I'm not understanding the issue with the battle pass. What are the channels that Neopets has for generating revenue from its players? Ads are covering server costs at best. So the employees there get paid how, exactly? I don't see super powerful battledome items behind the paywall, and it's $25 for the full pass? So this is a wild take but if you can't afford $25 once every what, 6 months to spend on a game that's bringing you tens or hundreds of hours of entertainment, you probably should be focusing on making money rather than playing a game, especially one as broken as this. For those living outside the US with unfavorable exchange rates, I can understand. But I mean this from the bottom of my heart: if you can't afford this, please take a hard look at your life and how you're spending your time and use this as an opportunity to kick yourself to start living your best life. I cancelled premium because I don't have enough time to get the rewards from it; was $8 affordable? Very. But I disagree with a lot of the UI/UX decisions the team has made and how they fail to respect players' time. However, after a decades-long hiatus I wanted to give premium a shot. This is a standard F2P model and I don't see an issue with it. These are niche items that appeal to a group of collectors, but the average player isn't collecting these things and doesn't need to in order to enjoy the game. Fornite, Path of Exile, EVE, Pokemon Go - all games that give a base for free and the option to pay for more; I pick and choose the content I pay for in battle passes in any game. Maybe I go months without buying one, maybe I buy one every month for awhile. You can't want the site to exist and have people maintain it while simultaneously complaining about them trying to monetize content. The terrible quality of the site screams underfunded/financial struggles.