Comments on: Neopets Starts Selling Virtual Stuff

by: kakakakak

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:57:31 +0000

thats fucking stupid LOSERS!!!

by: Erick

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 00:16:31 +0000

I’ve actually played Neopets for years, through and now past my “tween” years. I think it’s a horrible practice and is ruining the site that many use as a way to escape the pressures of consumerism. With Neopoints as a currency anyone can be a millionaire if they played well. Now, it’s just another site with evils, that come hand in hand with capitalism, blaring in plain view.

by: Matt

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:23:44 +0000

Well, depends on what you mean by odd. I don’t think that’s any odder than running tv commercials for toys, which are, after all, designed to get the kid asking the parents for money to buy a toy.

Whether encouraging consumerism among kids is bad is another discussion, but I don’t think there’s any difference between physical and virtual consumerism.

by: Ola Fosheim Grøstad

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:51:07 +0000

You have to admit there is something rather odd about online paper-doll sites which present the kid with a page asking her for the parent’s email so they can send the parents a please-please-buy-me-some-virtual-monies email!? Or no?

by: Matt

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 06:54:32 +0000

Well, you’re selling a permission to something when you sell something virtual, no different than selling a kid a movie ticket. Can’t take either experience with you, etc.

by: Cousin Martha

Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:16:44 +0000

I am not sure about the ethics of selling virtual things to children. It’s certainly something to think about.

The idea of conditioning this impressionable group of consumers to think that buying virtual things is a good idea is and ABOLUTE STROKE OF GENIOUS.