Hey guys, I used to be pretty active here, posting, programming, and what not, but the fact that neopets keeps undergoing ridiculous changes has caused me to leave the scene. I used to love coming on here posting and talking about how great neopets was, until it turned to shit with their so called "innovative ideas". Neopets literally went down the toilet when they sold out to Viacom. Starting with the new layout, to the hideous wearable items, to that stupid top bar that links you back to Nickelodeon, I believe neopets has actually put too MUCH effort into the site which I believe has ruined it indefinitely. Honestly, whats the point of spending 100k--if thats even the base price anymore--on a paint brush when you can buy some 1k wearables for your pet and make it look 10 times cooler. To add ontop of that, it's only possible to make your pet look good with clothes with you actually purchase things from the "NC mall" using REAL money, which many people arent interested in doing, resulting in two thirds of the pets looking as if they jumped in a laundry basket, and rolled around. For example: or this If anyone remembers the good old days, when the online economy wasn't completely fudged up, and a good 70% of the people online were over the age twelve, or even when every other topic on the boards WASNT spam, then I believe I have a pretty goof idea, for you to hear. I believe it's time for a "neopets 2.0" per say, something new that wont replicate neopets, but still give you that feeling of satisfaction that a good MMO gives you. I'm here to recruit a team of people who remember when you didn't need to cheat on neopets to have fun, and the community didnt include 10 year olds sitting online all day spamming about their dog smelling their other dog's ass. If you feel you're a talented writer, artist, programmer, or you have some decent ideas you can input, I'd like you to contact me either by email or PM, and be sure to include some of your work. Thanks.
I dont think I am any of those, but I love the idea, so when, if this gets done, count on me for joining and recruiting new members
Unfortunately, i'm not one of those either. STILL, this is a great project. You know that it can work, as it worked with neopets. Hey, if you have, with other people, the potential of building a website like neopets, then WHY NOT! I mean, it can just bring you positive things if you accomplish this project. I REALLY hope that you find persons to help you for this, it would be awesome! Be sure to keep us up to date
Same here, Im no good with coding or anything like that. I am only HTML based and canot help with anything PHP related However, i will gladly join and recruit, as PrinceErik said.. Thats one thing i miss, is the "good old days" of a lot of online games, Neopets Included. I hate the neopets clothes, i never buy them. I like the classic paintbrushes.
bleh, i hate how now you have to make your pet look good to make it look like you've been taking care of it really well, especially since SOME PEOPLE can't buy neocash. i hate tnt.
So, you said you arent interested in something that would replicate neopets? Like, Leopets for example? You could achieve all of the unconverted pets there, and artists could draw up new ones to add to the site. It was really great, but keeps getting shut down. I think it was run by the same people as the neopound. Anyway, there are already a bunch of other pets sites out there, but most people join, then somehow end up crawling back to neo. What would set Neopets 2.0 apart from those other neo spin off sites? Just something to think about. That being said, I can do conceptual pet design, etc...
I'd love to see that happen. I don't like any other petsite than Neopets for some reason. A lot of other people have tried to compete with neo and failed.
neo offers too many choices and too many features for other companies to compete. Not alot of companies can spend time and money on something and be so sucessful as neo (they make profit from nc mall and ads and sponsorships)
I can't seem to enjoy any other pet site other than neopets.. For some reason they all seem like a total ripoff. |:
I think the key to making a new pet site is not in trying to recapture too much of the old neopets but to recapture the heart of the old neo ... like when Neopets was young, they would hold competitions giving the players a voice in what was created in game. players came up with some of the items and pets in Neopets long ago .. inter-relating with the player base on that deep a level builds loyalty that builds a faithful playerbase.
Right. One of the main reasons I believe other sites are failing is because of the shear fact that they are all literally exact copies of neopets, with some sort of spin on it. Another reason I believe they don't work is because most of them have a sort of anime look to them, which doesn't appeal to a very big market. I'd like to to come up with something for a general audience with the same type of community neopets had way back in 2003 ish.
if you can do this that would be great, I feel like neo (viacom) thinks it rules the world and can do anything it wants. Also, are there any copyright infrigement details for making a site like neo? Any legal issues?