What WAS the FR community thinking when the general populace voted to cycle the bears back in every year? I joined in June 2015, so I wasn't there. :p
Well, a few things! There were two primary schools of thought when it came to voting the bears into cyclage, one of them was pure miscommunication- there was an understanding by some of us (myself included) that the bears’ return (As iirc, it wasn’t actually referred to as a ‘cycle’ at that time) would be a one time thing- basically, at the end of the year, there would be one final holiday blowout, where the chosen returnable item would show up in an unspecified holiday (We didn’t know it would be NotN yet, we had no idea what sort of event to expect, since originally December (and before that January) was going to be a breather month with no holidays at all. Most people were expecting a Beastclan type thing, if we’re being honest.), and be obtainable again FOR that holiday, before retiring forever. Basically one last big smash and grab for the year for anyone who missed a festival or had just joined. I voted for the return on that understanding. I wasn’t the only one.
On the other hand, we had, well. Greed. Even as the FR new year was drawing to a close, the price of the early sprites, particularly Light and Fire, were already skyrocketing, becoming rarer and harder to obtain. A lot of people assumed that the bears would skyrocket like that as well, and still others assumed that if the new familiars returned, so would the Sprites, and wanted the opportunity to make fast fat fists of cash without very much effort. It was a general misunderstanding of how an economy works, and how this festival was going to work. Please remember, absolutely none of us had any idea what we were in for com December, and we voted way back in May, I do believe. Possibly earlier. and FR used to have quite the reputation for poor communication, even worse so than it does now.
But the thing is, we’ve backed ourselves into a very interesting corner. In June of 2017. we’re going to start seeing Joxar’s Boxes- essentially a condensed version of the original cycle concept, that staff hopes will help maintain some form of scarcity, without plummeting the value. This means that with the introduction of the limited-time brew familiar the Loga, we have not received a single genuine, farmable, limited-time item in Flight Rising since June of 2015. In fact, the possibility stands that due to our choice with the bears and with the cycling in the first place, we may never get a purely limited, retirable item again- I am of course, excluding user-made skins/accents, and unique anniversary gifts. Those are, as a general rule, not farmable- you cannot get a spare unless you are buying it off someone else, and their number is strictly limited to the number of active players in the instant of the gifts being delivered. That means that really, the only limited items in existence on the site, the only items that are guaranteed to appreciate in value over time, will come from the first two years of gameplay- assuming of course, that staff stays permanently true to their word about never bringing these things back.
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