-snip- wrote:It's ironic to me how seemingly no one complains about custom ooak pets only being given to certain special people, but then we have this moral debate arguing over the average user collecting a pet in which there are hundreds if not thousands available!
Well, that’s probably because the average player was never supposed to get them anyway. They are given out as rewards for people who directly help the site, or as gifts. It’s like having a custom plushie for yourself made.
I don’t care what people do and how they hoard, it’s their pets they traded for after all. I would say a bigger issue than hoarding is the trading system and how we value pets in general. Like other people on this thread I am iffy with rare+ hoards but there are many circumstances that people might end up with a rare or over hoard (like others have said, rarity updates and pets jumping in value) I do appreciate hoarders who understand how their hoards might affect the CS economy and I also appreciate hoarders who will occasionally allow a pet from their hoard to be traded.