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! ;)
I really wish the FD pets were breedable. But I'm glad the chance for getting the other colors has gone up for them?? If you guys could fix the complete DISASTER that is the current normal breeding odds that'd be great :)
I was looking forward to buying new monthly pets to BREED! This is just not cool. Whats the point, im not going tomdrop 250 x 8 to get the full collection. Put it back the way it was and stop being sooo greedy..
Ooh mystery times! O: Can't wait for the new event to start! :D
Are you serious lmfao
They shouldn't call them mini-pets if they're just sterile decorations. Breeding is what distinguishes mini-pets from other collectibles like furniture and plushies.
Quagthistle Just because an item doesn't involve animal breeding (your preferred game mechanic, I assume) doesn't mean it's worthless. Worthless to you as breeding fodder, perhaps, but that doesn't mean they aren't valuable to other people as collectibles to trade and invest in, or as cute pets for their villagers.
Animal Husbandry is one part of the site that's shared by many, not the entire goal of the site. The site shouldn't be forced to cater to your particular interests at the expense of others. If collecting pets doesn't interest you, then you are free to disregard it and focus on Animal Husbandry while the players who are interested in collecting can do what they want.
i get that they don't want the fd minipets to become worthless, but still having the price that high is ridiculous. they should make the boxes 100 fd or less, considering how many boxes you would need to open to get a super rare.
oh boy the site gets a bit more greedy with each update I feel. I liked how the FD pets worked before, where you could buy them when they came out and invest in them. Now they're just a pricey trophy item, oophf-
Ooooooooooooookay so I totally missed the part where they aren't breedable mini pets -_-
So Monthly pets are now completely worthless and useless? Nice to know that I can simply ignore them, since they have NO gameplay value at all now and are truly just trophies. I may personally think this is a stupid decision, since there is now no incentive at all to buy them, and they are just useless trophies clogging up AH. Why not make a seperate collection for the useless trophy pets (called them Achievement Pets or something)? Then players won't be bothered collecting useless, retired stuff we can't even breed (and thus has nothing to do with AH). You might even retain more of the AH-favoring players that way.
I honestly wish FurVilla would stop wasting art resources on these useless worthless, unbreedable FDE pets. If you can't breed them, they aren't really pets, and they are completely pointless. I think a lot of us would prefer that you expend art resources doing useful things, such as making the costumes we HAVE compatible with more than a handful of the dozens of species of villagers or making USEFUL potions for the villages who don't have a useful potion (OF & OD), or releasing some nice pets for the existing villages who don't have them (DMM & OD), or releasing more colors of existing villager species (that aren't just Dog). Maybe you could even come up with FurDollar Emporium items that are actually useful, if you care about donations (though I have serious doubts that you do, given the decisions made about FDE pets).
As for the festival, I'll reserve feedback until I see how the event is structured. Let's just say that the past hasn't made me overly optomistic (see what's been done to AH as an example, or worse, the gosh-aweful restocking abomination that was forced upon the innocent, unsuspecting players of FurVilla). Nevertheless, here's to hoping that this event will feature *good* game design that makes it fun to play...