TNT Survey (February 2023)

[samsepiol]

There's been a new community survey issued by TNT.

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Hey Neopians! 👋

We'd like to invite you to take our February 2023 Neopets Community Survey and GIVEAWAY! ✍️

Your answers help us to understand the most important needs and wants of the Neopets community. 💭

To take the survey, visit (you need an account to see links) 💛

As a thank you for your time and feedback, we are excited to give out the ULTIMATE NEOPETS SWAG BAG to one lucky winner! You can enter by completing the survey and providing your email at the end.

More details on the giveaway are at the end of the survey. Good luck! ☘️

[Buizel]

19. Whether you have played it or not, what are your feelings about Neopets Metaverse?

Yes TNT, I find the community that belittles the player base and dumbs us down for not understanding the scam behind their NFTs as amazing. A+, love the Metaverse.

[I_royalty_I]

Any questions that mentioned battledome + plots gets my vote. That’s a shit load of questions though. I’d be interested in them sharing the results and seeing that they do to address the input they receive.

[Buizel]

Nooo...people don't like the Metaverse because their past coordinators have done wild things such as comparing the userbase and our upset with the Metaverse aspect of the site to Covid-19

There have been other very questionable acts by some of their staff members...as much as I don't like Herdy, his petpage laying out everything that's happened since they've partnered with Neo should tell you everything you need.

Honestly, this has been my introduction into NFTs/Metaverse games, and I'm not interested in trying anything else for any other community, personally lol.

[Saturnine]

Lots of questions yeah, but I basically voted for anything plot/battledome related and against any stuff that doesn't include making their own site better (like the useless mobile games, metaverse, random merch)
all in my opinion of course

[Buizel]

Oh yeah, I've heard about that and I have seen Herdy's page.
Honestly, it's their fault for hiring such people and I don't blame them if people have an initial bad impression because of that.
And Herdy's page is a bit misleading at times, I must say.

But to expand further on what I think could become Neopets Metaverse and how it would compare to regular Neopets:

Cosmetics such as NC Clothes - We currently have very rare items that were given as bonuses or simply popular items. Items in Neopets have an ID, which means they're unique.
The difference is you are technically only allowed to trade them on-site for caps or other items.
In the Metaverse, you would be able to sell that to other users via the network for real money, just like we currently do in a black market as cheaters.

The same applies to items, maybe you took part in the Altador Cup and got some very desirable Thunder Sticks? You could sell that to other users for real money as an NFT item.
Mir4 has that, but what items become NFTs are few and rare (it's essentially luck when dropping/crafting them), and some are even unique, collector's items ((you need an account to see links) and (you need an account to see links))

The same would go for pets. As your pets are unique, you would likely be able to trade them with other users for real money (just like in Mir4, your characters are NFTs and there's a (you need an account to see links)).
In Mir4, there's a minimum stat requirement (level 60, 100k PS) to turn your character into an NFT and you must pay a price to do so.

Or maybe you want to sell your NPs? Convert that to a (you need an account to see links) and sell it to other users. Those users would then be able to turn those tokens back into NPs, at a lower rate.

These are just some of the examples from Mir4, applied to Neopets. Doesn't sound too awful does it?
And there's so much more I didn't touch on.

So it's just the black market technically "legalized"...I'm only speaking for myself, but no, this really isn't all that great when said Metaverse team is doing the exact opposite of improving the site/Neopets brand.

In a perfect world, it'd be nice if we could sell the things we do without scrutiny, but it's really obvious that the Metaverse's goal is to make a bigger, better Neopets that doesn't incorporate what the site is about and doesn't work hand in hand with TNT/the player base to improve on aspects like you listed here. They're really just banking off the name and fame Neo already has haha.

Outside of MV stuff though, this survey is really all over the place...29 questions is a lot lol

[Charmander]

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Hehe lol. I feel like this is just a repeat of previous surveys...

[I_royalty_I]

I don't see why Neopets players hate the Metaverse/NFT game so much.

Mir4 is probably the best example right now of a very healthy and successful game.
Of course, every browser-based "play 2 earn" game around is likely a scam.

But seriously, check out Mir4. It's an amazing game, and certainly not for everyone.
The amount of money people spend there is crazy and I can't personally compete (I've been playing since launch for free and I'm at 220k PS while top players are currently at 370k PS, I basically get one-shot), but there are earning opportunities for casual and free players.
And it's also not a scam.

There are other examples too.

I've seen the promo video for Neopets Metaverse, and I like what I saw in terms of design and art.
I would much rather it be an open-world MMORPG-like game where you could literally take control of your Neopets (much like your characters) and interact around and really get into the RP aspect while partying up to beat enemies and raid bosses.
Actually exploring the world in 3d, reliving plots and important events is something I can only dream of.

But still, Neopets Metaverse doesn't look too bad so far. People are literally only focusing on the fact they've announced it as a NFT game and kind of freaked out on that alone?

What you described would be pretty cool, but it would also be very developer intensive. Making games like that in the metaverse are not cheap or easy, if you want them done right. The NFT launch was incredibly poor. They could have taken in many other ways.. and I may have even tossed some eth at it just for fun. But the possible NFTs all looked pretty terrible so I steered quite clear of them.

I won’t totally write off the metaverse idea. Maybe a fresh start, free of old code and bugs would be a refreshing change for them. Maybe not. The only thing they seem too keen on lately is pushing new NC, so if I can just dress up a pet and walk around in a virtual world - that wouldn’t be very fun.

[Aero]

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edit: my shit internet did not allow me to see that i was actually copying gwn i appreciate u

[chii3d]

I voted for avatars/trophies and plots. I also complained about a few things in the write whatever comments here box, cause why not.