Due to circumstances beyond our control, we've had to permanently shut down the Battledome and its associated activities. Obviously, this is not something we wanted to do, and as much as we'd like to fully explain, we aren't allowed to comment at this time. We'll just leave it at that for now.
We know there are many, many Neopians who have worked very, very hard and spent countless Neopoints to train their Neopets for the Battledome. We would like to thank you for participating in past wars and events, and for keeping Neopia safe via Defenders of Neopia. Please know that we haven't forgotten you. We are currently working on new activities that will put these stats to use. Your efforts will NOT be wasted.
We have also been ordered to remove certain Battledome weapons from the site. We realise there are many Neopoints invested there, as well, so instead of simply deleting them from everyone's account, we're putting together a Battledome weapon exchange program. We're still working out the details, but we hope to allow everyone to trade in their weapons for another item of equal or lesser rarity. We will have this ready by Wednesday to comply with the agreement.
We're sorry for the short notice, and for not having alternatives ready for you now, but it was unavoidable. We're working as fast as we can and we think the new stuff will be quite cool. We hope to have everything else up by mid October!
- The Neopets Team
The Battledome Chat and Hidden Tower are closed, too.
I saw a bunch of people on the Help boards freaking the hell out over this. Heh heh. but at least it's better than all that 'Faerie Wars' crap. Every other board was 'OMG WAT R the FARIE WARS!'
My favourite is still all the April Fools pets. Those guys rocked.
Is anyone reminded of another petsite that did something rather similar with their avatar system? You could turn in the old avatars for items, and then later they released a new feature absolutely riddled with bugs? Think this may be a subtle jab at them?
Oh, me neither. Don't know where that thought came from...
This year was rather clever in it's execution. I thought the battledome was more popular than this. You wouldn't realise anything is up if you don't use the battledome. Brilliant.
