Live Series Gatekeepers Are More Expensive Than Ever
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Ohtani at 600k stubs this year is about 600-800 gold cards. Last year at this point, he was about 200 gold cards in cost.
Grinders who reject the investment side of this trading card game don’t seem to realize yet, that pushing investors and collectors out of the game made their grind less rewarding.
Your ‘pay’ for playing DD is packs of cards, which you sell to obtain stubs. And you took about a 67% pay cut, grinders.
When investors can hold large numbers of cards there are fewer on the open market, which holds their value up. When investors buy up cards they didn’t rip in packs, it drives their value up.
With investors given the middle finger, they have no choice but to dump the cards they get. And Nobody is bidding up live series cards that are not used in competitive play this year. As a result, live series might as well be called QuickSell series.
So when you grinders receive packs for completing another repetition of conquest or diamond quest and sell those cards, 99% of the time now it’s at quick sell value.
The investor market makes YOUR pay higher. Now that they’re gone, you have to grind 3 or 4 times as long to get those gatekeeper cards like Ohtani. Because he’s MORE expensive this year, not only in terms of US dollars, but also in terms of time to grind.
So when you attack the investors and collectors who enjoy that aspect of the game and defend SDS’ decision to push them away, and make no mistake; SDS wants them to all quit (many are), you are hurting yourself too.
Let the investors vent and appeal to SDS to restore their joy and reason to play this game. They’re advocating for you, too, whether you know it or not.
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Go gaslight elsewhere
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Just go play the game. You’re making a simple enjoyable game, complex and unenjoyable. If it’s stressful, go find a new hobby. Go spend your time on something you [censored] less about.
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GTFOver it.
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This post is boring. There is a whole thread of whiny people going to town on this topic. Just add this long comment there.
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I feel like there's alot more people who are actively complaining about the game this year
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@sbchamps17_NSW Same thing every year especially in the beginning. It tapers off after a while and it becomes fun again.
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I’m rly close to Pujols but it’s all been lucky pulls idrk what to do to make coins rn im up to date with all my programs and dq doesn’t rly look worth it as the (big cards) are only 5k anybody got any coin making tips
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This simply isn't true...ohtani was 650k and up and judge was over 500k consistently from the jump and only went up throughout the year bc they kept getting upgrades. Those two are the "gate keepers" the players behind them are a little more expensive it does seem this year but those two are actually cheaper than last year
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Oh! So... like... it will trickle down if things are made easier for the investor class?
That sounds great... it's a shame that I won't get to experience buying a bunch of those cards that have retained their value so well if I want to complete any collections down the road.
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This is the first I'm hearing of this. Please go on...
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@Busta-21_XBL that’s what you guys are SDS want; you want people to quit? Smart business model.
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@The_Joneser_PSN so you don’t get cards by playing, and you don’t want to buy the cards with stubs… so you’re just an SDS employee?
You’re happy that Ohtani is 600,000 stubs and you’re glad that if you want to buy Rutschman’s gold card that he’ll be quick sell instead of 100 stubs more?
You’re happy to take a 75% pay cut to save 100 stubs on one or two cards?
Genius
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@sbchamps17_NSW the company is now directly hostile to a large chunk of the player base and they’re hurting everyone’s experience, but the Reddit types here refuse to see it.
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@cusejuice315_PSN sure, he was 600k several weeks in (not week 1!) but when you earned gold and silver cards in packs they were worth 2-3 times more than this year; meaning Ohtani was WAY CHEAPER last year for grinders.
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@AxiomEnigma_XBL, when did i say I dont get cards from playing or that I don't buy cards with stubs? Does that somehow make your argument work better, so you just ginned it up?
You act like you know what youre talking about, but, as is often the case, the odd, inverse relationship between confidence and competence finds sunshine when callow gabblers like you attempt to provide supporting details.
Please, do enlighten all of us on your "75% pay cut" theory, and show your work so middlings like me can follow your superior intellect. Also, do talk a bit more about how we should all be thinking about prices in terms of gold cards... I'm especially interested in that, considering I don't hoard resources and rely on dumping gold cards to buy others.
By playing the game, I come across diamonds; I keep the ones I want to use, sell the ones I don't, and only collect cards when I actually want to use the collection reward (the only LS collection reward I'd like is Figgins, and I'm not wasting stubs on Raleigh when there will be a higher Figgins later).
Right now, after buying the game and paying an extra $50 off the bat to seed as I always do, I have the cards I want to play with, I've collected 90 WBC cards (and thats where I'll stop because I don't want the rest), and I'm sitting on about 200K stubs.
How does this pay cut work, again? I seem to have screwed that up and have been coming across stubs just fine despite SDS ruining the market by shutting down resource hoarding tw@ts like you.
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@sbchamps17_NSW if you go look it’s the same idiots complaining. Go look at their post history. If SDS went and backtracked on their 20 cards max. Which I am all for btw. They be here tomorrow complaining about something else. There is a difference between complaining and giving feedback.
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@AxiomEnigma_XBL a small chunk, I know you want to believe it’s a large chunk but it’s not. They are literally the nugget in the toilet bowl that won’t flush no matter how hard you try.
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@AxiomEnigma_XBL keep crying
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The people defending this are offline players. Just ignore them. They cant win online games so they love to see other people miserable. Ive been around here awhile and they act like this every year.
