COMMUNITY POLL: Rare Monthly Pets

[Papilio Ulysses]

...we already have old pets with forever rising rarities that are out of reach for casual players, and adding more of them just for the sake of making collecting harder would be rather disappointing to me.

I agree with this sentiment very much. While I'm not a completionist, there are a few rare monthly outcomes I've wanted simply because I enjoy their designs. Over ten years later, I've still been unable to obtain those rarer pets (and more) because of infinitely increasing market values and wild demand. I would not like to see this trend continue nor happen more frequently.

[HSoup]

I find hard-to-get outcomes stressful. I've been on this site since early 2010 and have never adopted a zebra, even though I've adopted all outcomes, every single month. Plus, we already have the yearly UR pets that are difficult to obtain. I think I've only ever gotten 1 of those by adopting, the pea pods. And it seems like its always the best designed pets that are the rarer outcomes, which makes it even more difficult to get them.

I much more prefer pets to become rare over time so that everyone has a chance to own them without having to overtrade for them. Trading is difficult enough as it is.

[pthumerian]

only if it's really uncommon, like once or twice a year.

i find it interesting from time to time, but it's also really stressful because i prefer to have at least my monthly adoptions complete, and every time such a "rare" outcome exists it causes stress, people overpay like crazy to get one, i think it's awful, i don't want it to be a common event.

[AlinaStarshine]

i didn't even know there was a chance of getting a Zebra like that ...


I like the idea of having more rares that way players who are more causal or newer can get a good chance of getting some as well... rather than trying to trade and having people be like oh you know how hard it was to get xyz pet? go away I don't want to trade.

But I also am a completionisht ... so I like to be able to have the chance to get all of the pets, rare or not, with out having to overbid too much ... so a few more would be good but not like every month becuase trading would become a nightmare.

[SkywardtheDragon]

I don’t support this idea; I’d rather have monthlies be easier to trade for. Besides, new rares during events generally require effort to get (collecting tokens and trading with npcs). I’d rather those, even if I don’t always get all the event rares, than being able to miss out on a pet without overtrading just because of randomness.

[Leopardy]

I honestly like having harder to get Monthlies!
As long as they would not be "Zebra-Rare" and not every month, I would love that!

Every month would just be stressfull in my opinion ^^"

[COOLDOGOOO]

I support the idea fully, although I feel that they shouldn't be counted as a pet towards completing the month/year, maybe having a tab like in the December 18th, 'special releases', but instead 'special [monthly] releases'? Something on those lines would be awesome!! <3

[Harpija221]

I don't really like this idea, prefer monthly pets to be easy to trade for and leave rare stuff for events.

Even though I never got it, I like the monthly zebra chance thing, would be cool to get more rereleases like that without them actually being part of monthly pets.

[pthumerian]

If we were to implement more special release pets they wouldn't be as rare as the zebras, and likely would only be available in the month of their release, not continuously.

but they would still be included in the available pets in the dec.18 re-release?

[Thalassa]

I wouldn't like having significantly rarer outcomes in the monthly adoptable pets. It would only add additional stress for casual players.

As others have mentioned above, people are very unlikely to accept anything but a big overpay for a pet everyone is looking for. I am worried that if rare(r) outcomes getting released in a litter becomes a regular occurrence, it would suck the joy of trading and collecting, at least for me.