I never understood why I should care if people can spend money to buy something I can get in-game without spending a cent. Perhaps it is because exclusivity seems like an absurd thing to value. Either I like something or I don't. Sure, when I was in college, I wanted to like music that felt more exclusive so that I could feel smarter than everyone else. Then I matured and stopped caring about trying to feel better than others through superficial nonsense.

I also don't see why I should care about the achievements of others when I work on achievements. When I try to do something, I know the effort it took. Other people buying what I worked for doesn't decrease the satisfaction of working toward a goal.

While I would love to see them focus on in-game catch-up mechanics rather than straight up buying of these mounts, this is a long running event. They need new players to also feel like they can still participate. And while I like being forced to do everything in game for brief periods to get event rewards (which is how I started doing trials regularly), I am not against giving alternatives to people who have limited time and want to focus on what they most enjoy in the game. For some events, the time to get a daily event ticket is very small, but others are a bigger time commitment.

Sorry for the necro but have to say something.

I am one of those who only just started playing about a month ago and would like to have collected them all as I'll be sticking with the game. I haven't bought an Indrik as I'm trying to make sure I get the berries first as there was limited time for that but not the feathers.

The minute I saw the tickets would be soon be able to be bought with crowns was great as it meant I could catch up on the tickets I'd missed and have my Indrik. Also I decided I was gonna get the pet as why not, I was gonna have tickets to spare.

Imagine my surprise when today I found out that they are charging 250 a ticket. That would mean an un-evolved Indrik would cost 10,000 crowns. That's beyond a joke. So now it looks like I'm always gonna be behind and not even able to buy an Indrik til next season.