Lack of updates and continuing to grow?
A lot of old virtual pet sites continue to grow without updates. Giropets, Venetopia and Zetapets are three prime examples of virtual pet sites that continue to grow without new updates… Why is this? Why are users continuing to play a dead virtual pet site? Isn’t a pet site considered dead if its not updated at all? Maybe a year or two? What makes a virtual pet site dead? Well, we’re firm believers of if a virtual pet site isn’t updated, changed, or edited in about a few months, then it’s dead.
We’re talking about good updates such as; new features, new art, new staff, etc… If a virtual pet site continues to grow without updates (lack of), then we might know the reasons why…
Let’s take Zetapets as our first example; they’re listed in DMOZ and various gaming directories on the web today and a lot of their users continue to refer their friends as they tend to use Zetapets as a social networking virtual pet site instead of running to Myspace to chat with their friends. Zetapets runs on two servers - and loads fast, so to the average new pet site user they may see Zetapets as the pet site to go. Why is this though? Well, we’re not exactly sure. Zetapets always has over 100 users online during peak hours, 40 guests and has a member base of over 500,000 users. Could it be because of their DMOZ listing and various listings on the web? If you know why, then please let us know!
Our next example is Giropets. Giropets currently ranks on various search engines for “virtual pet site”, “virtual pet”, “virtual pets”, and its owner is currently using Giropets as a profit-resource and it continues to receive new members and we’re not sure why. It’s owned by quite a wealthy person and they’re listed on Topwebgames (with an advertisement) and with such an advertisement on the pet games directory, they continue to receive new members. Giropets isn’t that good, nor is Zetapets, so why are these two pet games continuing to grow without updates?
Venetopia hasn’t been updated in years and really should be taken down - and moved to a new pet site since their users have nothin to do.
Random events that you can receive while browsing Kiropets
You see pluto walking by and she hands you 1798 , gee, what a nice girl!
You see Shadiyah walking by and she hands you 1336 , gee, what a nice girl!
You see a Glowing Fairy walking by and he hands you 1683! Wow!
You see Frookan walking by and he hands you 1369 , gee, what a nice guy!
You are walking through an alley and notice a Flame Sword on the floor.
You are walking and you see and sack that looks like it contains money you open it and find 100,000 KP, an evil Drakno comes up and steals all of it!! Awwww, to bad.
You see a bank robber running past you that robbed the bank you run as fast as you can to trip him and get the money for the bank. You trip him successfully, and the cops are on the way to take him away. The bank awards you with 1653 KP!
Did we miss one? Post a random event that you’ve received on Kiropets here.