I'm proud to say I quit neopets cold turkey
by Sora
(I'm proud to say I quit neopets cold turkey and have moved to the greener pastures of various forums.)
I have played Neopets since it came out, that's a long time. The beginning, it was clean. With laughing
children and gumdrop rivers. So what happened to the tranquility?
It all burned down.
Google, free cursors, college funds, we salute you. No really. You tore down Neopets, spat on it, lit it on
fire and laughed in twisted delight as the whole thing just became a tangled mess. Only the greatest in
corporate sell-outs can achieve that much. So far, I have seen ads for free cursors (Including one of a
cigarette), Canada, Orbitz, colleges, dating sites, ring tones, great deals on Neopets, and the rest goes
on. I'm sure the numerous 9 year olds would love to travel to Canada with Orbitz. And ya know, that
cigarette cursor? I think it'll look great on my shop front, ya? Dating sites, studies show that dating
sites have a high chance of ending in a mess. In other words, bitter failure.
And what does the ad for a dating site and college imply? That you need to get off your rump and go tocollege or get a girl/boyfriend because vegging in
front of the computer playing neopets will get you nowhere? The message is loud and clear Neopets. I'll be
sure to go to college and be too busy to play on yoursite that, for the lack of better words, prostitutes.
You sell your site to companies for money and make theNeopets experience miserable for the rest of us. I
don't use that word lightly, but with what Neopets is doing to us now.
And I recall that Neopets said there will never bepop-up ads. He he... no. I have gotten five pop ups onNeopets in the last WEEK. I had no other windows open,
computer was scanned and completely clean.
Neopets, we salute you for making our online existence miserable. Good day.