for someone who doesnt really play neopets anymore but still wants in on this juicy drama, could you explain all the hullabaloo thats going on with the cc event?
Since this CC is such a mess I have decided the best way to explain is with a timeline type list. So here we go:
0. People spend all year prepping for charity corner by hoarding sticky snowballs.
(If you don’t know, sticky snowballs are a big deal. They are marked as ultra rare and worth 8 points in CC but you can buy one every half an hour for only 25 neopoints. People hoard thousands and have alarms set to go off every 30 minutes. Even at work or while sleeping)
1. TNT delays charity corner for months because they “want it to be perfect” so people already had high expectations.
2. Charity corner finally starts and people realize they’re only getting 1 single point for sticky snowballs specifically instead of 8. Every other item value is untouched.
3. People become very angry and claim this was done out of spite and TNT hates their userbase.
4. The site is already lagging due to CC. To be petty people start donating thousands and thousands of sticky snowballs to the money tree instead which makes the lag even worse.
5. People finally click on the button to view prizes and realize there are absolutely no perks to buy this year and instead a tiny prize shop of soon to be worthless items. There are also 3 mystery boxes.
6. The mystery boxes? People began opening them.. it turns out there was actually less than a 1% chance of getting a rare item. The items you get could be as low in rarity as r1.
7. There is no mass donation button. You have to manually check off 15 items and you cannot leave the tab as the slow unskippable animation goes on between each donation
8. It was taking hours to donate due to lag and the slow method of doing so
9. People were spending well over 3 hours to donate enough for one mystery capsule (originally 4500 points)
10. Since sticky snowballs are only worth one point nobody was prepared. They were forced to donate much more expensive items
11. People were wasting hours and extra thousands and thousands of neopoints on new items to donate only to open a mystery capsule and receive one item worth even less than 1000np in return
12. People lose it and begin attacking TNT as well as anyone who defends them
13. Everyone starts cancelling their premium membership and encouraging others to do so too.
14. TNT posts an update on an unofficial discord server well before the actual website.
15. TNT finally posts onsite saying they want to have “open ended dialog” with users then proceed to ignore everyone and punish the people who were criticizing them.
16. As part of the update they decrease the prize shop prices massively and apparently add 1 extra percent to the chance of getting a rare item (no one has yet btw) They also promise to refund points already spent and give everyone an extra 500 points to save their skin.
17. Everyone still spends all night bashing TNT (Especially Tony P.) and throwing every complaint at them at once. Including multiple other issues such as how they handle the LGBT community and some of the questionable content on the site. A lot of people were frozen and permasilenced.
18. The next day no one has been refunded yet but TNT thought releasing a mobile update on youtube was a bigger priority. People immediately harassed the video until they privated it.
19. More people rage quit, cancelled premium and swore to never buy NC or merch again because TNT was handling things so poorly.
20. TNT finally came out with another statement and refunded points
21. The points refunded disappear as soon as you donate again. Some people didn’t get refunded at all. The extra 500 they promised only showed up for some people and also disappeared for others. People with thousands of points now somehow have negative points.
22. TNT closes the general store, making points much harder to get, especially since no one was prepared this year due to the snowball nerf. (This would have been fine other years, but this year it feels like it was out of spite since it was only closed after users acted out)
23. A few hours later charity corner is semi closed. You can no longer donate the “easy” way. Instead you must click on a single item, have a window pop up, click a button, have the page refresh, close window, refresh again. Repeat for every item.
24. Since TNT can’t communicate properly people are unsure if it’s closed due to a whole new glitch or purposeful closed while they fix the already existing issues. Regardless people are still very angry.
25. It’s only been 2 and a half days. CC is supposed to last until the 24th
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