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During its four-year run, Neopets Magazine covered the latest news and strategies for the influential 2000s-era web game. It also had a lot of articles about Neopets merchandise and trading cards. In fact, it’s mostly ads for Neopets products. Or long articles about Neopets lore. At best, it is mostly an off-topic magazine. So why did we focus on this magazine of our archive? Simple: it’s about the game’s audience. Neopets was, arguably, the defining girl game of the 2000s. An entire microgeneration of girls got their start in the world of digital entertainment by raising virtual pets and playing Flash games to get Neopoints. [...] Notably, many of the magazine’s articles are about creativity and customization. There’s shades in here of the gameplay styles that have become more popular in the last decade with the rise of cozy games and farming sims. My favorite quirk of Neopets Magazine is in the audience survey that came with some issues. In one survey question, they asked whether readers bought this magazine at a clothing store! That would have reached a completely different audience than we usually associate with game magazines. Can you imagine PC Gamer being sold at a Charlotte Russe? The point is that Neopets The Official Magazine represents a different slice of gaming culture, one that we know matters to researchers and to our extended community.

if there's any flags i missed, or if there's any flag/neopet combinations you'd like to see, feel free to send me an ask! i tried to cover as many as i could remember.

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I'm genuinely surprised that Neopia gave sufficient fucks to pull the plug. There are a lot of officially licensed tabletop RPGs that make an absolute shitshow of the properties they're ostensibly based on and make it to print without a peep of protest from the licensor, some of them involving franchises with much bigger bottom lines than this one, and fucking Neopets is the one that does their due diligence? Really? Really?

And to top it all off, it's now sounding like Neopia might not have authorised a public preview in the first place, so not a great showing all around.

TNT has also stated that they're stepping in to ensure that all backers receive the promised avatar, updates will be provided as soon as the distribution method is ready. so at least we all get a fun memento from this absolute trainwreck.

this kickstarter was for a licensed product, and was terminated due to a licensing contract breach (among other things). this isn't some random startup, geekify is an established company that did not deliver what was promised and behaved highly unprofessionally along the way. any other kickstarter it would be expected to "eat the loss", but not with this one and especially not with neopets themselves encouraging people to reach out to them for refunds.

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