Remove "Special Release" from counting towards collection

[Lesbainwolf]

I was wondering if we could have a on and off switch for SP so pple who just want to collect all the pets but SP and the ones who want to collect the SP could so we all have a choice in completing our goals

[MISSINGPICTURES]

I also agree with removing URs from counting towards a full collection for a few different reasons

1. It's bonus content and it should be treated as such. Removing it from full collection also lessens the strain on the trading market for URs since only users who wanted them would be trading for them instead of people who only want standard releases but need the URs to get the checkmark. Many of these users don't even like the URs but are now being forced to pursue bonus content to reach their goals.

2. This is a kid's site, a COPPA user could totally get all of a current year's standard releases on their own because that's monthly/event swaps but they wouldn't have the resources to get 2 new URs every year. COPPA users can't send trade messages so wouldn't be able to negotiate which you HAVE to do in order to get high-value trades. They also don't have money to just buy them.

Overall I don't think it's fair to punish players for not having what is basically bonus content. URs aren't placed with the Christmas pets even though that is where you get them for a reason. Like stores they should be treated like a little add-on you can get if you want and not a core part of a collection. Besides removing them is not making a full collection all that easier to get. There are now over 16,000 pets in this game and about 1,000 more are added every year. Only a tiny fraction of these pets are stores and URs.

[SunstonePhoenix]

Unreleased pets are literally called "not released"

I don't see how someone can say they're part of the game when the name of them indicates that they were never officially included. There's no reasonable way to get one.

[sunlithollow]

support!

[Eltai]

Collecting every single monthly and event pet, every year, only to get a big fat red X cause you cant afford to trade for the 2 URs in december..... make it make sense! FULL Support!!

[FriedApplePie]

I support!
They should be treated like store pets.
They’re given at random at the very end of the year. It is disheartening to see you have all of these pets, and then never finish the Special Release section.

[Faith3344]

I agree!
As an old player, I don't remember the completion notifications at all (yet again I was a child lol) so I think it's a bit odd that the URs are included if the store pets aren't

[Minimanta]

Full support as long as the cake dogs and palomino Tess horse from 2008 are reclassified as Staff Birthday pets, which they are.
Don't really know why they're lumped into the special release category, as far as I know they're no more special than the Staff Birthday pets from 2009.

[Dawulf]

Big support. I'm 3 away from a complete collection of regular releases, and seeing the little squares in the completion thing is so disheartening when it's just because of the UR's.

[Merritt]

Huge support! They are often impossible to obtain, and not including them in complete collections does not make collecting "boring" as some other users said? There are many other hard to get pets that would still make it fun, as well as just the massive amount of pets to collect, hard to get or not. It'd still take a while to get all extremely uncommons and below, it wouldn't be boring to remove URs from counting towards a full collection. I hope this is implemented, great suggestion!