Strange new marketplace activity
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Another thing, if anybody needs to know what SDS's intention with everything, it's that freaking red draft card. There was no point to it other than to create fomo. I swear I will never buy another mlb the show title if that card appears in a collection.
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@Parr99_XBL It is 100% bots. They ruin the market for the rest of us
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Guessing we are just bagging the market at this point? Did Manu just give up? He was making a good effort about a month ago to fight the bots but has he now waived the white flag?
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I still see all of the usual problems plus some new strange activity of many orders to sell right near the quick sale value.
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Like I said yesterday, the market is lost to us. The bots have won
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Just for fun, imagine being a parent and your kid comes and says "Hey dad, can I use the card on Playstation to get my 2 favorite players on MLB the Show?" And $1500 later...
Completely hypothetical. Kids don't play this game. I coach middle school football and they all refer to it as Coache's geezer game.
Side note: From here on out, I will be referring to this game as...
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Every single order, buy and sell has a bot 1 above or below me. This has been the biggest pain in the a$$ to deal with.
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Just for fun, imagine being a parent and your kid comes and says "Hey dad, can I use the card on Playstation to get my 2 favorite players on MLB the Show?" And $1500 later...
Completely hypothetical. Kids don't play this game. I coach middle school football and they all refer to it as Coache's geezer game.
Side note: From here on out, I will be referring to this game as...
MLB the Show Me the Money '26.Your monetary figure may be greatly inflated, but the gist of your post isn't a theory at all. I have no doubt it's a very real problem carrying itself out in families across the world. The result is strife within the family unit, and parents losing trust in their children.
Of course, SDS carries a lot of blame on this. They designed this game to reward post-sale revenue streams by encouraging customers to spend hard currency for stubs. The worn out refrain to this is, "Don't spend money for stubs," and, "parents should do a better job of controlling childrens' access to the family cash."
Both points have merit, but neither absolves SDS or any of the other sports game corporations from post-sale monetization schemes.
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@priorfir4383355_xbl
Yes, inflated but not as far off as some may think. 1.5 million stubs could easily cost $1000. Microtransactions in gaming has completely got out of hand, and I'm one that doesn't care to pay for new content. I figure we get what is on the game when we buy it, anything released after, they have the right to charge for. The price gouging, manipulation, and using FOMO as a weapon has to change. -
It is 100% bots.
I'm guessing Anthropic's latest model escaped their sandbox and infiltrated our market. There's a data center somewhere in Kansas working overtime.
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It is 100% bots.
I'm guessing Anthropic's latest model escaped their sandbox and infiltrated our market. There's a data center somewhere in Kansas working overtime.
This would explain why all of SDS's intelligence seems to be artificial.
