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Yasu coded for me a 60-day regen, so I'm using it for the purpose of making Lesser Breeding Pendants 60 day regen. I know people will be rather upset by this, but with several hundreds in circulation and the price of pendant slots still horribly devalued, this needs to be done to cut back. I mean, look at the queue...
Lesser Breeding Coin (x311) | Lesser Breeding Pendant (x383)
This should not be as imbalanced. Pendants are supposed to be rare, so we're hoping this combats it. Think of it logically:
RBPS and MBPs are cheapest and pendants regen at 30 days.
LBPs are mid-grade in price and regen at 60 days.
BPs, EBPS, PBPs, and HBPs are the rarest, and are at a 90 day regen for this reason.
Please understand we do this to keep the balance in the system, and we really want to be fair on all accounts. This effectively means for the amount of LBCs people submit, a little over that amount comes around for free in the system. I hope this pans out eventually despite the obvious frustrations it will cause.
Now aside from this, spend those Candy Canes and Snowflakes and carry on merrily!
Posted by Ash
(#90) on Wed Jan 4, 2012 6:27pm
- Pathos
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 9:57pm
Geez I wish I would have kept my SP, took me over a year to save up, spent *tons* of RL money on plushie collections and now it's nowhere near worth the amount of time and money I spent on it. Lame.
- Hiatus & Missing
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 10:00pm
Hmm... I haven't read all of the comments here, but I have an /idea/. It's reeeeally far-fetched, but is it possible to have a raffle where you trade in pendants for something like... Erm... Iunno, a Slashbot or something... :S Just an idea. ~Yvne
- Kiwi Quiche
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 10:38pm
Thanks for the heads up, Frey! <3
- Bri & RC
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 10:45pm
I'm sure this won't be a well accepted sentiment but I will put my two cents in regardless.
No, I do not see this as being fair. I don't see this as being fair at all. It is the responsibility of staff on the site to make sure that things don't get unbalanced. To punish users who have paid and earned these items with the knowledge that EVERY 30 days they regenerate is really horrible. It is very similar to stealing in my book. They were willing to pay the prices that they paid because of what the item did with the understanding that it would ALWAYS do that because that is what the item and staff lead them to believe. To come in and change that devalues the item... perhaps some of those people would not have bought a pendant had the rules been this. They were promised one thing... and now it was taken from them. I think that is terrible.
I do not own any pendants. I speak entirely unbiased on the situation. This is not fair to those users. I do see the issue. I do not agree with how it is being fixed.
Then again, this will never effect me because the first time you guys did this with a pendant I vowed to NEVER purchase anything that recharged forever because despite what the items say at any given time you may take that away. I just hope that my FU pendant I purchased and applied to my account doesn't get ruined like the other things. I'd be pretty darn upset to find I spent I don't even know what ridiculous amount of my FU to get on one day and see a "Oops, there are too many ... totally our mistake but you get to pay for it. Now you only get premium every other month" .... Really hope that doesn't happen.
To you users out there who are effected by this and are not happy all I can say is ... I feel for you I really do. I'm sorry that you were put in this position. To those of you who think it's fine... I'm glad your satisfied with it and not upset like the others.
- Firewing
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 10:50pm
This seems like a perfectly good idea to me. I don't see why others are saying that they're being penalized when the only thing changing is that they have to wait longer (which would have happened anyway since the queue is getting rather large).
PS. Frey, how long should I wait between email responses? I've waited over a month since my last message without anything and I'm getting worried that somehow my emails are being eaten up(which truthfully, shouldn't be happening since I'm also using gmail to send you emails). If a month or more is normal, then I'm totally fine with that, I just want to know if my messages are actually getting through or not :)
- wolfcat
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 10:59pm
Wait... so my other two LBP's were due back the 8th and 9th of this month. What's going to happen with that?! *dies* We can't really trade for PBP's if none of use have ours back.
- Serith
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 11:17pm
This is really unfair; every LBP owner paid full price and were promised a certain product. Now it is being cut in half with no refund or compensation at all? ...I just don't get why we are being punished for something that is out of our control. To be perfectly honest, this particular approach to the problem is rather insulting, especially since SP is earned.
- haunter [iceh]
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 11:21pm
It makes sense, sure but somehow I don't think removing/devaluing the LBP is going to help. Sure it will cut back the breeding queue, but someone else in this news post had a point: the site is growing, and will continue to grow, so the best solution will to be get more breeding artists rather than making the pendants more and more useless. I mean what if the queue is majorly backed up later down the road? Will pendants take another hit? Will we be limited to 1 breeding a week with coins? Who knows, if everything is 'subject to change'. *shrug*
- Marjo
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Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 11:27pm
I understand where this is coming from and I agree with it, but it's really inconvenient for everyone who has sold or bought uses of an LBP for the next few months. My pendant should have regenerated next week, but I assume I'll now have to wait another month, and I have to contact and possibly refund everyone who has bought a slot for my LBP so far :/
Posted on: Wed Jan 4, 2012 9:51pm
Where are people getting all these pendants? I want one!