bloomaroo reblogged
how long are the damn neopies jesus
my msp poogle who is not very m at all...
excuse me, let him in!!!!!
I'll have you know I pronounce the G in Gnorbu
me but with Pteri
the pound finally opened back up so here is The Gang™
I'm so happy ;0;
also v appropriate that dude4680022 (aka Rory) is in the center bc he is the center of my universe. As tempting as it is to put his token on a nicer name, I can't do it. He's here to stay
my fucking nostalgic darigan bori is borked if i put a backdrop on him? invisible if i make him naked? cog
we are suffering boys give me my pigeon toed freak
anyone still fucking here
i'm about to have a neopian renaissance
had to remember the pw to this blog just to go VALENTINES PAINTBRUSH YOOOOOOO LET’S GO
i hate how badly i want to buy the ten extra pet slots vs how badly i am still mad at the dumb neo NFT thing and won’t let myself give neopets money >:(
man i haven’t really played neo since the NFT thing but holy shit oh my word a fRIEND
I created the Valentine Yurble based a bit on Care Bears! :3
bloomaroo reblogged
Terrible news! Horrible, awful, terrible news!!!!!
Yet Another Neopet NFTs Update
aka “this shit will be out of date within hours because things keep happening”
Anyways, the official NFT token sale (did I mention you have to buy tokens for these NFTs so you can actually mint them? You don’t buy them directly, for some reason) ended early this morning, and right after that people were able to mint their Neopet NFTs.
The actual sale was botched - the sale began a few minutes before the official start time of 9 UTC, so quite predictably all the cheapest NFTs were sold out within seconds (i.e. bought out by bots)
(chart made by CaptainP on the r/Neopets Discord server)
In the end only 4,233 out of 10,500 NFT tokens sold. So not even half.
Anyways with the token sale ended, people were finally able to actually mint their Neopets NFTs, and not everyone was happy.
The actual NFTs, predictably, look like shit!
In the end only 10 out of 55 Neopets species were used, in only 20 out of dozens of potential colors. Also they did not tell anyone that the species and colors would be this limited, so there’s that.
But wait! There’s more!
Dress to Impress, a Neopets fansite where users can preview clothes on different Neopets, may very well have had its assets stolen for the second time by the Metaverse team. DTI has now put a disclaimer on their site about it:
BUT WAIT, THERE’S EVEN MORE!
People found out, by looking through the transaction history, that 100 more of the NFT tokens were created out of thin air, bringing the total possible NFT count up to 10,600.
When this was brought up in the Metaverse server, a mod finally responded after the second or third time.
(awfully long and stupid way to say “we’ll look into it”)
The tokens will be able to be minted til the 18th. What else will happen between now and then? Who even knows.
bonuses:
This idiot didn’t even know there wasn’t an NFT game to go with the NFTs (Metaverse still hasn’t done anything with the vague ‘roadmap’ they put up before the sale).
But like. Neopets is still very much a game you can play. On the internet. For free.
THEY’RE CALLED GRARRLS. THESE GUYS BOUGHT NEOPETS NFTS WITHOUT KNOWING ANY OF THE SPECIES.
and Grarrls aren’t within the 10 species included in the NFTs so no, no one got a t-rex.
bloomaroo reblogged
Well folks just when we all thought the Neopets NFTs couldn’t be more of a disaster, there’s a twitter account now posing at the actual Neopets Metaverse Collection twitter and scamming people out of their SOL - mere hours before the actual Neopets NFTs are supposed to launch.
(legit on the right, fake on the left)
It’s accumulated about 75 SOL by now
1 SOL is about $230 USD so this scam has made over $17k in a matter of hours.
People in the r/Neopets Discord server have reported getting their comments deleted/getting silenced for alerting people in the Metaverse Discord about the scam. Probably because they consider it ‘fud’ or something. They have however put out a tweet warning people about the scam.
Also the massive difference in engagement between the two is hilarious
(The latter is absolutely filled with bots, but still)
Also the actual Metaverse discord is apparently getting spammed/botswarmed because of the fake account. Again, hilarious.
One notable thing is the difference in join dates between the two - the real twitter was started in August, but the scam one started in April.
I’ve seen a couple people throw around the idea that the (frankly shady-looking) company Jumpstart put in charge of this may have enacted this scam themselves in order to get money that they then don’t have to share the profits on with Jumpstart. Seems a little tinfoil-hat-y, but also given how this whole project has been going so far I honestly wouldn’t be entirely surprised if that turned out to be true. And given the lack of regulation around crypto who even knows how much legal action JS could take against them?
Any way you slice it, it’s another disastrous chapter in the ongoing clownshow that is the Neopets Metaverse Collection. I for one have my popcorn ready for when the actual NFTs launch and very likely crash and burn.
bloomaroo reblogged
Ah the neoboards