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by chipuni 1018 days ago
Up until June 30, Neopets had been owned by Jumpstart Games. They didn't do much with their IP.

The IP has been purchased by "World of Neopia", who have $4 million to modernize and re-open Neopets.

Source: https://people.com/neopets-launches-new-era-website-7563280

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Their main user base is driven by nostalgia. Hopefully their attempts to modernize don't go so far as to alienate their existing users.

Right now they have a god awful synthesis of three types of GUI wrappers for their webpages, so as you navigate across the site nothing stays consistent. Sometimes the language will randomly change to Spanish. It's website gore.

If they would spend the money to create a consistent user experience across all their pages, not introducing one page at a time, but actually biting the bullet and pushing the change across the whole site, that would be a step in the right direction.