Virtual Pets Blog

Have you guys ever thought to yourself what would the be reason to Marapets’ downfall? Well, we believe that all the advertisements that Marapets has will be the downfall. Users hate advertisements and Marapets is no exception. They have over 5 advertisements per page - 3 of them are google adsense’ ads and a bunch of other ones are from CPM companies that pays Marapets per every thousand pageview.

Marapets lacks flash games and if they plan to beat Neopets - or at least; attract more of their users, they need to release new flash games. Marapets death will be Ian’s fault for not focusing on the site in the user’s view. It’s turning around and taking a huge fall with all the advertisements, but we have an answer. Are you sick of the advertisements on Marapets? We are too and that’s why we use mozilla firefox with ad block. If Marapets wants to place more advertisements, then we’ll just block them all!

After all, how are we supporting them? We’re supporting them by playing Marapets, attracting more users, and spending money on the account upgrades. We’ve never purchased an account upgrade and we will never buy one - however; the money earnt by browsing Marapets is only making mara richer to invest into new features, right? Wrong - have we seen any new flash games? Nope, just dress up games. Dress up games are boring, we want more flash games.

If Neopets didn’t learn by having advertisements - and having their advertisements blocked by the users, then Marapets will. The advertisements are ridiculous and they have to go. Why do they need so many if the have account upgrades?

Remember to place the following in your ad filter (new filter use * as a wildcard):
http://images.marapets.com/adverts.htm
http://www.images.marapets.com/adverts4.htm
http://www.images.marapets.com/adverts5.htm
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-7223652464040910

If the advertisements aren’t the downfall of marapets then what do you think will be the cause of their downfall?

Retired avatars on Marapets. These avatars are now retired and can no longer be found.

	Was available on advent calendar December 2004.
	Was Available 25th December 2004.
	Only available from the Advent Calendar on 24th December 2005.
	Was found Easter 2005.
	Was found by completing Easter Egg Hunt 2006.
	By viewing an error page
	Purchase a Filondor from War Redemption shop.
	“Create a Gonk” was an april fools day avatar. 2006
	Was Available from the Megatastic Marapop Extravaganza July 2006.
	Was found from the Advent Calendar 18 December 2005.
	Only available April 1, 2005.
	Available during Trick or Treat Halloweeen 2005.
	Was available on 31st October 2004.
	Was found by selecting a side in the war June 2007

If you know of any retired avatars that we don’t have listed yet, then please let us know by commenting.

These avatars can be earnt / found by doing jobs.

	Get your marapet a job as an astronaut.
	Resign your pet’s job as a Dish Washer.
	Get your pet a Carnie job and collect it’s income.
	Have a Digital pet with a Hacker job.
	Get your pet a job promotion from Lab Clerk to Lab Assistant.
	Random when collecting income from Campaign Worker job.
	Click “more details” on the Drama Queen job at the Job Centre.
	Get a pet with level 50+ music the Karaoke King job and collect incom

If you know of any other job avatars then please post them here.