85
submitted 1 year ago by trashhalo@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

Neopets, the virtual pet website launched in 1999, is promising a "new era" with an improved website and fixed Flash games. They will launch a new unified website on July 20th to fix issues and bring back over 50 Flash games using the Ruffle emulator starting July 25th. A new Neopets mobile game called World of Neopets is planned for next year. The team is moving away from crypto and NFTs to focus on core gaming. After being acquired by a management buyout, the independent Neopets team now has the resources to make meaningful changes and pursue a "Neopian renaissance." They plan regular updates, AMAs and an ambassador program in the coming months.


Is there a word for the opposite of enshitification?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] ryan@the.coolest.zone 6 points 1 year ago

"oh shit we drove away our core user base by making our site actively hostile and it turns out the end result of that is no money"

It's interesting that they plan to just milk remaining nostalgia rather than move forward by converting games to HTML5, etc., as that indicates no new games. Or, being more optimistic, maybe the plan IS conversion and new games but this is a stop-gap?

Neopets has changed hands so many times. I was there from the beginning, when it was more of a weirdly British satire site (the original Bruce was not a penguin FYI), and watching everything unfold has been so weird.

this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
85 points (100.0% liked)

Gaming

30423 readers
337 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS