COMMUNITY POLL: Rare Monthly Pets

[Aleksander]

I would actually like more surprise pets like these Zebras! That sounds cool!

Rares in monthly pets are rather stressful for me as a casual player.
They make unknown-rarity trades harder, since I usually don't know demand of pets due to lack of following what other people get. So if in a trade I ask for a high-demand to-become-rare monthly pet in exchange for a common pet I have of the same litter, I probably annoy my trade partners.
If they look very special I can expect them to be more rare and run less into that problem.

[xFlorax]

I think I'd be okay with a few litters each year having rarer outcomes as it would make the monthy litters more exciting i think. But I think it should stay something unexpected and special and should not become a normal thing that happens each month as it would get kinda old rather quickly + adding an additional 12 pets with high demand each year would add quite alot of extra stress for casual players and players that aren't to familiar with the trading system.

[DancingEevee]

I'm all for the more surprises in monthly adopts and would love to see that more, but definitely not too often. The more often, the less special it'll become.

[ShadowKatto]

Mega support! It’d be nice for new players (or new-ish players like me) to have a way to earn more rares that we could keep or use for trading later, especially since we start of with literally nothing.
I also feel like it would make monthly litters more exciting, and I’d support anything that would make them more exciting!

[Cloverstream]

Look, I would dislike it if Cs had a million dailies that you get punished for missing too, or a big event every other week like FR. I really think a rarity game actually having… rares. Is reasonable though? The only rares I’m trying to achieve are the same ones I’ve been trying to achieve for years already, and I’m no closer to achieving. It would be fun to have some rares that are actually designed to be special and rare! Not some random litter outcomes that 14 years later are rare.

People here are saying they hate trading and already get upset that they don’t just get every outcome automatically. I’m sorry but cs is a game… You have to do stuff. If swapping a common or two is already too much for you and you don’t like rarities or tradingI’m not really sure what to tell you.

[ButterflyChaser]

I'm not a fan of having pets I am never able to obtain (thinking golden gatcha dog especially), but if people can stop demanding list pets for them I am interested in a few harder to obtain per year.

[Minimanta]

I am actually shocked at how popular this suggestion seems to be!

Getting more rare pets isn't going to help anything, it's just going to add more rare pets to our wishlists and drive demand even more crazy. I have NEVER enjoyed those occasional rare monthly outcomes over the years. They've just been a pain in the behind to get.

I love CS BECAUSE the monthly pets are so casual to get and then we have the events to shake things up a bit.

PLEASE don't do this to us, it's just going to cause more frustration than anything else. I beg of you, don't do this.

[Thalassic]

I also see a lot of people saying that adding more rares would help new members, but thats simply false.

For rares to be rare, there has to be scarcity. The chance of getting the rare pet by adopting would still be very low, even for new members, but since they don't have years of fodder saved up, once they miss the rare pet (which most of them will) they will have to struggle to get that rare pet (more than old members with old pets to spare), and often even struggle to swap for that litters missed outcomes in general as most people will be seeking the rare pet too. Yeah, there will be a few newbies that get lucky on their first few adopts and end up with a rare, but its not like theyll have spares of it to trade off (again, scarcity), and while its true that not everyone has the completionist mindset and some newbies will trade their rares away, more newbies will miss them and struggle to get them through trades.

Like people have said before, events are a great way to stock up on rarer outcomes, as your gains are equal to the time you put in to checking back and grabbing that banner. It is fairly easy to end up with doubles if you have the time to spare (and most people do when the event lasts for a decent amount of time), and many of the pets are on the rarer side, which I think helps newbies so much more than introducing a fairly rare outcome often.

I do wish that cs would take steps to slow down the rate at which old (non store, at least) pets grow in rarity, though. Such as having more often/bigger amounts of re-releases. I've been on the site since 2010 and grew most of my collection through selling art, but even then I've never managed to catch up, and the peak rare pets will probably elude me forever which only discourages me from trying to get them. Even the ones I have gotten, such as skellebun, didn't feel worth it at the time of trading due to what I had to give up to get it, and I can only imagine its gotten exponentially worse since then. And to some extent, thats probably the case with most pre-09 pets. And I don't know if I'm in the minority there, but thats just not fun. When aspects of a game get so hard that the reward doesn't feel worth it, and you don't even want to Try to get there anymore, then its a massive loss for me. Introducing more rares (than the current rate) would only make that worse in my eyes.

*I also want to add that to me, CS has never been a trading game. The appeal has always been to adopt pets and watch them grow, along with collecting, sometimes hoarding, and participating in the events. Trading for missed outcomes feels more like a hassle than something I'm excited to do every month, Especially when I see the trade thread and everyone else is looking for the same pet that I need.*

[sputnikzero]

I think it’s fair that a lot of players support this idea.

Personally, I found it very unenjoyable to obtain these types of pets in the past. From my perspective as a completionist with ASD, I just really enjoy filing pixel pets and ticking boxes. Trading is already stressful for me since I struggle with text tones.

It would be an opportunity for a small percentage of players to obtain something rare, but trying to trade for something everyone is also scrambling to obtain on a regular basis doesn’t sound like an enjoyable gaming experience to me.

I enjoy the yearly events very much where you can obtain a good amount of rare pets through activity and participation, not by luck. I would enjoy it much more if that’s the case.

Everyone is attracted by different aspects of collecting and that is completely fine! I just want to put my opinion here as something to consider, and I’m sure some others would also resonate with ^^

[Henry Creel]

I would enjoy either the occasional rarer outcome through the year, adds a little bit of fun in trading. Not and august PPS case though that sounds like a nightmare.

And I would not enjoy another pink valentines lioness case to happen. Its absolutely insane that a lioness that ended up being an extremely uncommon pet (ex-rare, on the more common end of rare else it wouldnt be EUC now) went for several MAs/VR/older pets at the time lol. But thats on the players and how they manage their offers on pets and demand. Not on how many pink valentine lionesses existed on the game because there sure was a decent amount.