If only Club Penguin would get resurrected.
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Article mentions the death of flash was a nail in Neopets' coffin, but they don't mention the open source Ruffle project which resuscitated Neopets' flash content.
I had it on my bingo card for 20 years and just took it off :(
We're getting a Magi Nation revival too. It's a good year.
they promised a mobile game years ago, still waiting
Cool, I still have my pw but haven't been there in years. Will go and feed my immortal pets.
My wife occasionally jumps back on, and it's always interesting to see how little it's changed.
I like it. Like a time capsule for the internet.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In the early 2000s, Olivia Packenham would get home from school, listen to the familiar sound of the dial up tone as her family computer connected to the internet, and navigate her AOL browser to the virtual gaming world of Neopets.
A crude social network that predated Facebook, the site allowed users to add friends, message one another, trade resources or virtual currency, and battle.
That was until the entrepreneur and investing consultant Dominic Law, who joined NetDragon in 2020 as director of new markets, launched an internal campaign to revive the Neopets brand, which he called “a major leap of faith”.
In addition to prioritizing drawing lapsed users back to the site, Neopets is flirting with licensing its intellectual property for a trading card game and a branded Monopoly board.
Law said rebalancing the Neopets economy was a top priority for the company, and acknowledged that many hackers and black market traders had emerged because the site was neglected for so long.
Such efforts to connect with Neopians have given many users hope that their experiences will be considered, particularly after the parent company experienced major backlash over a 2021 attempt to dive into NFTs and cryptocurrency.
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"Packenham" has got to be one of the names of all time.