I was totally wrong!!

Nevermind! Looks like I was totally wrong about pet squish! Guys!! Go sell your pets!! make the gold and get rich!!

Pet consolidation?

In the latest show of battlepets I had to cut out about 10 minutes of discussion. This wasn't fun or easy but the tone of the segment didn't match the rest and the show was running overlong.

The topic was the upcoming pet squish. Or if there was a pet squish and how we'd like to see it happen.

Kaivax on the forums mentioned something that has had me wondering about this topic since the post went up :
4. All standard pets will be merged. There will be a limit of three per type for players, but the migration can exceed this limit. Examples of standard pets: Orange Tabby Cat, Brown Prairie Dog, Crimson Whelpling. (source)

It's the language here that has me thinking. It doesn't say we get to cage and sell our pets, in fact the first sentence implies that consolidation may be something out of our control. Now I read the rest of the 26 page thread, and most people seemed concerned with the migration part. That's cool and all, but the migration is over, successful, and hopefully went as smoothly for everyone as it did for me. Now it's time to wonder a bit about this merger.

I know many people are counting on the fact that they will be able to crate up their excess pets once Pandaria launches and hit the AH for profit, but there is nothing in this language that states that this will be the case.

Personally, I am not counting on it. Why? Because a flood of pets in the AH on these scales would drive down the prices of pets down to the ground. As Kephas pointed out, Blizzard is very protective of their in game economies, and them allowing us to sell hundreds of pets at once will not be good for it at all.

While I am of mixed minds about what I would like to see happen, Keph believes that having our excess pets go 'poof' will probably be the best thing for us all. It will protect the market, and it will allow us to make profit off our pets in the future. This is a fair point and one I understand, but I also put a lot of work into these pets, and while most of my collection is single pets I do have a few 'valuable' pets (even if putting them on the market will decrease their value). Moreover, I have a very strong desire to pick up pets on the cheap!

So what am I doing? Well right now I am actually releasing pets. Not all my excess, just a few of the less valuable ones, and multiples of that I know I can't sell (I have 15 pets that fit this bill just between the Miniwing and the jousting pets! ). Then I am trying to save pets I like the stats of or are more valuable by naming three of them. Hopefully those with the names might get avoided by the delete-o-squish!

Hopefully this is one of those cases where I am over thinking the situation and everything will be awesome and work out for the best! But we all know that there is no way to make everyone happy.