Board Thread:Animal Jam Talk/@comment-35864911-20180620042104/@comment-35864911-20180624021136

NightmarenX wrote: This has been very interesting to read.

Quote(s) from Lolyallbandwagon:

"(1)This sites information is wrong, and ran by people who only want their items that they possess to be rare. The OG items will always be worth more than a headdress; that will go down just like the founder's hat did. So let's instead place them at their real value.(2) I hate getting undertraded for my headdresses, and I realize the reason I am not getting the actual value is because of these sites. That want to hype up popular(and tbh unrare) objects, because they are biased.(3)Eventually people will stop bandwagoning, and open their eyes to realize that these hyped up things aren't rare, stop the scam :)"

My Thoughts:

(1)I don't think you should expect for this site to have the rares system down jammed pack. The worth of these items can change from just day-to-day activity alone. It actually happens a lot more now a days. Your expecting alot from a small chunk of the community. Having to keep up with all the rares in-game seems like a hassle already. Then someone can also be completely off, and not even know it. When you say "their real value" its really how the community puts "x" item on a pedestal (even if it is just for the "hype). I'll give an example, lets say i've got Phantom Armor. Even thought this item is accessible in an adventure people (mostly non-members) want this item for a few rims. Some people simply just don't want to go through all that work just to get it.(2)You also have to think people put things on higher pedestals then others, you'd probably have to find someone whose deeply needs/wants it.(3) Yes, people eventually will then there will be another bandwagon, and it will probably be in this same endless cycle until AJ finally shuts its doors. It's not a scam sense it is what people are actually wanting them for, for the time being that is. (BTW you can even take an IRL refrence to this, things get hyped. Then the hype ends at some point, but as long as that hype is still going, it will holds its worth.)

The way how you wanted to make this Frog Wall Art "rarer" is actually a prime example, your trying to hype up this specific item because you think it holds more value. I do not think how you did it was right though because there is a better way to actually make an item grow more worth (I'd say what you were trying to do with the Frog Wall Art is scamming, you were giving people misleading infromation.) While yes, I do think that the term "rare" on this game isn't quite that accurate these item still hold their value in the community.

scam

skam/

noun

informal (I personally don't understand all the fuss about the "You are making my point more valid. That whenever someone says "Oh, this is worth a few spikes." something that the AJ community values people will go mad." I will say I don't get it when someone gets blazing hot over someones' mistakes, but it doesn't seem like you made a mistake. Looks like it was on purpose and you knew well what the worth was.) Thank you for providing a arguement, I would write more, but I think you have seen my point well enough! Things are too over-hyped and not in fact "rare". I did in fact know what the worth of frog wall are was. Which is why I never even gave people the opprotunity to actually trade what I was asking. You can tell I put no information about my username or anything. I was never going to accept that trade, and wanted to see the reactions I would get. I wanted to see if people would believe what I was saying, or if they would get angry. I hate scammers, and I think the rarity sytem is a scam, it would be hypocritical for me to scam. I was not being dishonest, as I told my true intentions after, and never disclosed any information, I would use another word. Called a social experiment which usually happens in the steps I did. Other than that, you weren't rude, and I enjoyed reading your arguement.
 * 1) a dishonest scheme; a fraud.