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[Nightshadow]

Marapets is a good site. I dont like the part where parents have to fax a signed letter to get the young acc. upgraded to everything because not everyone has a scanner. Some don't even have email. Everything else is good with the site except that they promise to much and it takes forever for the "promised things" to come out. I wasn't coming on marapets for a while because Ian kept promising the undying festival, but it never happened. So i come back on and it was already in the second week of it and Im like "finallly!" I didnt feel like participating at this point. Oh yeah. They never even had the Marapets Olympics. Why advertise it and never do it? Thats something that I dont like about the site. They promise and it either takes forever or it never comes out. Yeah I know they were updating the site at that time, but dont say anything about stuff while your updating because you get your users mad and they wont come on anymore. I think they need to make more pets that arent limited edition though and those that are limited edition they need to have more missions for like the Chibs, Lati, and Ercuw. I do like this site and appreciate the efforts that Ian, Laymay, and the crew have put into the site.

[iGuest]

Marapets all the wayReview Of Marapets

Ok. First of all the stupid 10 year olds that are complaining about Marapets because its harder then clicking an Ad or Buying a  Fluffy toy, Shut it. Marapets is a game of Experianced players who Know what they are doing. In Mara if you try and earn Mp buy playing some baby games then you are at a loss. Marapets is 200x better than neopets for many reasons.This information is all true.

 1.) Mara doesn't lie. Some time in 2003 the Neopolian times said something about a Mis-firing Lab Ray that made Pets stats drop. That was a lie. A hacker caused it. I was there and my pets stats were lowered and thay never raised it again.

 2.) Mara is fair to all players. Neo likes some players over others and those certain players get all the perks in Neo. Sometimes, If the Neo team finds a player to rich, they will ban the account for no reason (not kidding)

Urban Dictionary's Defination for Neopets:

 An online game that started out good, like Pokemon but now is horribly bad.

Now if You'll excuse me, I'm going to play Marapets

 

[Ousk]

1.5 out of 5 come on man it's not that bad. It looks kind for simple for us but you have to look from a 13 year old kid's eyes.
I like it, simple, the colors and artwork is nice, easy to use, with some funny games.
I give it at least 3.3 out of 5.

[iGuest]

Time upReview Of Marapets

I like marapets but I have no idea about neopets. I've visited the site but it looked too boring to sign up. Mind you when I got on it, it was actually written in CHINESE! One bad thing about marapets though is it has been 24 hours and they still haven't  gave me excess to forums or anything like that--clubs, maramail, things like that. What do I do?

-reply by Twilight5242

 

[iGuest]

Reply about MarapetsReview Of Marapets

I've played Marapets for just shy of a year and a half now. Yes somtimes the site goes hay wire with glithes or sever errors. How ever for a site run by a young adult it funtions very well. As for the admins I find they do they job when ever I have needed them.

[iGuest]

marapets reviewReview Of Marapets

some of u take this way to seriously. These sites are made 4 entertainment purposes only and who really cares which one is the best. Its actually nice 2 see a website that gives a damn about its younger members. Big deal u have 2 send an email or fax. If it helps protect against pedophiles and means u can check wat your child is lookin at then surely its a good thing. Slagging of a bunch of 10 yr olds 4 voicing thier opinions is as childish as it gets. Clearly marapets was designed with all ages in mind and it does not matter how experienced u r everyone has 2 start somewhere. I can use that site perfectly fine and this is the first time I have ever used a virtual pets site,so for those of you that think u r superior to all those ten yr olds just because u figured out a website that is mainly aimed at children, GET A LIFE. Its just a game. U don't need 2 b a mencer candidate 2 figure it out u just need practice, so don't go thinkin your a genius.

-reply by charlenejade

 

[iGuest]

Stop hating neopets! I have done that site for a little over two years and love it and my neopet daerly! While I'll admit that marapets does seem more involved with its pets than neo, I have yet to find any major problem with it! The site is very enjoyable for anyone. Please keep in mind that I am nearly a legal adult before thinking that this is a review coming from a little kid. And as for all of your 'mara is amazing' reviews, no site is perfect, and this one is no exception. I realize that I am giving neopets the same glowing review that marapets has been given by more than one of you, but with all the haters out there, it seemed only fair that neopets get a good review as well. And if numbers are that big a deal, neopets has over 1 million total owners versus the few thousand marapets owners.

-reply by Guest

[iGuest]

1.5 seems too low of a rating for Marapets. A 3.5 would be better, or even a 3.3. Marapets now currently has over 3 million members and has one single coder, one single artist, and a many dedicated members as there staff. In my eyes, compared to Neopets, Marapets is by far, better then Neo. Sure, Marapets might have some glitches and errors once in a while but understand that there is only one person doing the coding and probably 90% of the work on the ENTIRE site. Marapets may have some rude members but if you learn to ignore all the hate and everything, Marapets is a amazing place to make friends and have fun. Neo, on the other hand, has mostly rude members and newbies who are treated like crap just cause they ask questions about the site. On Mara, some newbies are treated poorly but there are members who are willing to answer their quesions and help them begin on the site.As for the form that must be sent if your under 13, it is to protect the forums of marapets and the younger children. It might be work but it will be worth it to have your child protected.Also, considering the fact you wrote this 4 years ago, your review is clearly outdated and should be disregarded by others.I have been on Marapets for 3 years now and it is much simpler and beter then Neopets. But this is my own opinion. I've been through much of the dismay of errors and the site crashing but when it was back up, everything went back to normal and new events came out. Neopets may have tons of coders and artists but it's just not as special as Marapets is.-reply by Aurasan

[iGuest]

Neopets vs other sites?Review Of Marapets

There seem to be a trend with comparing Neopets to other sites lately..I´ve been on that site for over 9 years now, lurking, playing, observing..But the last 2 years I´ve actually become utterly bored, annoyed and actually a tad irritated at Neopets..Not at the site, the users or anything like that, but the lack of accountability and the fact that you cannot for your life make sure that their staff is adressing a glitch or even bothering when something is clearly wrecking havoc. It´s like it´s 200 miles between the users on the site and the staff. The only time the users can ask questions is through their so-called "newspaper", an in-game produced thing with members filing stories, comics and so on..There they have an editorial where users are supposedly able to turn with questions and then they get to hope that they get an answer.

Thing is, the editorial looks the same, week after week. Nothing but small questions about what faeries come from, what´s their favourite pet, is this or that allowed and so on.. The asking about rules and situations, yes, I can understand that..But of all important questions there are, they never choose to answer something that actually helps the people playing. If a pet for example looses their clothes (items attached through the pet through so called painting, an act where a magical paintbrush gives the pet a new appearance) through a glitch on the site, the player is left to fix it by him or herself. Now, Paint brush clothes can, while they´re expensive, be replaced.. But then we have "special" colours that are obtained through something called The secret Laboratory. THOSE clothes can´t be replaced.Thing is, without the clothes the pet looks just regular, all that painting or zapping, as it´s called when the laboratory causes the colour-change, all has been for naught.The player has to then either choose to repaint his or her pet to another colour or keep zapping and hope for the best, unless there´s a helpful person willing to aid with missing clothes or other items.

There are other glitches as well, not to mention the now half-insane language filter which censors words as it sees fit (since when is the word "back" in the meaning "mail me back" been a bad word?) and then there´s the moderators that sometimes go out on warning/suspension-sprees.. A friend of mine got warned because she had mentioned that she needed to leave the board so she could eat breakfast.

The "no real world topics"-rule is also insane..While I understand that some topics shouldn´t be brought up, I also understand that if someone wants to talk to their friends about the weather or something, it´s no biggie.. The rule also don´t seem to cover things like Nickelodeon-characters, shows, incidents in shows and similar. I´d rather see the site write better rules on the topic, or be consistent..As it is now, no one really knows what is what, since one person gets a warning while another don´t for the same apparent breaking of rules.

This confusion is also a ground for the growing rudeness generally seen on some boards. I would like to point out though that some people seem to think that other people are rude because they won´t give away one of those magic paint brushes or items of a high value for free so it´s a question of interpretation there.. As it is now, they have a "no namecalling" rule, which the more opportunist members of the community has chosen to interpret as "it´s against the rules to point out to me that I´m begging, because you´re then calling me a beggar, and that´s namecalling..So give me my stuff now!"

I´m still on that site, but I keep to myself, my friends, my pets, I follow some events that show up annually and that´s it..The general atmosphere on the site isn´t inviting to interact with other people more than necessary anymore.

Another quick notice is that the adverts have increased to an obscene amount since 2007. Some parts have a hard time loading now, with areas made over to be little animated hamlets or similar together with annoying banners and adverts loading all over the place. You can get rid of them with firefox, but if you´re stuck, like me, on the IE8..Then you´re bound to get problems.

But all isn´t bad..There are a few bright lights among the users..It´s too bad that they feel they have to do the work that the site moderators and staff actually could and should do instead of them.

-reply by Meep

[brittmortimer]

i have looked at Marapets, and i have to say if i was like 9 to 12, i would have loved the game, but i am not, i don't like the colors of the site nor the design of the site. overall i would rate the site with 5 out of 10 stars, its a kids game, not for the older people. ^.^

Edited by brittmortimer, 29 July 2009 - 01:43 PM.