I agree with this above this does make sense.
That doesn’t sound like a bad idea. Maybe there should be a way to convert tickets to throwback tickets since most of us aren’t interested into the balloons, but if they do that, they might have a 2:1 conversion rate or something. As cool as it is to get two glow wands from the event, or a glow wand and a pinwheel, this may lower the value of the more coveted retro collectibles since the market would become oversaturated with them. But then again, we are getting tired of collectibles being scarce.
These values were determined because we do not want to give the contest winners a surplus of throwback tickets. It is not intended to be a way to obtain a higher quantity of rare collectibles.
They should've just made the impostor collectibles raffle exclusive prizes instead to be honest. Raffles tend to rely so much on RNG thus making the collectibles harder to get by default.
I'm glad that they didn't do this because I believe people at least deserve a fair shot at getting them. I was frustrated when they were introduced as raffle/contest exclusives last year and I'm happy that they're finally available like normal collectibles, even if they are more difficult to get. when all that stuff happened during the holiday event it got super ugly and really turned me off.
This is exactly why we will no longer offer imposters as winners prizes.
Ah, kinda like why you guys revoked the interest system ten years ago and Welcome Bells nine years ago. It’s because it takes a few bad apples in the site’s community to ruin a feature or deal, either by abusing the system or starting drama. But many companies (especially Nintendo) and individuals punish undesirable behavior this way anyways.
I don’t get why it’s specifically the regular glow wands they put a much higher bar on. Even the pinwheel and black feather, which were very coveted for years, had lower ticket prices. Is it because the glow wands were light-based? Anyways, I agree that the economy for rare collectibles has been insane. You’ll need like 20,000 TBT or 30,000 TBT (which almost nobody has due to a TBT shortage) to buy one, and yet nobody wants to sell rare collectibles unless they really want TBT Bells to go on collectible shopping sprees. And as much as the rarer egg collectibles have been devalued, there used to be way fewer galaxy eggs and disco ball eggs in circulation. Even fewer than the white feather back when people were spending 50,000 TBT for one.
It was a unique plush only ever owned by @/Chris during the 2020 fair! It sadly disappeared after the event, never to be seen again. But he lives on in our hearts
