Because it wasn't fair in the first place. No one was warned and there were a lot of other neopets that could've been given the option to convert or not as well. Only the people who were lucky enough to have these pets previous to the big update had the benefits out of it. Everyone else got screwed. This was one of TNT's biggest mistakes.
I still don't understand why people like UC pets other than their rarity? Who really cares whether a pet is UC or not...isn't it more important how it looks and such? I dunno, maybe I'm just silly.
Well, honestly, as a senior player, I do enjoy the old looks better (And the old layout dammit! xD And petlookup circles!), perhaps because I'm more familiar with them and I don't really like customization except for the backgrounds. Overdone customizations slow down the lookups a LOT. :/ Still, TNT should make it fair for everyone.
This is a real pain, and I agree...but just because your pet isn't UC doesn't mean you have to customize...lol I leave my pets plain
That's a fairly old editorial, sorry. TNT's also stated that they "don't want 2 different types of every pet floating around" because it'll "confuse new players" or something; what I've heard is that there's going to be another redraw, but this time there will be no UCs of any sort - instead the current "C" and "UC" pets will all be converted to a new set of art, customizable that's supposed to better represent the old art. That is my reason for always valuing Draiks/Krawks over UC pets, and the reason I didn't trade for a UC Faerie Shoyru or Pteri last year, when Draik/Krawk MPs were 6million NPs cheaper...
I agree with Anfan in that you should always be wary of UC because you can't really anticipate the changes that the site might go through. Just because they don't plan to change things now, doesn't mean they won't change things down the road. Be happy with the type of pet you have regardless of how TNT might mess with it
sorry about the old editorial, it was the only one i could find well, if they do make all the pets the same, I hope it would somewhat represent the UC pets. i mean, I just took a look at a list of all the UC pet pictures, and some of them look amazing :O it would really be such a shame if all of them just disappeared
Blitzkrieg... you do have a point, I wasn't around at the time so I don't know how it all happened. But I think two wrongs don't make a right, and converting UC pets now would be VERY unfair for the people who have spent a lot of time and neopoints on getting them... I don't like customization myself either. I have backgrounds on my pets, but no clothes, it doesn't look right to me... And I do think the old art was way better than the new one, it was cool that the pets had totally different poses and bodies. But all this talk is making me reconsider wether I should or not try to get my dreamie (a grey UC grundo)...
I think the customization thing was mainly aimed towards the younger/less experienced players who had a harder time making NPs to paint/morph/zap/whatever their pets. well, that and it also opened up the NC mall, which probably generates lots of $ for tnt?
I guess you could look at this two ways. 1. Its good for the people who have UC Pets and want to actually keep them. Necasue, well they want to keep them xD 2. Its bad for those who sell them, because now there will be no more "loss" of UC pets due to random events, so while the supply of UC Pets wont go UP obviously, it could at least go DOWN when they werent immune, making the other ucs possibly more valueable.
No, I think UC sellers can now sell the pets for more. UC's are like, all the rage now, because people can show them off and think they're better than everyone else.
definately!! its got to generate so much revenue for tnt not only do people want to buy cash cards for the mall, but if you cash them at the right time you can get awesome items like the perfect pink fur..which has shot up in value buy about 800k in the last 3 months..
I like that hey are now immune, now I don't have to worry about any of my UCs changing and losing their value before I sell them.
Something has happened! Boochi fires his ray gun at *my Pet!*, but thankfully he misses! do you reackon that could be my uc pet in action?. im so greatful i love my maraquan gelert!!
Eh, when they do nice things like this it makes me miss my old accounts I can never get back lol. But at least they are doing nice things for the players even if it is one nice thing in a bunch of mess ups on their side