kewlsville

Is Satan also blocked?  I never remember all of these names being blocked in the past?

Wow.. I never knew people could make so much money off neopets!

Did you guys make most of your money from selling accounts or NPs?

Wow!  Thank you.  Will definitely try this!

I've noticed my shop doing better business lately as well, though just by a few thousand a day

This is a tad lengthy so I marked it in a spoiler so as not to derail the thread. 

 

Spoiler

I like the rewards for fighting, but the overall changes were for the worse, so far, I think.

No incremental challenge means once you've beat something once.. that's it. Challengers not gaining hp after a loss takes away any reason to challenge yourself on it past the first win. (I know high hp pets could trivialize every 1 player fight with wodf or i-staff, but those are special cases) --- I remember the 700 boost, 10 HP pet Danger .. The stuff he was doing was pretty epic.. and now that's gone, unless they add back in hp gain.

I like the idea of the faerie ability revamp, but I feel like BD lost a lot with it. Burrow and Sink were something special in the strategy department that really needed to be used well.. There's no real answer to that in the current system.
(Example. You know your opponent still has a gbomb to throw.. But you still have burrow.. The timing of that one burrow could lose or win you the fight. Then they can blast you with something to trap you into burning sink as well... Boom, full damage bomb)

The loss of stances in favor of the constant faerie abilities could have been good if the faerie abilities had something to truly match an all out berserk attack. Or something to appeal to the turtles like defensive stance spamming.

Then there's the obvious fact that they just threw darts at a board to pick what abilities do what in each tier. ... At level 50 you can get this minor inconvenience .... or once per day freezer... or this once per match freezer ..... Choose wisely!

Oh you're level 500? .. Let's reward you with... 4 extra icons to one attack.... once a day ... Don't laugh at us! .. WE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH THOROUGHLY!!

Now.. there are some cool abilities to be had --- But they are massively overshadowed (to me) by the absolute mindlessness of the execution of the system as a whole.

And wars seem to have gone away in favor of plots with battle segments. This isn't an all bad thing.. If they had full on wars, too. That was my favorite thing in neo.. War plots. From looking over the plots I missed, it seems like the battling was just a little segment to shut up the battledomers more than a focus. To be fair though, I wasn't here for them, so I could be pleasantly surprised.

I don't plan on leaving anytime too soon.. But once my pet is built up and I have a decent set, there's a very real chance that I will burn myself out on the whole thing that I see as an overall detrimental system.

Wow!  Well thought out response!