Tuesday, December 30, 2014

WhyPets: Are They Worth It?

Sure they're cute and playful. And yeah, there's bragging rights. But are WhyPets really worth the cost?

A Whypet costs 600 pearls, and you get 30 days worth of food included in the price. If you want, you can also buy accessories to dress up your pets, or treats to aid in training them.

You can customize your whypet's shape, colour, eyes, and mouth. You can add ears, wings, arms, horns, tails, or even tentacles!

The Create Your Pet page has similiar features as the new Pick Your Nose, such as move forward and backward, and clear.

How to Train Your Pets

When in a chatroom, type "summon pet" or "summon pet (name)" if you have more than one.

You can train your pet to blink, yawn, run, cry, dance, sleep, fetch, dig, and be happy.

To train your pet, make sure your pet is in the room and type "pet (command)". For example, "pet fetch". Reward your pet with a treat by typing "pet treat" or "(name of pet) treat" if there is more than one of your pets in the room. Eventually, they will have learned the command.

One cool thing you can train your whypet to do is dig. Just don't let your pet dig up CityHall's yard! Once you train your pet to dig, they can dig up projectiles, clams, scion decal vouchers, or even sometimes pearls! To retrieve the item, simply move your avatar over your pet and the prize. If you don't claim it, your pet will drop it, and it's anyone's game.

Now hold on to your horses, that's all fine and well, until you realize that projectiles are worth almost nothing. They're a clam a dozen these days, and most likely they're clogging up your satchel. Scion decal vouchers? Who uses those anymore? (Also probably clogging up your satchel). "But wait!", you say. "You said clams and pearls, right?" That's right I did, but this does not happen often, and when it does, it's only 1 clam or 1 pearl (at least what I've seen). So don't think buying a pet will pay for itself eventually.

Let's not forget, if you want to train your pet/s to dig, you're gonna need to buy pet treats also (which cost pearls), and then you're going to want to accessorize your pets so they can be as fab as you (which costs more pearls).

Are they worth it?

Pets cost you a lot of pearls, and trust me, they get boring after a while. To answer the question, "Are Whypets worth the cost?", I would have to say no. There are better things to spend your pearls on (like face factory vouchers).

Here are my three pets, the pink one is Lucy, the green is Rocky, and the purple is Trouble. Rocky is dancing in this picture (and jelloroks is clearly not amused).


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