Like the titles says, do you find Pixpet engaging, and for how long do you see yourself being on site?

For me, my main problem is what exactly can I do on site to keep me interested? The forums, I guess? It just seems like I'm only really every gonna come on site to send my pets on hoards, water my plants, glance over the forums, interact with some pets, and then leave until the following day, all of which probably won't take me more than 10-15 minutes. As a result, I don't really see myself coming back to this site very often once the initial intrigue has worn off, given that the current features available aren't much more than dailies.

The draw for me is the community, mostly. I know I'll find people who can relate to each other's interests, so as long as the player base remains strong I'll be here. Also just the thought of raising a bunch of creatures is intriguing. It stimulates ideas for me, makes me examine things from different creative vantages.

As far as the game itself is concerned, it's got a decent amount of content, and I'm sure more will be added as time passes. It's a slow game, but informative as to when, where, and how things need to be accomplished, which again is aided by the community. Plus I can play it anywhere since it's browser-based. Pixpet (and Dragon Adopters before it) invoke the same sensations for me as a good text-based game would back in the day.

Pitching in on the community one. I love simple low-maintenance clicking games with nice lil' forums mainly because of the forum.
Playing other things like Flight Rising, I spend far less time on the forums since I have a higher focus on the game itself. To the point of sometimes forgetting the forum is even a thing I can kill some time on. Here though I come to click the few buttons for the game part, and then spend the rest of my time browsing the forum.
"How is that relevant to the game?"
Whenever I get bored of FR, I simply don't go there. It's a solo game I can put off and deal with it half a year from now. Maybe two years. Or five. And then boom it's gone.
A game that goes hand in hand with a forum has more of a draw to come back and check how's the forum doing. And then, obviously, you also play the game itself.

To me it hardly feels like "extremely engaging petsite" was the main reason for this games existence. Feels more like Animal Crossing in that sense - socialize a little, do your daily tasks and then come back another day. Not the best comparison but it's the first chill thing I could think of. So I can certainly see myself coming back for a long time. The biggest appeal IS the low-maintenance imo.
But then again I'm also a busy adult so I can imagine younger people with more free time will feel otherwise. Or people who aren't keen on socializing.

Personally I'm really glad it's relatively low-maintenance! I both work and go to school so needless to say i dont feel like im missing out due to more important duties

It's not very engaging, but I can still see myself popping in every so often. Whether or not I'd stay long term really depends on how I connect with the community and where development for Pixpets goes.

Although the community is fine and I'm way more active on these forums than any other site I've been on, the main draw for me, and basically the point of why we're all here is the game. And so far? I haven't found it that engaging. And although people have been talking about how the community is a perfectly fine reason to come back, I really haven't found a lot of posts to interact with as of yet atleast. I'm probably only staying on here a lot more because I have friends also playing at the same rate as me, but if it wasn't for that I would have probably lost interest pretty quick.

Currently, I'm finding that there really isn't a lot to do in the game. One game that I've gotten into playing really every day is ClickCritters which has daily games, puzzles, HUNDREDS of pets to collect, and all sorts of stuff to do that makes this game look like a barren wasteland. Of course, this is a very very new game and CC is almost like 10 years old. And when comparing how this is starting out to CC? It is a bit more optimistic.

Right now the only interest for me is finding pixpets and buying a bigger house, but everything is so slow, it reminds me of those boring Facebook games that get old pretty quick. Even the items and the market that some people are saying is interesting to them is pretty boring to me.

One thing that CC has is some really interesting interactive games, somewhat like Neopets. And they don't even have animations. But I feel like a more open world to explore, maybe the option to actually PLAY as your pets would really be fantastic. When I saw the home page art I thought it would be something like that, a pixelated multiplayer game where everyone has a house or something. Something like a mix of AnimalJam and Flight Rising, someone also in this thread mentioned Animal Crossing which would be cool. Either way, I was pretty disappointed with how limited the game is right now.

I know I'm being pretty harsh, and I think this is one person working on the game? but I see a lot of potential with the game, and I guess that's another reason why I keep coming back as a lot of others have said, I'd like to see it develop into something better.

@mdragonflame i dont think youre being overly harsh at all. while this is a new game, it could still benefit from some more interactivity. and i admit a game where you are a species of animal with a decorating house would be HEAVEN for me, lol, though thats not where pixpet is headed :'p

i really hope we at least get simple games some way down the line, i feel like that just in itself would keep people interested. ^_^

id also like to see events come into play sometime! for example, a generic solstice event for summer and winter would be very fun, with limited decorations and pets and all that lovely stuff. :3

honestly the only thing i do is pop in and water my plants
i can see the potential for this site, and i know it's early, but between growing plants and hoarding and everything it just takes so long, i cant say its really engaging at all atm

Very engaging. I'd play it as much as time allowed me with the delays on hoards and planting and stuff if I could. ^^

The delight of this site is that it's not a site that requires you to play for hours to get anywhere. I'm on PokeFarm Q and to even begin there you have to play for hours to make any form of progress. I love this site for allowing brief checks throughout the day.

I believe that as the site grows in users, more stuff will come and be added. And more will come to the forums. I feel that this site will eventually become more forum and community based than gameplay based and to me, that is perfectly fine.

All we have to do is be patient and help the site grow. After all, feedback is the best way to help the site improve! If the users stay quiet then the mods can't know what needs improving or changing or adding!