Limited rares are increasing the purchasing power of credits

[Kardan]

It is deceptive in many cases. Take the limited Red Theater Curtain for example. It's basically a recoloured norm. They released 2000 units of it and only sold about 700 of them. They probably wouldn't have sold half as much if they didn't use the labels "rare" and "limited" while selling them. It is advertising, no doubt about it, but I prefer to take it one step ahead and call it deceptive advertising.

How is it deceptive? It is rare, and was limited.

[jorsian]

How is it deceptive? It is rare, and was limited.

It's not a rare, it's a norm. Technically it was limited, but what's the point in calling it so when half the units weren't even sold?

[Kardan]

It's not a rare, it's a norm. Technically it was limited, but what's the point in calling it so when half the units weren't even sold?

So, you are saying that the furni isn't limited because it donly sold 700. But it would be limited if it sold all 2,000.
#Logic.
And why is it a norm and not a rare?

[jorsian]

So, you are saying that the furni isn't limited because it donly sold 700. But it would be limited if it sold all 2,000.
#Logic.
And why is it a norm and not a rare?

It's a recoloured norm. It's limited either way, but whether they sold 700 or 2000 units, it's still more common than half the rares on the hotel.

[MKR&*42]

It's a recoloured norm. It's limited either way, but whether they sold 700 or 2000 units, it's still more common than half the rares on the hotel.

It is still a rare. It does not matter if it resembles a recoloured norm, it was sold in the catalogue as a 'Catalogue Rare'. Quite a lot of the current rares have been released in large quantities - e.g. Blue Fan, Blue Pillow, Beanstalk, Orange Sleeping bag - yet they are still rares.

The ones that were sold in units of 500 are less, are not that common in relation to the entire hotel. Quite a lot of the dragons, Fans and Ice Cream Machines are in quantities larger than that at this current time.

"A few people will have over 100c" is such an absolute god awful claim. Unless you go and ask Sulake how many credits are currently in circulation and they manage to (bizarrely) give you a firm figure, you cannot say anything like that. If you go through many of the rooms in the hotel you can see full well that these people are worth over 100c and have much more than 100c. You are underestimating how many users actually use the hotel/used to... e.g. as of August 2012, 5 million per. month - if all those purchase the 25c credit package at least once = 125 million credits. Now obviously, I'm not going to be naive and say all of those people actually buy credits without any true fact, but it's safe to say a fair portion probably do - and that's not even including users over the past 12 years... nor the small amount of people who buy their credits via "bad sites".

Assuming that there aren't a couple of million credits on the hotel would be silly. £280k+ is a mediocre sized dent in the total amount.