Neopets.com (www.neopets.com)
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One of the first and best established virtual pet sites, Neopets is a free, ad-supported service that will soon be combined real toys that contain passwords to unlock additional content. So while it will remain free, there will be more content that is locked unless you have a key. If you're looking for free games, you won't be disappointed in Neopia, with 200 activities, 54 species of Neopets, 16 lands, and hundreds of characters and stories. Neopets was created in the UK by two programmers (Adam Powell and Donna Williams). You start by creating and decorating your own pet which is both free and fun. You can then battle with other people, trade items and earn Neopoints by playing games. The site is packed with both advertising and addicting games. Player's pets and progress is saved automatically. In 2006, Viacom purchased Neopets and started integrating the brand into the Nickelodean family of products. In 2008, a new Neopet Application called PetPetPet Habitats is planned, created in Adobe AIR, so that Neopet elements can exist on a computer desktop that deals with the Neopets’ pets’ pets, such as fleas, for example. The desktop application makes it possible to connect back to the Neopets website. Also new is a line of password-encoded plush toys ($8 each) and trading cards ($2), being distributed by toymaker Jakk's Pacific, that can be used to unlock online content, following the successful Webkinz model. The new initiative, called Neopets Key Quest will operate within Neopets.com, which will remain free, the codes will be required to unlock what Nickelodean calls "premium play experiences." The line of plush toys come with names like Pink Bruce, Yellow Kacheek, and Plushie Jub Jub; with limited editions with names like Gold Shoyru. All the products will converge and tie into a new multiplayer world called “Neopets Key Quest.” NeoCash cards, which launched in 2007 are another form of cash payment for Neopets’ virtual items and tie into Key Quest by unlocking special Collector Case decorative themes.
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