Question...why don't we get a 'bonus' for referrals? Justa thought.
We used to have this. Lots of small ways to earn bells like this have been silently nixed over the years as the abusers ruin them for everyone else!
Prices change so adding more TBT into the market isn't the answer. Prices of things would just raise cause people have more money to spend. The problem is that a few years back, people had a lot of TBT to spend. Now they don't so those old prices being listed in the collectible threads are outdated cause no one can afford them. The answer would be for people to realize this and sell for a little less. But they don't cause they don't wanna lose profits, which I get, so now those collectibles sit and they wonder why they have to keep bumping their thread.
This is the analysis that I agree with most out of everyone's takes. The old prices of White Feathers being sold for prices like 50k were absurdly out of control and never should have gone that high to begin with. There seems to be a view (misguided in my opinion) that because those crazy prices don't hold anymore, then there is somehow a problem that needs dealing with.
A number of reasons that no longer apply now caused those prices to take hold in the first place. For one, many of those who became so rich in the early days after New Leaf were due to the massive number of new members joining and buying Animal Crossing items with their welcome forum bells. For a new member joining, they either had no idea what the real value of their bells were, or quite simply didn't care anyway and were only here to trade a few items with no real interest in the TBT community itself.
If someone said to you 'hey, you can get this super rare Animal Crossing item if you just hand over some of your virtual forum currency' and you were a new member just here to trade, why the hell wouldn't you take them up on it? For those reasons, they were more than happy to hand away 100 bells (or more!) each for items to various shops, and the owners of those shops made tens of thousands hand over fist. We slowly reduced the welcome bells over time but it was as high as almost 1000 at one point!
For the record, I certainly don't hold it against anyone who took advantage of that, it was completely fair and by the book with how things worked at the time! But there's no denying in my mind that was a major contributor towards the sky-high prices and the same reason why things changed after we removed welcome bells. It is one of the main reasons we made that change to begin with -- it wasn't just alt accounts.
The other main reason is of course that we no longer allow real money transactions. There are surely a small number of 'under the table' ones taking place these days still, but for a couple years we fully allowed it to take place in public, so there's no doubt that significantly boosted the value of things then.
ngl I don't miss those prices. Although the animals are in one of my houses still so I guess they've paid for themselves. Lol
