MegaManFan's Blog

Same thing with shopkins? Yes?

 

If they did what you said, buy a complete set, it would not appeal to the gambling & greed instinct. And you wouldn't be chasing after them all and buying so much.

 

It is to their advantage to operate as they are now.

 

I had the same problem when my videogame collection was growing to monster proportions. Too much stuff, too much dilution. Might as well be emptying a garbage truck in my room!

 

Yesterday:

I was visiting relatives and their kids have a 20-gallon container of shopkins. At like $4.00 a piece that comes out to be 10 or 15 thousand dollars of little blobs of rubber that the kids just like to count and sort and search for duplicates. And they (and parents) were up to like 2am sorting and counting: on a school night no less!

 

The thing about encountering duplicates. It's very carefully planned utilizing years of research dating back to WWII. It's carefully determined when special trading events to start happening - controlled by duplicate frequency.

 

The industry loves flunkies like so!

Same thing with shopkins? Yes?

 

If they did what you said, buy a complete set, it would not appeal to the gambling & greed instinct. And you wouldn't be chasing after them all and buying so much.

 

It is to their advantage to operate as they are now.

 

I had the same problem when my videogame collection was growing to monster proportions. Too much stuff, too much dilution. Might as well be emptying a garbage truck in my room!

 

Yesterday:

I was visiting relatives and their kids have a 20-gallon container of shopkins. At like $4.00 a piece that comes out to be 10 or 15 thousand dollars of little blobs of rubber that the kids just like to count and sort and search for duplicates. And they (and parents) were up to like 2am sorting and counting: on a school night no less!

 

The thing about encountering duplicates. It's very carefully planned utilizing years of research dating back to WWII. It's carefully determined when special trading events to start happening - controlled by duplicate frequency.

 

The industry loves flunkies like so!

I've heard Shopkins is much the same. In fact on the Amiibo News Podcast they mentioned that somebody had made a parody of Nintendo Inquirer called Shopkins Inquirer, but then the joke became serious, because the struggle is just as real.