I remember when my favorite KiSS doll site went pay, and they never stopped either.
If you are talking about the same site I'm thinking of, I was *pissed* when they went pay. Donations are one thing but to put a pay wall down on creations that were made for fun, for others to enjoy, and not for financial gain is just so wrong.
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Sometimes it feels like the world is getting greedier, but then, Neopets has been a commercial venture for a while now, and with the economy, not surprised they went pay.
I don't know about now but back when I played, Neopets wasn't run by Americans. It was a UK site. I looked it up. It was bought by Viacom in 2005, but yes, was originally a UK site. No wonder it's just a greedy hog now.
I was quite into Neopets until my sister's boyfriend stole over 800,000 gold I made, wiping me out. I pretty much quit after that. :/ When I quit they were only just starting with the merchandising with keychains and such at Claire's. I looked at it earlier this year and now you have to spend real money to get anything good on that site. It pisses me off.
I don't know if anyone else plays, but I'm also on Gaia Online and it's really pissing me off how everything good is pay now and super expensive. $10 for one pixel item. >.<