Anyone else think this is just money grabbing?
Fri Nov 04, 2005 5:51 pm
Just seen a new ad on Neo - advertising the only site I've seen that ignores copyright laws left right and centre. Is this Neo trying to boost a rival site - I doubt they would be friendly as Mara steals everything they do from Neo - or just taking a random advert to get a little extra money?
Something seems suspect to me.
Something seems suspect to me.
Fri Nov 04, 2005 6:28 pm
maybe they will team o.o
my friend in the UK plays that she likes it
my friend in the UK plays that she likes it
Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:37 pm
I've seen that before, it seems like a rip-off to me. Everything is the same, they have marapoints, maramail, even a lab ray! The layout is very similar, too. 
There are other sites that are like Neopets, too.
There are other sites that are like Neopets, too.
Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:31 pm
The neoboards were going crazy about the ad the other day. And not in a positive way. Basically everyone agreed the site was utter...wasn't that great.
Fri Nov 04, 2005 9:43 pm
OMG ... I just went to the Marapets site and joined, created a pet, just to see what it looked like. It's absolutely awful! The only thing it's got going for it is that is is layed out pretty much exactly like Neopets.
Why are they bothering with this? It's like a bad Neopets mirror from the crap-tastic dimension!
Why are they bothering with this? It's like a bad Neopets mirror from the crap-tastic dimension!
Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:31 pm
Meech wrote:OMG ... I just went to the Marapets site and joined, created a pet, just to see what it looked like. It's absolutely awful! The only thing it's got going for it is that is is layed out pretty much exactly like Neopets.
Why are they bothering with this? It's like a bad Neopets mirror from the crap-tastic dimension!
The layout isn't the only thing. Everything is the same just with the word Mara replacing neo. The only differences are the graphics and the 'original' games.
Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:46 pm
Even the fonts look the same. This is weird...it's almost like a parody. Like DeadJournal for LiveJournal.
It's an ugly site though, even being almost exactly copied from Neopets. I guess it takes more than CTR+C to make something of quality.
It's an ugly site though, even being almost exactly copied from Neopets. I guess it takes more than CTR+C to make something of quality.
Re: Anyone else think this is just money grabbing?
Fri Nov 04, 2005 11:13 pm
JhasNeeh wrote:Just seen a new ad on Neo - advertising the only site I've seen that ignores copyright laws left right and centre. Is this Neo trying to boost a rival site - I doubt they would be friendly as Mara steals everything they do from Neo - or just taking a random advert to get a little extra money?
Something seems suspect to me.
Simple.... the ad wasn't placed by Neopets. In otherwards, its not like Marapets called up Neopets advertising dept. and said, hey how much is it to put our ad in your ad banner rotation? See that "Ads by Google"? Its the google thing that put it there. But what I do not know, of course, is how one would get their banner into google's ads. That answer could be best explained by the Marapets site owners.
Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:47 am
How bad is the artwork? It's hilarious!
Come to think of it, marapets will definitely get a significant boost in user numbers from this.
Sat Nov 05, 2005 2:27 am
Ive seen marapets before. The art looked so bad, I didnt even want to join. Art is a big thing in a petsite for me.
Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:00 pm
Well I can see this ad stealing quite a few digruntled Neopets players.
Serves Neopets right for not checking out their ads as diligently as they should. Maybe now they'll start viewing the ads differently.
Serves Neopets right for not checking out their ads as diligently as they should. Maybe now they'll start viewing the ads differently.
Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:29 pm
lol, it shouldn't be called Marapets... I think that "Parapets" would fit better 
(like Olympics->Paralympics...)
(like Olympics->Paralympics...)
Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:38 pm
I joind mara to see what it was like a while back. It sucked, everything was free o_0 the lab ray thing, I thought it was a rip off, and all the users got on it because there were no scammers, well why would there be scammers, they can't scam you cuz there's nothing to scam from you. I hated it, the avatars sucked, the drawings were terrible, now I only use it because that's the only way I can get my smileys from smiley central on, then save them to my comp and put em on msn
Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:51 pm
Wow. That's just really. really. really. bad. It's funny, though, how neopets is considered a bad word.
Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:11 pm
Twinkle wrote:Well I can see this ad stealing quite a few digruntled Neopets players.
Serves Neopets right for not checking out their ads as diligently as they should. Maybe now they'll start viewing the ads differently.
-nodnod- Hopefully.