Subeta News

Congratulations to Berti for winning this week's Pet Spotlight! Stop by and check out their page!

Hey everyone! We're trying something new with the Pet Spotlight, and we need your help to test it.

The Problem

The spotlight queue has gotten really long, with some of you have been waiting years for your pet to be reviewed. That's not fair to anyone, and it's not sustainable. I want to fix that!

The Idea

Instead of staff being the only ones who review pets, we're opening it up to the community. You can sign up as a Spotlight Judge and help review nominated pets. Esmerelda — yes, that Esmerelda — is running the show.

How It Works

For Judges

- Visit the Pet Spotlight and click "Review Pets"
- Click "Become a Spotlight Judge" to opt in
- You'll be shown pets to review — up to 5 per day
- For each pet, you check off criteria:
- Visual Design
- Story / Character
- Treasure Chest (does it fit the vibe?)
- Minion (does it fit the theme?)
- Name
- Completeness
- Give an overall star rating (1-5)
- Leave optional written feedback for the owner
- Earn 50,000 sP per review
- Work toward four new Spotlight Judge achievements

For Pet Owners

- Your pet gets reviewed by multiple community members
- You'll receive detailed feedback on what's working and what could be improved — delivered personally by Esmerelda (she has opinions)
- Pets that pass community review go straight into the winner queue

The Rules

- You can't review your own pets
- You can't review your friends' pets
- Your reviews build a reputation score over time — reviewers whose scores align with the consensus gain more influence
- Pets need agreement from multiple reviewers to pass or fail (no one person decides)

This Is a Pilot

I'm starting with just 5 pets from the existing queue. This is a test run to make sure the system works and feels fair before we open it up to everyone.

We will honor the results. Whatever the community decides for these 5 pets, that's what happens.

We Want Your Feedback

After you've tried it — whether as a judge or a pet owner — please reply to this thread and tell me:

- Was the review process clear and easy to follow?
- Did the criteria make sense?
- Did the feedback feel useful (for owners)?
- Was the sP reward fair?
- What would you change?

Your feedback will directly shape the final version of this feature.

What's Next

If the pilot goes well, I'm planning some improvements and changes to the system:
- Seasonal themed spotlight competitions tied to holidays (Morostide, Luminaire, etc.)
- Top 3 seasonal winners with special trophies
- More rewards for active judges (reactions, avatar borders)
- Opening the full queue to community review
- Potentially moving back to more winners being drawn more frequently (we've got over 300 pets waiting to be judged!)

Head over to the Pet Spotlight to check it out!

hey everyone — sorry for the quiet week. here are some updates:

- lag on both sites. we hit another AI crawler situation, which is becoming a recurring theme honestly. the good news is i've gotten faster at identifying and blocking these — you should already be noticing both sites feeling snappier now that that traffic is cut off.
- broken cron jobs. a bunch of the timed features that folks have been bringing up: the recycle beast, the potion lottery, pet spotlight, these all run on a scheduler, and something's been off with that scheduler. some things aren't firing at all, others are running at the wrong time. i'm tracking down what's going wrong and getting those back on their normal schedule.
- 404s: this was an issue for a few minutes due to the bot blocking. should be resolved now!

more updates as things shake out. thanks for your patience!

It's been ages since we had a proper chaotic Token Shop restock! Get your wizard tokens together and keep an eye on the shop. Each restock will stock different items, so you've got some hard decisions to make. :eyes:

I will be restocking the shop over the next 24 hours or so. The time limit between purchases will not be changed.

The Seasonal Quest Shop now has spring items in it! Thanks to various users pointing out that the Millionaire Center currently doesn't have a season set, which is ruining the pricing of items outside the current season, I've held off on adding new items until we get it fixed in the next week! Sorry about the delay.

We will be switching the Millionaire Center and Seasonal Quest Shop to spring tomorrow, March 21.

For those who are asking about snowballs, we will open the shop and allow you to throw again next week! I always forget that snowballs can interrupt Survival's strains. I want to make sure there is no chance of this happening. <3

Survival will be ending tonight at 11:59pm.

You have until NEXT Survival to claim your three FREE skins! Visit the VIP page any time between now and next Survival. Thanks for hanging in there and surviving with all the issues we've had this holiday. <3

We're going to be coming back up slowly over the next ~30 minutes or so, with the legacy site coming back first.

Kumos and the sapi coming up second, then cron and background tasks, then avatar processing. Everything should feel much, much snappier!

You may have noticed the throwback challengers are still around. The challengers will retire at 11:59pm TODAY (Monday, March 16). Hopefully, these last few hours will give you all a chance to finish getting your wins in.

Survival is still running and will be for a few days. More information to come!

Do Pete quests this weekend for increased prizes and rewards!

DJ the Blacklight Paralix has won the Pet Spotlight!!

It has been a long week. I wrote an update in the forums, and to show how cool it is to be able to make changes to legacy Subeta again I knocked out a number of simmering quality of life improvements and plan to make many more!

I'm seeing more stability on both Kumos and the legacy site, and will have updates soon about free extra skins / etc due to all of the downtime and difficulty.

Do Maleria quests this weekend for increased prizes and rewards!

Declan the Nostalgic Legeica has won the Pet Spotlight!!

Enjoy the moorlands without leaving your home with this new monthly collection from the Cash Shop.

You can also purchase one of our older March Donation Presents or Collections!

We’ve changed the special item for our Subscription Quester, Councilor, and Goddess plans. We will be changing this special item slot every month.

Hello, everyone! Just want to give you all a heads up that the monthly collections in the Cash Shop will change to March tomorrow, so get your February collections while you can.

We will also be releasing new subscription item item at the same time.

Thanks to user suggestion, I've brought back all the Cash Shop Boutique sets. There is no plan to retire them anytime soon. :eyes:

Let us know in the comments which boutique set is your favorite.

From tangible creature to spirit, and from robotic soldier to ancient beast, the wild keeto and endeavor have made huge jumps from their modern forms!