{"id":12860,"date":"2015-08-04T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12860"},"modified":"2015-08-05T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:10:12","slug":"whatever-happened-to-neopets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/whatever-happened-to-neopets\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened To Neopets?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/080315_1233_WhateverHap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Olivia Coy looked into the long, slow decline of Neopets, the virtual pet care and gaming community:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Neopets site was once a Wall Street darling. Millions of users visited every day and each stayed for, on average, close to 20 minutes, longer than most others.<\/li>\n<li>This time was profitable. Games such as &#8220;Spider-Man Cheese Nips Hunt&#8221; meant that advertizers could target kids while they were having fun with games.<\/li>\n<li>Neopets was also able to harvest data on its underage users and sell them to advertizers.<\/li>\n<li>However the site got ahead of itself. It was pressured to release an increasing number of sponsored games which helped the company&#8217;s finances but destroyed the in-game economy.<\/li>\n<li>The games increased the amount of cash available which led to hyper-inflation that meant that new players were priced out of the marketplace.<\/li>\n<li>While the company tried to institute deflationary monetary policies other problems such as outdated content or overall site neglect kept players away.<\/li>\n<li>Now Neopets has been sold to an educational software company and may possibly see a revival.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read about the company, its history, the scientology influences, and much more over <a href=\"http:\/\/kernelmag.dailydot.com\/issue-sections\/features-issue-sections\/13799\/neopets-rise-and-fall\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kernelmag.dailydot.com\/issue-sections\/features-issue-sections\/13799\/neopets-rise-and-fall\/\">The Kernel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Coy looked into the long, slow decline of Neopets, the virtual pet care and gaming community: The Neopets site was once a Wall Street darling. Millions of users visited every day and each stayed for, on average, close to 20 minutes, longer than most others. This time was profitable. Games such as &#8220;Spider-Man Cheese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/080315_1233_WhateverHap1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12875,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12860\/revisions\/12875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}