With Gachas Being Banned, How Will Future KittyCatS! Be Released?

[Kikii Littlepaws]

(08-04-2021 12:14 PM)Arwen Swordthain Wrote:  

(08-04-2021 06:03 AM)Kikii Littlepaws Wrote:  Collection kitties haven't previously been No Transfer, there was always swapping and trading and buying on the secondary market for all of them, but if you mean that this might have to change now, so that all collection cats are no transfer (unless permapet) then that is one valid agreement, but this would be a shame, b/c then it's going to be that much harder to get the one(s) you really want, and the trading has always been lots of fun. No transfer until rezzed would still fit the bill, though, b/c once rezzed, the cat is set with its costume and stats. ♥

Sorry to be devils advocate, even if its no transfer til rezzed you, the buyer, have still purchased something you have no idea what traits it will have so you have bought an unknown with a chance at something worthwhile. Even if you know the costume you can't know the breedable traits til its rezzed then only the starter ones not the hidden ones and a lot of us buy collections for the unknown hids, thats the fun for most of us.
The banning of gachas is about the intial purchase not the resale.

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Don't apologize for being devil's advocate.

Actually, this post of mine was supposed to have been edited to begin with, but somewhere along the way, my edit got lost. I had a lot of things going on at once, so my apologies!

As much as I have always gone in to buy Collection KittyCatS from the vendors knowing exactly what I was doing, the vendor itself is 'gacha', by the definition that you're paying for a completely random item. So I do suspect that that method may very well have to change. However, I honestly can't foresee life simulation, breedables, being entirely chucked or having to change. The entire issue seems to be in knowing what you are getting.

If you know you're buying a KittyCat, with very specific shown traits, and you're also informed that if you breed it it will have hidden traits to discover, this should, as far as I know (with my layman's knowledge) be allowable. After all, even before this announcement and policy change by Linden Lab, KittyCatS have always been marketed as a pet that can breed, not simply something to breed. Breeding is a possibility, not the sole intent of them. Otherwise, why would I have so many permapets to keep around to make my home feel like a home?

ETA: I would also point out that particularly in KittyCatS case, the "unknowns" can quickly become knowns, as breeding is only random in one sense: does the parent cat pass shown or hidden. And I would submit also that this is an intended feature that buyers of KittyCatS are aware of ahead of time.