If I’m gonna play in a world where I’m forever poor and an elite few control anything and everything around me, I will simply go outside and touch grass. And I don’t want to do that. I want to stay inside and play Neopets with my pea wearing a Santa hat. I want to frolick with my pea. I want to experience joy and wonder and whimsy with my holly jolly christmas pea while the neorich seethe and cope You are the yin to my yang with those chaotic dailies ilysm 😂❤️ Edit: now that I’m thinking about it, isn’t there supposed to be a big plot coming in 2024 that involves the battledome? Could this be a big brain 500 IQ move to give new players who don’t have super leveled pets and all that the ability to contribute to the plot and reap the benefits in a significant way? But also I generally don’t ever know what I’m talking about so idk
as a complete outsider, i seriously love your neopets videos. started watching you about a week ago and binged every neopets video you have. was very distraught when i saw i had already finished them all. very excited to watch this video.
hahah same here! i had a neopet stuffie when i was 5 that i got from a mcdonalds kids meal and really loved it, never got into it but i love all this lore amanda provides us didnt know neopets was so crazy
@@griff3190I had two of the hard toys that moved and made noises and my mildly positive memories of having those toys had turned into an obsession with these videos
"I'm hearing from people that started playing a week ago and they have a fairy krawk now" ME ME ME I hadn't touched my account since mid-2020 and came back to it when I saw there was a huge improvement to things (right after the faerie event sadly) and now I LITERALLY have a rainbow Aisha named Fruittee who's a drag king ICON and I love him so much. literally my favorite and A VANDAGYRE THATS A RED PANDA like rare items getting devalued is the whole reason I'm on Neopets now
As someone who used to play as a kid, lost that account, and started fresh more than a decade later, I think people take Neopets way to seriously lol It’s a fun game and I enjoy it, but I totally agree with your take on the pea. What’s the problem with a few more peas in circulation? I think it’s great news for new or poor players!
I’m a “new” (returning after playing as a child) player, so I had no prior context for the SAP. But I saw it in the loot table on Jellyneo and was like “oh wow that’s so cute and silly lol, I hope I get that!” And of course I didn’t, but it’s just wild that I had NO IDEA what it was or what it was worth and just went “cute :)” and it’s turned out to be this huge thing lol? It’s like seeing a someone and thinking they’re cute, only to later see them on the news as like The Most Beautiful and Successful Person on the Planet
I just rejoined Neopets a couple weeks ago after watching your videos and getting serious FOMO. It's become my new little ritual to listen to your Neopets videos while bopping around the site. It feels majestic to now fully have context to a topic you're discussing in one of these videos. (Thank you for accepting my neofriend request, btw!) - a fellow 30-something Amanda
Y'know, the thing that brought me back to Neopets was that goals were actually achievable (the daily quest system). I was never a very rich player back when I was a kid; couldn't get into restocking or anything so I mostly played games. A lot. And that was exhausting! Being able to potentially get pets and items I've wanted while doing what I enjoy in-game has been a big motivator. But I also want to shout out just how warm and generous Neo has become. I've had so many people do so many kind things for me (like giving me dream pets??) after coming back and it's blown my mind. That community is SPECIAL. Neopets should be trying to foster that and keep it around, because it's the other huge part of what's been keeping me playing. I used to love labbing and dropping painted pets in the pound and now I've been working on granting pet wishes myself. Let people have nice things and be able to give other people nice things.
I learned today that you can just buy icy snowballs from the fountain faerie every 30 minutes and it counts for a purchase for the daily quests. It's not great if you have 3 to do in the last minute, but at least you could buy one there if the situation happens again
@@misomie Yeah!! I def do that now; back when I first posted this, though, the general store didn't work for some reason. They changed it around when they added codestones to the pool of possible daily prizes! I'm glad they changed it, though! Definitely way easier!
Ive had a Neopets account for 14 years and I've been on and off on it. I wanted to make neopoints to get cool paint brushes for my pets so bad but I could NEVER CRACK IT! When I was younger the most luxurious I could ever get was buying a single Christmas paint brush. I guess I just didn't play enough or figure out the ways to actually make money, but the fact that anything aspirational felt impossible is a huge reason why I stopped playing for years multiple times! I had school and later work to worry about, I can't play Neopets all day!! And I don’t even necessarily want all the fancy rare stuff, I just want to feel like its actually possible to accomplish whatever goals I give myself. Honestly that's why Flight Rising became my petsim game of choice, if I want to do something I actually feel like I'll be able to get enough currency someday to accomplish it. I started playing Neopets again about a month ago mostly because of the quest system (which I found out about through your videos, ay) and after all those years I FINALLY feel like I'm making progress. It's going a bit sloe, but I know I could probably finally have a cybunny, or some brushes, or finish the lab ray map within the next month and that's incredibly encouraging! If anything, it's making me to spend more time playing when I actually feel like what I'm doing is useful! So between that and, somehow accidentally convincing three and counting of my friends to sign up to Neopets in the year of our lord 2023 and wanting them to actually enjoy themselves...I mean I get it, if rich players put in the work and time I absolutely agree that they should have status symbols to show for it, but the rest of us losers should get to have a crumb of fun too. And if someone got Neopets rich from using bots and scalping......tbh as far as im concerned they can just stay mad about it lmao
same bestie!!! i would work my lil 10 year old ass off to get so many points per game, end up with like 300NP, and still be at the soup kitchen line everyday 😭 versus, now i was able to buy my first baby PB yesterday after a month of playing
"he could be one of vicious's gross friends" cracked me up oh my god I love the lore you have for your pets thank you for making these I love drawing with it playing in the background
As someone who just started playing because of your videos, I'm really happy about the economy changes and free prizes. Neopets is so inaccessible to a new player. I've tried before in thr past and it's just draining to know the only way I can get a not red yellow blue or green pet is by slaving away at broken games and fighting rng to get anything decent. It's never right to close the door on the person behind you.
I absolutely haven't been waiting on you to tell me wtf happened 😂. I only knew that people were mad but I didn't know what about. Thank you as always.
I have never played neopets nor have I ever wanted to play but i'm OBSESSED with your neopets videos. If you turned into a purely neopets channel I'd fully support it
This is Skyy and yes that PAH was wild. Ehevy is honestly iconic and beautiful. Those late night PAH's are really just me, you, Vi, and Salem all like oh hey guys LOL
"I dont think anyone would have a problem with snowickles or the candychan stamp" Apollo really gave you the gift of prophecy this christmas didnt they
i had to start all over in neopets because my old account that i had when i was 10 got robbed so that sucked but you're absolutely right. the wealth disparity is insane and i feel like i can never catch up.
I started playing Neopets like 20 years ago but I always ended up leaving because most everything I wanted seemed vastly overpriced or even unobtainable. Literally the only reason I've come back to Neopets now is because watching your videos convinced me that TNT was actually trying to fix the economy and the insane inflation. Like, I totally understand that the pea is supposed to be rare and for like the very, very top of Battledome. But I don't think that ANY item on Neopets should cost the insane amount that it used to cost. Sure, maybe some other items would have been better to release over the pea. But any fucking item costing that much is just insane. People do not realize how CRAZY of a number a billion is, and that damn pea cost TWO of those. Like. Yes. We should have rare ass items that we have to work towards but like. 2 BILLION? TNT wanted to fix the economy and inflation, or at least it seems like they do. So people need to understand that to do that, nothing should be costing BILLIONS.
Are those people aware, that if TNT DOESN'T rerelease rare items to drop prices and shit, the site will die? It's not fun for new players. It's not fun for a lot of old players because it's hard to make any amount of money that matters. How much will your pea be worth if they shut down Neopets?? People need to get over themselves. It's a PNG of a pea. It's not worth anything.
I’m not that far in yet but if you’re ever stuck trying to get an item for dailies and nobody is stocked, you can buy something at the healing fountain and that will count!
Hello! Just popping in to say I also have a hyperfixation on 9/11, its been with me for probably the last 8 years and now i know way too much about American foreign policy in the middle east and sometimes I talk about it too much when im drunk 😅
6:46 If you buy an item from the Healing Springs, it'll count towards the neopian shops quest. Icy snowball for 5 np - Hope this helps! 40:55 My take might be different than most. Generally speaking, a majority of battledome players have asked for years for Defenders of Neopia to be fixed. I know some have said, "Why can't the rich just enjoy getting the trophies" etc. Since DoN is broken, players can't get said trophies. For those players, getting that trophy is like getting the snowbunny stamp pre quest system. It's a big deal to them. Lastly, without a working 2 player skirmish option, every single challenge is manual. Prices on most weapons have deflated considerably; just not some that make the headlines. As most bd weapons aren't single use, a lot of them just tend to sit and rot in shops or sdb without much purpose. Re releasing SAP with day 1 quantity was going to make a lot more weapons follow suit; some like the Fan of Swords, which are actually good, and cost about 16m anyway.
watching your dressup was a game changer bcus for some reason i didn't think of the BE-GONE items as wearables, my dumb brain thought that it was a one-time use thing and then my neopet would never have eyes again x.x i literally know it doesn't work that way but u had to tell my brain that ig
I love ur neopets videos (and all ur other videos) so so much. I also have medical anxiety, and when I can sleep or I'm just feeling really nervous your videos are always a really great comfort. Thank you!!!!!
yes yes yes to everything in your pea rant. I've been screaming from the rooftops essentially the same things about new players. We all are coming from that mindset of being 20 yr veterans in this game. If I was walking in today as a fresh player I would RUN SO FAST! and all of these changes are addressing that. AND I WANT NEW PLAYERS TO HAVE FUN AND LOVE THE SITE AS MUCH AS I DO!
Ok, I'm in. You have convinced me to start back up. I don't think I'm going to unearth my old childhood account, but like yeah I'm going to neopet. Just to have fun playing a videogame. I feel inspired and hopeful. As a kid I always wanted to paint my pet with a fairy paintbrush and after watching your last month of videos it feels like I can finally fulfil that childhood dream.
I agree with you. I DONT CARE ABOUT HOW EXPENSIVE AN ITEM IS. I just want the item because I wanna be happy. NOT because its worth a lot to the community
y’all i think i have molokai brainrot from binge rewatching all the acnh videos, im rlly sitting out here thinking “ooo i wonder how many points each of the villagers would’ve gotten in the altador cup, i wonder how many goose would get 🤓” plzz im literally still new to neopets idek what exactly the altador cup is 😭 im already having dreams about neopets tho it’s literally so slay also pleasee make more videos/streams where ur doing ur dailies n just chatting with us; chaotic or not either way it’s so nice i love the drama n theatrics of being on that chaotic dailies time crunch but also like for the sake of ur mental health plz be careful with that we will be here either way
I love these videos coz im a returning player who lives under a rock and doesnt use forums or have friends who play and i didnt know a damn thing about the pea
My opinion on the whole Peagate situation as well as Neopets just giving everybody more expensive items in general, is that I feel that this kind of situation is temporary (pretty long but let me cook). It honestly feels like an effort to stabilize the market by taking power away from old money and botters. That being said, TNT has mentioned they will do rotating prize pools for weekly quests. I am predicting that when this is done, the weekly quests will either be for generally more accessible items, or for entirely new ones. Naturally, once they are out of rotation, the cost of these items will increase which will further expand the very active upper class of Neopia. I imagine if they go with the route of weekly rewards being completely brand new items, This can ensure that newly created limited release items will begin to accrue value once their accessibility has been removed. Effectively meaning that lower class players can have the potential to improve their financial situation by completing weekly rewards, participating in seasonal events, and holding onto those items once those rewards no longer become available. The same capabilities that longer term players can, and have utilized to gain their wealth during Neopets hay-day. This is a model that was adapted previously with Gaia online, which functions very similar to the Neopets market, and is also infamous for its inflators. Even Pokémon GO adopted this model when daily research tasks came out, as a weekly reward used to be for legendary Pokémon. This was to accommodate players who weren’t able to form raid parties, as the community was dwindling at the time. But now, as more and more legendary Pokémon become more and more accessible., obtaining a legendary from a weekly reward is no longer an option. Just a prediction, we’ll have to see what impact that has on the current playerbase. Still, though, I think some of these older players need to understand where they came from, and realizing that another person’s wealth does not diminish their own.
With my only other pet game being Flight Rising before I joined Neopets, it was a shock but I knew what I was getting into when I signed up. I was super into neopets for a bit as a young kid but the site was too confusing for me back then and ever since I've been kinda living off of hearing whatever the hell whirlwind storm goes on there with each situation getting deeper and deeper, but hearing them go completley independant made me finally pick up interesting enough to try again and... Most if not all of my pets are painted now, and it feels like the things i want to do ARE achieveable. I kind of enjoy watching the rich upper percent of this platform squirm as things are lowered and become more obtainable. It's very fun.
i also put off the ruffle extension bc i thought it was going to be like. . . coding? i don't know. proud of you for mustering up the courage to install the extension into chrome girl
Hey!! I would love to see you play My Time at Portia the deluxe edition is on sale right now for like less than 4 dollars but it’s pretty similar to stardew valley and harvest moon except the characters are kinda mean to you. Anyway I would love to see you create drama in that universe 😂
As an ex-neopets Player, playing since I was 9 years-old until I was 18 years-old, I gotta say I don't see an issue 🙃 Neopets have done this kind of thing of breaking the rarity of an item so many times before and each time I felt like this was a blessing because it was the only way of me fulfilling my dreams My dream was to have a pirate paintbrush but it costed around 20kk neopoints. I read many guides on how to make millions of neopoints but the suggestions were restocking (which was impossible because of the bots) and playing games. By playing games you could make around 30k each day, so 960k per year That meant 20 years of playing, it was ridiculous. Of course you can get luck and get a rare item that will make it go faster but it was not guaranteed and I gave up. And then came the altador cup, the Haunted Woods were the first to win and the big prize was a halloween paintbrush. This means that if Krawk Island won, I'd get my pirate paintbrush and they had a shot. Three years later we won and I got my dream paintbrush! Also the price dropped to like 8kk so that was still crazy but less crazy haha And that's what I'm talking about! We can have rare items but we need to have them at a reasonable price so that the average player can buy them if they go the extra-mile! I don't know how things are today but in my time, getting a krawk or a draik was absurd, getting the avatar items like the MSP card and the stamps was literally impossible. I don't care if you are the only player to ever fulfill that stamp page, I want other players to have it too without hacking! Anyway, that's my take on this situation, release the christmas pea! 😂 Ps. When I stopped playing I had 12kk because of this random rare items I got throughout the years, still no 20kk though, this is an insane amount. I still have no clue how people get over 100kk
I'm personally glad TNT is re-releasing all these rare expensive items. There's been a few times in the last couple of years where I've debated just quitting neopets and finding a different pet sim to play, because everything just seemed so unobtainable. Now in the last few months alone I've been able to achieve most of my goals. I haven't had this much fun on neopets in years! I nearly cried the other day when they gave out Kadoaties in the advent calendar, I've been wanting one since I was a kid
I loved watching this while you did this frantically it was very real. You were the first person I started watching! I am getting back into neopets and rediscovered my 13 year old account lol
I usually watch with captions on because I can't be too loud at work and it kept on spelling the pea as pee and that made for some hilarious sentences I've also returned to neopets after like a 10 year hiatus and omg the neostaff were so nice they let me reset my email from the dead one I made when I was 14 to my current one so I'm back and my Xweetok baby is still there, very hungry but still alive
purchases from the ever-stocked general store count towards the daily buying things quest!!!!! i have like 20 coffees with marshmallows in my inventory LMFAOO
the attack pea drama is baffling to me. personally, i'm not part of the neopian upperclass, but i do have the perspective of being part of another (waaaay smaller) virtual pet site's "elite." i have most of the nearly unobtainable pets, i'm a billionaire, etc. discussions of maybe re-releasing rare retired items, or allowing for duplicate pet names (tanking the name market) come up on occasion, and people get SO mad. but me? as a wise individual once said, "girl, it's just lines." like at the end of the day we're playing with pretend money and png animals. who cares? let newbies have things too. i'm all for deflating ANY petsite economy at all costs, because at some point, they ALL need it. i understand that some people worked hard (as hard as one can on a game, with fake money, where luck is such a huge factor) to achieve certain goals, but what they need to understand is that they did that work at a time where it was POSSIBLE to accomplish said goals. i'm not saying it was easy, just that it was easier. we're way past that. the point of re-releasing some of the most expensive items on-site isn't "Your hard work means nothing! Participation trophies for EVERYONE!" the point is to make everything at least POSSIBLE to obtain again. it's just insane to me that anyone could have their ego so wrapped up in being better than everyone else on a virtual pet site because they happened to be playing at the right time that they can't stand the idea of anyone else having anything nice. that's just what it looks like to me.
The panic of doing your dailies in under 30min hits way too close to home. I can't wait to hear you talk about the Altador plot. It was somewhat painful.
Honestly, who was even buying Seasonal Attack Peas for a billion neopoints in the first place? At least Super Attack Pea gives you an avatar. If anything, the lower rarity would probably make it easier to sell and actually get some money. Like wait a couple months, and maybe you can make some coin off newbie players that didn't do the Advent Calendar.
I just got back into neopets from stumbling onto your fairy festival video (then binging all the stardew videos). I'm having trouble naming my pets, I'm about to make an Eyrie because I have an Eyrie pirate potion. I figured she's going to be my battle dome queen. I just don't know a cute/flirty/badass enough name for her. What helps you brainstorm pet names?
I started playing again (off and on) in the hopes i could acquire a kadoatie and lo and behold the one day i check the advent calendar has a SNOW kadoatie in it 😭😭😭
Billionaires are the worst people, both irl and in Neopets lol we used to have a motto on Brazilian Neoboards that "battledomers stink" and it's relatable until these days.
"I don't think anyone would have a problem with us getting snowickles, I don't think anybody would have a problem with us getting the candychan stamp..." how does it feel to have dropped this prediction so early on lol
I dont know if anyone's mentioned this... But General Store in Neopia Central should always be stocked just in case you find yourself in this situation again.
I had no idea SAP were in the extra prize pool, So when I checked the neoboards later that day I was shocked to see everyone going crazy was like that 1 scene from SpongeBob where they're all running around😂. I started a new thread for the first time in a long time and asked someone to explain what was going on, and these 2 guys who were on different sides of the whole pea debate started arguing in the topic. But then they apologized and recognized each other's view points and were friendly after. We love to see character development 🤣
Also, I'm all for releasing rare items cause there should NOT be anything worth a BILLION neopoints, let alone 2!!! I've been playing on and off since 2000 and my dream was always a lost desert paint brush. I know it's not a crazy goal, But for a long time it seemed unobtainable to me. Because I just didn't have that much neopoints. And didn't know how to get a lot more. Now that I've been playing in more recent years and been more serious about it, I've been able to get a lost desert PB finally!!!! And I have other Painted pets and painted pet pets. And I've never had that before. So i'm so excited to be able to get items that I always thought were out of reach
I think it being a battledome item is a sticking point because either A) every battledome event is going to be absurdly easy for a much larger group of people which nerfs any battledome related events prizes to be worth much less or B) There's going to be some absurdly hard battledome events balanced around the assumption you have one, thus making one needed. Also using it to stomp n00bs in pvp is something trolls are now mad they can't do without the risk of being pea'd on.
The community (especially on the site event boards) really made me feel sick. I saw someone call an ambassador a "filthy cheater who buys NP offsite" ... the post was removed by TNT while I was calling them out for it so he straight up said... they didn't say that?! The ambassador agreed with me as they saw the post then a few people started calling them a liar?!
If things hadnt changed I wouldnt be playing again. Seeinh the prices on literally anything I wanted be millions and millions... all the mid level weapons be unbuyable...It was SO unfair... I played a few days and then got discouraged. Now I get the money I had to GRIND FOR in a few silly tasks everyday... and FINALLY. Its a GAME.
i feel like every conversation abt petsim economies always boils down to what feels like either a fundamental misunderstanding/wilful ignorance about one thing specifically. it is ok for an item to be rare and expensive. however. it is not fine for things to be THAT inflated. it NEEDS to drop. it is insane and not ok. there is a recent suggestion in flight rising to add the year 1 festival items to a randomized treasure box each player can buy 1 of every month. there were so many older players who already owned items like the light sprite (the first festival item ever, basically. when the site was brand new and unstable, so there is very few of them) complaining it would tank the value of the sprites even though these specific treasure boxes have a) a huge pool of items to pull from and b) there's already a high value apparel item IN the prize pool and it still maintains a very high price with little fluctuation. LIKE. LISTEN IT CAN STILL COST A LOT OF MONEY BUT WHO IS BUYING IT FOR 100 THOUSAND GEMS EXCEPT YOU PEOPLE SWAPPING THEM BACK AND FORTH OR HOARDING THEM AHH
goddamn altador plot. it's literally harder now than when i was a kid because everything's broken. having done it a couple months ago i remember a few points i was stuck at so feel free to reach out if u get stuck anywhere.
PEAGATE discussion starts at: 29:01
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If I’m gonna play in a world where I’m forever poor and an elite few control anything and everything around me, I will simply go outside and touch grass. And I don’t want to do that. I want to stay inside and play Neopets with my pea wearing a Santa hat. I want to frolick with my pea. I want to experience joy and wonder and whimsy with my holly jolly christmas pea while the neorich seethe and cope
You are the yin to my yang with those chaotic dailies ilysm 😂❤️
Edit: now that I’m thinking about it, isn’t there supposed to be a big plot coming in 2024 that involves the battledome? Could this be a big brain 500 IQ move to give new players who don’t have super leveled pets and all that the ability to contribute to the plot and reap the benefits in a significant way? But also I generally don’t ever know what I’m talking about so idk
yes i keep hearing about a plot involving BD next year, but i haven’t looked it up lmao.
as a complete outsider, i seriously love your neopets videos. started watching you about a week ago and binged every neopets video you have. was very distraught when i saw i had already finished them all. very excited to watch this video.
hahah same here! i had a neopet stuffie when i was 5 that i got from a mcdonalds kids meal and really loved it, never got into it but i love all this lore amanda provides us didnt know neopets was so crazy
Lol seems the algorithms handing out this journey 😄
@@temetylyit is! It made me return to neopets rofl
@@griff3190I had two of the hard toys that moved and made noises and my mildly positive memories of having those toys had turned into an obsession with these videos
Me - casually doing dailies while Amanda does them
Amanda ' "Do you ever hyperfixate about 9/11?"
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"I'm hearing from people that started playing a week ago and they have a fairy krawk now" ME ME ME I hadn't touched my account since mid-2020 and came back to it when I saw there was a huge improvement to things (right after the faerie event sadly) and now I LITERALLY have a rainbow Aisha named Fruittee who's a drag king ICON and I love him so much. literally my favorite and A VANDAGYRE THATS A RED PANDA like rare items getting devalued is the whole reason I'm on Neopets now
Exactly this! I used my weekly reward to trade for a Rainbow PB and got my dream pet on week 2! Fruittee sounds like AN AMAZING neopet.
Same! I actually did get a faerie krawk though just like she said 😅
I appreciate you touching on the community aspect. That was what broke my heart the most about the peas too.
As someone who used to play as a kid, lost that account, and started fresh more than a decade later, I think people take Neopets way to seriously lol
It’s a fun game and I enjoy it, but I totally agree with your take on the pea. What’s the problem with a few more peas in circulation? I think it’s great news for new or poor players!
I wish everyone a pea for the holiday
I’m a “new” (returning after playing as a child) player, so I had no prior context for the SAP. But I saw it in the loot table on Jellyneo and was like “oh wow that’s so cute and silly lol, I hope I get that!” And of course I didn’t, but it’s just wild that I had NO IDEA what it was or what it was worth and just went “cute :)” and it’s turned out to be this huge thing lol? It’s like seeing a someone and thinking they’re cute, only to later see them on the news as like The Most Beautiful and Successful Person on the Planet
I just rejoined Neopets a couple weeks ago after watching your videos and getting serious FOMO. It's become my new little ritual to listen to your Neopets videos while bopping around the site. It feels majestic to now fully have context to a topic you're discussing in one of these videos. (Thank you for accepting my neofriend request, btw!)
- a fellow 30-something Amanda
Y'know, the thing that brought me back to Neopets was that goals were actually achievable (the daily quest system). I was never a very rich player back when I was a kid; couldn't get into restocking or anything so I mostly played games. A lot. And that was exhausting! Being able to potentially get pets and items I've wanted while doing what I enjoy in-game has been a big motivator.
But I also want to shout out just how warm and generous Neo has become. I've had so many people do so many kind things for me (like giving me dream pets??) after coming back and it's blown my mind. That community is SPECIAL. Neopets should be trying to foster that and keep it around, because it's the other huge part of what's been keeping me playing. I used to love labbing and dropping painted pets in the pound and now I've been working on granting pet wishes myself. Let people have nice things and be able to give other people nice things.
I learned today that you can just buy icy snowballs from the fountain faerie every 30 minutes and it counts for a purchase for the daily quests. It's not great if you have 3 to do in the last minute, but at least you could buy one there if the situation happens again
I just buy from the general store. Super speedy, cheap, and always in stock
@@misomie Yeah!! I def do that now; back when I first posted this, though, the general store didn't work for some reason. They changed it around when they added codestones to the pool of possible daily prizes! I'm glad they changed it, though! Definitely way easier!
@@abigailbostic2198 Oh interesting, I didn't know it didn't work at the time
The pea drama has been a spectacular mess. Happy to see you Amanda!!
Ohhh, man. The pea discourse is so iconic. Plus we all got a Kadoatie today! Wild.
WHAT?!! 😭😭
@@miaomiaou_ Yes!! And a free Snowinkle two days ago.
@@rickwilson4077lol this alone has convinced me to log back in again 😅
God, thank you for making Amanda this neurotic. It has brought all of us so much joy.
I have NEVER played neopets but watching you play has been my favorite thing ever lately. Thank you for the chaos
Ive had a Neopets account for 14 years and I've been on and off on it. I wanted to make neopoints to get cool paint brushes for my pets so bad but I could NEVER CRACK IT! When I was younger the most luxurious I could ever get was buying a single Christmas paint brush. I guess I just didn't play enough or figure out the ways to actually make money, but the fact that anything aspirational felt impossible is a huge reason why I stopped playing for years multiple times! I had school and later work to worry about, I can't play Neopets all day!! And I don’t even necessarily want all the fancy rare stuff, I just want to feel like its actually possible to accomplish whatever goals I give myself. Honestly that's why Flight Rising became my petsim game of choice, if I want to do something I actually feel like I'll be able to get enough currency someday to accomplish it.
I started playing Neopets again about a month ago mostly because of the quest system (which I found out about through your videos, ay) and after all those years I FINALLY feel like I'm making progress. It's going a bit sloe, but I know I could probably finally have a cybunny, or some brushes, or finish the lab ray map within the next month and that's incredibly encouraging! If anything, it's making me to spend more time playing when I actually feel like what I'm doing is useful!
So between that and, somehow accidentally convincing three and counting of my friends to sign up to Neopets in the year of our lord 2023 and wanting them to actually enjoy themselves...I mean I get it, if rich players put in the work and time I absolutely agree that they should have status symbols to show for it, but the rest of us losers should get to have a crumb of fun too. And if someone got Neopets rich from using bots and scalping......tbh as far as im concerned they can just stay mad about it lmao
same bestie!!! i would work my lil 10 year old ass off to get so many points per game, end up with like 300NP, and still be at the soup kitchen line everyday 😭 versus, now i was able to buy my first baby PB yesterday after a month of playing
"he could be one of vicious's gross friends" cracked me up oh my god I love the lore you have for your pets
thank you for making these I love drawing with it playing in the background
The 9/11 reveal made me do a comedy spit take, it was just so unexpected and yet I understand completely
The raw chaos in this video please do this more often LMAO
Buying health potions counts as buying from a shop too :)
& everstocked general store!!
You can purchase an icy snowball (5np)from the healing springs to count towards that purchase item quest.
The amount of reddit memes I keep seeing about the pea has me dying they are so funny lol.
PREACH AMANDA! It was so unexpected to hear you switch immediately from character to speaking from your heart and I dig it.
The first few minutes when you're distracting yourself and catastrophising is way too relatable
nothing says 'happy holidays' quite like digital scarcity
4:00 I always just buy 3 hot chocolates from the ever stocked general store!
As someone who just started playing because of your videos, I'm really happy about the economy changes and free prizes. Neopets is so inaccessible to a new player. I've tried before in thr past and it's just draining to know the only way I can get a not red yellow blue or green pet is by slaving away at broken games and fighting rng to get anything decent. It's never right to close the door on the person behind you.
I died on the boards over the pea drama I freaking love the madness
I absolutely haven't been waiting on you to tell me wtf happened 😂. I only knew that people were mad but I didn't know what about. Thank you as always.
I have never played neopets nor have I ever wanted to play but i'm OBSESSED with your neopets videos. If you turned into a purely neopets channel I'd fully support it
Also neo truths "confirmed" the change in drop rate for the pea, looks like its gone from 1/100 chance to 1/1000.
This is Skyy and yes that PAH was wild. Ehevy is honestly iconic and beautiful. Those late night PAH's are really just me, you, Vi, and Salem all like oh hey guys LOL
LOOOL i’ve been waiting for you to talk about the pea incident!!!!!!!!
the queen returns for more neopets content🤗 i get so excited anytime i see you post a new video
"I dont think anyone would have a problem with snowickles or the candychan stamp"
Apollo really gave you the gift of prophecy this christmas didnt they
i had to start all over in neopets because my old account that i had when i was 10 got robbed so that sucked but you're absolutely right. the wealth disparity is insane and i feel like i can never catch up.
I started playing Neopets like 20 years ago but I always ended up leaving because most everything I wanted seemed vastly overpriced or even unobtainable. Literally the only reason I've come back to Neopets now is because watching your videos convinced me that TNT was actually trying to fix the economy and the insane inflation.
Like, I totally understand that the pea is supposed to be rare and for like the very, very top of Battledome. But I don't think that ANY item on Neopets should cost the insane amount that it used to cost.
Sure, maybe some other items would have been better to release over the pea. But any fucking item costing that much is just insane. People do not realize how CRAZY of a number a billion is, and that damn pea cost TWO of those.
Like. Yes. We should have rare ass items that we have to work towards but like. 2 BILLION?
TNT wanted to fix the economy and inflation, or at least it seems like they do. So people need to understand that to do that, nothing should be costing BILLIONS.
Was having a pretty stressful day today and this notification came at the perfect time to cheer me up ❤
Are those people aware, that if TNT DOESN'T rerelease rare items to drop prices and shit, the site will die? It's not fun for new players. It's not fun for a lot of old players because it's hard to make any amount of money that matters. How much will your pea be worth if they shut down Neopets?? People need to get over themselves. It's a PNG of a pea. It's not worth anything.
Your voice is so soothing and i love your take on PeaGate! I joined neopets again bc of your videos
I’m not that far in yet but if you’re ever stuck trying to get an item for dailies and nobody is stocked, you can buy something at the healing fountain and that will count!
Hello! Just popping in to say I also have a hyperfixation on 9/11, its been with me for probably the last 8 years and now i know way too much about American foreign policy in the middle east and sometimes I talk about it too much when im drunk 😅
6:46 If you buy an item from the Healing Springs, it'll count towards the neopian shops quest. Icy snowball for 5 np - Hope this helps!
40:55 My take might be different than most. Generally speaking, a majority of battledome players have asked for years for Defenders of Neopia to be fixed.
I know some have said, "Why can't the rich just enjoy getting the trophies" etc.
Since DoN is broken, players can't get said trophies. For those players, getting that trophy is like getting the snowbunny stamp pre quest system. It's a big deal to them.
Lastly, without a working 2 player skirmish option, every single challenge is manual. Prices on most weapons have deflated considerably; just not some that make the headlines.
As most bd weapons aren't single use, a lot of them just tend to sit and rot in shops or sdb without much purpose.
Re releasing SAP with day 1 quantity was going to make a lot more weapons follow suit; some like the Fan of Swords, which are actually good, and cost about 16m anyway.
watching your dressup was a game changer bcus for some reason i didn't think of the BE-GONE items as wearables, my dumb brain thought that it was a one-time use thing and then my neopet would never have eyes again x.x i literally know it doesn't work that way but u had to tell my brain that ig
Love how the minute literally anything happens in Neopets, Amanda already has a video ready to go for us
I love ur neopets videos (and all ur other videos) so so much. I also have medical anxiety, and when I can sleep or I'm just feeling really nervous your videos are always a really great comfort. Thank you!!!!!
yes yes yes to everything in your pea rant. I've been screaming from the rooftops essentially the same things about new players. We all are coming from that mindset of being 20 yr veterans in this game. If I was walking in today as a fresh player I would RUN SO FAST! and all of these changes are addressing that. AND I WANT NEW PLAYERS TO HAVE FUN AND LOVE THE SITE AS MUCH AS I DO!
Real talk I would love to see you do a video on battledome need to know! Like a battledome how-to.
Ok, I'm in. You have convinced me to start back up. I don't think I'm going to unearth my old childhood account, but like yeah I'm going to neopet. Just to have fun playing a videogame. I feel inspired and hopeful. As a kid I always wanted to paint my pet with a fairy paintbrush and after watching your last month of videos it feels like I can finally fulfil that childhood dream.
YAY for a late night upload! Perfect distraction from studying!
I agree with you. I DONT CARE ABOUT HOW EXPENSIVE AN ITEM IS. I just want the item because I wanna be happy. NOT because its worth a lot to the community
y’all i think i have molokai brainrot from binge rewatching all the acnh videos, im rlly sitting out here thinking “ooo i wonder how many points each of the villagers would’ve gotten in the altador cup, i wonder how many goose would get 🤓” plzz im literally still new to neopets idek what exactly the altador cup is 😭 im already having dreams about neopets tho it’s literally so slay also pleasee make more videos/streams where ur doing ur dailies n just chatting with us; chaotic or not either way it’s so nice i love the drama n theatrics of being on that chaotic dailies time crunch but also like for the sake of ur mental health plz be careful with that we will be here either way
I love these videos coz im a returning player who lives under a rock and doesnt use forums or have friends who play and i didnt know a damn thing about the pea
Mannnn I didn't know clicking the Aisha gave an extra item from a random pool =_= great vid thank you Amanda
My opinion on the whole Peagate situation as well as Neopets just giving everybody more expensive items in general, is that I feel that this kind of situation is temporary (pretty long but let me cook). It honestly feels like an effort to stabilize the market by taking power away from old money and botters. That being said, TNT has mentioned they will do rotating prize pools for weekly quests. I am predicting that when this is done, the weekly quests will either be for generally more accessible items, or for entirely new ones. Naturally, once they are out of rotation, the cost of these items will increase which will further expand the very active upper class of Neopia. I imagine if they go with the route of weekly rewards being completely brand new items, This can ensure that newly created limited release items will begin to accrue value once their accessibility has been removed. Effectively meaning that lower class players can have the potential to improve their financial situation by completing weekly rewards, participating in seasonal events, and holding onto those items once those rewards no longer become available. The same capabilities that longer term players can, and have utilized to gain their wealth during Neopets hay-day. This is a model that was adapted previously with Gaia online, which functions very similar to the Neopets market, and is also infamous for its inflators. Even Pokémon GO adopted this model when daily research tasks came out, as a weekly reward used to be for legendary Pokémon. This was to accommodate players who weren’t able to form raid parties, as the community was dwindling at the time. But now, as more and more legendary Pokémon become more and more accessible., obtaining a legendary from a weekly reward is no longer an option. Just a prediction, we’ll have to see what impact that has on the current playerbase. Still, though, I think some of these older players need to understand where they came from, and realizing that another person’s wealth does not diminish their own.
"Anyway I have this hyperfixation on 9/11. Do you guys ever do that?" It's like we are the same person I'm crying. Your videos bring me so much joy.
Please the curtains "whats back there" big made me laugh so loud I think I disturbed my neighbors.
With my only other pet game being Flight Rising before I joined Neopets, it was a shock but I knew what I was getting into when I signed up. I was super into neopets for a bit as a young kid but the site was too confusing for me back then and ever since I've been kinda living off of hearing whatever the hell whirlwind storm goes on there with each situation getting deeper and deeper, but hearing them go completley independant made me finally pick up interesting enough to try again and... Most if not all of my pets are painted now, and it feels like the things i want to do ARE achieveable. I kind of enjoy watching the rich upper percent of this platform squirm as things are lowered and become more obtainable. It's very fun.
the chaos of speedrunning dailies >>>>>
i also put off the ruffle extension bc i thought it was going to be like. . . coding? i don't know. proud of you for mustering up the courage to install the extension into chrome girl
Hey!! I would love to see you play My Time at Portia the deluxe edition is on sale right now for like less than 4 dollars but it’s pretty similar to stardew valley and harvest moon except the characters are kinda mean to you. Anyway I would love to see you create drama in that universe 😂
As an ex-neopets Player, playing since I was 9 years-old until I was 18 years-old, I gotta say I don't see an issue 🙃
Neopets have done this kind of thing of breaking the rarity of an item so many times before and each time I felt like this was a blessing because it was the only way of me fulfilling my dreams
My dream was to have a pirate paintbrush but it costed around 20kk neopoints. I read many guides on how to make millions of neopoints but the suggestions were restocking (which was impossible because of the bots) and playing games. By playing games you could make around 30k each day, so 960k per year
That meant 20 years of playing, it was ridiculous. Of course you can get luck and get a rare item that will make it go faster but it was not guaranteed and I gave up.
And then came the altador cup, the Haunted Woods were the first to win and the big prize was a halloween paintbrush. This means that if Krawk Island won, I'd get my pirate paintbrush and they had a shot. Three years later we won and I got my dream paintbrush! Also the price dropped to like 8kk so that was still crazy but less crazy haha
And that's what I'm talking about! We can have rare items but we need to have them at a reasonable price so that the average player can buy them if they go the extra-mile!
I don't know how things are today but in my time, getting a krawk or a draik was absurd, getting the avatar items like the MSP card and the stamps was literally impossible. I don't care if you are the only player to ever fulfill that stamp page, I want other players to have it too without hacking!
Anyway, that's my take on this situation, release the christmas pea! 😂
Ps. When I stopped playing I had 12kk because of this random rare items I got throughout the years, still no 20kk though, this is an insane amount. I still have no clue how people get over 100kk
absolutely living for the pea drama... so nov 6 tumblr coded
Healing springs counts as a 'buy'
Oooh I knew this video would be coming, my morning just got 100% better!
omg I've been waiting for you to talk about Peagate!! thanks for making amazing content!
My weekly quest has been resetting in the middle of the week despite me not missing a day... I feel like screaming
I'm personally glad TNT is re-releasing all these rare expensive items. There's been a few times in the last couple of years where I've debated just quitting neopets and finding a different pet sim to play, because everything just seemed so unobtainable. Now in the last few months alone I've been able to achieve most of my goals. I haven't had this much fun on neopets in years! I nearly cried the other day when they gave out Kadoaties in the advent calendar, I've been wanting one since I was a kid
The TENSION in the beginning of this video
I loved watching this while you did this frantically it was very real. You were the first person I started watching! I am getting back into neopets and rediscovered my 13 year old account lol
I usually watch with captions on because I can't be too loud at work and it kept on spelling the pea as pee and that made for some hilarious sentences
I've also returned to neopets after like a 10 year hiatus and omg the neostaff were so nice they let me reset my email from the dead one I made when I was 14 to my current one so I'm back and my Xweetok baby is still there, very hungry but still alive
purchases from the ever-stocked general store count towards the daily buying things quest!!!!! i have like 20 coffees with marshmallows in my inventory LMFAOO
the attack pea drama is baffling to me. personally, i'm not part of the neopian upperclass, but i do have the perspective of being part of another (waaaay smaller) virtual pet site's "elite." i have most of the nearly unobtainable pets, i'm a billionaire, etc. discussions of maybe re-releasing rare retired items, or allowing for duplicate pet names (tanking the name market) come up on occasion, and people get SO mad. but me? as a wise individual once said, "girl, it's just lines."
like at the end of the day we're playing with pretend money and png animals. who cares? let newbies have things too. i'm all for deflating ANY petsite economy at all costs, because at some point, they ALL need it.
i understand that some people worked hard (as hard as one can on a game, with fake money, where luck is such a huge factor) to achieve certain goals, but what they need to understand is that they did that work at a time where it was POSSIBLE to accomplish said goals. i'm not saying it was easy, just that it was easier. we're way past that. the point of re-releasing some of the most expensive items on-site isn't "Your hard work means nothing! Participation trophies for EVERYONE!" the point is to make everything at least POSSIBLE to obtain again.
it's just insane to me that anyone could have their ego so wrapped up in being better than everyone else on a virtual pet site because they happened to be playing at the right time that they can't stand the idea of anyone else having anything nice. that's just what it looks like to me.
The panic of doing your dailies in under 30min hits way too close to home. I can't wait to hear you talk about the Altador plot. It was somewhat painful.
Honestly, who was even buying Seasonal Attack Peas for a billion neopoints in the first place? At least Super Attack Pea gives you an avatar. If anything, the lower rarity would probably make it easier to sell and actually get some money. Like wait a couple months, and maybe you can make some coin off newbie players that didn't do the Advent Calendar.
I just got back into neopets from stumbling onto your fairy festival video (then binging all the stardew videos). I'm having trouble naming my pets, I'm about to make an Eyrie because I have an Eyrie pirate potion. I figured she's going to be my battle dome queen. I just don't know a cute/flirty/badass enough name for her. What helps you brainstorm pet names?
Can’t wait for you to make a video about the free Ice Hissi Morphing potion everyone got today on the advent calendar 😂😅
I started playing again (off and on) in the hopes i could acquire a kadoatie and lo and behold the one day i check the advent calendar has a SNOW kadoatie in it 😭😭😭
Amanda is such an icon!
Billionaires are the worst people, both irl and in Neopets lol we used to have a motto on Brazilian Neoboards that "battledomers stink" and it's relatable until these days.
I found your channel today while restocking, the Peagate situation is wild lol!
Thank god for this video, I didn'tknow about the drama till I saw some really funny posts and memes about it?? I'm so curious what the hell happened
"I don't think anyone would have a problem with us getting snowickles, I don't think anybody would have a problem with us getting the candychan stamp..." how does it feel to have dropped this prediction so early on lol
I dont know if anyone's mentioned this... But General Store in Neopia Central should always be stocked just in case you find yourself in this situation again.
I had no idea SAP were in the extra prize pool, So when I checked the neoboards later that day I was shocked to see everyone going crazy was like that 1 scene from SpongeBob where they're all running around😂. I started a new thread for the first time in a long time and asked someone to explain what was going on, and these 2 guys who were on different sides of the whole pea debate started arguing in the topic. But then they apologized and recognized each other's view points and were friendly after. We love to see character development 🤣
Also, I'm all for releasing rare items cause there should NOT be anything worth a BILLION neopoints, let alone 2!!! I've been playing on and off since 2000 and my dream was always a lost desert paint brush. I know it's not a crazy goal, But for a long time it seemed unobtainable to me. Because I just didn't have that much neopoints. And didn't know how to get a lot more. Now that I've been playing in more recent years and been more serious about it, I've been able to get a lost desert PB finally!!!! And I have other Painted pets and painted pet pets. And I've never had that before. So i'm so excited to be able to get items that I always thought were out of reach
I think it being a battledome item is a sticking point because either A) every battledome event is going to be absurdly easy for a much larger group of people which nerfs any battledome related events prizes to be worth much less or B) There's going to be some absurdly hard battledome events balanced around the assumption you have one, thus making one needed.
Also using it to stomp n00bs in pvp is something trolls are now mad they can't do without the risk of being pea'd on.
The community (especially on the site event boards) really made me feel sick. I saw someone call an ambassador a "filthy cheater who buys NP offsite" ... the post was removed by TNT while I was calling them out for it so he straight up said... they didn't say that?! The ambassador agreed with me as they saw the post then a few people started calling them a liar?!
Girl I hyperfixated on the moon landing (including the conspiracies) I totally feel that
I wonder if Amanda would ever do a let’s play of The Darkest Faerie
yesss... just as I wished for... THE amandafiles scoop on the pea drama... yesss....
If things hadnt changed I wouldnt be playing again. Seeinh the prices on literally anything I wanted be millions and millions... all the mid level weapons be unbuyable...It was SO unfair...
I played a few days and then got discouraged. Now I get the money I had to GRIND FOR in a few silly tasks everyday... and FINALLY. Its a GAME.
I totally get the 9/11 thing. I hyper fixate on it yearly and also got sucked into the iceberg video. 😂
i feel like every conversation abt petsim economies always boils down to what feels like either a fundamental misunderstanding/wilful ignorance about one thing specifically. it is ok for an item to be rare and expensive. however. it is not fine for things to be THAT inflated. it NEEDS to drop. it is insane and not ok. there is a recent suggestion in flight rising to add the year 1 festival items to a randomized treasure box each player can buy 1 of every month. there were so many older players who already owned items like the light sprite (the first festival item ever, basically. when the site was brand new and unstable, so there is very few of them) complaining it would tank the value of the sprites even though these specific treasure boxes have a) a huge pool of items to pull from and b) there's already a high value apparel item IN the prize pool and it still maintains a very high price with little fluctuation. LIKE. LISTEN IT CAN STILL COST A LOT OF MONEY BUT WHO IS BUYING IT FOR 100 THOUSAND GEMS EXCEPT YOU PEOPLE SWAPPING THEM BACK AND FORTH OR HOARDING THEM AHH
drop the link for the 3 hour long 9/11 iceberg video 👀👀👀
I've been playing Neopets for over a year now and I still can't afford shit!! Glad we're talking about how wild that is...
Man the last thing i expect was SEASONAL ATTACK PEA DRAMA
i just recently got a mutant gelert too! one of my ultimate dreamies and the quest log weekly reward came 👏 through 👏 !!
Funny thing, I was testing to see if someone on neopets named their neopet SeasonalAttackPea and they did, lol 😂
goddamn altador plot. it's literally harder now than when i was a kid because everything's broken. having done it a couple months ago i remember a few points i was stuck at so feel free to reach out if u get stuck anywhere.