Remove "Special Release" from counting towards collection

[Felicity<3]

No support

[Lesbainwolf]

Support! Considering they're "unreleased", I feel like they shouldn't be considered part of the official collection like store pets.

I agree

[dibabeebees]

Supporting 100%

[cryptidthefool]

Could there be a medium in-between the two sides? (Just throwing my two cents out here).

Like for instance, in the archives you could still get a "You have collected all the pets released in 20xx" as part of a general rule, but if someone else had collected the URs, they get a "special" achievement? Like: "You have collected all 20xx pets, including URs" (not the exact phrasing I'd use but you get the picture). I will say that as someone who has no URs at the moment (and has not achieved one in years due to how difficult they are to obtain) the fact that it's extremely difficult to achieve 1-2 or more UR pets in a single year is something that I think will hinder the majority of players from ever seeing this goal being met on their archives. And for the small amount that do, good for them, but it would be nice for players like me who spend months saving and collecting just to finish monthly collections (with hundreds of pets being released each year, many rare) to get recognition. I finally got all pets in 2024, which made me happy, until the "Congratulations" achievement magically went away the night of December 18th, as I knew it would. Now I assume the same thing will happen in 2025, which is just frustrating.

I think that getting all the pets in the year is a massive goal that only a relatively small amount of the player base will achieve, so it would be nice to let more casual players like myself (who still spend dozens of hours collecting without achieving URs) feel a sense of accomplishment. I'm just throwing this out there, not trying to sound complain-y, but since this is the suggestion thread, I thought I'd give my idea: there could be a two-tier aspect to the 100% completion recognition, store pets already don't count so I don't see why the URs should cause the vast majority of people to not have a 100% for a year. Collecting all the pets, even without the URs, of one year is a huge accomplishment, and I think it would be nice to at least have a basic "You have collected all the pets of 20xx" and then those who have gotten the URs can get an even more special achievement message.

ETA: Also it's kind of hard to ignore that C$ plays a huge role in getting URs, whether directly or not, so in total it could cost hundreds of more C$ for one UR than to get one store pet set. So if stores are off-limits because they cost real money, I think the fact that the URs, which are not always but realistically and most commonly are achieved through C$ transactions somewhere down the line, are included towards everyone's goals is a bit short-sighted.

[Nettle_Magpie]

I support this, especially the idea of toggling. My perspective as to why is a little different than most - I'm very lucky that I've managed to get urs from December 18th twice and there's basically zero amount of C$ or pets other than URs that would get me to trade them away. I've got a decent amount of old pets, old stores and a few lists but I'm no where near the level you have to be to seriously trade for URs. I suspect that there's quite a decent chunk of players like me who wouldn't contemplate trading their URs that they got through luck. December 18th definitely makes it easier to get older pets but how many URs are there vs how many that have been traded once, let alone been circulating through the trading system

[Zear]

I support this!

Store pets don’t seem to be included with the complete collections and I think unreleased pets should be the same way as they are ‘unreleased’ and not really something that you can reasonably get within adopting pets within a year without copious trading

A toggle would be great! like turning off paid items from being considered in the wishlist like in the item section would work. Toggles such as “Monthly Pets Only”, “Event Pets Only”, and “All (selected year) Pets” could work

[EmberzTale]

Casually bumping these because it's upsetting that my 2017, 2018, and 2022 aren't showing complete in the archive
I have everything from those years besides the unreleased pets and the store pets; oh how I wish they would clarify the unreleased pets were literally unreleased and not available by normal means

[Lesbainwolf]

Casually bumping these because it's upsetting that my 2017, 2018, and 2022 aren't showing complete in the archive
I have everything from those years besides the unreleased pets and the store pets; oh how I wish they would clarify the unreleased pets were literally unreleased and not available by normal means

Honestly save I have 16,17,18,19,20,22,23, and 24 some days it's a challenge if even want to keep going but I am just it's annoying store pets dont count and URs do and those caused more cs$ then store pets do. It's frustrating some days do to I can get store pets in past years cheaper then URs

[huskyhiccups]

Bump~

[Gavin Reed]

as someone who collects the few species here and there, I think its not great that UR count, as they are few released, if stores don't count because of "IRL money being bought" then UR should not either, as its a small chance getting the UR you want for your collection, as demand is crazy high for some UR. "They are part of the game so they should count"
so do stores? so why does store not count, they are part of the game, and make it interesting to collecting like UR, make it interesting and fun to collect.
But if UR does not count, stores should not count.
If UR count, stores should count.

I'm in the middle, but I think UR should not count in general.