Originally Posted by
CadmiumYellow
Honestly same, I really like a lot of OG-Neopets's random lil quirks like this--- but when language support was dropped and there was no longer a workaround to get pets to do this stuff despite the quirkiness (new releases did not have translated titles that changed their name length), that's when I started having a problem with it. It made some pets functionally (sometimes literally) ineligible for book (and probably also gourmet) trophies. Since it's determined by the number of letters in a pet's name, some pets had big advantages and disadvantages (I did the math once, though I forget what it came out to now. A 1-character pet will find no books boring, but some name lengths can find dozens, if not even hundreds, of books boring. And when the high score table is so close that a few books makes-or-breaks your placement, having dozens of books inaccessible to you is a big issue)
RIP to an OG-Neopets bit of levity and random fun, but welcome to a new way of life that makes sense for the modern times, I guess