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[salt-volk]

hey I’ve got a fun idea. since the only things left to do on the site are dressup and gamble on customs, let’s come up with increasingly ridiculous reasons why there still isn’t a fucking public droprate after 3 years! You know, as a game. /j or whatever. I’ll start:

broke: the droprate is actually really straightforward but the guy who coded it in quit ages ago and quis has no clue where to find it

woke: the droprate differs per user and depends on external factors other than luck; quis doesn’t wanna drop that for fear people might optimize the game mechanics. in a game where the only mechanic is “click button”.

bespoke: there isn’t a universal droprate. every window a random pool of users are selected that even have a chance at winning a custom and everyone else who tries is burning potatoes for shits and giggles.

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[krillkin]

There's currently an event with a vtuber- I don't know their name, but they're apparently selling nfts so beware if you do buy the pack?

ahhh ok thank yall! and i did some research n seems that. yeah. Big Oof on that

the stuff is cute, but not cute enough to support nfts!!!!

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starting now!

I’m gonna stream some sky on my twitch tonight I think. no overlay no facecam no voice just me going through eden at hopefully midnight pst

[salt-volk]

[response to 727279221631844352/w3b-listing-the-new-pai-items-at-200k] actually just gonna ask this aloud if that’s ok. Is there like? a standard agreed-upon price for monthlies somewhere that I’ve completely missed? or are some sets inherently worth more than others? I’m worried now that I’ve crossed some kind of line when I was just trying to price things at where they seemed to be selling based on last month (and nobody complained about me specifically then, because it seemed like that was around where everyone was pricing it for at least the first half of the month). genuinely asking, not trying to come off as rude, defensive or condescending, etc. I do try not to step on people’s toes so if I’ve been greedy by mistake then I’d like to stop doing that.

(sorry if this isn’t the place to ask!)

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[salt-volk]

since I’ve seen a few folks here mention it, I figured I might as well toss my two cents into this ring. (bonus: I don’t have to mince words quite as much here, haha.)

I don’t think the custom raffle was a scam. I don’t think that’s a wise or logical conclusion to jump to, given what we know. It just doesn’t make sense for the devs to shoot themselves in the foot so blatantly, for so little return.

1) making more customs does not negatively impact DV’s bottom line; in fact, it bolsters it.

If making customs cost anji more than just time, I’m sure the whole Irin situation would’ve been handled very differently. In fact, one of my suspicions as to why the bugged makers were not immediately rescinded (perhaps a bit conspiratory in and of itself) is that more customs = more money for DV. The more individual customs there are on-site, especially public customs, the more mirrors people will need to buy. There would be no benefit to going back on two (2) custom makers, especially when upwards of a dozen (iirc?) were previously given out at once. (I think there were obviously other factors to the irin situation, too - it would take an immense amount of time to go through logs/determine makers spun legitimately and those spun by people who knew of the exploit, they thought it would make people angrier to revoke the makers, maybe it was just sheer incompetence, etc.) Anyhow, point is: there is no reason for the devs to withhold the custom makers they promised. It’s better for them if they’re distributed.

2) As absolutely fucking stupid as a lot of the devs’ decisions are, I really don’t think they’re this stupid.

With DV, there’s a reasonable level of fumbling and bullshit to be expected with pretty much anything that comes out. This surpasses it. I mean, DV’s reputation is in the mud already in pretty much every circle I’ve seen. It’s a small miracle we get new users (even if 90% of them leave in a month, lmao.) Running a raffle that specifically asks people to advertise DV on social media, then expecting them not to tell everyone about a piece of drama this juicy, is… wishful thinking, at best. I truly don’t see staff sabotaging themselves this blatantly.

3) there are more reasonable explanations for the lack of raffle results, ones that are based on the devs’ past actions and are much simpler conclusions to reach.

Occam’s razor and all that. Staff has a history of both not knowing how to do very basic things for a petsite (I mean, they can’t get their own goddamn droprate straight enough to release. doesn’t get much worse than that) and also just… not communicating anything, ever, without the userbase begging and pleading for even a crumb. Either explanation makes much more sense than some tinfoil hat “it was all a lie for free advertising!!!!1!1” nonsense. Hell, you could even combine the two and get a pretty reasonable solution.

So, that in mind, there are three possibilities as to why there’s been no word on the custom winners.

A) The winners haven’t been drawn because staff either hasn’t finished compiling the data, or they can’t figure out how to select a winner. I think the main evidence is the sheer length of the custom entry thread on-site. They’ve run giveaways on social media before, and smaller raffles for events, but I don’t think they’ve done anything that was 1) both at once and 2) this large in scale. Capes were distributed gradually as people posted in the thread, so it would be logical to assume that entries were compiled as the thread grew, but I wouldn’t be shocked if the most crucial step was saved until the very end. Additionally, they could be short-handed due to finals or holidays, Anji could’ve insisted on doing this alone, etc.

B) The winners have been drawn and contacted, but staff has not communicated this at all. I’m somewhat less keen to believe this (though perhaps that’s wishful thinking on my part, haha) because surely at least one of them would have said something? The only reason I can think of is that either both winners are hardly active/hermits/wish to remain anonymous, or winners were asked not to reveal the fact that they won. I really can’t say how likely either option is.

C) it’s a lovely cocktail of both explanations. Winners haven’t been drawn, and staff won’t communicate because this kind of delay makes them look incompetent. I think this is the most likely option. I mean, there are threads on-site addressing this very issue. Surely, if the winners had been drawn, either the winners or the staff would step in to clear things up?

In short, take off your tinfoil hats. I think this entire situation is another example of the incompetence and ineffective/nonexistent communication that has plagued DV since its inception. Just another goddamn Tuesday on the most poorly conceived petsite this side of the 2010s. That said, I think we should keep posting about this on-site; historically, raising a ruckus and posting a few conspiracy theories has forced staff to post some kind of response in the past. It sucks that we have to force their hand for basic communication, but… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To any staff involved with the raffle who might skim this blog and come across this: for the love of god, just say something on the matter. The only reason speculation spirals this far into the land of conspiracy is because you let it. We have nothing to go on, ever, because you refuse to give it. It’s infuriating to watch because I want to have faith that y’all have morals and half a braincell but you make it so fucking difficult. Even typing this out, I caught myself thinking, “but what if.” Your userbase’s lack of faith in you speaks the volumes that pretty art and cute npcs could never fill.

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[salt-volk]

man, I went on impromptu hiatus for a couple months and came back in the past few days and… wow. it’s like a ghost town. I mean, it’s been quiet since about the 6mo mark after launch but… did I miss something? the online user count is around where it’s always been but the forums and discord are twice as dead as I remember. what happened? or am I misremembering?

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[salt-volk]

(Hope I’m doing this right + seeing this super late bc I check this blog once a week at most lmao sorry) wrt to 711543034232373248/nauuur-not-the-custom-owner-entering-the-free : forgive me if this is talking about something in some other discord, but I think the only active potato raffle in the main discord at the time was mine. If this is what this is referring to:

man, it’s 100k potatoes. that’s like, 2 days of LH/3’s dailies. who give a shit :/ if I was assed about custom owners entering I wouldn’t have posted it in the public discord or at least would have included a bit politely asking custom owners/users with over 1mil taters not to enter. I did not do that because free shit is nice no matter who you are and also this site sucks anyway. mind your business. anyway bye

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[salt-volk]

Not sure if my last ask went through (given that it was a mile long), but if it did: one of the winners just posted on a thread about it today, so I guess that concludes that discussion. Still asinine that there was no word from the devs for so long. It was a good idea not to announce who the winners were, but by not announcing that winners had, in fact, been selected at all, one of said winners was pressured to announce it themselves. :/ furthermore, based on screenshots, they were drawn on the 12th, almost two weeks ago. (If my last ask didn't go through, please do delete this! it makes little sense without context, haha.)

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