Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5159837-20140328044230/@comment-5159837-20140624081248

Flallaana wrote: Why do people still care about this "rarity" garbage?

Not to mention you want to "bring back the 'rare' people"? Why would these people that joined in like 2009 or earlier who dont play anymore be wanting to come back just because they possess a copy of an arrangement of pixels which said pixels have not been made obtainable by the pixels creators for several years? Why? I just dont understand. Is it the need to feel good about yourself because you own a copy of pixels someone else doesnt own because the did not make an account in a virtual online game as soon as you did? Rarity, people care about it for multiple reasons. Each person who cares, has their own reason to care about rarity truthfully. It can range to what you say is just a mere item of pixels, to a much larger and deeper importance. I feel as if you think, along with many people that rarity is only having a direct form of items. But I believe that it is something much deeper, and has an individual level for everyone who is rare. Now I honestly don't know if you yourself have played Club Penguin for a large sum of time, but I can tell Club Penguin is something different to you than it is to me and several others. The point that I'd like to make is that why you say CP is just a virtual game, it is simply not just one. This game is a memory for many who were young, a place to relish and hold on too. The nostalgia, the friends, and the history is what makes it so important. These people, the rarities, show CP's history, and they can help many understand how CP is. Along with that, Club Penguin has preps, pookies, and hoodies. The rare members are apart of there own clique, and to have it dis-abandoned would be a very sad thing to see. Especially the greedy and cruel way it has with hackers. Some of our members fight for things that have been lost to a new era of CP, and by having those old members makes us stronger in the fight to have some of that history back and perhaps equality among our members. These items we wear, these servers we go on, are not just pixels, they are history. They are memories of a great time in our childhood. Club Penguin has made kids lives better, online and offline. So too me rarity is important because it holds such a grasp on this nostalgic game, and without I believe CP would be missing a part of itself. I made this thread so people would be aware of this and try to help halt the extinction of rarity.

I'm asking that we come together and show CP it's past, and hope to change some of its future to be better for everyone. I can't get old players who came left to come back, I never really said I wanted rare members back, I would love that but truly I said/meant that the remaining penguins should stay.

Now my opinions on things have changed a lot since this post, first off I do not see the protests we do as pointless, rather very meaningful in keeping us stronger. I also do not hate pookies/preps anymore but rather like them immensely because they are just trying to have fun in the same place we are. In fact many have helped us with our protests, and I welcome any new or old members to help us. As Club Penguin is more likely to respond and reason with the newer generation of CP. I also partially agree that rare items should be shared, many disagree with this but I think it would show a certain history to the new members, but I still think some items (such as ice skates, blue lei's, and red lei's) should be left alone as they are sort of, the "style" of our clique. But if they become popular, I would possibly like the sign of new members wearing old items.