Market restriction permanent
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They really should just make this game super easy just to weed out what’s a concern vs what is tribal/inconvenience
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@nhacia88_MLBTS Unfortunately I think the cap is here to stay. Despite always having some less than subtle nudges towards the stub shops most years, the past three years in particular since the staff turnover have put heavy emphasis and reliance on MTX. I agree sneaking the cap in underhandedly the way they did was super bad optics, but it's not going anywhere.
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So I have a question.
I usually play Diamond Quest multiple times and save my rewards(cards) to list on the market all at once. If I continue doing that, there’s a chance I’ll be banned from using market place on the app or website?
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@Sarge1387_PSN the whole thing stinks of some suit who came in with a "5 year plan", and its killing the game. You see it often within proven IPs. Look at bungie, how do you go from halo, to mass layoffs yesterday?
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@nhacia88_MLBTS They aren’t going backwards and I’d expect another move to limit stub making. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did away with silver to gold exchange.
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@Go4stros25_MLBTS It's not just gaming, it's what happens when companies go tonedeaf completely lose touch with their consumer base for too long. Sure, the odd one comes back and realizes the mistakes they made- but not very often at all.
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@Go4stros25_MLBTS It's not just gaming, it's what happens when companies go tonedeaf completely lose touch with their consumer base for too long. Sure, the odd one comes back and realizes the mistakes they made- but not very often at all.
It comes down to what SIE (Sony Interactive Entertainment) has in mind. Whether they authorize the budget for SDS to hire the code talent needed to redo the game with a fresh code design, and then perform the necessary alpha testing as well as beta testing. And with any fresh code package, extensive testing is required.
My cynical side tells me that Sony never regarded their acquisition of SDS as anything more than control over content on their Playstation. It was MLB that forced SDS to develop the game for X-Box and Switch. This tells me that for Sony, the sad reality is that Sony's strategic plan may be to ride the wave as long as possible and then sell off SDS for whatever price they can get for the pieces.
Every part of me hopes that is wrong, but I never expected the title to go this many years without any significant upgrades, and I certainly never expected to see the amount of bugs explode despite trivial changes made. I mean, being unable to even code effectively operating menus? That's something I would have never expected to see happen.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN I'm also flipping on console most of the time. I wonder if these false bot flags will make people flip on console more, and maybe restore the market to the way it used to be? At least a little bit?
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Something interesting just happened to me…
I’ve been doing the silver to gold exchange regularly…
Don’t mind saying that I buy 75’s and exchange 10 for a gold pack. Been keeping an eye on the price of 75’s. With the stub sale, they fluctuate a lot.
Anyway, just noticed ALOT of them are back to minimum (50 stubs). So, started to put in orders for exactly 19 of them. (I own one, so 19+1 is 20!!)
Using the mobile app, it let me put in 11 orders then I got an “account restricted” notice. Moved on to the next guy. Same. 11 orders, then “account restricted “. I’m thinking the new limit is 10 or so.
Nope. Moved on to third guy. First order , “account restricted “.
Interesting….. something has changed.
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@capardo_XBL I just had the same thing happen on my phone.I closed and opened the app and was still restricted. Tried on my desktop and no problem.
A few minutes later, I reopened on my phone and was able to place an order. Hopefully you're back in soon. For context, I used to flip a whole lot but lately haven't really been on the app nearly as much.
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@SQT18_XBL I tried desktop and still restricted
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I’ve admittedly bought ALL of the 75’s at one time recently (maybe even a time or two or three…)
Gets you almost 75 packs of golds.
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@capardo_XBL give it a minute. Happened to me also and now it’s working again. I don’t mind temporary cool downs if it gets rid of the bots.
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Agreed. If it takes time, that I don’t mind at all.
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I put in about 22 orders in a minute (or so). Sounds like there’s now a “time limit” on the number of orders you can place?? (I’m guessing).
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@Bridge-Piece_XBL If it's temporary and it helps bots, cool. Worse things could happen.
The pessimist in me thinks otherwise though. I'm on cards that have never had a bot problem. I could place 20 orders at a time for minimum price. Come back hours later and sell them later for low maintenance profit. All this is doing is cutting the potential profit in half.
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There was an update to the app (I got this morning) that said, “market throttle”. I guess this is what they were referring to? (Again, guessing)
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Are all of you that are saying you’re restricted referring to the “slow it the [censored] down” pop that comes up? You’re not banned from the marketplace. You’re just making too many actions in a short period time. It’s a new-ish feature obviously in an effort to curtail bots. If you wait like 30 seconds you can place more. Or, take a half second between placing orders.
I’m sitting here thinking you are all getting banned from the marketplace.
