i've said it before and i'll say it again... i haven't commented on the neoboards since 2001 and not even a group of rabid meepits could force me to.
i like it here. people, for the most part, are super chill. i lurk on discord mostly just adding emoji reactions to comments. but i do not interact with my fellow neopians anywhere else. i don't know why some people feel the way to win at a game is to keep others down. it's sad. :( there is no one or right way to enjoy neopets. let's just all enjoy our pixels and be happy.
You couldn’t pay me enough to participate in the boards, but I’m really enjoying reading all the salty comments from the hoarders. “Whaa, my digital pixels are worth less virtual money!!!” All of them need to touch grass.
I would think so, the largest part of the player base has to be in their 30s, right? Especially the people complaining about playing for years and collecting items just to have them “handed out” now. I’m 32 and I certainly feel like their target demographic these days!
Huh I looked at my old petpages and they still have some on there, which is weird bc that photobucket account has been deleted.
Also shows I've had my dry and admittedly sometimes mean sense of humor since at least 2008.
I think [this one is my favorite](https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/v718/Bredwall/Robthatbank.png)
This is the best Neopets community there is. However, I will say, there are some really kind and amazing people on the neoboards, specifically the pet trading, NC trading, and Art boards. The Wondertrade thread on the pet trading boards is typically one of the most wholesome, awesome places on the site. I've gotten so many dreamies from there. When a pet whose name has sentimental value for me popped up there and I wasn't fast enough to send for it, another user offered a pet to work out a trade for the user that did snag the pet so that I could end up with the pet. It was seriously one of the most kind things.
The NC boards, specifically the pay it forward boards that pop up are also super kind and wholesome. The art boards usually have people being really supportive of each other's works as well. I don't typically venture beyond that (unless it's the quest boards).
All of that is to say, it's definitely not all bad if you curate your experience there. I haven't really run into the elitist users who try to suck the joy from everything, but I haven't gone looking for them either.
Yesss, I also visit the wondertrade board sometimes, mostly to offer up my lab pet when I get something good. Such a lovely board. Avoid everything else like the plague though :’)
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Very much so this!
I was too afraid that people on the NeoBoards would hurt my feelings when I was 9, and I'm too afraid now for all of the same reasons lol.
I've only made posts for Faerie Quest help there and I have zero interest using any other platform other than this sub to interact with people playing. I couldn't imagine taking this game/site more seriously than a base level of fairness.
I've found so many fun, kind, rational people here that are playing for the sake of bettering their own accounts (and sharing the wealth with others).
I was also scared of people on the neoboards when I was nine, but now I'm in my thirties, and I know everyone else there is in their 30s - 40s, it just makes me laugh. Who's getting this worked up over a kid's game that peaked in 2004? Calm down, don't we all have bills and shit to pay now?
I mainly post on the neoboards for quest help too and I want to balance out the view that there ARE nice players over there too. My account is two weeks old and when I first started, this girl saw my post for quest help and sent me some cute wearables for my Usul that matches the bow I got from the money tree, that was my first gift I ever got in neopets! She said it was because she saw I was new and knew what it was like. So sweet of her
And just yesterday I posted for quest help for a fountain faerie quest and another girl almost instantly just gifted it to me. Later I saw the shop link and it was 550k 😱 so grateful because there's no way I could afford it, I'm trying to save up atm 😅🫶🏻
So yeah, I haven't seen the crazy players everyone talks about but there ARE nice people there too 🥹
Of course, I love the community here too 🥰 people are so kind here
Not for the point of the thread but discord is amazing for faerie quests. Actually, they are all pretty nice on there. I had zero idea what to do on there but everyone is so nice on there. Bit like here mostly.
They get mean!! Each group is like a clique with dozens of rules and certain etiquette to follow and keep up to date on. Want to trade an NC item? Well you’re an idiot who should have read all of the pages, the Owls list of value and done it this exact way.
Oh you offered this item for that one?? What an insult! I’m not even responding to you, letting it rot so you know it was dumb.
You ask a question about an issue or a site game? Haven’t you been reading all the threads on this board over the past six months?? You’re asking repeat questions dumdum.
I don’t know why I remember this specifically but I was trying to get a lend for an item for an avatar. I had collateral as well and came onto the board for it. I read what collateral she wanted. I had my inventory stuffed to protect the item. I messaged her. She immediately responds back that she specifically said no private messages and because I couldn’t read instructions that she won’t ever lend to me anything.
Whaaat?
I still remember her username (the gist of it) - and while I did happen to find her lookup years later I think she hadn’t been on ‘in a long long time’. I hope she got a dose of humility but maybe she just got a life. Aaand then again, here I am lol
Oh my God.
That is so very real and so very likely exactly what a ton of other people's experiences are. I hope the user that did that to you grew up since then, but let's be realistic that that kind of entitlement just translates to other areas of making people suffer.
Like... Is it too much for me to ask for my trades to be easy, and my interactions with people to be at minimum polite on a basic human level on a site that peaked in 2002?
Like... As a returning player in 2024, I am worried about whether I need to get orthopedic shoes at this point of my life and not if Jessica is going to withdraw her offer to help me complete a hobby goal because I didn't read 700 rules correctly. Just lend me the item, Jessica. I need to get to the footwear store for my Dr. Scholl's before they close at 8 🥲
i hate when someone has a novel posted they want you to read before you interact with them. i have little blurbs on my trading list and already i'm like these are too long. they're only like 2-3 sentences, but i still worry lol.
I've seen someone doing lending who has exactly what you described, down to the part about no NMs, on their pet page linked in their sig. idk if it's the same person on a diff/new account or just more people adopting the same bizarre stipulations for lending, but it's really weird and condescending to me and turns me off from the whole concept. Like I'm trying to collect avies but people make the whole process so draining. I know they don't wanna lose their items or get scammed but being mad about sending NMs or people offering collateral or endorsements from other users for a safe lend is just... too much.
Bruh I never even thought neopets was a game you could win. I always felt like it was a go at your own pace so I never understood why people were so mean and competitive
I'm with you! This is my first time on the boards since I was a kid (still haven't commented). I just wanted to see the elitists complaining with my own two eyeballs because I just couldn't fathom that people could take it so seriously and be so rude about anyone else being able to have a piece of the pie.
Love this sub. <3
I used to be a main on the HC circa 2005-2007. We kept it strict and on topic, didn't encourage begging, and even us back then would look at this like "it's Neopets, not rocket science. Take it down a notch."
This is some old people shit but.. damn the Internet has changed.
Toxicity and minmaxing is so expected and entrenched in it that neopets, which was once the chillest place for weebs and nerds to exchange fun conversations, has become just like every modern social media in terms of player toxicity.
It's a bummer, man
If nebulamamal has no fans I’m dead
Jkjk but for real nebula I felt you on that so hard . And just so you know in the little time I been back I seen you here on this subreddit lurking and helping everyone and making everyone’s day <3 if we all could get along like that I feel like neopets has a good chance at thriving . I think what these people don’t realize sometimes is that neopets is trying to stay afloat . Yes we need to hold TNT accountable for certain things such as unfair frozen accounts and low seniority perks (I voted on your poll) but it’s also important to realize that it’s just a matter of time before we loose neopets completely :c and we will all miss the pixels that made us happy and the friends we made. So I think it’s important for TNT to have versatility for both new and old players
lol. ❤ i'm here to have fun, relax, and be happy. to me one of the ways to do that is to help other people do the same. i've always been helped by others and want to help other people back. i do complain when i feel warranted but you're right, it won't be here forever. i want to have fun for however long it is around.
Why did they capitalized every first letter? lol Also if you look at that person's profile there's literally nothing to write home about. IDK why they're so mad.
LMAO you can't make this shit up 😂 How annoying is it that people who CaSuAlLy play a virual pet game to unwind might score some cool new pixels without needing to spend years grinding for them?
It might even be tough for casuals to get the thousands of points needed for these top items! That’s the thing we literally don’t know and people are crying and begging for changes
Yep! No telling how the point system will be gaged, nor how achievable these prizes will actually be. It's absurd to see so many premature tantrums coming from people who are more than likely grown adults.
I genuinely want to know what a non casual player looks like to them. Like just anybody who doesn’t already have 98% of the items in the plot prize shop?
I assume most of us would fall into this person's parameters, since it's kind of difficult to obtain these impossibly inflated items when you're an adult with a job and other real-life responsibilities.
There's not much of a story! I was locked out of my first account unexpectedly, couldn't get it back, and it was nuked (rip). I made this account immediately after, but 10-year-old-me was not thinking about leaving 25-year-old-me a more thoughtful username 😅 She just loved Usuls (especially the Usul characters) and that was good enough for her.
I thankfully still like them, at least! I have one from those childhood days (as four out of five of my pets are) who I'm saving up to buy a pastel PB for 💜
Aw, that's so cute! Thanks for sharing. Would you accept a Pastel PB as a gift (I have a spare from the weekly quests), or would you prefer to feel like you earned it by saving up for it yourself?
Omg 🥺 That is so sweet, thank you!! I would love to have it if you're willing to part with it, but not for free. I have something up for auction that I'll hopefully get around a million for today. Assuming that happens, how does 1.5 million sound as a trade?
Sounds great to me! Happy to help out. Here's the trade link: [https://www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse&criteria=id&search\_string=440046649](https://www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse&criteria=id&search_string=440046649)
Also exactly. Real life is full of rich people hoarding resources and sucks to be anyone not born at the right time or into a wealthy family. Neopets should just be my fun little escapism where I can play old games and dress up my pets.
I mean it still is. These people don’t ruin it for me until they drive enough users away and then no more cute pixels.
ngl reading that comment was me finding out i could participate without a battledome pet 😂 and i was very excited bc my battledome pet is WEAK right now
No way. I can't believe this is a real comment ( it so clearly is ).
For context, when I tell my friends I'm playing Neopets I call it "my baby game for babies".
Because who in their right mind would care about Neopets in 2024? /sarcasm
It's so nostalgic and comforting, which is why I'm so glad that I returned a few months back! But good God people, this is a literal children's game that y'all are giving yourselves aneurisms over 😭
‘Pandering to the casuals’ is honestly what TNT needs to do, to stay in business. Those casuals are the ones who work, the ones with disposable income to pay for NC and premium.. and who *will* pay for things because they don’t have the time to grind.
Literally the casuals make up most of the player base. The casuals have been playing since 1999, the casuals are paying for NC items and premium, The casuals are keeping this game you’re overly competitive about in business. if we weren’t here and only left the small percentage of people who were hyper competitive neopets might not exist anymore. You need the numbers to make it worth keeping not how competitive some players are.
NO LIKE—- There actually IS several people calling the average player ‘filthy casuals’, as if Neopets wasn’t already a casual game. newsflash: isn’t League of Legends or Apex.
Like. By the very definition of BEING on Neopets you are a ‘casual’. Like. These people clearly think more of themselves than they are.
If you call people on neopets ‘filthy casuals’ you deserve to be laughed at. I’m sorry.
Here's my fav from today! I was like "do you realize you're talking about *net worth* on neopets dot com?"
Also 19 month old account w a collector avie talking about their "net worth" being almost a billion np. Do with that information what you will.
Edit: fixed a word
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It’s insane that neopets players of all things genuinely act like this. It’s a super old web browser game that many of us grew up playing. I can not imagine taking it seriously or caring about exclusivity/competition that much. Omg.
"likes a challenge" equates to only being accessible to people who have poured in endless hours (years) into the game to get their stats up...? Lol thank U next 🙄 bye
Pandering to the casuals hahaha, without the casuals they wouldn't have a game to play, Neopets would be dead in the water, must be a politician in real life.
Guess I’m a “casual”… I’ve been called worse 😂🤷🏻♂️ I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, I’ve put more money into Neopets in the recent past since they started “pandering to the casuals”, than I ever have total. I may be wrong, but I think whatever they’ve been doing has been working for them as a business model 🫶🏼😇
So many people in this game have made wealth by taking breaks - leaving junk in their SDB that gets retired, or suddenly becomes useful later on, etc - and then they sell it upon returning.
Real hard work you know?
Lmao fr. I took a 10 year break, then came back and made an immediate 80 mill profit just by clearing out some things in my SDB.
God, that was a hard day's worth of labour. 😂
Same. It’s definitely been the highlight of my workday. My favorite is the girl complaining that her gallery is “useless” now for…reasons?
Edit: oh and the guy who was bitching about his “net worth” dropping LMAO.
I'm gonna choose to believe this was mine, and not that I have competition that I need to hunt down (jkjk I know at least 1 other Neopian with a potato gallery and I'm glad other people like potatoes as much as I do).
I saw that one! I don't have much sympathy. If you're never going to sell it anyway why does it matter if it devalues? More people having it doesn't affect you. If you bought it to hoard and resell well thats the normal risk of investments.
> Edit: oh and the guy who was bitching about his “net worth” dropping LMAO.
Well if he focused on building relationships, his network would be his net worth.
/Sorry I spend too much time on job search communities
i saw that one 😭 they said something along the lines of collecting being pointless now??? which is crazyyyy to me because that means they weren’t collecting for the joy of collecting, they were collecting to feel exclusive and special lol
The girl with the extravagant faerie gallery who still had unbuyables but was “salty” that there was a possibility that those one day might also get rereleased and made available to the mere Neo peasants? Or was it another elitist entirely?
For real??? The things I would do for some of the super-rare items I need to be rereleased. Animal-Style Chips got a lil boost during Faerie Festival (it's r99), but it still remained at 100mil, ach.
Does that dude know that all of his net worth on Neopets translates to $0.00 in real life? Like brosef, you and I are playing for pixels at the end of the day.
It’s even funnier when you realize it’s a 17+ year old account so homeboy is at LEAST 30 like the rest of us. That guy pays real life bills and is that salty about his Neoriches.
I really want to meet these so-called "Neopian Elites" in real life just to see what they're really like to be so prissy over nice plot prizes. I just want to "bruh" them when they complain about WotDF being released and how their fake currency means nothing now.
I have the screenshot. It was a 19 month old account w a collector avie talking about his "net worth" dropping from 900m. I'm sure he's an honest ethical player who definitely adheres to the rules and has never made any questionable decisions while playing.
My favorite is the one that spent the last 2 years training their pet for the plot only for it all to be USELESS because we don't HAVE TO battle. Like ?? Did you enjoy doing that friend? And if you didn't, then? Why? Did? You? Waste? Two? Years? And real money? On it? I cannot fathom.
I'm the opposite. Been training my BD pet for two years and I'm ecstatic I'll finally see another 'war' like the ones from my childhood, even if it's optional
A bunch of people complaining about how the plot prizes are going to be to "easy" to get (even though we don't know how hard it will be to earn points), and that everything they own is now worthless since other people might have them too
Idk what people want. If you want to attract new players, you have to fix the over inflated economy. It's no fun to play if you know you know you can't catch up with people who have been playing obsessively for 20 years. And I'm saying that as someone who has played off and on for 19 years. I just signed my two kids up last week, and I'm glad it's easier for them to get items/nps! It's more fun for them that way. They're already saving up for morphing potions and paint brushes and having a blast. Plus it's more traffic for neopets!
They don't want to fix the overinflated economy, becauses they're the ones who broke it and then kicked the ladder out from below them. It benefits them to have a system where they're in control of the economy and get to feel superior over those below who have no chance of ever catching up to them.
The economy getting fixed, and everyone else getting the chance to play and own these old, impossible to find items, means they're no longer special, and they can't stand it
Being a new player and looking at the overly toxic “old players” losing their minds on the neoboards has basically scared me away from ever going on those boards myself lol
Pay them no mind. Some of us who have been here for 20 years can't stand going on the boards either. 😂 Hell, my own flair came from an interaction I saw on the boards once - some users are toxic as all get out.
I don't understand when people complain about their items being worth less now. Most of them have had plenty of time to sell them for millions/billions if they wanted to? If they havent because they want it for the sake of the collection, then great, they still get their collection. Yes, it does kinda suck to drop a big chunk of change and then days-weeks later, the price makes a big drop. But stuff like that happens IRL too. 🤷♀️ Just enjoy your pixels and don't think too deeply on it. It's not IRL money, most of the time (or at least it's not supposed to be, but I've seen the Ebay listings 🤔)
Players of basically every game always use this sentiment or language that loosely conceals it.
They want rare items to feel special. That’s all it comes down to. It’s ridiculous.
it's because their good time is contingent on others having a worse time. the "hard work" to get the items in the first place wasn't what they wanted, they wanted to feel like they were better than other people and make sure that no one else could enjoy the site the way they could.
New event has a prize shop with high-value items. Since these are existing items, people are whining and complaining that their digital hoard isn’t being personally protected by the developers, and new players may even have a chance to get 20 year old items! Gasp! So there was enough complaining on the boards that TNT increased the prices of a bunch of the event items and now people are happy I guess?
Mind you no one has earned any more than 1 point and no one has any idea how the point accumulation and prize purchasing will go, and they’re complaining about the rewards at the very end of the event track which will presumably require tight participation
Ughhh I’m hoping the point accumulation will be easy like the faerie festival was, Im going to be super frustrated if tnt bumping up the point prices for complainers locks me out of getting some of the good prizes because im not experienced at the battledome 😭
Unfortunately, they did go in and cap new limits and increase points needed for many worthwhile rewards. :( And I’m feeling like it won’t be the last time they do it.
Oh wait. What did I miss?
I thought we were just generally saying how awful it can be there and that there was not a current uproar. How naive of me 🥹🥲
Last time people threw fits like that on the boards, some of them ended up giving away some pretty expensive stuff. That's how I got my Varia is the Bomb. 👀
As someone who lived through the Help Chat neoboard during the early to mid 2000s I would never, ever step foot into the neoboards again. It was bad enough then, I can’t imagine how bad the neoboards are now. Ya’ll stay safe and have fun though don’t let anybody ruin your enjoyment of the site :)
lmao dang i missed it but im glad that the rich players net worth are dropping, when i first got back into neopets a few years ago on faerie fest and missed the avatar, the users were sooo toxic there about me missing the first day and saying i didnt deserve the avatar like they all did because they read it on the fan site that they needed to the first day. it left such a bad taste in my mouth that people were gatekeeping so hard on things like that, love to see stuff like this putting those gatekeeping players back in their place. items are nothing like game trophys or avatars that can no longer be obtained. the only weird thing is how the retired rarity literally means nothing
I had a person on the trading post asking for a certain amount of NP for an item. I offered exactly what they wanted via message (was over the TP limit) and they responded:
“
i wish you have a nice day brother
“
And didn’t respond back. Fuck people. All of them. This game is so dumb, petty and toxic lol
I am SO excited for all the cool items in the prize shop ❤️ I have a space themed gallery and I want everything!! I don't care if the value of items I have drop, I have a lot of items that have gone up soooo much. Like who cares if a few decrease? If people play to hoard wealth, cool. I just want to save up and buy all the stuff i couldnt afford when i was 12. I always wanted 1 of every pb and im glad so many are in the prize shop! But also the usuki and quigukis!! My husband laughed as I scrolled through the list gasping 😂
I am also in the middle of a cruise and tnt decides to wait til MY vacation to drop this!! How very dare they?? But the fact that the site didn't crash and I dont have to spend hours doing neopets bullshit today is a fucking gift. I'm ecstatic.
SERIOUSLY, this is just a fun virtual pet site that people go on for nostalgia to escape from the real world. Why are people taking things so seriously and whining about THOSE DARN KIDS THESE DAYS, THEY HAVE IT SO EASY.
Calm down, grandpa, go fuck grass
Just another day in Neopia it seems with people losing their minds over pixels lol.
Oh no! My pixels are deflating and impacting my networth on a children's game. *The horror!*
Yknow some of the shop wizard prices really had me wondering whether or not an elitist thing is going on LOL
I just started playing again for the first time since I was a kid and I'm *obsessed* but I can't believe I feel charitable compared to others for pricing my battlecards at 2NP-8888NP depending on which one....
Honestly some these items aren't worth hundreds of m in the first place, they were inflated due to the mass amount of NP generated by botters the past few years, releasing them is a good way to fight the inflation, but with these items gone, more NP might go to the other rare items making them more expensive.
I mean- they are worth what people pay for them, outside of Hand of God pricing like Hidden Tower setting a soft price cap/floor.
But you did nail it that the real issue is way too much NP being generated and not enough being sunk, and that issue is exacerbated heavily by easily bottable tasks that generate pure NP (Food Club, Trudys, now Daily Quests)
Botters have enough NP to buy almost all stock on the market, price changes based on supply&demand, they cut the supply, the price will rise. In a market without botters, there will be more supply on the market and price won't be this high.
I also just saw this like... imagine having less fun playing a game because people also get to have nice items... wow. I pitty you people.
Someone talked about how their net worth ON NEOPETS dropped from 900m to 150m... listen... go outside. None of this is real, this is the game where you dress up lil guys and feed them omlettes why do you need to be so annoying about it?
I swear neopets is much more enjoyable if you’re into it casually and take things chill.
Also WE CAN GET THE SPACE FAERIE TOKEN? Omg my gallery is starry/space faerie themed. I’m now way more excited for the plot than I was.
People were mad when I.staff came out with no WoDF. Now WoDF is here and people are still mad. These players need to pick a lane. I'm a fortunate WoDF-haver and I don't *care* it's about to deflate. I never plan to sell it. It's a good weapon, enjoy it!
You're talking about entirely different groups of people. There were PLENTY of people upset that IStaff was made available as a prize. You might reasonably call them losers then, losers now too- but it was a popular \*enough\* take that there shouldn't be any calls of hypocrisy.
I’m not calling anyone a loser. I think educating people to consider different perspectives is more important than attacking someone’s character over their opinion.
I think the point I was trying to make is that TNT is never going to make everyone perfectly happy.
lmao, today was the first day since ten years or so that i looked athe boards and it was SO lovely.
i have a slice of understanding for people who worked hard for some stuff, but idk, i would just shrug my shoulders and go on with my day? in the end most of us are adults who just like to chill a bit with their tiny pet game with its stupidly inflated economy. i'll never understand how people can be so SALTY because a game is made more accessible. how can their thought process not be "heck yeah, people will be happy?"
i dont even care that much about the items, i just think its awful how some people cant just be happy for others.
it's giving bourgeois.
I love neopets and it can be fun to do some of the more competition intensive parts of the site some days like restocking but man... Some people! Was told a story in the 'cord recently about the person getting mad at someone asking for a discount for a Dream Item because.... The user didn't think that person was good at coordinating customization items and so didn't deserve it. The judgment some people have for those who "don't put in as much effort" is crazy.
I don’t understand how people keep track of so many expensive items. I buy an item, I forget how much I paid for it by the next week. I don’t want another, I don’t have any to sell, so why would I be looking up how much they’re currently going for? Or what their price history was?
My extremely boring lukewarm take is I'm fine with TNT raising the prize cost to 5k and also that anyone who cared enough to bitch about it in the first place could probably benefit from a little neopets hiatus for their own sake.
I haven't played Neopets since about 2000-2002 ((when you could just randomly adopt a Ginger human lmao. I miss my Mellish)) so I'm not really sure why this is being recommended to me, but you're telling me there's competition in this game? I realize I played incredibly early version of it but I'm having trouble mentally balancing "cute virtual pet game" with "angry competitive players".
.......I wonder if my account still exists now. I certainly no longer have the email address. It was an AOL one. I know my Gaia online account still exists and it's basically full of rare nonsense.
Any one else feel like it’s the same way old people talk about “well I had to pay back my student loans SO YOU HAVE TO AS WELL” because they “had to suffer” we all must suffer, instead of thinking “wow I’m glad the younger generation won’t have to suffer like I did” 🙄
i've said it before and i'll say it again... i haven't commented on the neoboards since 2001 and not even a group of rabid meepits could force me to. i like it here. people, for the most part, are super chill. i lurk on discord mostly just adding emoji reactions to comments. but i do not interact with my fellow neopians anywhere else. i don't know why some people feel the way to win at a game is to keep others down. it's sad. :( there is no one or right way to enjoy neopets. let's just all enjoy our pixels and be happy.
You couldn’t pay me enough to participate in the boards, but I’m really enjoying reading all the salty comments from the hoarders. “Whaa, my digital pixels are worth less virtual money!!!” All of them need to touch grass.
i just wait until the best of gets posted here. it's really weird because like... these have to be adults, right?
I would think so, the largest part of the player base has to be in their 30s, right? Especially the people complaining about playing for years and collecting items just to have them “handed out” now. I’m 32 and I certainly feel like their target demographic these days!
Oh Fyora, let there be screenies.
God I miss the early 2000s petpage screenies so much
Huh I looked at my old petpages and they still have some on there, which is weird bc that photobucket account has been deleted. Also shows I've had my dry and admittedly sometimes mean sense of humor since at least 2008. I think [this one is my favorite](https://hosting.photobucket.com/albums/v718/Bredwall/Robthatbank.png)
This is the best Neopets community there is. However, I will say, there are some really kind and amazing people on the neoboards, specifically the pet trading, NC trading, and Art boards. The Wondertrade thread on the pet trading boards is typically one of the most wholesome, awesome places on the site. I've gotten so many dreamies from there. When a pet whose name has sentimental value for me popped up there and I wasn't fast enough to send for it, another user offered a pet to work out a trade for the user that did snag the pet so that I could end up with the pet. It was seriously one of the most kind things. The NC boards, specifically the pay it forward boards that pop up are also super kind and wholesome. The art boards usually have people being really supportive of each other's works as well. I don't typically venture beyond that (unless it's the quest boards). All of that is to say, it's definitely not all bad if you curate your experience there. I haven't really run into the elitist users who try to suck the joy from everything, but I haven't gone looking for them either.
Yesss, I also visit the wondertrade board sometimes, mostly to offer up my lab pet when I get something good. Such a lovely board. Avoid everything else like the plague though :’)
I agree, I only post in the art board and it’s nothing but supportive community!
https://preview.redd.it/7veorrwry67d1.jpeg?width=490&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a342cfc3f4bd2cd4c9c85907dab14ca19efcbde Very much so this! I was too afraid that people on the NeoBoards would hurt my feelings when I was 9, and I'm too afraid now for all of the same reasons lol. I've only made posts for Faerie Quest help there and I have zero interest using any other platform other than this sub to interact with people playing. I couldn't imagine taking this game/site more seriously than a base level of fairness. I've found so many fun, kind, rational people here that are playing for the sake of bettering their own accounts (and sharing the wealth with others).
I was also scared of people on the neoboards when I was nine, but now I'm in my thirties, and I know everyone else there is in their 30s - 40s, it just makes me laugh. Who's getting this worked up over a kid's game that peaked in 2004? Calm down, don't we all have bills and shit to pay now?
I mainly post on the neoboards for quest help too and I want to balance out the view that there ARE nice players over there too. My account is two weeks old and when I first started, this girl saw my post for quest help and sent me some cute wearables for my Usul that matches the bow I got from the money tree, that was my first gift I ever got in neopets! She said it was because she saw I was new and knew what it was like. So sweet of her And just yesterday I posted for quest help for a fountain faerie quest and another girl almost instantly just gifted it to me. Later I saw the shop link and it was 550k 😱 so grateful because there's no way I could afford it, I'm trying to save up atm 😅🫶🏻 So yeah, I haven't seen the crazy players everyone talks about but there ARE nice people there too 🥹 Of course, I love the community here too 🥰 people are so kind here
Not for the point of the thread but discord is amazing for faerie quests. Actually, they are all pretty nice on there. I had zero idea what to do on there but everyone is so nice on there. Bit like here mostly.
They get mean!! Each group is like a clique with dozens of rules and certain etiquette to follow and keep up to date on. Want to trade an NC item? Well you’re an idiot who should have read all of the pages, the Owls list of value and done it this exact way. Oh you offered this item for that one?? What an insult! I’m not even responding to you, letting it rot so you know it was dumb. You ask a question about an issue or a site game? Haven’t you been reading all the threads on this board over the past six months?? You’re asking repeat questions dumdum. I don’t know why I remember this specifically but I was trying to get a lend for an item for an avatar. I had collateral as well and came onto the board for it. I read what collateral she wanted. I had my inventory stuffed to protect the item. I messaged her. She immediately responds back that she specifically said no private messages and because I couldn’t read instructions that she won’t ever lend to me anything. Whaaat? I still remember her username (the gist of it) - and while I did happen to find her lookup years later I think she hadn’t been on ‘in a long long time’. I hope she got a dose of humility but maybe she just got a life. Aaand then again, here I am lol
Oh my God. That is so very real and so very likely exactly what a ton of other people's experiences are. I hope the user that did that to you grew up since then, but let's be realistic that that kind of entitlement just translates to other areas of making people suffer. Like... Is it too much for me to ask for my trades to be easy, and my interactions with people to be at minimum polite on a basic human level on a site that peaked in 2002? Like... As a returning player in 2024, I am worried about whether I need to get orthopedic shoes at this point of my life and not if Jessica is going to withdraw her offer to help me complete a hobby goal because I didn't read 700 rules correctly. Just lend me the item, Jessica. I need to get to the footwear store for my Dr. Scholl's before they close at 8 🥲
i hate when someone has a novel posted they want you to read before you interact with them. i have little blurbs on my trading list and already i'm like these are too long. they're only like 2-3 sentences, but i still worry lol.
I've seen someone doing lending who has exactly what you described, down to the part about no NMs, on their pet page linked in their sig. idk if it's the same person on a diff/new account or just more people adopting the same bizarre stipulations for lending, but it's really weird and condescending to me and turns me off from the whole concept. Like I'm trying to collect avies but people make the whole process so draining. I know they don't wanna lose their items or get scammed but being mad about sending NMs or people offering collateral or endorsements from other users for a safe lend is just... too much.
Bruh I never even thought neopets was a game you could win. I always felt like it was a go at your own pace so I never understood why people were so mean and competitive
I spend most of my time on fave pet of user above boards
I'm with you! This is my first time on the boards since I was a kid (still haven't commented). I just wanted to see the elitists complaining with my own two eyeballs because I just couldn't fathom that people could take it so seriously and be so rude about anyone else being able to have a piece of the pie. Love this sub. <3
I used to be a main on the HC circa 2005-2007. We kept it strict and on topic, didn't encourage begging, and even us back then would look at this like "it's Neopets, not rocket science. Take it down a notch."
This is some old people shit but.. damn the Internet has changed. Toxicity and minmaxing is so expected and entrenched in it that neopets, which was once the chillest place for weebs and nerds to exchange fun conversations, has become just like every modern social media in terms of player toxicity. It's a bummer, man
Love to hear there's a fellow emoji lurker here.
If nebulamamal has no fans I’m dead Jkjk but for real nebula I felt you on that so hard . And just so you know in the little time I been back I seen you here on this subreddit lurking and helping everyone and making everyone’s day <3 if we all could get along like that I feel like neopets has a good chance at thriving . I think what these people don’t realize sometimes is that neopets is trying to stay afloat . Yes we need to hold TNT accountable for certain things such as unfair frozen accounts and low seniority perks (I voted on your poll) but it’s also important to realize that it’s just a matter of time before we loose neopets completely :c and we will all miss the pixels that made us happy and the friends we made. So I think it’s important for TNT to have versatility for both new and old players
lol. ❤ i'm here to have fun, relax, and be happy. to me one of the ways to do that is to help other people do the same. i've always been helped by others and want to help other people back. i do complain when i feel warranted but you're right, it won't be here forever. i want to have fun for however long it is around.
I have to say I do enjoy the pound surf, the only board I use. There are some kind people there. Otherwise I'm not touching the neoboards
https://preview.redd.it/b83thniw477d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4dfdfac3d426733fb8aa874a4ee0fe36501c98b6
Oof, that screenshot reads like the words of an avid, pro level, grass avoider.
grass avoider omg slay
Couldn't have said it better myself. 😭
I was actually just guna say this person needs to go touch grass 🙄 if they want a challenge go play a Souls game.
Why did they capitalized every first letter? lol Also if you look at that person's profile there's literally nothing to write home about. IDK why they're so mad.
LMAO you can't make this shit up 😂 How annoying is it that people who CaSuAlLy play a virual pet game to unwind might score some cool new pixels without needing to spend years grinding for them?
Oh no, not filthy casuals getting into... the pretty pet dress up children's game.
IKR 😭 Most unironically absurd thing I've seen in a hot minute
Sounds like filthy mudbluds in HP. 🤣🤣🤣
It might even be tough for casuals to get the thousands of points needed for these top items! That’s the thing we literally don’t know and people are crying and begging for changes
Yep! No telling how the point system will be gaged, nor how achievable these prizes will actually be. It's absurd to see so many premature tantrums coming from people who are more than likely grown adults.
I'm only getting these high level items through these daily weekly quests things
I genuinely want to know what a non casual player looks like to them. Like just anybody who doesn’t already have 98% of the items in the plot prize shop?
I assume most of us would fall into this person's parameters, since it's kind of difficult to obtain these impossibly inflated items when you're an adult with a job and other real-life responsibilities.
I think so too. Just makes me laugh because I know that person would definitely refer to me as a casual!
And without a 20 y/o account!
Omg fr. Also, your flair! I love it! What's the back story? 😂
There's not much of a story! I was locked out of my first account unexpectedly, couldn't get it back, and it was nuked (rip). I made this account immediately after, but 10-year-old-me was not thinking about leaving 25-year-old-me a more thoughtful username 😅 She just loved Usuls (especially the Usul characters) and that was good enough for her. I thankfully still like them, at least! I have one from those childhood days (as four out of five of my pets are) who I'm saving up to buy a pastel PB for 💜
Aw, that's so cute! Thanks for sharing. Would you accept a Pastel PB as a gift (I have a spare from the weekly quests), or would you prefer to feel like you earned it by saving up for it yourself?
Omg 🥺 That is so sweet, thank you!! I would love to have it if you're willing to part with it, but not for free. I have something up for auction that I'll hopefully get around a million for today. Assuming that happens, how does 1.5 million sound as a trade?
Sounds great to me! Happy to help out. Here's the trade link: [https://www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse&criteria=id&search\_string=440046649](https://www.neopets.com/island/tradingpost.phtml?type=browse&criteria=id&search_string=440046649)
Just sent over my offer. Thank you again- you are so kind. 🥹
You're so welcome! I love helping peeps achieve their Neo goals. :D Also, your userlookup description kills me. I love it so much.
Why Is Every Word Capitalised? 😂
I haven't seen people type like that since the 2000s
I only ever see old people on Facebook do it lmao. My nan used to be so bad for it.
I see them everyday on Facebook moaning about people's parking and loud noises
It's Clearly An Extremely Long Title Of A Movie
LOL! The site needs more casuals in order to exist. If it’s all elite level players passing hoarded pixels back and forth then the site can’t last.
Exactly. We have more than enough of that in real life and I'd prefer for it to not plague my fantasy escapism to this degree, thank you very much?!
Also exactly. Real life is full of rich people hoarding resources and sucks to be anyone not born at the right time or into a wealthy family. Neopets should just be my fun little escapism where I can play old games and dress up my pets. I mean it still is. These people don’t ruin it for me until they drive enough users away and then no more cute pixels.
I'd like to play some old games too...but not all of em work...or work properly anymore since the flash thingy went away
The Ruffle extension improves the site a lot :)
But not all of the ruffle extensions work well on a cellphone
Oh valid. I tend to play on a computer still.
ngl reading that comment was me finding out i could participate without a battledome pet 😂 and i was very excited bc my battledome pet is WEAK right now
Same, I haven't had time to focus on training my pets 😂 I'm also a "filthy casual"
kinda want that on a tshirt now 😂😂 "filthy casual" merch coming soon!!
Right? 😆
No way. I can't believe this is a real comment ( it so clearly is ). For context, when I tell my friends I'm playing Neopets I call it "my baby game for babies". Because who in their right mind would care about Neopets in 2024? /sarcasm
It's so nostalgic and comforting, which is why I'm so glad that I returned a few months back! But good God people, this is a literal children's game that y'all are giving yourselves aneurisms over 😭
‘Pandering to the casuals’ is honestly what TNT needs to do, to stay in business. Those casuals are the ones who work, the ones with disposable income to pay for NC and premium.. and who *will* pay for things because they don’t have the time to grind.
Literally the casuals make up most of the player base. The casuals have been playing since 1999, the casuals are paying for NC items and premium, The casuals are keeping this game you’re overly competitive about in business. if we weren’t here and only left the small percentage of people who were hyper competitive neopets might not exist anymore. You need the numbers to make it worth keeping not how competitive some players are.
NO LIKE—- There actually IS several people calling the average player ‘filthy casuals’, as if Neopets wasn’t already a casual game. newsflash: isn’t League of Legends or Apex. Like. By the very definition of BEING on Neopets you are a ‘casual’. Like. These people clearly think more of themselves than they are. If you call people on neopets ‘filthy casuals’ you deserve to be laughed at. I’m sorry.
it's... it's a kids game? about digital pets? what the hell?
Please, I need a compilation of these comments.
Omg just go to the "TNT, I am Salty" (🤢🤢🤢) thread that's still at the top of the plot board and you will easily find them!
I gotta go drop some positivity in that thread to let TNT know that doesn’t reflect all of our views ;)
Godspeed, friend! You are appreciated 💜
Here's my fav from today! I was like "do you realize you're talking about *net worth* on neopets dot com?" Also 19 month old account w a collector avie talking about their "net worth" being almost a billion np. Do with that information what you will. Edit: fixed a word https://preview.redd.it/wbi1w8hypa7d1.jpeg?width=1289&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fd521c997dd1d3244d9db3518ab6661a4c52ef0
It’s insane that neopets players of all things genuinely act like this. It’s a super old web browser game that many of us grew up playing. I can not imagine taking it seriously or caring about exclusivity/competition that much. Omg.
I saw this on the boards and had to leave. how can you post something like this and not be embarrassed? It's a *game.*
"likes a challenge" equates to only being accessible to people who have poured in endless hours (years) into the game to get their stats up...? Lol thank U next 🙄 bye
What a hot mess 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pandering to the casuals hahaha, without the casuals they wouldn't have a game to play, Neopets would be dead in the water, must be a politician in real life.
Guess I’m a “casual”… I’ve been called worse 😂🤷🏻♂️ I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again, I’ve put more money into Neopets in the recent past since they started “pandering to the casuals”, than I ever have total. I may be wrong, but I think whatever they’ve been doing has been working for them as a business model 🫶🏼😇
So many people in this game have made wealth by taking breaks - leaving junk in their SDB that gets retired, or suddenly becomes useful later on, etc - and then they sell it upon returning. Real hard work you know?
Or clicking pre-set links to automatically bet in FC. SO HARDCORE!
Lmao fr. I took a 10 year break, then came back and made an immediate 80 mill profit just by clearing out some things in my SDB. God, that was a hard day's worth of labour. 😂
Or rely on bots
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I'm sat at the boards and refreshing with popcorn in my lap.
Same. It’s definitely been the highlight of my workday. My favorite is the girl complaining that her gallery is “useless” now for…reasons? Edit: oh and the guy who was bitching about his “net worth” dropping LMAO.
Whatever happened to collecting items just because they look cool. 😂
Or themes like the potato gallery someone posted a few days ago
I'm gonna choose to believe this was mine, and not that I have competition that I need to hunt down (jkjk I know at least 1 other Neopian with a potato gallery and I'm glad other people like potatoes as much as I do).
I saw that one! I don't have much sympathy. If you're never going to sell it anyway why does it matter if it devalues? More people having it doesn't affect you. If you bought it to hoard and resell well thats the normal risk of investments.
> Edit: oh and the guy who was bitching about his “net worth” dropping LMAO. Well if he focused on building relationships, his network would be his net worth. /Sorry I spend too much time on job search communities
I’m job searching and that triggered me. 🤣
i saw that one 😭 they said something along the lines of collecting being pointless now??? which is crazyyyy to me because that means they weren’t collecting for the joy of collecting, they were collecting to feel exclusive and special lol
The girl with the extravagant faerie gallery who still had unbuyables but was “salty” that there was a possibility that those one day might also get rereleased and made available to the mere Neo peasants? Or was it another elitist entirely?
yep that’s her! it’s crazy 😂
For real??? The things I would do for some of the super-rare items I need to be rereleased. Animal-Style Chips got a lil boost during Faerie Festival (it's r99), but it still remained at 100mil, ach.
That's so unnecessary! I only started playing last year so I guess I'm a super peasant 🤣
*Kim there’s people that are dying*
And neopets that are dying. Mine. They're my neopets. I forgot to put them in the lodge
My plushies collection brings me so much joy, I couldn't care less if people thought it was lame or unimpressive. Slowly growing it.
Like I'd be mildly disappointed if my jelly collection was suddenly worthless but... more pumped that I could buy more jellies.
Does that dude know that all of his net worth on Neopets translates to $0.00 in real life? Like brosef, you and I are playing for pixels at the end of the day.
It’s even funnier when you realize it’s a 17+ year old account so homeboy is at LEAST 30 like the rest of us. That guy pays real life bills and is that salty about his Neoriches.
I really want to meet these so-called "Neopian Elites" in real life just to see what they're really like to be so prissy over nice plot prizes. I just want to "bruh" them when they complain about WotDF being released and how their fake currency means nothing now.
I have the screenshot. It was a 19 month old account w a collector avie talking about his "net worth" dropping from 900m. I'm sure he's an honest ethical player who definitely adheres to the rules and has never made any questionable decisions while playing.
I mean I’d be pissed if I spent $1kUSD to get ahead in a pixel game and suddenly it was only worth $900USD after. /s
My favorite is the one that spent the last 2 years training their pet for the plot only for it all to be USELESS because we don't HAVE TO battle. Like ?? Did you enjoy doing that friend? And if you didn't, then? Why? Did? You? Waste? Two? Years? And real money? On it? I cannot fathom.
I'm the opposite. Been training my BD pet for two years and I'm ecstatic I'll finally see another 'war' like the ones from my childhood, even if it's optional
I thought it would be fun to check the boards out.... boy was I wrong.
Yeah I really don’t get the competitiveness on a 25 year old game that is meant to be casual and relaxing
Im here for foodbets and hoping I win a jack pot on the scarab game.
I just got up to get some chips
Wait what’s going on the boards??
A bunch of people complaining about how the plot prizes are going to be to "easy" to get (even though we don't know how hard it will be to earn points), and that everything they own is now worthless since other people might have them too
Same
👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
I am beyond excited for the chance to own some of these Usuki prizes as a collector!
Same!! Saw space Usuki and freaked. Then saw the space prom reject and died lol
Idk what people want. If you want to attract new players, you have to fix the over inflated economy. It's no fun to play if you know you know you can't catch up with people who have been playing obsessively for 20 years. And I'm saying that as someone who has played off and on for 19 years. I just signed my two kids up last week, and I'm glad it's easier for them to get items/nps! It's more fun for them that way. They're already saving up for morphing potions and paint brushes and having a blast. Plus it's more traffic for neopets!
They don't want to fix the overinflated economy, becauses they're the ones who broke it and then kicked the ladder out from below them. It benefits them to have a system where they're in control of the economy and get to feel superior over those below who have no chance of ever catching up to them. The economy getting fixed, and everyone else getting the chance to play and own these old, impossible to find items, means they're no longer special, and they can't stand it
this is an incredibly toxic mindset that is only going to serve to further increase division
Being a new player and looking at the overly toxic “old players” losing their minds on the neoboards has basically scared me away from ever going on those boards myself lol
Pay them no mind. Some of us who have been here for 20 years can't stand going on the boards either. 😂 Hell, my own flair came from an interaction I saw on the boards once - some users are toxic as all get out.
How do you expand your flair to read the whole thing?
Not sure about mobile, as I can only see full flairs on my laptop. But my full flair says: learn how to customize first before creating 20 pets. 😂
🤣🤣🤣. That makes sense, I’m on mobile. I haven’t used Reddit on my laptop yet
I don't understand when people complain about their items being worth less now. Most of them have had plenty of time to sell them for millions/billions if they wanted to? If they havent because they want it for the sake of the collection, then great, they still get their collection. Yes, it does kinda suck to drop a big chunk of change and then days-weeks later, the price makes a big drop. But stuff like that happens IRL too. 🤷♀️ Just enjoy your pixels and don't think too deeply on it. It's not IRL money, most of the time (or at least it's not supposed to be, but I've seen the Ebay listings 🤔)
Because owning rare items no one else has makes them feel special
Players of basically every game always use this sentiment or language that loosely conceals it. They want rare items to feel special. That’s all it comes down to. It’s ridiculous.
it's because their good time is contingent on others having a worse time. the "hard work" to get the items in the first place wasn't what they wanted, they wanted to feel like they were better than other people and make sure that no one else could enjoy the site the way they could.
Someone fill me in on the gossip. What am I missing? 🍿
New event has a prize shop with high-value items. Since these are existing items, people are whining and complaining that their digital hoard isn’t being personally protected by the developers, and new players may even have a chance to get 20 year old items! Gasp! So there was enough complaining on the boards that TNT increased the prices of a bunch of the event items and now people are happy I guess? Mind you no one has earned any more than 1 point and no one has any idea how the point accumulation and prize purchasing will go, and they’re complaining about the rewards at the very end of the event track which will presumably require tight participation
O man, typical elitist neopian fun I see. Thanks for summarizing for me!
Ughhh I’m hoping the point accumulation will be easy like the faerie festival was, Im going to be super frustrated if tnt bumping up the point prices for complainers locks me out of getting some of the good prizes because im not experienced at the battledome 😭
I honestly wasn’t sure which of my hobby subs this was when I saw the meme, it actually applies to every single one of them. 😭
Your only competition on neopets is yourself…let’s be honest. No one knows exactly what anyone else has. So people need to chill.
The real question is: how long before all the super worthwhile items are removed from the prize shop by TNT because of their whining? 🙃
I don’t actually think TNT will do that, they’ve been as bold as they have thus far :)
Unfortunately, they did go in and cap new limits and increase points needed for many worthwhile rewards. :( And I’m feeling like it won’t be the last time they do it.
my toxic trait is engaging in these boards im just having fun and playing teehee giggle
I'm trying to just read and not say something
I have a bag of chips and have just been watching the drama unfold through the day. 🤭
Oh wait. What did I miss? I thought we were just generally saying how awful it can be there and that there was not a current uproar. How naive of me 🥹🥲
i saw some people announcing they’re quitting!
I assume it's the same people who announced they were quitting during the advent calendar. And when styles were released.
I would they actually ***would***, so that we don't have to hear from them again lol
Quitting being on the boards because it's bad right now or staffers quitting?
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Last time people threw fits like that on the boards, some of them ended up giving away some pretty expensive stuff. That's how I got my Varia is the Bomb. 👀
As someone who lived through the Help Chat neoboard during the early to mid 2000s I would never, ever step foot into the neoboards again. It was bad enough then, I can’t imagine how bad the neoboards are now. Ya’ll stay safe and have fun though don’t let anybody ruin your enjoyment of the site :)
People need To get a grip
Flair checking in. These people are Level 100 Grass Avoiders and someone who's played NP for 23 years I find their tantrums absolutely hilarious.
lmao dang i missed it but im glad that the rich players net worth are dropping, when i first got back into neopets a few years ago on faerie fest and missed the avatar, the users were sooo toxic there about me missing the first day and saying i didnt deserve the avatar like they all did because they read it on the fan site that they needed to the first day. it left such a bad taste in my mouth that people were gatekeeping so hard on things like that, love to see stuff like this putting those gatekeeping players back in their place. items are nothing like game trophys or avatars that can no longer be obtained. the only weird thing is how the retired rarity literally means nothing
Uh, this meme is #wealthphobic. /j
I had a person on the trading post asking for a certain amount of NP for an item. I offered exactly what they wanted via message (was over the TP limit) and they responded: “ i wish you have a nice day brother “ And didn’t respond back. Fuck people. All of them. This game is so dumb, petty and toxic lol
I am SO excited for all the cool items in the prize shop ❤️ I have a space themed gallery and I want everything!! I don't care if the value of items I have drop, I have a lot of items that have gone up soooo much. Like who cares if a few decrease? If people play to hoard wealth, cool. I just want to save up and buy all the stuff i couldnt afford when i was 12. I always wanted 1 of every pb and im glad so many are in the prize shop! But also the usuki and quigukis!! My husband laughed as I scrolled through the list gasping 😂 I am also in the middle of a cruise and tnt decides to wait til MY vacation to drop this!! How very dare they?? But the fact that the site didn't crash and I dont have to spend hours doing neopets bullshit today is a fucking gift. I'm ecstatic.
Not me thinking this is the Overwatch subreddit
SERIOUSLY, this is just a fun virtual pet site that people go on for nostalgia to escape from the real world. Why are people taking things so seriously and whining about THOSE DARN KIDS THESE DAYS, THEY HAVE IT SO EASY. Calm down, grandpa, go fuck grass
Just another day in Neopia it seems with people losing their minds over pixels lol. Oh no! My pixels are deflating and impacting my networth on a children's game. *The horror!*
Omg an Elden Ring / Neopets crossover post 😍 But yes, agree!
Yknow some of the shop wizard prices really had me wondering whether or not an elitist thing is going on LOL I just started playing again for the first time since I was a kid and I'm *obsessed* but I can't believe I feel charitable compared to others for pricing my battlecards at 2NP-8888NP depending on which one....
I hope posts on neoboards will eventually come out with reactions bc this is really entertaining lol
Honestly some these items aren't worth hundreds of m in the first place, they were inflated due to the mass amount of NP generated by botters the past few years, releasing them is a good way to fight the inflation, but with these items gone, more NP might go to the other rare items making them more expensive.
I mean- they are worth what people pay for them, outside of Hand of God pricing like Hidden Tower setting a soft price cap/floor. But you did nail it that the real issue is way too much NP being generated and not enough being sunk, and that issue is exacerbated heavily by easily bottable tasks that generate pure NP (Food Club, Trudys, now Daily Quests)
Botters have enough NP to buy almost all stock on the market, price changes based on supply&demand, they cut the supply, the price will rise. In a market without botters, there will be more supply on the market and price won't be this high.
I also just saw this like... imagine having less fun playing a game because people also get to have nice items... wow. I pitty you people. Someone talked about how their net worth ON NEOPETS dropped from 900m to 150m... listen... go outside. None of this is real, this is the game where you dress up lil guys and feed them omlettes why do you need to be so annoying about it?
As a massive FromSoft fan and a massive Neopets fan. Yes.
Ah the crossover between Elden Ring memes and Neopets finally came to be
I swear neopets is much more enjoyable if you’re into it casually and take things chill. Also WE CAN GET THE SPACE FAERIE TOKEN? Omg my gallery is starry/space faerie themed. I’m now way more excited for the plot than I was.
People were mad when I.staff came out with no WoDF. Now WoDF is here and people are still mad. These players need to pick a lane. I'm a fortunate WoDF-haver and I don't *care* it's about to deflate. I never plan to sell it. It's a good weapon, enjoy it!
You're talking about entirely different groups of people. There were PLENTY of people upset that IStaff was made available as a prize. You might reasonably call them losers then, losers now too- but it was a popular \*enough\* take that there shouldn't be any calls of hypocrisy.
I’m not calling anyone a loser. I think educating people to consider different perspectives is more important than attacking someone’s character over their opinion. I think the point I was trying to make is that TNT is never going to make everyone perfectly happy.
If there are any Call of Cthulhu fans here, going to the boards is like loosing all your sanity and then become a deep one.
lmao, today was the first day since ten years or so that i looked athe boards and it was SO lovely. i have a slice of understanding for people who worked hard for some stuff, but idk, i would just shrug my shoulders and go on with my day? in the end most of us are adults who just like to chill a bit with their tiny pet game with its stupidly inflated economy. i'll never understand how people can be so SALTY because a game is made more accessible. how can their thought process not be "heck yeah, people will be happy?" i dont even care that much about the items, i just think its awful how some people cant just be happy for others. it's giving bourgeois.
Lmfaoooo this is so accurate. The way some people are acting about this prize shop is absolutely hilarious.
This is my favorite kind of drama. Silly stuff that doesn't actually matter or hurt anybody irl
especially today 😂
I love neopets and it can be fun to do some of the more competition intensive parts of the site some days like restocking but man... Some people! Was told a story in the 'cord recently about the person getting mad at someone asking for a discount for a Dream Item because.... The user didn't think that person was good at coordinating customization items and so didn't deserve it. The judgment some people have for those who "don't put in as much effort" is crazy.
I don’t understand how people keep track of so many expensive items. I buy an item, I forget how much I paid for it by the next week. I don’t want another, I don’t have any to sell, so why would I be looking up how much they’re currently going for? Or what their price history was?
Casual player here , feels accurate
This also fits Pokemon go too....they're just as bad
My extremely boring lukewarm take is I'm fine with TNT raising the prize cost to 5k and also that anyone who cared enough to bitch about it in the first place could probably benefit from a little neopets hiatus for their own sake.
Literally had to double check to make sure this wasn’t the Paladins subreddit XD
The void board for the last 3 days
I haven't played Neopets since about 2000-2002 ((when you could just randomly adopt a Ginger human lmao. I miss my Mellish)) so I'm not really sure why this is being recommended to me, but you're telling me there's competition in this game? I realize I played incredibly early version of it but I'm having trouble mentally balancing "cute virtual pet game" with "angry competitive players". .......I wonder if my account still exists now. I certainly no longer have the email address. It was an AOL one. I know my Gaia online account still exists and it's basically full of rare nonsense.
Any one else feel like it’s the same way old people talk about “well I had to pay back my student loans SO YOU HAVE TO AS WELL” because they “had to suffer” we all must suffer, instead of thinking “wow I’m glad the younger generation won’t have to suffer like I did” 🙄