
Not going to answer the question but I know the answer.

>>713322586
heh
cool pet, faggot

>>713321170
>and you can have the old pet designs back
Too bad my old account with a mutant hissi is gone.

>>713322561
Cylara for me

>oh yeah, that happened

>>713322371
NetDragon owns Neopets.

>>713323146
Rosie for me

>>713323103
some of the mutant skins were nightmare fuel for me as a kid

…

How would you revive Neopets?

>>713323465
minigames where you can pet and groom and interact with your pets like some of the recent pokemon titles had

>>713323465
i wouldn't because it would inevitably devolve into live service fomo bullshit
it deserves to be preserved as a time capsule of a better era

>>713323465
recreate all the current 2d asset webpage shit but actually good quality for starters, could knock that shit out in a day, then create a secondary 3d game with simplistic graphics where the 30 year old obese women that still play this game can watch their pet roll around in real time and pretend it's the child they desperately crave
both the 2d game and the 3d game would share all stats etc. and the difference would just be frontend for when they're playing on their iphone on safari or their macbook
i'd rake it in, realistically a korean asset farm could knock that all out in under a week

>>713323047
Thanks

>>713323465
easily, phones try to create an app which you link to your account, your pets etc

>>713323958
already a thing

>>713323465
Before we ask that, we have to first ask what is it about Neopets that people most fondly remember? For me, it was always the designs and the world, which would be utilized in just about anything that isn't the website, but I don't know about what other people were attached to.

>>713323345
After several years I got an item off this jew snake only for it to be a common piece of junk.

>>713323465
Reset to 2004, but what then? Every attempt at a revival has been a disaster. That's the best you can get and it's horrible. And even THEN how do you defeat the cat ladies? I just don't think it's sustainable in this awful environment we now live in.

>>713324057
if they can't keep it alive after that well they sucks and are better dead

>>713321170
>and you can have the old pet designs back, pre-clothing feature.
theyre neocash only though, and the designs get rolled out for a limited time, but they do make new "unconverted" styles that didn't exist before the conversion, like actually releasing the Grey Draik design for it

holy crap lois I turned into a poogle!

>>713324143
For me it was people logging into their accounts on school computers and using the daily things like the spinning wheel, the ice cave, or in my case as the only person with the hidden lab, the lab. We'd all gather around during recess or while the teacher was taking a piss and do our once-per day things and get excited whenever someone got a good result. I wanted a mutant Buzz for so long (I say "so long", it was probably only like three or four months but it felt long at the time) and when I lucked into it with the lab the two other kids watching over my shoulder at the time went nuts. I suppose that's not something you can replicate today. Fond memories, though.

>>713322690
Toxotransmosis moment.

>>713324143
The fact that I got to enter an entire new world without resorting to an MMO. Games, stories, markets, forums, contests, cockfighting, page building, events, etc. It's insane to remember that it was so big it even got into shit like McDonald's and they fucked up so bad it killed the whole idea.

>>713321108 (OP)
>play Neopets back when there was only a handful of pets to pick from
>friend plays too
>test a fight against Punchbag Bob
>get giga-oneshot by him instead of it just being some inanimate object
>apparently there's some tiny chance that he'll be replaced with Punchbag Sid (or whatever his name was) who's loaded up with OP shit and high stats
>tell friend
>doesn't believe me
;_;

>>713324575
No need to describe your daily life, clraikhag.

>>713324232
I mean the app is pretty shitty, last I saw. It's not even full access to the site, only small parts of it and some mini games.

>>713325095
It doesn't involve living alone pathetically with a cat, posting le heckin wholesome cat pictures online and dilating.

Is this because of ublock or just the new website format being unrefined?

for me it is fire aisha

>>713323465
Fix the god damned battledome for one thing. It's been broken since its failed attempt at a "revision" in 2012, and still says it's in beta form. Not only is defenders broken, but they removed the opponent difficulty scaling and scoring system that made the thing appealing to begin with. I have a feeling that the code for all of it is next-level spaghetti because TNT seems unusually terrified to touch or do anything with it. Even the addition of the new plot opponents showed some occasional visual bugs during battles when they were available.

>>713322703
source?

>>713325358
meds

>>713325887
I got you bro.

>>713324456
>I suppose that's not something you can replicate today.
gacha games replicate that moment on a regular basis

Are there any typing of the dead type games in Neopets?

>>713325917
melty

>>713325838
https://youtu.be/yFMrBL_6sGI

>>713326083
We know.

>>713326020
Nevermind I see Typing Terror is a thing. If this game pays out I'm gonna be swimming in Neopoints for the stock market.

>>713326149
You're better than this, man.

>>713326591
THE SNOWAGER IS AWAKE! RUN AWAY!!!

>>713326275
man I fucking botted the hell out of negg sweeper and a few of the other games.

>>713321108 (OP)
They finally bowed to the decades of complaints and lowered the trophy requirements for the Altador Cup last year, and this year it's been cancelled (read: replaced with an event where they hand out some freebies and post a short story about each team) due to the war (read: because they said they wanted to overhaul it but it was going to take more than one year).

>>713326591
>still no avatar

Kafkaesque.

i hate this game for introducing dailies to me
spin the wheel, do your chores goy
also was infested with furfags

>>713326591
I went years without getting this or the Geraptiku tomb avatar, then got them within a couple days of each other. RNG's weird sometimes

>>713326201
based anon spreading the truth about toxyplasmosis and cats brainwashing you

>>713321108 (OP)
my account was hacked in mid 2000's, i got my account back but they put my pets in the pound and got new ones and i quit a couple days later. my orignal pets were years old and i had one that wasnt available anymore and they were all put in the pound

>>713329701
oh yeah that was me

>>713329701
This happened to me but it wasn't a hack, it was a friend who had my account details for some reason.

>>713329974
oh yeah that was me

>>713321892
sometime after like...2002? the site went pretty much full zombie mode. Almost no new games and older ones weren't being updated to iron out the janky shitty coding. Not to mention a lot of their games were straight up stolen from other flash game developers, like orisinal.
>>713322690
this as well, it's insane how many times neopets changed hands and was supposed to be "revived for a new breath of fresh air" and it always went nowhere. this recent revival is what, the sixth one? seventh?

neopet hags owe me sex

>>713323465
NeoQuest 3

>>713329701
No pet is discontinued. Did you mean to say petpet? Throwing a discontinued petpet owning pet would be insanity.

>>713330919
yes it was a discontinued pet at the time. im not gonna recal which one since its been like 20 years. maybe they made it available again after i quit, idk but it was one i had for over 2 years it was a limited thing at the time. clearly who ever hacked me prolly threw it in the pound trying to get it or just didnt like my pets. i only remeber my original pet a yellow kougra, the others i had i barely recall. and they threw all my pets in the pound. if i could destroy earth i would have for that alone.

>>713321108 (OP)
idk, i remember something about the community being overrun by the usual suspects. it's a shame to see the state it's in, i still remember my old pets, and even the email i made to play (lost access oh so long ago)

>official twitter huh
>chinamen in a pod trying to act human and nostalgiabaiting with shit they've never experienced that have to desperately respond to the very roasties goring the site because they're the only ones biting
that's fucking brutal
glad I quit a couple of years after the first buyout

>>713322561
Based

>>713323465
battledome

Did anyone ever get the cards back in the day?

>>713336159
The website's arena or the new card game?

>Favourite pet
>Paintbrushes are some of the shittiest

>>713336756
>Paintbrushes are some of the shittiest
>implying it even mattered because I couldn't never get one as a kid

play neopets, into avatar collecting, get the rare water fountain quest, finish the quest and get random buzz to paint to get avatar. Got myself rare avatar, literally following day, the grey day event comes out and so does the grey avatar. My dumbfounded ass all pissed off i missed 2 avatars....

Though years later I believe I attained it?
Buuuuuuuuuuut than there bilge dice, fucken 9 wins in a row and i got fucked on the 10th game :/
Wouldve gotten a gold trophy too had I won

>>713328126
is this some gay negroid larp or did he actually have a schizo melty over neopets one million years after it lost relevance for some reason

>>713323465
>Make Monster Rancher/Pokemon/Digimon World type games where you raise, battle, and adventure with Neopets.
>have a Battledome mode so players can battle each other.
>Allow players to link the games with their Neopets account, allowing them to use their own Neopets or transfer a Neopet from the game to their account.
>The Neopets used for these games would earn various things like trophies and unique items.

If the games do well enough, then it'll naturally draw traffic to the website since being able to use a Neopet across multiple games and having that Neopet effectively carrying your achievements would naturally make people attached.

Of course, they could just make a Neopets gacha game so they can have dumbass whales throwing away their money to roll for a Limited SSR Faerie Paintbrush Dr. Sloth or some shit.

>>713338923
He got mad about Neopets players not wanting to invest in his crypto thing. He posted picrel

>>713323224
>Neopets RPG on PSP
>all resources are limited, enemies don't respawn
>uses the same EXP = MONEY = EXP thing the Souls games do for some reason
>leveling up isn't a guarantee, you pay for an arena fight and if you win you get your stat increase, you CAN lose, so savescumming is mandatory
>the game's stats aren't too well-balanced, so it's common to get two-hit by rando enemies unless you're minmaxing as a tank
>overall the game's too hard for kids unless they cheese with ranged attacks, but too childish for adults
>also boobs exist for some reason, despite the fact we're all the way down deep into the Petpet (and Petpetpet) territory
I really gotta beat this game at some point.

>>713323465
1. Port it to EVERYTHING, free on every platform, this includes consoles.
2. Full cross-save and crossplay.
3. More actual "game" games mixed in with the minigames.
4. More forgiving hotel mechanics and fewer ways to get your Neopet binned, because fuck returning to the game after years only to effectively have all your progress erased.
5. More areas to fight in, and make combat a bit more significant, even if it just means slapping in a "a shifty Neopet (lv25-30) is giving you the stink-eye" with an attack button next to it in each area of the game.
6. Make a "Tamagotchi" app for phones that lets you bring your Neopet everywhere and turn the steps into money or stats or something, and transfer all that stuff back to the main game.

Seriously though, I've played about half the mobile Neopets games, and they're always some mid-effort spinoff where TNT swears that they'll find ways to link the two together, but they never do (or it's just something like "wow free hat") and then the mobile game is dead.

I Can't be asked to do the dailies anymore, but if you want to play to get all the rare items from the quest log go ahead

WHEN THE FUCK IS KEY QUEST RETURNING, TNT YOU HACKS

>>713323465
Put it on steam, that saved the zoomie among us game so it's a great first start
Literally just update it and fix the website, the house thing barely worked last time I checked

>>713340652
Average wtoid moment

>>713324903
That happened to me too. But if you go into your battledome records it shows a different portrait for Punchbag Sid. I showed my friends and they were amazed. As kids he looked badass lol because he had an eyepatch. I miss those old battledome records because they had one time enemies and bosses from war events that never happened again. I liked having those old dinosaurs from the Lost Desert war in my records lol and I remember the Meridel & Darigan invasions and Hannah’s plot too.

>>713343386
>white

>>713336756
I started playing because I like Kyrii, I like how they're like 3 feet tall in most storylines but if you look at their page they're like, 6inches tall.
>>713323465
Make everything on the site work. I see games that say oops flash is broken...fix that.
Fix Faerieland and put it back in the sky, I liked the fantasy. Illusen and Jhudora were rare in that they interacted with people. I liked the recluses in the clouds.
Your player base is old but we really can't talk because your forums are...as someone else put it, taken over by the usual suspects.
Reduce negative random events like the kiko lake one
Make the NC Mall make sense to use.
Retire the space faerie for premium and use Dr. Sloth or something. Get some evil perks to give you a leg up on other Neopians.
Accept that Neopets will always be niche and stop selling it every few years.

>>713323224
I love this game so much. Definition of soul.

I fucking missed out on Hissi Day once again...

>>713346426
just buy a morphing potion bro

>>713345135
>Fix Faerieland and put it back in the sky
sorry, that would mean EoS for their mobile cash grab game themed around exactly that

>>713346457
That's a thing? That's pretty good to hear! Only thing I need to be careful about is its name since you can't rename your neopet right?

>>713346647
nope, you can't rename them, but one thing I like to do is hang around the stuck pet/pound surf threads in the adoption board, usually you come across some really good names there one time I actually found a pet with the name Slugcat in the pound, completely without those threads help too

>>713323224
This was actually pretty decent

>>713323224
this needs a remaster, hopefully nu tnt will see to that

>>713346938
>pound chat
genuinely worse than being a cuck

so who best girl? :p

>>713347458
>Faeries

>>713321892
>Neopets feels like one of those things that should’ve had a much stronger impact/legacy but it just fizzled out due to sheer incompetence
Not really. Flash games just fell out of favor with the advent of smart phones and free to play.

>>713347298
there is literally nothing wrong with browsing the stuck pet thread

>>713347581
>choosing the thread out of everything for a crumb of status
praying for you nigga

Can this be played completely on the phone now?

probably my earliest fap desu

>>713336159
battledome was always p2w, at least revamp it to make it skill based

>>713347578
>Flash games just fell out of favor with the advent of smart phones
Because Apple intentionally refused to support it on iOS.

Can this be played completely on the phone now?

>>713347458

>>713347458
I loved Illusen as a young man and did her quests just in case it unlocked some bikini art or something. I didn't know it was just an item vending machine, the internet was still mysterious.
Now as an older man I appreciate Jhudora but Illusen makes me feel young.
I guess I have to pick Illusen even though her battle dome 50 quest item isn't as good.

>>713349198
No because games lag to shit even on newer phones. Scores dont work either.
>but there are fixes in the neo boards that can tell you how to use your phone for games
Just fix it so I can play hassie bounce while I'm driving in school zones

>>713347298
based take, pound chat is like reddit-tier roleplaying and fake sob stories for clout over decade-old pixel pets. it's wild how seriously they take themselves. just give me a cool name and zap pet, I’m not here to RP as a faerie council member’s long-lost cousin lmao

What are the best ways to get dubloons and codestones for pet training? I don't remember how most of this shit works, I'm finding. I think I recall getting codestones from the faerie wheel but I could be wrong.

>>713323224
I had the demo for this as a kid and enjoyed it quite a bit
my brother tried emulating it but it was fucky and broken

>>713347458
The fairies who saved an entire generation of men from becoming furries

I started jumping ship when the site started adding pride flag customization, no longer freezing accounts for discussing LGBT sexual matters on the boards (but still freezing your 21 year old account if you say "grape" because it has "rape" in it) and digging up ancient stamps or rare/retired items to give them away on the Advent Calendar. For a while the site was fucking over long-time users who had items basically worth the NP cap, and when anyone brought up this might be a dumb idea that won't last forever and will just kill the game's economy, all of the gay commies started coming out of the floorboards.

>>713323245
I'm looking over skins right now and zombie jubjub is fucked (I want one)

Sex with shoyrus

>>713321892
Crazy to think that when it first became big it had more hits than Google at the time.

>>713321108 (OP)
donna denounced it because of pic related
adam was in a stream a few years back talking shit and giving the middle finger to fans like he never cared about neopets at all

>>713351374
Mmmm cat booba

>be me, child
>love kikos, poogles, kacheeks the most
>be me, adult
>all of these are now extremely ugly to me
huh...
Here's my current favorites, rate

>find private 'classic' neopets server
>gay shit

Chicken Smoothie bros ww@

Neopets is gay tho

>>713352914
Your face is gay

What happens to a Neopet when it is left alone?
When it becomes worn and aged and the glint in its eye fades? When it goes for too long uncared for?
What does it think of? What does it dream?
How does it regard the person who created it? Pried it into existence only to abandon it, when it's entertainment no longer satisfied them?
It may grow lonesome. It may stare for long hours into the dark voids of its own empty web page and see shadows. And its heart may jump as it thinks: "Here! Here's someone again, I'm not alone!"
And each time it is wrong. And the hurt starts over.
It may find itself inventing ghosts to walk its page, making friends with its shadow puppets. Laughing and whispering to itself at the end of some lonesome, forgotten link.
It may grow angry. It's mind may fill with churning acid, just like it's empty stomach. And it's gorge may rise as it asks itself through clenched teeth: "What did I do wrong!?"
It may grow bitter. It may grow hungry. So hungry and so bitter that it's scruples dissolve and its account unlocks itself.
And while a Neopet may hunger, it can not starve.
And so in fever and anger and loneliness, it may simply lie in wait:
Account open. Name field blank. Homepage empty.

Hungry

>>713351374
>LGBT sexual matters on the boards
I went to a neopets panel at a convention last year just hoping to get a nostalgia kick but the entire runtime was just the host talking about how neopets awakened his gay side and how every character in neopia was gay in his headcanon and everything is gay. I can't fucking stand how lgbt faggots make EVERYTHING about their sexual degeneracy. They couldn't make a sandwich without making it a faggot sandwich.

Friendly reminder that knowing about NP gives you the edge around girls born between 1990 and 2000.

>be me, 8ish years old, on neopets
>see a comic about a shoryu being turned into a girl
>can't stop thinking about it for months, wished nonstop it would happen to me

>be me, now
>transwoman
beware the neopets troon pipeline

no I wasn't abused or neglected as a kid, yes my parents were married, my childhood was pretty normal
no I have no other diagnosed neurodivergencies, however I am on here so interpret that as you will

>>713354969
40yo agp brickhon self admission
Ls in the chat

>>713353835
Is this a fanfic? I remember reading a few Neopets fanfics back in the early 2000's I miss those days.

>>713354315
too old

>>713352665
wtf

>>713354969
Funny story I have a dedicated lab pet because I don't want my mains adjusted in any way. The lab ray pet for most people is a toy that gets sent to the pound if its special.
I don't really see why someone would want to be a girl. I think since you can't have kids its as close as you can get to pre-puberty which is why the rainbow folk hover around kids so much.

>>713352854
>trans one is in pain
Jesus man it’s ez bait

>>713347506
The most based 'villain' by a mile, Sloth is also good

>>713356004
Funny, ain't it? This is grundos.cafe by the way. Great aside from the literal faggotry.

>>713357195
the bisexual gradient for the lupe is a great colorscheme thoughever

>>713357673
Yeah the artists were decent (imo) and pumping out some good custom appearances.

>>713357195
trans zafara
trans zafara

I tried a fan remake for a bit a while back and it was fun for a while but after a certain point i kinda got bored. maybe its in part cause odds on getting good items and events were increased somewhat but after a while all that there really was to do was collect random specific items to hoard, which is fun but not enough to engage me on its own, and put work towards customizing your user page, which took html coding and I am not good at that type of thing

maybe the official website is better long term but i was a little disappointed at how fast i lost interest

>>713353835
ugh... the 2000s soul...

>>713321108 (OP)
>or FFXI.
I'm on a private server and reliving my teenage years. It's enjoyable

>>713323465
I kind of want it reimagined as a 3D MMO (not thousands of retards on screen at a time, but still interacting with the world), but it feels way more exploratory and dynamic like the different pages of the site. Most of the time you would explore a world from a sky cam, but you could zoom in and interact with places you find, doing minigames or some trading. Exploring's already fast, but you should be able to Favorite things from a menu so you can quickly check on shit like Stockmarket or KINO.

As for the Neopets, just go all in on it. Designing, grooming, petting, playing, fighting: make it all part of the exploration and progression. Make those fuckers animated. Make Eliv Thaed romanceable, idk.The idea of a Neopets game where it's just the site as a VIDEO GAME is a gold mine, but would likely get fucked with monetization and now I hate the idea.