MVerity333 wrote:I don’t see a problem with the demand of the pets necessarily, just the price gouging/greediness mostly, because I’ve seen where people have paid $50C for a pet that turned out to just be uncommon. But if a pet is harder to obtain, I would expect more people to be looking for it and for it to be more valuable, but to this degree is disgusting and desperate. Especially for the new users who don’t have much to trade, and people who can’t buy C$.
If people are desperate for a pet, I don't think there's anything wrong with offering a lot for it. It can actually help users who don't have a lot of trade fodder, because they can trade off their pets for a lot of overpay to desperate people. That's actually how I built up a lot of my rare fodder as a new user.
For those who don't want to pay an arm and a leg, often all it takes is a bit of patience. Once rarities come out, demand often dies down quite a bit and it becomes easier to get those missing outcomes. Not always, but a lot of times. Especially with something like in your example where the pet ends up being uncommon.
However, I do agree that it can become an issue when those first desperate traders over offer by a ton, and then everyone else expects to get that for their pet as well. There's not really an easy fix for that, unfortunately. People just have to not be willing to give in to inflated demand, and eventually it will go down.
Minimanta wrote:Sure, some people get lucky with the rares (uncommons really) of the month but it's not just some people with doubles of these blue deer. It's a lot of people with a lot of doubles. I saw someone say half their litter was blue, that just doesn't happen with uncommons and certainly not with rares. Just because many people missed a pet doesn't mean it's necessarily uncommon or rare either.
Just to be clear, I haven't been very active on the swap threads, so all I know about the blue deer is that I didn't get it. I agree that a lot of people missing a pet doesn't NECESSARILY mean it's uncommon/rare...but it does usually make it more likely. I honestly have no idea myself how many are around. I was just pointing out that it's impossible to know with 100% certainty until rarities are released. Sometimes the results can be surprising and pets turn out to be either higher or lower than people thought.