The Neopets team has responded to some of this criticism, as per a Q&A shared on Jellyneo, but their answers are not particularly convincing. They're an inherently zero-value product that commoditizes art in all the wrong ways,Īnd they further legitimize an environmentally destructive cryptocoin movement that is currently mostly a pump-and-dump scam.- Dress to Impress September 25, 2021
It’s the #AntiNeopet,” tweeted the official Jellyneo account.ĭress to Impress's official position is that NFTs are bad. “You can’t feed your NFT, read to it, battle with it, or customise it. Fansites like Jellyneo and Dress To Impress have strongly criticized the move, deriding it as a cynical cash grab, an environmentally destructive decision, and a launch that adds nothing to the core functionality of the site. The reaction from the Neopets community to the news has been overwhelmingly negative. regular NFTs - aka pictures that you can’t actually do anything with, apart from acquire for bragging rights. It seems from JumpStart’s announcement that the NFTs will just be. In a press release, JumpStart says it’s partnering with blockchain firm Raydium to produce 20,500 “equally unique, algorithmically generated lovable Neopets NFTs with variable backgrounds, assets, clothing, and personality - 7 varying trait categories.” Samples of the NFTs in question show a handful of neopets in custom outfits on gradient backgrounds. The Neopets NFTs are supposed to be launching some time this month. But there remains a core of dedicated Neopians - active enough that the brand’s current owners, JumpStart Games, evidently thought it worth trying to wring a little crypto out of fond memories for the site.
The site itself is a wreck, due to Adobe ending support for Flash, which was used to code much of Neopets’ original functionality. Neopets has been in decline for a long time now, and it’s hard to get a handle on how many active users remain. Neopets had more than 30 million users in its heyday but has long been in decline