Blaubär wrote:I still have doubts more rarities will do much other than make trading more complicated. I don't really see myself trading a 2009 rare for a recent one, even if they have the same rarity label, simply because I'm convinced, the older pet is harder to come by. Most of them, is what I think, are sitting in collections, unavailable for trade or famously "HTTF".
And that's without any added personal value because of it simply being older. I agree that leaving this aspect out of the equation is what would make things a lot easier. My other point still stands, though: rarity level alone says little about actual availability.
Still hoping that I'm wrong and this will only be a problem in the minority of trades.
I definitely don’t think it will be an immediate change, just because so many people have valued older pets higher for so long. And I do think that, especially with things like events, recent pets ARE easier to trade for, because they’re all on currently active accounts and people will get duplicates specifically to trade, so there are more being actively offered. But once you go back a couple of years, I don’t think it makes as big of a difference. Honestly, I think a lot of it is just people’s perception, because that’s what we’ve been told over and over.
As an example, there are some rares from 2019 that I can’t find ANYWHERE (and they’re not pets with any kind of high demand) and rares from 2010 where I have multiples for trade and no one ever offers on them. And I think part of that is because of those big gaps in rarity that we can’t really see right now. So even though my ‘10 rare and the ‘19 rare are both the same rarity, the ‘19 might ACTUALLY be more rare, but with the big rarity groups, you can’t tell that.
So would I trade a ‘10 rare for a ‘19 rare after the change? Probably not. All things being equal, I’d rather have the pet that’s much older. But if my ‘10 rare ends up “extremely uncommon” after the change and the ‘19 rare stays rare, then yeah, I’d take that trade.
That’s one of the areas where I think it will help. It will do a better job of revealing the “true” value of newer pets that might be undervalued simply because they’re recent.