Done Playing Nice

So, a few days ago I was sent an IM from an admin over at CreatureWorld asking me if I could help them out – and advertise them once the site was brought back online. For background purposes, before I created Subeta – I worked on Creature World as a user admin, and one of the old user administrators (Cydewinder) came from CW as well. So I have decently strong ties to the site, and if an old friend needed help – I’d be happy to send it their way.

So I told the admin in question that I couldn’t advertise on Subeta because that’d be in the same ‘market’ (pet sites) but instead I could op for an adoptable on Valenth which would be just as good (if not better) for traffic.

I wasn’t given any information about the site and the changes that would be made while it was down, just that it was being ‘reset’ (all the user accounts were being removed) and that it’d be a ‘new site’ when it was brought online.

Now, I’m very pleased that the valenth adoptable was never discussed past that point, because when creatureworld came back online, it seemed very familiar. The wardrobe feature in particular (which is layed out similarly to Subeta’s) as well as multiple other smaller things (for example, the same CSS used in user hovers, save changing the colors) around the site itself.

I understand rebranding, the old Creatureworld wasn’t working. Subeta is the second most popular virtual pet site on the internet. I understand that flattery is the sincerest form of flattery. However, when you ask for my help, knowing in the back of your mind that you’ll be bringing the site back online with obviously cloned features – that’s wrong.

I hope you enjoy your place at the bottom of the food chain, Creatureworld. This is the only advertising you’ll be getting from me.

Tags: Creatureworld, subeta, Valenth