Drafts packs a massive rip off
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My opinion (FWIW): SDS is free to do whatever they like with regards to the game. I’m fine with that.
However, I don’t ever recall them doing something like this previously. ( I go back to 2021). Those 75k cards crashed “almost instantly “. In the past, those cards would have held their value longer
Again, that’s fine by me. Just something new ( I think). The card market has been “different “ this year ( in general) so this is something to remember going forward within the game.
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All packs are a rip off, not sure why people buy them
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Luckily I didn't buy any of the packs because I only had 31k stubs at the time. Plus I felt that 75k was too much for a draft pack
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@capardo_XBL said in Drafts packs a massive rip off:
Let’s be honest , what they’ve done is ensure that flipping these Draft cards is next to impossible.
That's what they've done to flipping this year in general. Nice big ol' d!ck kick. Still possible, just harder to find the right ones to flip
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People still don't get it. If you are going to tell people that there are going to be repeatable packs available then say exactly what will be in them. Don't ignore that important detail and offer 75k packs and 30k packs a few hours before the content drops. Just drop it all at the same time and let people decide. SDS knew what they were doing there.
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NEVER buy packs, I bought Doyle just to give him a test run and sold him right back with only a 3-4K loss with the 10% factored in. I will get him back once he is lower
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@Ericulous1_XBL This game is an absolute joke this year. Whole game is collections. Hey, we'll give you 10 cards but you need 30. You have to buy the rest or get the .000001% pack pull. And we are going to limit how many stubs you can get. So for that 100k collection reward, you need to pull 30 diamonds before you can get there.
Connections are trash as usual.
Very unrewarding game.
Just a really bad game this year. Hopefully, people remember this next year and don't fall for the massive marketing campaign that you will 100% see next year. If they don't take a hit next year for this year, it will only get worse.
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@capardo_XBL have you been flipping a lot? I’ve found some decent flip opportunities recently. I did check the margins and you’re right, a lot of them have disappeared
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@reardons_MLBTS I definitely appreciate this post and can relate. I’m 43 so I definitely didn’t grow up with the instant gratification technology but it was introduced in My young adulthood. The only thing that bothers me is the way it was represented. I made stubs off the move so it worked in my favor.
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I didn’t think they would pull the pack from the market, but I thought it would be more difficult to get like a Chase Pack.
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@bostondirtdog21_PSN said in Drafts packs a massive rip off:
I didn’t think they would pull the pack from the market, but I thought it would be more difficult to get like a Chase Pack.
That would have made the collection nearly impossible for the vast majority of the player base.
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In years past the 99 HR Derby winner pack and the ASG MVP pack were rare which inflated the prices of those cards. I think many of us were going on that assumption here and were wrong.
Whatever at this point, but it took some of the luster out of what is traditionally the best MLB the Show weekend of the year.
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@Ericulous1_XBL not a lot, but took notice of margins when you mentioned they were “better” in a post a few days ago. Was able to flip some cards (Topps now, Spotlight in particular), but those margins appear to have closed. I’ll keep looking! It’s encouraging that things are definitely starting to open up.
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I know I’m going to be in the minority here, but I like that they offered the packs last night. They told us that they would be giving us a repeatable pack in the conquest that would have all the cards in it. It ended up being better than I expected, which is great. I like that.
I bought one 75k pack last night because I wanted to use that new Eli card and I’m glad I did. That was the whole point, you can get and choose the card(s) you want out of the gate.
Going in, I knew things would be earnable and cheaper because they told us so, so I payed for what I wanted, got what I wanted, and was able to play with the card well before I would have been able to. That was fun for me.
Now today I’ll work through the conquest, probably twice at least, and finish the program.
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@creeder21_MLBTS said in Drafts packs a massive rip off:
They told us that they would be giving us a repeatable pack in the conquest
Yes they did.
"We have another program that's going to drop after the draft and a Conquest map that's going to have a repeatable mission for the all-encompassing MLB Draft pack"
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Even if you knew nothing other than the information available in game, VERY shortly after the packs were up, you could buy every card in both packs cheaper than the packs. If you bought a pack that you knew couldn't contain anything worth as much as you paid for the pack, that's on you. They were time, not quantity, limited. There is zero excuse for anyone that didn't bother to check the prices of the contents of the packs before buying them. Was it a questionable release? Yes. Did they actually hide anything or mislead in any way about it? No, they did not. It's not exactly front page news that a pack wasn't worth it. Very few packs are ever worth it.
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@capardo_XBL exactly. I’m right where you are. I finally had some success the last couple weeks. The margins seem to have closed again like you said. I bet after the All Star week madness, they will open up again.
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@mietha_MLBTS look at the end of the day, they are a company trying to make money. So whatever they do is fine. It just isn’t a good look. The more stuff like this they do, the more it turns people off from playing their game. I love this game and even when they drive me nuts with their choices, it’s still the only baseball game in town so I’ll play it.
This was just kind of an odd choice and a bit unnecessary. The silver lining is the repeatable goal on the map. That was a good move. Not only does it make the cards attainable but it also gives us more content to play.
