I'd like to claim my one FC slot!
I think getting items is still difficult, despite the functional items (speaking as someone who was a newbie but who also benefited from functional items.)
Because, with the coming of functional items, inflation also took place. So things are still pretty unattainable. Look at FC prices when they go on the market, for example. A new user would see an FC going for a million food and feel disheartened, of course they would.
And there are definitely fewer sales of old items. Most of the time, if old items are being sold on the market, it's for FC. And FC are difficult to attain with food, and people who donate are faced with the dilemma of spending it on the numerous TT sets or on old items. Prices on the market aren't reasonable anymore (this is just my opinion).
There have been a few ways to get TT items, like AliceON's shop and the Fairy Coin Charity, but they aren't able to run always, or they too run out of funds. And there aren't that many of them around. Even if someone wanted to start something else along their lines, if they can barely get FC for their own personal quests leave alone get more or pool from others, there's no way for them to do it. And how can they expect other users to pool, when so few are able to donate, and things have gotten expensive to the point that items that could be bought for food on the market before are now being sold for FC, and there are so many other things to get with FC besides?
Sorry for being all doom and gloom in here. Doki, what you're doing is great, with people able to buy old items from you at reasonable food prices, and FC too
I just don't know what can be done site-wide to make items attainable. I'm not a new user, but while I have the means to buy old items now, it's for old items at old prices. If my situation were the same now as when I was a newbie, I'd probably quit too; many of my hiatuses were for the reason that I couldn't justify the time I was spending here with what I got out of it, while having a hectic offline life. But the way things are now... I actually don't think my rate of item acquisition has changed much from the days I used to play Memory religiously everyday and edit the polls in my own threads so that I could get food from them after answering all others' polls. I have a LOT of Lava Lamps now, yet the difference in my means of acquiring old items, TTs and FCs... isn't much.
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