Only reason I'd even consider paying for neopets is because once you give them money, you're more able to hold them accountable when they fuck up and close an account "for your protection." Among other things.
Once the service is no longer free, they chain themselves down to a much stricter service requirement. And, of course, open themselves up to lawsuits.
I personally think that Viacom will eventually release some sort of option, whether it be an expensive item or an event or something, that will allow you to change certain pets back to UC. Because they're losing a lot of their
fanbase and I think bringing back UC pets would be a great way to bring people back.
Agreed. Standardizing all their pets into one pose makes wearables possible, and I like some of the wearables options, but they really dumbed down a lot of the designs and made them chubby little cutesies that aren't nearly as fun to look at (the Jetsam is a perfect example of this). Also a lot of the paint jobs for the current art just look very, very lazy and not nearly worth the time or effort of getting the brushes.
I'd love to be able to revert pets. Neopets should realize by now that people aren't ever going to completely get rid of UC pets so they won't really ever be able to get rid of all the information for those pets that's sitting around on their serves.
Of course, doing that would also destroy the UC-selling market. The screaming would be audible from the stratosphere. XD