NC UCs coming in 2024!

[Teakwood]

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Finally back home and had a chance to hop on my laptop. Took a look at the first "UC" that I came across but I can't figure out how to remove the token or where to even see it. If I go to customize it shows as just blank white squares and I can't see the actual "Nostalgic Royalboy Shoyru" token anywhere. Am I just missing something or is it kind of glitched right now?
I wanted to start farming tokens from all my pets but figured I should at least look into how they work first.

You go here to remove them.

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[I_royalty_I]

lol this entire thread is hilarious asf tbh
imagine thinking this is a net negative in any way.

*eyes 650+ strong UC collection as their value drops to a fraction of previous worth*

*Eyes collection of stamps, weapons, collectibles and other valuables that just dropped to pennys on the NP*

I guess it’s all about perspective and your personal circumstances. If you had no/few UCs and few options to get one I can see how this change is a HUGE win/shortcut.
I see it as a huge net negative, personally. But I also see it as something that happened and can’t be changed.
Looks like it’s riddled with glitches and such right now so hopefully they can fix it.

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Under My Pets click Styling Chamber, in there you can remove from pet, save, reload and click the token again to move to invent

You go here to remove them.

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Sweet deal! Thanks for the link and extra info on that you two!
I only had a few minutes to poke around and didn’t see that particular page. I’ll have to play with it again some more this weekend/next week.

[Parrot]

*eyes 650+ strong UC collection as their value drops to a fraction of previous worth*

*Eyes collection of stamps, weapons, collectibles and other valuables that just dropped to pennys on the NP*

I guess it’s all about perspective and your personal circumstances. If you had no/few UCs and few options to get one I can see how this change is a HUGE win/shortcut.
I see it as a huge net negative, personally. But I also see it as something that happened and can’t be changed.
Looks like it’s riddled with glitches and such right now so hopefully they can fix it.

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Sweet deal! Thanks for the link and extra info on that you two!
I only had a few minutes to poke around and didn’t see that particular page. I’ll have to play with it again some more this weekend/next week.

Np! Check any replicas you have as the tokens can dupe on the younger ones (<500 days)

[Werewolf]

*eyes 650+ strong UC collection as their value drops to a fraction of previous worth*

*Eyes collection of stamps, weapons, collectibles and other valuables that just dropped to pennys on the NP*

I guess it’s all about perspective and your personal circumstances. If you had no/few UCs and few options to get one I can see how this change is a HUGE win/shortcut.
I see it as a huge net negative, personally. But I also see it as something that happened and can’t be changed.
Looks like it’s riddled with glitches and such right now so hopefully they can fix it.

So you're mad that the capitalism simulator is working as intended? I have a high-value account with UCs, stamp collections, and so on. I've been around since 2002. Give zero shits about any of it losing 'value'. It's a virtual pet site that only exists today because of nostalgic millennials who don't know how to move on. Anything to ruin this game's bizarre 'rarity' driven economy is a good thing. Hardly expect people of clraik to agree with that though, given the nature of this forum. Still hilarious.

[♥ Novaray ♥]

So you're mad that the capitalism simulator is working as intended? I have a high-value account with UCs, stamp collections, and so on. I've been around since 2002. Give zero shits about any of it losing 'value'. It's a virtual pet site that only exists today because of nostalgic millennials who don't know how to move on. Anything to ruin this game's bizarre 'rarity' driven economy is a good thing. Hardly expect people of clraik to agree with that though, given the nature of this forum. Still hilarious.

Idk why you're acting so morally superior here. There's always gonna be 'rarity' on neopets - this put barely a dent into it. I agree that UCs were way too unattainable. I'm fine with them being accessible, it's the way they did it I don't agree with. Part of the fun of this site is working to get the stuff you want. The irony of the 'capitalism simulator' as you call it is now it actually functions on real money instead of fake money. So yeah, it's more capitalistic than ever.

[Charizard]

Idk why you're acting so morally superior here. There's always gonna be 'rarity' on neopets - this put barely a dent into it. I agree that UCs were way too unattainable. I'm fine with them being accessible, it's the way they did it I don't agree with. Part of the fun of this site is working to get the stuff you want. The irony of the 'capitalism simulator' as you call it is now it actually functions on real money instead of fake money. So yeah, it's more capitalistic than ever.

I have a feeling this person will realize why rarity and obtainability need to have a very fine balance to peak users interest enough to stay. I love that they are more accessible but what happens when the excitement of the token situation calms down? Users will realize they have a major part of the site keeping them entertained made so readily available. It's fun now sure, but now the joy of getting something so easily obtained will be short lived. The light will be shone on the 100s of broken flash games, glitched and missing NC items, a barely functioning battledome and currencies still not able to be traded within each other. Not to mention the non-updated parts of the site and the still rampant inflation of np items. I see hope for the future but let's see if TNT puts effort into the parts of the site that don't make immediate income.

[♥ Novaray ♥]

I have a feeling this person will realize why rarity and obtainability need to have a very fine balance to peak users interest enough to stay. I love that they are more accessible but what happens when the excitement of the token situation calms down? Users will realize they have a major part of the site keeping them entertained made so readily available. It's fun now sure, but now the joy of getting something so easily obtained will be short lived. The light will be shone on the 100s of broken flash games, glitched and missing NC items, a barely functioning battledome and currencies still not able to be traded within each other. Not to mention the non-updated parts of the site and the still rampant inflation of np items. I see hope for the future but let's see if TNT puts effort into the parts of the site that don't make immediate income.

Yeah, those are my feelings exactly. I didn't word it very well but what I meant was there will always be 'rare' items, so where does it end? Now there's talk of another purge so people can get rare names, or even a way to change your pet's visible name. Some things on neopets are astronomically hard to get - that I can agree with. But maybe TNT should instead focus their efforts on making the game feel more balanced so that people feel like there's something to work towards and stay interested. I wish you still needed PBs to get these new UC colours because at least that would be SOMETHING to work towards instead of just dishing out a few dollars.

I can understand why people feel like it's impossible to get their dreamies or w/e, but if that's the case maybe we need to figure out why that's happening and work on balancing the game instead of just giving people UCs to make them feel better.

[Ridley]

Yeah, those are my feelings exactly. I didn't word it very well but what I meant was there will always be 'rare' items, so where does it end? Now there's talk of another purge so people can get rare names, or even a way to change your pet's visible name. Some things on neopets are astronomically hard to get - that I can agree with. But maybe TNT should instead focus their efforts on making the game feel more balanced so that people feel like there's something to work towards and stay interested. I wish you still needed PBs to get these new UC colours because at least that would be SOMETHING to work towards instead of just dishing out a few dollars.

I can understand why people feel like it's impossible to get their dreamies or w/e, but if that's the case maybe we need to figure out why that's happening and work on balancing the game instead of just giving people UCs to make them feel better.

I don't expect TNT to do anything other than what's making them money. They are a corporation. They need increasing quarterly profit margins to grow and be defined as a healthy company. What makes them profit? High user engagement. What is giving them a spike in user engagement? Taking a sledgehammer to stuff people do or consider valuable on the site. It's definitely gotten them way more attention than site plots or new pet colors.

Doing this over and over (while including some revenue generating schemes along the way, like NC UCs) will buy them time to try and get their userbase interested in some other thing they come up with. In a perfect world for TNT, all of us would have been chomping at the bit for NFT crap back when they tried that. But I don't see this story ending in any way other than TNT smashing the site to pieces, like a kid gradually wrecking grandma's old mansion he inherited on Tiktok because it gets him views.

Plus even if they fail to find that silver bullet and just destroy the site, they can re-sell it as has been the case before. The little green line on the graph going up for years will get some oblivious conglomerate to bite.

[I_royalty_I]

So you're mad that the capitalism simulator is working as intended? I have a high-value account with UCs, stamp collections, and so on. I've been around since 2002. Give zero shits about any of it losing 'value'. It's a virtual pet site that only exists today because of nostalgic millennials who don't know how to move on. Anything to ruin this game's bizarre 'rarity' driven economy is a good thing. Hardly expect people of clraik to agree with that though, given the nature of this forum. Still hilarious.

Im not going to dive into the whole “capitalism” mentality there. It’s a game. Am I mad that I won’t be able to sell things like I used to? Absolutely! Do you not care because we are not in the same shoes, like I mentioned? Absolutely! Different situations, different mindsets. You’re entitled to feel that way but I don’t agree.

[Miri]

Im not going to dive into the whole “capitalism” mentality there. It’s a game. Am I mad that I won’t be able to sell things like I used to? Absolutely! Do you not care because we are not in the same shoes, like I mentioned? Absolutely! Different situations, different mindsets. You’re entitled to feel that way but I don’t agree.

I have a middle-of-the-road view of the overall situation and see what TNT is doing as a logical step revenue-wise but nah TNT did you dirty.

When they first announced the ncucs what were your initial thoughts? Did you expect things to turn out this way?