There’s a rare item, people want it, someone’s gonna find a way to exploit the game to get it, and then sell it to these people outside.”īuying pets - and items and Neopoints- is a bannable offense on Neopets, but that hasn’t stopped black market sites from flourishing. “Or if you’re this person who - you’re obviously breaking the rules, but it’s the only way that you can get it. Except if you trade for it, which is gonna be super rare,” Lord said. And there’s no other way to attain it right now. “Tech has changed, our users have changed, we’ve grown up a little bit.”įor Lord and the rest of the team, the hubbub over black market pets wasn’t surprising. “I think one of the biggest things we’ve really learned is a decision we made in 2002, 2007, even 2015, might not be the same decision we’d make today,” Lord told me. The decision was the right one for the time, Neopets brand manager Stephanie Lord told me, but the team wants to remain flexible. The only people who win, apparently, are the black market sellers who could, in fact, create more UCs through an exploit.īut this latest dust-up has been the last straw for The Neopets Team, who have announced that they will look into bringing back unconverted pets. Meanwhile, in Q&As on Neopets’ fictional newspaper, The Neopian Times, The Neopets Team reps explain in excruciating detail why bringing them back would tax an already small and over-worked team. Whether because of nostalgia, a love for the art, or simply the desire to have something rare, many Neopets users thirst for UCs. Neopets is reckoning with black market pet trading Inside the Neopets ‘black market’
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