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! ;)
Oh awesome, too bad Animal Husbandry is broken af.
Why even make them mini pets? Just make them little decorative statues you can put in your house. I dont even get why people complained in the first place, yes the common pets loose their value thats how it works the rare ones are the ones who remain valueble. Bad update is bad
It's official. AH has been abandoned in favour of gaiaonline style Pay2Win might-get-lucky blind bag items. Limited breedability is one thing, but none at all? Every time an AH related update has been made, no matter how nonsensical, we tried our best to live with it. But this? If they're just gonna be collectibles with no purpose, give them their own gallery or menagerie or exclude them from the count so that those of us who are still trying to make AH work somehow are not forever taunted with pay-out-your-arse-for-100% menageries. Seriously.
Keep collectibles separate from breedable pets, kthx. (And how can you even tell that the way your previous minipets worked is gonna "devalue over time"? it's only been two months so they've only had 2 breedings so far at best, how is that giving you the longterm feedback you need?)
Can we please focus on gameplay before we focus on cash grabs, please and thanks.
I know a cash grab when I see one and I'm not falling for this.If other people when to keep buying these blind boxes until they get the pet they want they can do that but I regret even spending $10 on FD Emporium minipets.
...And by that I mean there's always going to be someone unhappy about an update, no matter what it is, so expecting them to cater to everyone's desires is unreasonable.
(My kingdom for an edit button on comments lol.)
While you're commissioning new artwork, how about new villagers? There's a serious shortage of marsupials (kangaroos!) and while all the new dogs are cool the new foxes have been waiting for a while and there's about a zillion charismatic small carnivores like meerkats, martens, cacomistles, kinkajous, fossa, fanaloka, margay, linsang, and coffee civet that would be absolutely smashing!
Quagthistle There's always something "better" that people think the staff should be focusing on. People's opinions differ on what that is. So no matter what the staff introduce, it won't be the type of feature that everyone wants.
I'm afraid we'll all have to learn to live with that reality.
ToonLink
So, let me just make sure I understand your position. You want them to keep churning out useless trophy pets while there is a pile of useful gameplay content they could create instead. You also want them to focus on making art for something that is totally pointless when they could be creating useful FDE items that might have a higher chance of selling. Well, I hope that opinion works out for you. It doesn't for me, so I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.
And STILL no word on a new pet for Foxbury when every other village has new ones. I'm not a fan of the fact that they still haven't fixed the breeding system, either.
So rather than fix the horrendously flawed breeding system, you guys would rather just cash grab.
Unbelievable. :\
Way to fuck up yet again.