People keep asking where I've been but when I tell them it seems they don't believe me so here I am, writing the article I meant to write weeks ago, and telling you all that, yes, this is really where I've been and I can prove it if I had to.
The original title that I planned to use was this: "Joy has my Royal Sparkling Juice and I Want it Back!" Two other people have already written articles about this embarrassing addiction and the plan was to publish them all at once but I was too busy feeding my addiction to write my article. I guess I have it worse than most...
I've been playing Pet Society.Sounds innocent, doesn't it? Well, it isn't.
The first mistake I made was joining the Playfish trading forums. I'd link to them but I can't because I've been banned now. I can't quite figure out how to go there and copy the link from my address bar when I can't go there now that I'm banned. The story of how I was unfairly banned for something I did not do might just need to wait for another article because this one is about the addiction and my banning might just have saved me except -- I promptly found another place to trade.
Sounds like a simple little Flash game that would become boring pretty fast but, no. There are rare items, much coveted, items that can't be bought at the shop or found in the Mystery Boxes. Items you must have. Items you must trade for on the forums. When I first started trading a black cat would cost you 10 or 15 jukeboxes. Jukeboxes cost 20000 coins in the shop. There had to be a better way. And there was.
I found I could play Ghost Trappers and Mouse Hunt, then trade the gold I earned in those games for Pet Society rare items. So I added those two games and made my husband add them too. Then I found out I could trade Fish Wrangler gold for Mouse Hunt Gold which I could then trade for Pet Society items. I could get 3 jukeboxes for 10000 in Mouse Hunt of Ghost Trappers gold.
Life was good. I had mummy dolls, black cats, pink jellos, jack-o-lanterns, Christmas trees, and all the new items that came out in the shop every Sunday. I had become a "rich pet." Of course, this brought me beggars.
But let's back up to the Royal Sparking Fruit Juice. I don't have that. Joy has it. And it makes me a Sad Sack, which is actually an article of clothing in the game. When I first started playing the game I did not know that holiday items became rare shortly after the holiday and cost many jukeboxes. I did not know that NIS (not-in-store) foods were collected. I joined at Christmas time. I bought an elf suit, a Christmas tree, many chocolate logs and sparkling fruit juices. After Christmas I sold my elf suit and Christmas tree back to the shop in the game for one third what it had cost me. And I ate that Chrismas food. Except for the juice. I sent that to Joy. And now, well now, that elf suit and Christmas tree are worth a mint on the trading forums and every day I kick myself. And that food, worth a mint too. So sad. And Joy, well she hasn't even logged onto the game in months now. I bet my sparkling juice is still sitting at her front door in it's pretty gift box, unopened.
And then the bottom fell out of the market. Pet Society is having a recession. Maybe even a depression. The things that cost 10 jukes two weeks ago are only worth 2 jukes now. I can no longer trade 10K of Mouse Hunt gold for three jukeboxes. If I'm lucky, I might get one juke for 15K. I fight to remain a "rich pet." I send throbbing poos to beggars and delete them from my friend list. I enter contests to win rare items and NIS foods. Why, just tonight I got trounced in a contest and publicly humiliated on the trading forums. I was trying to win, wait for it, a Royal Sparking Fruit Juice.
I really meant to tell you everything. I wanted to tell you about my battle to get my name on the Pet Society Marketplace Safe Trader List. About my battle to earn a Skeleton Coach in Ghost Trappers so that I could earn more gold to trade for Pet Society items. About scammers that take your items and send nothing in return. About the time I traded my Fish Wrangler gold for Mouse Hunt gold and then traded that for a Pumpkin Dress and then tried to trade my Ghost Trappers gold for a Pumpkin Hat to wear with my Pumpkin Dress when I was suddenly gifted a Pumpkin Hat and it was so exciting. And about the mystery boxes and my quest for a Penguin Doll. About all the inticacies of achieving fame and fortune in a silly little Flash game. But I can't. I have to go visit, pet, and scrub my 270 Pet Society friends so that I have money to buy the new items when they come out tomorrow.
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Poor little Lachrymose just saddens my heart. So lonely, neglected, abandoned. Such a poor pet with no rare toys or luxury furniture. I wish I could adopt him.
Every time I visit him, my computer shuts down.
Best of luck.
I haven't a clue as to what you just said, but I'm thinking that's what you were hoping for. I can't believe I'm going to say this, but it sounds like Gather is saner.
My poor Duckie2™ is languishing there with no playmates, no luxury items, no groceries, no trips, no spas, no jewelry, other pets, etc... because I forget how to find her webpage/ forget the password/ forget my way thru the games! She just has a poor undecorated pond, poor thing.
Meanwhile my grandkids are accumulating their Webkinz™ by the dozen and supervising their lives online seamlessly and well like little Napoleons!
It's great to see you back, Andrea!!!!
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perhaps if Ina would hand out those stronger meds i might remember where i put it. or i might just sit in a corner and drool on myself instead. it could go either way.