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The new Powerpets is now up- with a brand new design and all of the old servers now redirect to the main domain of Powerpets.com - with new layout, brings many changes..

Here are some of the comments posted by their users:

I wish I could give a thumbs up, but I’m really disappointed with the new membership thing. I would WAY rather have ads than have to pay for something that we used to be able to get. I don’t know how appealing this will be to me anymore. I love you guys for giving me a great 3 years on the site, but some of these changes are not something I’m happy with. Hopefully I’ll be able to adjust, but I know that I spent SO much time on the discussion board reading over everyone’s ideas, and now I can’t do that. :/

The site looks nice and I can really understand why you did things the way you did them. I guess just after five years here I’m a little disappointed in the membership. I really won’t be able to afford that per month to continue accessing the boards I did before and fear I’ll lose a lot of the friends I have here because of it. I sort of feel like I’ve been told that the few credits I was able to buy to access what was important to me just wasn’t good enough.

While I like most of the changes, I do have a probem with the membership charges. I had already paid in for over 3 months on the Poco21 board and for the animated avatars, but now I’m going to have to pay in 50 credits for access for a month? That doesn’t seem fair to me. I might be willing to pay a little more for access, but going from 3 credits a month for Poco21 to 50 is excessive to say the least.

Superb graphics, looks great. Good work. What I really don’t understand is this, though: ‘Members Only Server Access - The ultimate benefit. Members are allowed to log into members only servers. These servers have limited access and are expanded as more members join up. Your access is faster than it is on the Public Servers.’ — So, if you are a person that can’t donate $5 a month (or $60 annually), you must stay on the public server. And not the member server, which is faster. Does this affect restocking? For me, restocking is what has kept me on PP so long and kept me dedicated. Sounds like members have an advantage over nonmembers at making pbs, since they’ll be on the faster server, thus having a quicker restock time, thus making more pbs, which doesn’t sound very fair. However, I might be misanalyzing it - hope I’m wrong

Those are just 4 comments posted by their users - and if you’d like to read more, then check out their latest post announcing the new Powerpets which can be located at their Small updates.

So, the question remains - do you guys like the new Powerpets or do you hate it? Tell us why.

According to last week’s issue of the Powerpress, Powerpets plans to release the butterfly project sometime this week.

On a good note, the new Powerpets is tentatively scheduled for Friday, December 21st. As mentioned in previous editions, if we go live on the 21st, we will be closing the site down on the day before (20th). Good time for all you pokies to get your last minute Christmas shopping done!

On a side note last week’s issue of the power press will be the last edition ever:

This will be the final edition of the Power Press. Any news or updates will be posted in the Site Updates. Nora’s Review and Dr. Sayahh will still be available but located in a different area of the site. We will relay that information to you when it becomes available. The site helper award will also still be available so please, don’t stop helping your fellow citizens.

Will you guys miss the power press?

This was posted on the Powerpress on November 25, 2007.

Since we really want to show you our new version of Powerpets this upcoming time of year, it was decided that we will try and move everyone over to the new version between December 10th and December 17th.

So, are you guys anticipating the launch of the new Powerpets?
We’ve been lurking on Powerpets, and so far; we’ve come across the following images (screen pictures) of the new powerpets.

So, do you guys like the new picture shots of the new Powerpets - or do you guys not like them? Let us know what you guys think about the latest version of Powerpets!