Virtual Pets Blog

One of our largest sites in our network, Virtual pet list has finished 2007 off with a high note - and with one of the greatest internet comebacks that that the virtual pet community has ever seen. With the merger of Virtual pet list of Virtual pet forums occuring in early September - many users decided to either, go with the flow - or run away from the community - because they couldn’t trust us - or didn’t believe that we could unite both communities and create a great community, however, with all the haters - and bad publicity, we’ve managed to make 2007 a great year for us, and we hope 2008 will be an even better year for us.

In the year of 2007, our owner, Carlos Andrade was interviewed by TheAdminZone.
We’ve had the following accomplishments for 2008 thus far: Theadminzone chooses Virtual pet list as the featured community for January 2008.

So, you don’t believe us? As of this writing - and we believe that these stats will double by the end of the year, Virtual pet list currently has 7,352 threads, 92,010 posts, and 2,541 members. So, we’re working hard this year - just like last year, and we hope this year won’t have any downtime - or database crashes like 2007 endured, but we believe, with a new year, brings many changes - and we hope to increase our overhaul activity, and reach even wider audiences.

With the talks of Neopets’ (Neostudios) in the works - and with that rumored to happen at the end of the year - we will be the #1 site on the web bringing users updates to all neostudious - changes and such, so stay tuned for that.

So, what’s going to happen to Virtual pet list in 2008? Well, my vision has always been creating a great community - and a great portal - so hopefully this year will be our greatest ever. We hope to reshape the community, and bring many different things - such as, a blog for the main site - with updates, news, rumors, and interviews surrounding our current niche. Hopefully we can branch off - and reach different niches, all within one domain name. But without the staff members to push our community to the limits, it can’t be done, but currently with our high-profile staff members, we believe our vision can be made possible - and bring our users to change. But without our active members & supporters, change may be hard, but we’re all for it.

We’re going to try our best to be more active, and promote our site to the masses - and hopefully strike more partnerships - with bigger profile sites in our niche, such as, other neopets cheating sites - or neopets fansites that are dedicated to one virtual pet site - and that’s Neopets, however, with partnerships, bring change, and with partnerships, we’ll be able to attract the neopets users to our users - which means, more users for all the virtual pet site owners - but of course, the drama needs to stop - and the owners need to come together and be nicer to one another, and not strive to attention whores. We agree with Tezeti who has said multiple times that “pet games should not be a competitive industry”, but instead be more of a fun - industry, where users come together and share ideas, and help one other succeed.

But, without the force trying to stop the drama, and making the community come together, it may be tough, but change is coming, and we’re the people to bring change. Not, the people who always vision change, but never do, no, no, that’s not us. We’re risk-takers, and if we say something is to be done, then we’ll do it.

So, of course, you guys will possible see a new era on Virtual pet list real soon - such as, the main site coming back, with a ton of changes - and instead of directories, everything will be blog-powered, and users can submit comments that every single pet site listed.

As we’ve just entered the year 2008 - we’ve yet to see any virtual pet site owners post goals - or announce their goals for the year, but seeing how we’re one of the strongest forces in our community, we’ve decided to create some goals for certain pet site owners, and hope that they can reach them at the end of the year. It’s quite a challenge, but these goals can be met if the owners - and staff members of the pet sites can work harder, launch advertising campaigns, and bust out a lot of new features for their users.

1: Rescreatu should peak at 200+ users online by 2009 and have over 250,000 registered users. Rescreatu should also have over 5,000 items, more lands to explore and more features. Also, more pets. So, we’ll give Rescreatu til January 1, 2009 to reach these goals.

2: Marapets should have the following goals in mind for the new year:
peak at over 5,000 online, have over 5 million users, and be one of the largest pet sites in the new year (it is already, but is rarely talked about).

3: Subeta should have the following goals in mind for 2008:
peak at over 3,000 - 5,000 users online, have over 350,000 users and surpass Marapets in terms of activity.

So, the new year as just begin and we’ve only posted goals for 3 of the pet sites that we think should work on a few goals this year. Are we biased? We don’t think so, these pet sites are just the ones that we favor the most - and love to talk about.

So, do you think Subeta can surpass Marapets in the next year - or will the talk of their recode continue to be their hype? Their recode has recently gone live, on a test server, and is currently in alpha or beta testing for their users, so we should see it go live on the main site soon.

As 2007 is coming to an end, it’s time for us to review the year. So far, so good for the major pet sites - as Neopets, Marapets and Subeta going to grow, however; before December comes to a close - we’ll have to discuss Powerpets - and its latest version, which is the new powerpets.

Marapets & Subeta both have had its fair share of publicity in 2007 - with the advertisements being the main talk of Mara, and the longcat + staff firings for Subeta - 2008 is looking pretty good for both of these games (will Mara finally get better art in 08?). But look at the bright side, without the bad & good publicity for both Marapets & Subeta, users probably wouldn’t join - because publicity helps people decide whether or not to join the site - because if its boring, they won’t join.

So, was 2007 a good or bad year for Marapets & Subeta? Why was it good? Why was it bad? You tell us.

As of December 26, 2007, Marapetshas 2,669,198 players.. Marapets currently peaks at around 2,500 - 3,000 users.
As of December 26, 2007, Subeta currently has 188,576 registered users and currently peaks at around 800 - 1,000 users.

Is Subeta showing Mara that a pet site can grow without a huge advertising campaign - which Marapets has done multiple times this year? Marapets has spent at least $5,000 on advertising campaigns this year - and will probably launch more in the new year. Why does Subeta continue to grow without much advertising from its staff members? Are the users promoting or? Let us know.

Let’s not forget about the small pet sites. Rescreatu has been growing pretty fast ever since it launched last year - and celebrate its first milestone this year, 20,000 users. Its now growing at a steady 100 - 200 new users a day and is peaking at 100 - 200 users online. As growth has been steady for Rescreatu, a lot of users have been going around saying that they don’t have a lot of features, however; the main attraction of Rescreatu is their find a egg - and create a pet feature - which continues to bring the users back.

Misticpets finally opened to the public, and as 3,600 members as of today - and currently peaks at 20 - 50 users online. Not bad for being opened for a month or two, eh?

Ichumon recently opened up a week or two ago as well - and currently has 300+ members and peaks at 20 - 30 users online. They’re going pretty good if I do say so myself.

Another bad year for Zetapets though, they continue to peak at 100 - 150 users online - without any major updates, however; Tigress continues to say that v3 will be out by next year. Do you believe it? Zetapets currently has 528,812 registered users.

On a side note, we still believe 2007 was a bad year for pet sites and we hope 2008 is a lot better.