“Despite Law’s previous role as the head of the Neopets NFT game—just a few months ago he said that Neopets has "all the right ingredients for Web3 gaming"—and the $4 million in funding Neopets received from crypto companies earlier this year, the now-independent studio says it’s immediately "transitioning away from” the Neopets Metaverse NFT game. Instead, it’ll reuse some of that game’s assets in a new mobile game called World of Neopets, “a social life-simulation game in which you live your ideal Neopian life from the perspective of a Neopet.” For now at least, World of Neopets will not include NFTs or cryptocurrency.
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Aside from working on the new mobile game, World of Neopia says it will work on the original Neopets website, where it’s apparently already fixing bugs and reviving games that were busted by the end of Adobe Flash support. “Don’t worry, the Neopets.com that you know and love isn’t going anywhere; in fact, there are great things on the horizon for the classic virtual pet site that started it all,” reads the announcement.“
companies underestimate how much locking their content behind needing an account will just make me go do something else. oh your website wants me to make an account to view this content? oh your website doesn’t show media to logged-out users? okay. i didn’t actually want to see it that bad. yeah. bye ✌️
I had a dream the other week about these people fighting back against an assault from another world. Most of them weren’t experienced fighters, but average people who banded together (although Gimli was there because dreams).
This particular woman’s job was to throw a javelin through a dimensional portal, tethering the two worlds together and allowing the defenders to control where the fight happened. They later built a statue of her. In her day-to-day life, I think she owned a fabric shop.
[Image Description: A digital illustration of a woman preparing to throw a javelin through a portal. She is a fat, dark-skinned South Asian woman with long dark hair in a braid. She wears a navy blue crop top and dark reddish dhoti. We see her from behind, her left arm extended towards the portal while her right arm is reared back, holding a glowing white javelin which trails a tether on the ground behind her. The sky is mostly overcast with dark blue-grey clouds, but an intense sunset orange breaks through closer to the horizon. Through the glowing portal, the blue curve of another planet is visible. /end ID]
