Changes to the Limited Quantity Item timetable!
Hello, Gaians!
We hope you’re having a great day. There’s a lot going on over here, and we want to keep you posted! Bear with us, this is a long post, but we want you all to be as informed as possible!
Starting
today,
March 1st, 2017, we are going to test out a new way of handling our Limited Quantity Items. We want to ensure that our community will benefit from how we handle our limited items, which is why this is going to be a trial for the time being.
As such, there will be a slight change in the Gaia-created Limited Quantity Item rules. User-designed item rules (Golden, Platinum, etc.) will not have these conditions applied to them and their rules will remain unchanged.
Limited Quantity Items will be in the store for their normal duration (for example, a Limited Quantity Item put in on
March 4th will leave on
March 8th). However, they will now be eligible for re-release (in any way, shape, or form) until the
last day of the month that they were initially released. They will then not be re-released for 6 months, starting that last day at
11:59PM PST. This means they could potentially pop up from time to time within the month that they were first released, any time between the last day of their red time limit and the last day of that given month.
For example:
If they were initially released on March 1st, they have until March 31st; those items will then not be eligible for release until October 1st, 2017.
If they were released April 10th, they have until April 30th; those items will then not be eligible for re-release until November 1st, 2017.
If they were released on September 20th, they have until September 30th; those items will then not be eligible for re-release until April 1st, 2018.
So, as a review:
The new conditions will only apply to Limited Quantity Items that have not met their sale cap set in the Cash Shop. We will not add more to that cap. If the inventory is 399, we will only distribute 399 of that item.
If a Limited Quantity Item has sold out within the usual 4-5 day time frame then we will not apply these new conditions as there will not be inventory of that item left.
Gaia Online reserves the right to use leftover inventory of Limited Quantity Items at our discretion within the month of release. Not all leftover LQI inventory will be repackaged/re-released, so wait at your own risk as they will enter the rest period after the last day of the month.
User-designed items (items recolored with a submitted Rainbow Ticket, SDPlus Dolls made from submitted Platinum tickets, new designed items made from Golden Tickets) are not going to have these same conditions applied. All user-designed (usermade) items will remain unchanged from their respective rules.
All LQI items will not be eligible for recoloring with the Rainbow, Double Rainbow, Mini Rainbow or Baby Rainbow until after the 6 month rest period.
This may not happen with
every Limited Quantity Item so, again, wait at your own risk! Since this will be in effect starting today, all past Limited Quantity Items are grandfathered under the old rules, and will have a full 6-month rest period from the day of release.
If we find that the benefits do not outweigh the negatives then we will revert back to the old timetable.
You are invited to offer your feedback
in this thread here!
Thanks for tuning in, and we hope you are having a great week!
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