(07-25-2015 11:28 AM)DominickValerian Resident Wrote: a recent conversation on addicts chat:
[10:17] Dominick Valerian (dominickvalerian): Kitty why did kittycats only sell the confetti by using menagerie points,. that doesnt seem to fair to people who just want to buy the cat, at 5000 points, that kinda restricts the purchase to breeders
[10:17] Kitty Curious (curiouskitty): because the fur MIGHT be passed to OS that WILL BE transferable
[10:17] Kat Malone (katrin.miklos): except the .. fur is passable so you will beable to buy it on secondary markets
[10:18] Dominick Valerian (dominickvalerian): yes but you have to wait until it is available on secondary markets so some people can make a profit while others cant
[10:18] Dominick Valerian (dominickvalerian): again...not fair
[10:19] Dominick Valerian (dominickvalerian): any cat kittycats produces should be available easily to all
[10:19] Kitty Curious (curiouskitty): that's a decision the dev team made, i think it's mainly to give a boost to the secondary market, for the rest, you'd have to ask them 
[10:19] Dominick Valerian (dominickvalerian): how do i ask them
[10:19] Kitty Curious (curiouskitty): you can post a thread on the forums, for example
So I ask you developers, why provide a cat that only certain people can buy. If is is as Kitty curious says to boost use of the Secondary market, you know make it more accessible to only certain people to make a profit off the Confetti cat. And if its not to boost the SM, you still are only allowing certain people to buy the cat while others cant. That's not fair in my opinion. Any cat produced by Kittycats should be made available to anyone by menagerie or Linden purchase. To restrict its purchase limits the potential for "anyone" to breed and make a profit. I await an answer.
Thank you Dominick for your thread!
I share your opinion on this subject.
Once again I see the parallel to real life markets where it is wanted to have only some people to rule and dictate the markets. The massive number of small sellers and customers are tried to be muzzled by the powerful people.
If they have no arguments then it’s well enough for them to try it on a low level like Winter Phoenix saying: “Save up your pennies pole dancing at the Magic Mikes or something. Then go buy yourself a La Girafe with the proceeds“.
Shamu077 even has to spit out his wine with his wise (lol) comments. In the absence of an own wise comment, I suppose.
So you see who you have to deal with here...
I don’t even blame KC for their selling politics. They are a company. First goal is to make money. However I do blame their public representation of their decisions. Why can’t they just admit to the fact that their focus is on the hardcore breeders and absolutely not on the kind of people who breed for themselves and who run small shops and sell at low prices in their shops for anyone to afford? Or people who see their kitties as real cats with a personality, people who would love to perma-pet mostly all of their cats because the cats belong to their second life like real cats to a real life. People who don't think of making money but just love KittyCats.
It is ALWAYS ABOUT the hardcore breeders. So they should admit it! It’s ok to do it. But not come up with advices like so many breeders in this forum here (that is what KC said as well):
Don’t you trouble yourself, you small insignificant buyer/breeder. The ever so nice mass breeders will menagerie their tons of “kitty material” and then buy Menagerie Cats and then sell them to you. Isn’t this nice of them? The prices are ridiculously high but don’t you say a word! You are to honor “their time and expense and frustration” like Shamu077 points out. As if a small breeder does not have to spend money and time and so very often is frustrated with the 20th Salt & Pepper Mask Foxie or Bellini eyes ...
How can you make any demands when there are these wonderful and unselfish mass breeders who are just breeding for YOU and your delights? I cannot tell you how sick and tired I am of this mantra of the “nice and altruistic breeders“. Selling La Giraffe cats for about 25,000 Linden - oh, how unselfish! Secondary market managers who tell you not to sell your kitties under 100 Linden because “this is so unfair to the (mass)breeders who spent so much lindens on their kitties“.
For gods sake, it is their own decision to be a mass breeder! And it is my own decision to breed just for my own and we ALL have to spend lots and lots of Lindens to pay for this hobby. And everybody can pay as much as their real life finances allow.
And unfortunately, yes it is KC’s decision to make really cute and wonderful kitties only for the mass breeders to afford.
If you think money and markets - it is what it is.
If you think of fairness and kindness in this always so highly praised KC community - you are right, it is not!
Question for kittycats developers
