Neopets is under new management and no NFTs

Neopets, the popular virtual pet game from the 2000s that featured flash games and a giant omelette is under new management – and they want to revitalize the world of Neopia. On July 18, the newly formed World of Neopia, Inc. published a long blog post headed “The Neopets Team” (TNT) details the future of the franchise, from abandoning the Metaverse and NFT plans to updating the notoriously broken Flash games.

The future of Neopets

With over $4 million in funding secured from investors, TNT wrote, “First time in over a decade [the team is] poised to make significant changes in pursuit of a neopic renaissance.” Among those changes is the search for a solution to the Adobe Flash problem Flash’s EOL in December 2020

Hundreds of thousands of Flash-based games have been effectively orphaned. “We have started investigating the use of Ruffle [a Flash player emulator] “We want to solve the problems caused by the end of Flash in hopes of speeding up the process of restoring the functionality of our beloved games,” the blog post reads.

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But fixing Flash-based games isn’t all that the team is up to. It also required “a long, hard look at community feedback Neopet’s Metaverse” and NFTs, two recent initiatives that Neopets Hated fans almost universally. “It quickly became clear that the game just didn’t align with everything that defined Neopets…well…Neopets,” the team wrote. Instead, the team is abandoning that endeavor (thank goodness) and instead focusing on an upcoming mobile game called World of Neopets“a social life simulation game where you live your ideal neopic life from a neopet’s perspective.”

In the upcoming game (for which no release date is known yet) you can decorate a house, play mini-games, collect Neopets and explore “iconic Neopic lands in 3D”. The developers promised that World of Neopets

will not only be a renaming of the slandered Neopet’s Metaverse. “There are no NFTs World of Neopets, and the game is NOT based on a crypto model,” they wrote. Blessing!

There will be opportunities for that too Neopets Fans become “brand ambassadors”.

The popular, classic Neopets site will remain, and TNT promises “great things on the horizon for the classic virtual pet site that started it all.” And on July 20, a brand new website will be launched as a “one-stop shop for all brand announcements, links to our various games and products.” , a collection of…” started Neopets

Articles and related links and anything else Neopian you can think of!”

The “new era” of Neopets The project promised by the team is possible, thanks largely to the fact that the brand is no longer under the stewardship of JumpStart Games, for which the team “had difficulty finding success,” the team said Neopets” before closing on June 30 of this year.

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Now the team is led by Dominic Law, who is described as Neopets Superfan who pushed JumpStart Games’ parent company, NetDragon, to keep the brand alive after JumpStart closed. “A management buyout deal was struck” that made it possible for the two Neopets Teams to “join forces and become an independent company” that is “free of the corporate baggage of the past.” Curiously, however, Law’s most recent job title on LinkedIn is Chief Metaverse Officer Neopets.

I’m ready for it myself Neopets‘ triumphant return, sans NFTs and crypto junk. Are you?