Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:54 am
Generously giving out presents is not in the spirit of the game.
How dare you!
Now go earn Mr Doherty some money!
Edit:
The money tree is only helpful to those accounts lucky enough to been on a fast internet connection. The same people that can take full advantage of the new, larger games, RSing, and avoiding mass Volcano Run freezings.
These are the people that TNT wants to target to have fun. By being able to afford a higher internet connection they are more likely to have money to spend on merchandise and sponsors. This is the demographic that attracts the most attention for a reason: So they can make money.
And again, that's the true spirit of the site.
How dare you!
Now go earn Mr Doherty some money!
Edit:
The money tree is only helpful to those accounts lucky enough to been on a fast internet connection. The same people that can take full advantage of the new, larger games, RSing, and avoiding mass Volcano Run freezings.
These are the people that TNT wants to target to have fun. By being able to afford a higher internet connection they are more likely to have money to spend on merchandise and sponsors. This is the demographic that attracts the most attention for a reason: So they can make money.
And again, that's the true spirit of the site.
Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:30 pm
coming2atvnearu wrote:The money tree is only helpful to those accounts lucky enough to been on a fast internet connection. The same people that can take full advantage of the new, larger games, RSing, and avoiding mass Volcano Run freezings.
These are the people that TNT wants to target to have fun. By being able to afford a higher internet connection they are more likely to have money to spend on merchandise and sponsors. This is the demographic that attracts the most attention for a reason: So they can make money.
And again, that's the true spirit of the site.
Are you trying to make a point for having give away boards?
Of course TNT wants to make money. After all, that is the reason they have a business in the first place. After you take a few business courses you might revise your statement but it's really not revelant anyway. Have fun playing the game.
Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:07 pm
What harm is done by Morningstar's daughter having a Christmas gift giveaway?
I am making a point for innocent children wanting to express their kindness in the most convenient, safest way.
And I'm not against TNT making money, far from it. I am against them going about it questionable manners. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with my child playing on a Virtual Pets site sponsored by the major tobacco industries and the US Navy.
That's just me though. And heaven knows, I haven't been to business school...
I am making a point for innocent children wanting to express their kindness in the most convenient, safest way.
And I'm not against TNT making money, far from it. I am against them going about it questionable manners. Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable with my child playing on a Virtual Pets site sponsored by the major tobacco industries and the US Navy.
That's just me though. And heaven knows, I haven't been to business school...
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Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:15 pm
coming2atvnearu wrote:The money tree is only helpful to those accounts lucky enough to been on a fast internet connection. The same people that can take full advantage of the new, larger games, RSing, and avoiding mass Volcano Run freezings.
These are the people that TNT wants to target to have fun. By being able to afford a higher internet connection they are more likely to have money to spend on merchandise and sponsors. This is the demographic that attracts the most attention for a reason: So they can make money.
And again, that's the true spirit of the site.
Okay I think that you lost me there.
Neopets want the largest possible market for their game -- i think anyone will agree with that. I highly doubt that they are deiberatly trying to target consumers by weath range through use of internet commenctions. All that's going to do is limit that target market. It isn't going to come as a shock to anyone who's played any online game or done much at all on the interent that sometimes people with faster connections have an easier time. This is hard to avoid if you're doing any kind of graphics based site. From my own experience doing professional web-work it's hard to keep file sizes down for that sort of thing.
Do I feel that neopets could and should be doing more to make the game more fair for people on slower connections -- Yes..
Do I think that they're deiberately shaping the site to the needs of only highspeed users in some elaborate plot to earn more money from merchendice sales -- No
Back to sort of the point though. I do see some of the drawbacks of donating things to the money tree. It's not particularly rewarding and you never know if you're stuff is going to some sort of camper.
Wed Oct 13, 2004 5:51 pm
You know, they should change contests to 'at your own risk'. If someone neomails them saying they were scammed because of some contest where you have to buy a ticket to play etc, THEN I can see freezing as an action to take, but if you simply answered a question and got nothing in return, then that was your risk to take. I suppose they used to allow it and got tons of mail about it or something. It's so silly that a little girl would get frozen for just giving her neofriends presents for the holidays 
shame shame shame.
shame shame shame.