Wow, very interesting. Don't like the perk though <.>. Its just an excuse for them to deflate more items.
Thanks for stating the restated obvious Captain Spammy. :arf: In other news, is it true that Neopets' fanbase is going down? Someone mentioned it in this topic. Maybe that's why the freeze rate is lenient on some aspects of the site, like AA, since they consider the cheaters to be a valuable asset now. They can't completely live without them as the economy and the site might die.
Yep, this really is true. I just read my pet 'Brightvale Castle' and it didn't disappear. Read it to another one of my pets and it disappeared. I haven't read up about the fanbase thing, but that sounds like it could be true. If you think about it, the site was way popular in the early 2000's, but I'd guess that the majority people that played then have grown out of it. And yeah having cheaters refreshing all day is actually good for them I'd imagine. Since most sites make money by having ads (as does neopets) and sponsors paying them based on how many pay views the site gets. Though they really are trying to push the NC mall and premium instead lol...
Went on a reading spree today, I know my sample size is small so this probably isn't very accurate. I'll update when I read more. [customtable=]Books Read: 45 Books Kept: 1 ----------------------------- Rate: 2.22%[/customtable] Conclusion: TNT hates me?
Well it would be time. If you were a cheater you would definately scratch your head at some of the decisions they made, visible at Better business Bureau. For example one guy got frozen because somebody named their youtube account after their neopet account and posted videos of using programs. i mean what the heck? also when you go to the front page max on weekend is 30k online and used to be 60k around 5 years ago. Also Alexa ratings show neopets traffic going down. Lets face it, neopets is a dying site. In their "heroic" struggle against the cheaters they alienated alot of older users, paying users, by freezing them unfairly. I think those old perks are a way to try stop the bleeding.