Neopets Gambling Controversy Hits Slashdot - Founder Speaks

Slashdot - one of the world's havens for technology discussion on the internet has published an article on the Neopets Gambling Issue. So far it has received 350 comments.

The discussion is interesting with other issues to do with Neopets, apart from the gambling issue being discussed.

Appearing in the discussion was a user 'borovan' who said his name was Adam. Adam is the founder of Neopets.

Heh, rubbish...

The focus of Neopets is primarily games and exciting content. It was not started to make money at all, but with 8 billion pageviews a month we have to or the site would not exist.

Marketing, Immersive Advertising, all these things were not even considered when the site was founded, they are simply a necessity, and we approach it in a much better way than most sites (no popups, no horrible flash ads floating in the middle of the screen)

We do specifically state that pages with advertisements on are actually paid for by sponsors, in caps no less at the bottom of each page.

How do I know this? I founded the company, so there.

Adam

We haven't yet heard Adam's opinion on the gambling issue - but through a comment I made on slashdot, I have invited him to have a right of reply.

Adam/borovan if you read this let us know what you think about this.

GG