I've quit 'serious' neopets for a few months now. There wasn't anything I was getting out of it. Looking back, the only reason I was playing was because I had played for years already, and it became a bit of a habit to do dailies. If you don't play neopets, what made you leave? Conversely, what's making people stay?
I guess it just gets boring, doing the dailies, turning your ABer on, etc. You don't really gain anything by doing it. Non cheating players have goals like "I want my pet to be [insert paint brush] color", if you can paint your pet in 1 week, even on a newbie account, it won't grab you for too long I think.
I used to be more of a 'serious' Neopets gamer, I had those goals of painting my main pet Darigan. But when I returned to playing, I decided to start cheating (on a 6 year account) well, being the newb I was to cheating, that account quickly got frozen. After that happened, I started just playing around, and quit being as 'serious' as I was. Story of my life.
I used to play seriously awhile back. I was trying to get a Krawk, I got bored and then stopped for a long time. Well I am back again, and have the same goal. We will see how long till I get bored with it again
Yeah, I did have my goals. Mine revolved around BDing. I had a pretty well built pet, and a good set consisting of HT items with LEV chucked in. Once I reached that level, the only way to improve would be to further train or improve my BD set. Both of these would cost hundreds of millions. As for the BDing, while I thought it the more entertaining aspect of neopets, games on the pc and other consoles easily beat it. Perhaps some people do it to make money? I still don't see it as being more profitable than having a real job, although perhaps the time spent isn't that much if you're just turning on the AB.
I also had my goals - more of doing BD but yeah it didnt work out as much as it got hacked into. Im like semi serious now and I dont really cheat :/
I was playing because my friend got me into it. He said that someone we already knew was trading points for np from another site we liked much better. I was sucky at making points so I joined neopets to trade & worked like a charm until the site went down. Then only Neopets was left. After this many yerars its boring as hell & Im tired of TNT simply put. I have always kept my main except I cant get in it right now.
I think this sums it up. When I used an ABer, it was really boring to play Neo, but now that I don't rely on them so much, it's a lot of fun! I can go to the boards, chat with people (you can find some people who aren't annoying) and work towards goals you set. I still AB, but I'm only half dependent I don't want to self freeze because I've come so far, but I kinda want to be frozen so I can start doing some more fun cheating: how many trophies I can get in a month, how much NP I can get in six months, etc
im quite goal oriented on neopets. i wanna get an uc plushie draik. i wanna launch a G-Bomb with GoW. and i wanna get on a few bd score boards..also i wanna accumilate 60m so i can get the 20k interest every day. and id like to come first place in a guild war..
i left for 5 years and just got back. i can back to say hi to an old friend and found that people sell neopoints for rather cheap now. so im basically playing because now i can buy what i never had before
Just make sure you don't go nuts showing off your stuff. People on neo love calling out cheaters and hackers. Best way to it in my opinion is let stuff sit on a shell account for a few months and transfer a little bit at a time To be on topic, I play neo to pass the time. I actually do enjoy the battledome though. Just wish they'd upgrade it a bit. A flash version of the BD would be cool. I haven't played much in the last week, sank most of my neo hours into Skyrim instead
Yes I hope they can edit the battledome system. its been like that since birth :/ they should upgrade it a little.
An update in graphics would be cool, but I think they're too scared to change anything to do with the BD system. It might crumble the weapons economy if that was changed.
Do you think just upgrading the interface a bit would destroy that? I would imagine the worst it could do is make a tiny bit more interest in the battledome (afterall, who would START just due to a looks upgrade?), which might raise the price a little bit I think any new people interested might not have enough np to have an affect on the weapon prices, other than low-mid tier weapons
I've never played particularly seriously. I do my dailies, I use the AU, and I participate in site events. I guess I would call myself a habitual or regular player, because it is more of a habit after having played the game on and off for the better part of a decade.
Hmm for me i only do the dailies and Autobuy for awhile thats all for now maybe i will play seriously after i get a better Aber (AU).
i do my daily's and play a few games but not as much as i use to spend most of my time in the shops but i still take neopets semi seriously