User blog:ZZeph/The Blue Long Debate

Basically, ever since 2017, some people have been saying that the Blue Long Collar is a Decent Long Collar, which would make it on the same tier of Yellow and Pink and not on the same tier of "Good" as Purple and Red. They still recognize that Blue is more than Yellow and Pink, but they no longer classify Blue as a Good Long. This is mainly because due to the fact Blue is the least rare of the three Good Longs, it's typically not accepted when traded for very high demand items and not often accepted for Black Longs unless there's add.

Personally, I still do classify Blue as a Good Long. And before you start typing your response to this, I'll explain why I personally believe it's Good and not Decent. This does not mean that I'm someone who accepts 3 Blue Longs for a Black Long Collar. It simply means that I just think it makes no sense to classify Blue as a Decent Long for the reasons I explained. I would accept Blues for a low demand item; but for a Black Long or high demand item, I'm never going to accept Blues unless there's add that I like. But that's just common sense, that doesn't somehow redefine Blue as Decent.
 * No one trades 2 Blue Long Collars for a Red Long Collar. Red is worth 2 Decent Longs, so if Blue is a Decent Long, how come I don't see people regularly trading 2 Blue for 1 Red?
 * No one trades 2 Bad Longs for a Yellow or Pink Long. But they do for Blue. How do you explain this if Blue is Decent?
 * It's an occasional thing that happens, but usually, no one accepts a Pink or Yellow Long and add a few den betas for a Blue Long. Why isn't this more common if Blue really is Decent?
 * The Blue Long is very similar to the Orange Long. They're not wanted as often as the other colors of their tier because they're the worst of their tier. But I never have seen someone argue that Orange is now somehow its own new tier below Bad because of that. It only happens with Blue despite having no real good reasoning as to why "Blue is Decent".
 * When a low demand item is listed as a Good Long, or listed as something plus a Good Long, people are more than willing to accept Blue in that offer. The same applies to Orange Longs. I know that when a very high demand item, let's say for example, Black Socks, is for trade - people won't want to accept an offer full of Blue Longs. But that doesn't make Blue any less of a Good Long - it's just common sense that people will trade better longs for better demand items.

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