Neopet was one of the most popular destinations on the World Wide Web in the early 2000s, but virtual pet audiences have been declining in recent years. Neopets itself is also in decline, even its developers admit, saying they’ve “worked tirelessly to barely keep the site alive” while operating at a loss for the past decade. But developers say things will soon turn around because Neopet is the first company to become independent again since 2005.
Viacom acquired Neopet for $160 million at its peak in 2005 and sold it to US edutainment company Jumpstart in 2014, which was later acquired by Chinese game developer NetDragon. rice field. NetDragon shut down Jumpstart last month for undisclosed reasons, and if Neopet wasn’t saved by a “management takeover deal,” the company would follow suit. reported that it may have been blog post From the newly reorganized Neopet development team.
The team is part of a new company called World of Neopia, led by Dominic Lowe, which is developing NetDragon’s Neopets Metaverse NFT project (the Neopets NFT collection and blockchain in development).・This is an executive who was previously in charge of the game). According to the blog post, Lo led an effort to rescue Neopets from Jumpstart’s closure, resulting in an acquisition that would bring Jumpstart’s former Neopets team and NetDragon’s Neopets metaverse team together. has been able to “join forces into an independent company” with Law. Its CEO.
“Released from the corporate baggage that hitherto existed, a new united [Neopets team] is now responsible for Neopets’ decision-making and overall brand strategy, and can only work on improving Neopets’ games and the community as a whole,” the announcement reads.
“Transition” from NFT games
Law only a few months ago, despite his previous role as head of Neopets NFT Games he said so Neopets contains “everything good for a Web3 game”. $4 million in funding Neopets was received from the cryptocurrency company earlier this year, but the now independent studio said it was “moving over” immediately from the Neopets Metaverse NFT game. Instead, we will reuse some of that game’s assets in a new mobile game called World of Neopets. This is a “social his life his simulation game of living an ideal Neopian life from a Neopet’s point of view”. World of Neopets won’t include NFTs or cryptocurrencies, at least for now.
“The Neopets team has delved into the nooks and crannies of Neopets and as a result, the decision was made to move away from the Neopets Metaverse game and reallocate those resources to developing a game that we believe could be done better. It reflects our view and vision,” the notice reads. Neopet Metaverse Website.
The company adds that existing Neopets Metaverse NFTs are “all still available on the open marketplace” and that it “continues to support the Web3 community that accepts ownership of these collections,” but what that support means. It doesn’t say what it will look like. Apart from keeping the Discord server open. For example, the company has not told NFT owners that it will offer any kind of alimony bonus in the upcoming World of Neopets game, saying the game is “not built on a crypto model.”
Aside from developing new mobile games, World of Neopia says it will also work on the original Neopets website, where it has already fixed bugs and brought back games that stopped working due to the end of support for Adobe Flash. It seems that. “Don’t worry, the Neopets.com you know and love isn’t going away. In fact, great things are on the horizon for the classic virtual pet site that started it all.” written in the announcement.
A new Neopets homepage was launched on July 20, and the developers said it will include a roadmap with details about the future of the virtual pet game, which has been around for about 25 years. More on the future of Neopets. Big blog post of the day“Exclusive Virtual Concerts,” “Brand New Plots,” and news of giveaways to celebrate this “New Era” of Neopets.
