HOW did get to a point where ONE LS card is 700K?
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Again, straw-man argument, this is economics 101 in an OPEN market, this isn’t one!!!
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@Sarge1387_PSN Thank you because he doesn't seem to understand it.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Actually it is, if you spend 75k and are recouping 25k at best there is almost zero incentive to rip. I've been playing this game for 10 years it's the worst I've ever seen the economy.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Actually it is, if you spend 75k and are recouping 25k at best there is almost zero incentive to rip. I've been playing this game for 10 years it's the worst I've ever seen the economy.
You act like there is a 50% decrease in value across all the live series cards.
if its 25k now it would have been what, 26k last year?
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Point me to a year where the card prices have been so cheap it's not ever worth it? All they're doing is front flooding the market and then limiting the amount of selling. This isn't hard, this is basic economics 101.
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There are so many diamonds right now within shouting distance of QS and as cheap as they've ever been. I mean what could go wrong with less stubs and the same amount of card supply?
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Point me to a year where the card prices have been so cheap it's not ever worth it? All they're doing is front flooding the market and then limiting the amount of selling. This isn't hard, this is basic economics 101.
how can card prices so simultaneously so cheap and the LS collection being the most expensive to this time period any other year? It's 2.6M on the low end to get the LS done. Save for opening week, it didn't spike up being this high until the 500K cap got removed AND a stud sale occurred. I know because I finished around April 4th last year and my all-in cost was about 2.2M.
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@aaronjw76_PSN Because it's all predicated on or 2 cards holding up the entire market.
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@Teak2112_MLBTS Point me to a year where the card prices have been so cheap it's not ever worth it? All they're doing is front flooding the market and then limiting the amount of selling. This isn't hard, this is basic economics 101.
23-24 because it was 99's right put of the gate. Think ohtani was like 50k max those years
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It's nuts.
I've grinded my [censored] off, had one lucky pull (Ohtani), have more than 20 teams done and am still more than 1.3M stubs away from completing live series.As a full NMS guy, I know getting it done early is rare, but I have put all my resources into getting live series done and i'm still 1.3M stubs off.
That's just stupid.
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wait so the argument here is that people theoretically selling their cards for less is what is making cards more expensive?
Make it make sense please.
The prices on LS cards ,bronzes and silvers being low (what ppl pull from packs they earn) makes making stubs harder and actually does increase the value of rare cards.
That is only one of many factors involved in the high diamonds prices, another big one is for the such a very low pull rate to begin with- how many keep instead of selling because of how high the price is.IMO, the biggest factor in driving some of the LS diamond cards prices is the same as it was last year.
SDS, for the first time last year didn't flood the game with a bunch of 99OVR cards that could be earned by turning on the game. This has made some of those higher end diamonds more valuable in theory. There is no way an 88OVR card should be running 50K for one team while an 88OVR is 10K for another team.
In years past, one team would hold a "gatekeeper" card for the division like Ohtani for the NLW, or Judge for the NLE. These cards were expensive because they were the final step to completing the division. Now, there are several teams from each division holding these high value cards. ALC used to be the easiest to complete, but now Witt is 150K, Ramirez is 160K, Skubal is 100K, and on and on it goes. Its nuts! -
700k for a card that has a terrible swing. At least when Trout was a gatekeeper he was viable.
