February Monthly MiniPets
Posted by Mat on 1 Feb 2017, 2:30 am
February has come, and with it, the introduction of a new round of mini-pets for the FurDollar Emporium. These new monthly mini-pets follow a new system with the goal of retaining their value!
We have heard the concerns of customers who purchased FD mini-pets in the past and their disappointment that breeding has resulted in their purchase losing its value increasingly over time. We want our customers to feel confident that their purchase will retain its value, even potentially increasing in value. Therefore, we have decided that starting with the February mini-pets, FurDollar Emporium mini-pets will be unbreedable species, ensuring that the investment a customer makes will not decline in value due to breeding. Any past mini-pets released through the Emporium will remain as they were, as this change affects only new and future Emporium mini-pets.
Players can now obtain rarer colors for an Emporium mini-pet species by opening a box, found for each new mini-pet species in the Emporium. The boxes for each respective mini-pet have a 40% chance of opening into a common, 30% chance of opening into an uncommon, 20% chance of opening into a rare, or a 10% chance of opening into a super rare. Boxes are also priced at 250 FurDollars, a reduction from past prices.
The Aquaticat species is the first of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare. 
The Rapti species is the second of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
The Moth species is the third of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
The Chipmunk species is the fourth of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
The Caterpillar species is the fifth and final of the new Emporium mini-pets, shown from common through super rare.
These new boxes will not entirely disappear at the end of the month. We plan on putting all Emporium mini-pet boxes inside of a larger box called the Retired Box, which will dispense one random box from a past month. The Retired Box will be available at a higher price, but gives players the chance to obtain mini-pet boxes from past months if desired.
Save up your weapons, armor, and unwanted mini-pets, because the Serpent Festival is coming to town on February 14th. The Serpent Festival is Quetzal Palace's yearly special event. During this event, the serpent that carries the Quetzal Palace village on its back will land on the mainland of Furvilla. During this period of time, villagers from all over are welcome to make offerings to the serpent in hopes of being rewarded with something cool.
The upcoming festival will involve some new mini-pet species from the serpent, a special shop to purchase festival related items, new villager colors, new villager costumes, and last but not least... a mystery! Will you be one of the first one hundred people to solve the mystery and earn a trophy from the festival?
But that's not all! We have two weeks before the festival starts, and some other cool activities are coming down the pipeline. Sources say that Crafters will be getting a new type of item to craft, one that should keep all of you crafters busy! What could it be? Hm... we'll find out soon! ;)
Will the event be starting close to noon or midnight FV time? I want to know if I need to stay up late for the mystery.
Tom_Suke
It's not about easy hand outs or easy obtain items, this basically isolates a chunk of the player base who focus on the AH career. Breeding mini pets is a legitimate part of gameplay, by making sterile mini pets they isolate the players who use this feature like I said. Plus why make them mini pets then? why not just make them decorations? Because that is all they are just decorations. Many people have pointed out and made suggestions to improve the breeding system but instead of fixing that they just toss some gloried decorations our way
Of course common variants of pets will devalue they are common for a reason, and they easily could've done this mechanic with other items, like vistas, plushies or furniture, Or something completely new, isolating a chunk of your player base just because a few want their "Investments" protected is NOT a good thing.
Investments are not 100% concrete things, they never were. Not online and not irl, if the site closes down those who invested will still have lost it
well, I am rather excited for the Serpent Festival!
I just realized that the crafters are getting new things to do :)
That's great since crafters are kind of not worth keeping unless making a costume.
Apocalyptichorse Please refer to what I said to WhateverTrash; this protects investments if you think about the long turn. You have a 10 perc chance of getting a rare without the value dropping (and apparently a LOT of people have been pulling rares), and a chance of always getting them anyways (retired box).
The game's not supposed to be easy/have handouts, values are created by rarity, if the rares were easy to obtain, they'd be worthless (-cough contest pets/beta bugs cough-) Having this system promotes value for the items, and protects your investment. If you spent 2.50 ( or even 10 or whatever) and managed to pull the super rare, down the line, the value would only increase after Feb when people who didn't get it, can't pull it from the retired box the more monthly pets are added, you know?
WhateverTrash That was the main problem with the contest pets, they had limited breeding, but so did their offspring I think, but either way the value dropped to worthless after so many breedings. The beta bug can only be bred once a month and already the value dropped. Having pets that don't breed increases their value, and out of all the pet sites I've been on, 2.50 is fricken CHEAP for things like this (and I'm even including Gaiaonline monthly letters, which isn't a pet site) the point is, other games usually offer mystery or retired box things like this at a higher cost (these are not only still cheap, but cheaper than last month).
If you want to look at FR familiars, they're 250 gems, that's 2.50 USD, and nobody complains about that.
Nobody is looking at the long term investment of this; sure they aren't breedable, but they have a value now, so people who hoard for value have something that won't drop in value. I remember someone spent the equivalent of 20 usd for a beta bug, and now people buy/trade for roughly 400 fd from what I've seen. The value dropped. This tactic they're doing keeps the value, makes the pets actually worth something, and you always have a chance of getting them (retired boxes). They also changed the percentage, and a lot of people have been pulling the super rares.
After reading this update, all I hear is "we really want and need your money." RLC shouldn't be spent on mystery boxes IMO?? FR has night of the nocturne and strange chests, which as basically mystery boxes. I'd prefer to see mystery boxes as something you can get from exploring or battles? That's how you got fairies after all, why should it be different...? Mystery boxes are more fun if you can collect as many as you want during an event, and just gamble for what's inside.
What really annoys me is that the limited breeding option would have worked more than this? Common pets will always be common though. But if a user is determined to pay another 500FD/$5 to buy another set of pets to breed with in order to get the super rares, you'd actually get more money???
I just wanted to breed cool pets and maybe sell them but I guess Animal Huabandry is basically useless now. :)
I honestly love how this update already falls flat on its face the very first day, so much for protecting investments ey? the common pets are already worthless due to people buying so many boxes in the hopes to get the rare versions.
As i said in a forum thread: investments are not 100% concrete things, they are a gamble and it either goes trough or it does not.
The issue as many pointed out lays with the breeding system, you can breed two SR pets but still get a load of common pets from it, and of course the common pets are going to be dirt cheap they are COMMON, I'm honestly surprised that is what people complain about.
I've seen various people already suggest limited vistas, furniture or plushies would be a much better idea. Hell personally I'd love to see more plushies because unlike mini pets plushies do not loose their value over time since they can't be duplicated in any way. and limited non magical plushies will still be valuable, and it also allows collectors to "complete" their collection hell the hardcore collectors can collect both the magical and non magical versions if they wish
woo, so instead of a common pet declining in value over a period of /MONTHS/ we're just gonna skip straight to dropping their worth at the release. wonderful.
hype?? Kind of??