obelisks wrote on 2021-04-06 06:17:00:
You’re really complaining with your whole chest about free stuff? Next year the staff shouldn’t give us anything. Is that your solution?
YES finally someone else who said it. Realistically speaking, there will always be an item that will be sold at the highest and one at the lowest price (unless they're ALL sold at the same price). When the Staff introduced the "ugly" sweaters, they were a joke, and this apparel is also designed as a joke. Then, the
Astonishing Sweater turned out to be the most valuable on the market simply because there are many people who like to dress their edgy, meme or modern characters in it. Were all the other players played just because one of numerous items had a design that was more popular? What about the Phoenix and the Ultimate Buttersnake? Neither the Phoenix or the Buttersnake are more or less cool. I personally like the Phoenix more but does that make the Buttersnake bad? Absolutely not, it's just my taste, that is not fact.
Your feelings are 100% valid and it is okay to be disappointed, no one's saying you're not allowed to be disappointed, but just because one doesn't like something doesn't mean one decides the objective worth of what they don't like. The lanyard isn't less cool than all the other items because that's a personal opinion. I don't vibe with a lot of apparel pieces on the site, are they bad just because I don't like them? No!
While we as a market determine a thing's "financial value" despite the fact that it's all technically fake, it's still based on supply and demand in this case. The lanyard isn't less cool just because you don't like it. I completely understand what some people are trying to say by "one of these items was most likely going to be less popular than the other two" because that's just how things are, but it turns into a problem when it's also continued with "so I hate it and how this was given to us because it's
not something I like". With that, the entire point just falls apart because it's an opinion, not a fact regarding quality. You are entitled to your opinion but an opinion doesn't create fact. Just like I don't like bred G1s or non-G1s, that doesn't mean that bred G1s or later generations are "less cool". That's not how things work.
There's a reason there's a saying that goes "ne gledaj poklonjenom konju u zube" aka "don't look a gift horse in the mouth" as this was a free item. You didn't spend anything on it, they just gave you a bag of goodies. You are completely free not to like an item and wish for something else, but it's not good to pursue envy nor is it good to dis things just because you don't like something, you feel me?