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Logically speaking, wouldn't spinning a wheel faster make it spin longer as well?

oh my, will books be even more inflated and expensive?

Interesting that it says Varwolf MPs are already available in a variety of colours.
The bookshelf thing sounds interesting. More rewards would be cool.
I wonder what "exclusive recolours" means as a scratchcard prize..?

i don't see an option for the NP sink on the monotony page yet

@duskshadowbrony - LOL good point actually

And nothing about the return of The Void Within. They're missing the timing again 🤷🏻

Seconded on the Monotony sink not being active

I think the Bookshelf feature sounds interesting. As it is now you have to do a lot of scrolling to look through all your books. I hope though that this doesn't cause prices to raise.

Just wondering when the void plot will restart!

The Wheel of Monotony update sounds fantastic and I can’t believe they’re letting it be NP but that’s a huge win.
My browser always times out and goes to a blank page if I let the wheel spin too long

Very curious about Book Award update, but definitely want more details lol.

The controllers looked awesome! Then I looked at the price. Cheese and rice you could buy a whole console for that. Then I looked into the company cause I recognized it and. Best steer clear imho!

Those controllers cost an arm and a leg.
They’re pretty sick looking tho!

165 for a controller and the warranty is for the SHELL is a joke

I got a call from my EB Games yesterday (Australia) saying they weren't getting the (Switch) game in anymore - they were unsure if it meant it wasn't happening at all or if it just wasn't coming to Australia.
If it's the latter, a shame that more merch is going to be unobtainable through regular means for people outside NA.

165 dollarydoos for a controller?! no thanks.

That is an inSANE price for a controller holy Kau.

Promising that there will be Varwolf potions, but I'm guessing they'll be like the transmogrification and only work on already-wolves. (but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong here!)

"earn rewards as you track your Neopet’s reading progress"

Cool, because everyone has been begging TNT to inflate all books. /s

There are thousands upon thousands of different books floating around and a LOT of them are 1np. Are y'all actually worried about books getting inflated? I've been wanting an update to that and the gourmet food club FOREVER.

When are we going to create a Varwolf from the Create a Pet page?

Hope the TCG is able to be sold at major retailers soon, to broaden the audience.

Ugh, as if the controller being $165 isn't bad enough, read the rest of the page.

They're also selling a desk mat and keychain wrist strap. All merch comes with a code which has a 20% chance of giving you one of the following:

* Cosy Gamer Background (just above 7k)
* Remote Control Gloves (between 90-100k)
* Games Graveyard Silhouette Background (4 mil)
* Basic Power Negg (only one which has a price on TP is 1.75 mil)
* Their exclusive animated background (which actually looks to be a FOREground; btw if you get the controller you automatically get a code for)

Like, really? And yes, I know, the digital rewards are meant to be a bonus; if you're getting any merch you'll be doing it for the merch itself. But, in that case, why not just have the exclusive animated foreground be given to everyone who makes an order? Why make those who just want the keychain or play mat have to do a 20% gacha to see if they're lucky enough to get the foreground? It's not like it'll make people order again or buy the controller, most will just shrug while someone who may have wanted the foreground just buy it from another user (assuming its tradeable, and if not then also completely shrug it off). Honestly it would feel less odd if they just made the foreground exclusive to the controller since that's what it's depicting.

Guess I should comment on the other announcements:

* VARWOLF MPs: If they're going to make those I hope they then make the Varwolf Transmogrification Potion work on any Neopet. Like I get why they did it initially, still feels wrong since no other Transmog potions have that limitation, but with them making normal MPs they'll now have no reason to keep it limited like that.

* BOOK UPDATE: This sounds intriguing, especially since I've been slowly working on reading books to my Ice Bori (he's supposed to be the smart one of the family). Curious what the effects will be and how many books they'll require. As @selkiegal said, there's thousands of cheap books so I'm not worried about it causing inflation on already expensive books (especially since they removed the feature of your Neopet refusing to read a book). If anything I'm worried they may make the effects OP.

* WHEEL OF MONOTONY NP SPEED-UP: Hm, not sure how I feel about this. Like, I want to like it as it'll make spinning the wheel feel less, well, monotonous. But that's the thing, it's called the Wheel of MONOTONY. That's the joke. I think I may have felt better about if they also gave a joke reason for this happening. "Greasing the wheel" feels too mundane of a solution. If it were up to me, I'd have the option where you could play NeoPoker with Quiggle host (doesn't seem to have a name; ooh, how about we call him "Mono-Tony" and reveal he actually named the wheel after himself, not realizing "monotony" was a word). If you choose to it'll mention after a couple of hours of playing (you'll always lose a certain amount of NP, who knew Mono-Tony was a pro poker player) that the wheel had stopped a while ago and so you collect your prize.

the controllers are so cute, but dear lord, idk about that price point.. id def drop $100 but $150 total shipping and stuff.. for a controller?

The PS5 controller is so cute but it's double the cost of a brand new regular controller. I get a mark up for what it is, but double is insane imo. I do want the kougra in a computer pin, but not that bad. Def going to get the desk mat as I've been in search of one for a while!

Omg stop with the freaking NP sinks! We don't need NP sinks that take NP from actual players. We need you to fix the cheating and botting issues so that people don't just have insane amounts of NP. The NP sinks don't affect them and they're the ones causing the problems...

What even Is the point of spinning the wheel of monotony on this site anyways T_T even with the new Items on It having to wait two hours Is still bothersome, let alone having to keep the tab open so It doesn't go Idle and can keep spinning uninterrupted.

Unless you're saying that paying more will make It spin as usually as any other wheel does then just maybe It's not so bad, but just maybe

None of the wheels besides extravagance (and maybe knowledge If you're going for the Impossible to land coupon spot) have much value to current economy as they used to back In the days. Not even Mediocrity does

TNT: Updates a bookshelf feature and makes a 12-hour wheel faster.

The Comments: 'This is an NP sink for the poor,' 'I hate books now,' and 'Why is physics broken?'

Never change, Neopia. Never change.

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Hmmmmm... Call me old fashioned all you like.. I'm not sure I'd appreciate these alterations.

I have no problem finding which books my pet has read. That's what Ctrl+F is for (granted this does not work for Booktastic Books, as those don't list the book title). And on mobile you can "search on page" page too. If it's going to work anything like the customisation travesty, where my browser just freezes when I use the engine to search for an article of clothing, then this won't be an improvement at all.

As for the Wheel of Monotony.. I think it would be better, honestly, to just remove the wheel outright. It was a funny gag back in the day, when you could just let it run in the background while you were doing other stuff. But since Flash died and everything* became HTML5 it doesn't work like that anymore. And nobody is going to stare at a page for two+ hours, only to then get bitten by a Pterodactyl or whatever.
So yeah.. remove the Wheel of Monotony and install a new wheel in its place. We have Mediocrity, why not a wheel of.. ehm.. Decentness? Something between Mediocrity and Excitement

Varwolf accessibility should have been a thing from the start of course...

liking the Bookshelf Collection Update ... BUT does it update if my pet lands on the forget last book read tile of wheel of misfortune or other random crap i forget about ?

I am so looking forward to the Varwolf Morphing Potions. I got a pet I really want to turn into one

Oof yea 165 for a controller is.. oof. And the shipping is another 35, making it a whopping 200 bucks. And seriously, the warranty is only for the shell?? That's hilarious.

They say "for Switch 1 and 2" but it's just a Switch 1 controller. Yes, it can connect to S2, but that means it's missing buttons, plus S1 controllers are very prone to drift. I'm on my 3rd pro controller already and that one's also slowly starting to drift. S2 controllers are much more comfortable and just better overall. I would NOT spend such an insane amount on an inferior S1 controller. (Plus I don't even care that much for the look, personally. I like the carrying case a lot but they don't ship to me..)

"easier than ever" bruh they've only been out for a few months 😂

oh, excited for the book update, that might be fun! atm it's one of those collections that feels sorta pointless since being completionist is so insanely expensive.

also glad the varwolf foods are getting a bit of a boost in availability, the drop rates in the haunted woods hunt are killing me. some days i get nothing at all, just "nothing here" on every click. hopefully them restocking will bring the price down.

wheel of monotony is whatever to me; more money sinks are always needed (although tbh i think item sinks are just as if not more important for the economy), but the monotony prizes aren't that exciting so i think mostly people only spin it because it's funny haha. it's a low-impact daily to run an experiment on, so maybe it's a sign of additional updates coming for other things...? itd be cute if you could do fetch quests for the wheel guys similiar to esophagor, edna, etc in exchange for extra spins for example...

So if the Varwolf foods are supposed to be more readily available, how come prices shot up?