Ridley Starsmore
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Lilsis Charmer
WideEyed
Lilsis Charmer
Sounds like you're trying to defend the people who only want to wear those items as a status symbol, as in "I have this item and almost no one else does, I'm special". I don't say this to insult you or anyone, but we all know that those people exist here (and everywhere), and I personally don't see that kind of elitism as anything positive in any community. In other words, the rarest items should definitely imo be released in larger quantities. This doesn't mean they should be released in HUGE quantites. There are a lot of numbers between 10 and 10 million.
I'm not making any judgements whatsoever about the people who own them, or their rationale for wanting them.
All I'm trying to say, and I know it's not a popular opinion, is that a lot of the people who own something absolutely insanely rare or expensive, put an awful lot of time, effort, and in some cases, money into acquiring them.
To suddenly make a billion gold Item available again would immediately devalue that Item, and someone who might have worked for years to get said Item, would almost assuredly find it's value substantially diminished, and I don't think that's fair.
It's akin to someone training their entire life to win a Gold Medal at the Olympics, and deciding after he/she has finally achieved their dream and won their medal, that everyone else should get one too.
And just to clarify...simply looking at my Avy should tell you the number of exceptional Items I myself own. I've got no skin in this game so to speak, but I always find it somewhat irksome when people think they should have what someone else has without making the investment that someone else made.
Well, if getting an item made out of pixels on Gaia is as important to someone as winning at Olympic games... Let's just say it shouldn't be that important, to anyone. As far as angelic halos go, pretty much no one except people who got/bought them in 2003 have them, and most (if not all) of the people who do own them refuse to sell them for any price. Even for a hundred trillion Gaia gold, or all the gold on Gaia.
Releasing a few more of those items just give people a reasonable chance of owning that item, regardless of their reasons to own it. It would actually benefit everyone. The only people who'd have a problem with it are the selfish people who feel like no one else except them deserves to have the item. This pretty much applies to the Angelic halo alone. All the other items are pretty much available to anyone, you just need the gold to buy them. Personally I find a.halo one of the ugliest items here, I've only seen one avi that it really fit and looked good on. XD
Your last couple of sentences kind of sum up my opinion on
many of the more outrageously priced Items I see in the MP.
I have no doubt that status plays a huge part in much of the desirability of these Items, because there's an awful lot of them that I really wouldn't have the slightest interest in owning.
My outlook on real life is pretty much the same as my outlook on Gaia...There's things I can work hard for and get if I want them badly enough, and there's many more that, no matter how hard I work at it, I'll never have.
That's life when you get right down to it.
The thing is, just because I want something, does not mean that I'm entitled to it, and it's a sense of entitlement that I often perceive as being at the root of many of these arguments for egalitarianism.
Just where would the cut off for an Angelic Halo be?
Would they release 10? 100? 1000?
You can be darned sure that, short of dropping them like Ocean Blue Tops from the DC, the Halo is always going to be beyond someone's reach
Who decides who gets them and who doesn't?
I should totally get one.
emotion_awesome
ROFL!
I thought I could sense a Dust Bunny reading over my shoulder as I typed!
Curse you and your psych
otic powers!
Ridley Starsmore
I'm not saying release them all at once...but getting some back in can actually help get more other items that folks are hoarding into the system.
Possibly true, but I should imagine only because their once priceless possession had suddenly been lessened by becoming more common.
I don't think that there would be the same passion or prestige attached to owning something that was 1 of only 100 in existence, as there is to owning something that might be 1 of only 10, and I think it would not only diminish the Items themselves, but also the thrill involved in attaining the unattainable.
(goes into Spok mode.....) "You may find after a time, that having is not so pleasing a thing after all, as wanting."
For me at least, the fun is in the chase, and once the game is won, the game, and the fun of playing it, is over.
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