After having learnt alot more, or quite possibly just not alot more depending on how you look at it, since I wrote my ragey post I will once again try a reply here in a more sensible manner.
For me, that has kittycats to breed just to see what might pop out. Ok I will admit, their cuteness has grown on me a bit! But anyways, here is what I will and will never do when it comes to perma-pets at current prices.
I will never ever perma pet a cat that isnt 120 days old. Reasoning for this is that I think its way expensive, plus I have no outlet for possibly selling the perma-petted cat. So perma petting a cat does not give me anything at all.
Now for a cat that is 120 days old, I will have spent maybe 1250 lindens over its life time (not counting purchasing cost, if i had bought it) in running cost to feed it with food and milk. Again for me, I have no use for the perma petted cat since I dont know what to do with it. Then again if I get a cat that lays golden eggs (or boxes) and miracolously produces kittens that I profit 100 000L on, I might want to perma pet that cat and put it on a pedestal with a sign over its head saying something goofy like "My kittens bought me a moped in real life."
I understand that there is a market for perma pets, be it kittycats or some other brand and there might very well be a few people that does do the perma pet thing and makes a small profit in some way, but I doubt that there is many and the profit margin probarbly is very tiny. There are not millions of SL players that wants or needs a cat in their life. If I'm wrong and there actually is a bunch of people perma petting cats to sell and make money, please correct me.
As for the reasoning that the perma pet kit is in line with other brands of perma pets in SL I really dont buy into. I dont see the relevance. KittyCats could be the market leader in non breedable cats, raising brand awareness of KittyCats and make more people interested in buying a breedable one just to try it out once theyve had their perma pet cat roaming around and fallen in love with it. Other brands that just make a perma-pet kitten wont have the revenue stream from the cat food and milk to get the cat to 120 days that KS has and quite possibly go out of businiess unless they come out with a super perma petted cat that rivals anything else. It might feel harsch thinking that way, that something you do might put others out of businiess, but it happends all the time in real life. In fact, most companies strive for less competition and obviously a monopoly is the golden goose.
With a 120 day old cat you've paid your fair share of money to KC for it already, and for their babies and their babies and so on, so I can totally live with that you have to pay a hefty sum to perma pet a new born kitten so KC still gets the 120 day food and milk revenue or stream (or only non breedable food would of course make it alot less), but for a 120 days old, no and sorry, but no.
And please dont take this as an attack on KS like many did with my last, somewhat hostile, post. But I really think the perma petting system in place is pretty messed up and until I've been proven wrong I will continue to think so and speak my mind if I cant sit on my hands.
Anyways, 7.30am and Im going to bed, If you made it through my ramblings and understood atleast 50% of it I am happy
To Permapet or not to Perma pet.
