Market manipulation
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Let's go off last year's sales of around 2.5 million hard copies, and that is just hard copy numbers, not digital downloads on both platforms. That would mean that if only 10% percent of people were online at any given time, that there would be 250k people playing the game at once. And possibly playing the market as well, while they play. That's a lot of people.
Let's assume, and I think it's a fair assumption, that those numbers have at least doubled with cross platform play. That would mean around 500k, at 10 % are online either playing or playing the market. Add into those numbers the playstation and xbox numbers for digital downloads and then add in the game coming to xbox, well, the numbers could be huge at any given time, especially when you factor in that it is a gamepass release.
I think you have underestimated the sheer number of people using the market to begin with.
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@eccentrictexas6_xbl said in Market manipulation:
Let's go off last year's sales of around 2.5 million hard copies, and that is just hard copy numbers, not digital downloads on both platforms. That would mean that if only 10% percent of people were online at any given time, that there would be 250k people playing the game at once. And possibly playing the market as well, while they play. That's a lot of people.
Let's assume, and I think it's a fair assumption, that those numbers have at least doubled with cross platform play. That would mean around 500k, at 10 % are online either playing or playing the market. Add into those numbers the playstation and xbox numbers for digital downloads and then add in the game coming to xbox, well, the numbers could be huge at any given time, especially when you factor in that it is a gamepass release.
I think you have underestimated the sheer number of people using the market to begin with.
You lost me me when i saw math.
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Have 12,000+ completed orders - 26 pages of sell now stuff going back a month and a half. Made like 50k today not even turning on the game.
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@honronbaseball_psn said in Market manipulation:
Have 12,000+ completed orders - 26 pages of sell now stuff going back a month and a half. Made like 50k today not even turning on the game.
Okay well I lost three RS games in a row and made twice that.
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“If a tree falls in the woods does it make a peep”
Solve this and the answer you seek will appear
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@kovz88_psn said in Market manipulation:
@DoIHearBossMusic
If someone can come up with some actual numbers or proof or market manipulation or RNG I will gladly admit I was wrong and apologize to everyone I called crazy. Considering there has never been anything remotely close to evidence proving either I stand by calling it a crazy conspiracy theory.MAYBE a conspiracy theory, but def not some crazy thought beyond belief. Remember this is a business first before anything, and to think they would not do anything in their power that is untraceable to the consumer to maximize profits you would have to be living under a rock.
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@lazy_toast_psn said in Market manipulation:
“If a tree falls in the woods does it make a peep”
Solve this and the answer you seek will appear
A peep? No. A tree crashing is more of a thud. Does anyone hear? Sure if they are within earshot. Did this post make me think? Not really.
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@theblindrhino said in Market manipulation:
@lazy_toast_psn said in Market manipulation:
“If a tree falls in the woods does it make a peep”
Solve this and the answer you seek will appear
A peep? No. A tree crashing is more of a thud. Does anyone hear? Sure if they are within earshot. Did this post make me think? Not really.
Ahhh grasshopper for you to respond you undoubtedly had to think. You have failed
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@DoIHearBossMusic
I dont put anything past someone with money symbols in their eyes but I don't really think they are manipulating the prices on bronzes/silvers to try and get people to buy stubs. -
@kovz88_psn said in Market manipulation:
@DoIHearBossMusic
I dont put anything past someone with money symbols in their eyes but I don't really think they are manipulating the prices on bronzes/silvers to try and get people to buy stubs.Bronzes and silvers, MAYBE not, but they do manipulate aspects of the game on certain 'schedules'...like diamond upgrades
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@DoIHearBossMusic
I dont know if I'd call it manipulation but they definitely have a bias as far as upgrades go. Yankees, Dodgers, Padres tend to have to do less to get upgrades while guys like Alex Reyes and a bunch of other players deserving of upgrades take forever to get updated. Zack Wheeler took longer than he should've to go diamond, Trevor Rogers took forever to go gold etc. -
@theblindrhino said in Market manipulation:
@honronbaseball_psn said in Market manipulation:
Have 12,000+ completed orders - 26 pages of sell now stuff going back a month and a half. Made like 50k today not even turning on the game.
Okay well I lost three RS games in a row and made twice that.
I don't want to go over 5 million this weekend .... I need to stash about 1 million into Mike Trout Cards at 250k tonight like George Jung in the movie Blow.
0-0 Ranked record and every WR and BR card x2
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@honronbaseball_psn said in Market manipulation:
@theblindrhino said in Market manipulation:
@honronbaseball_psn said in Market manipulation:
Have 12,000+ completed orders - 26 pages of sell now stuff going back a month and a half. Made like 50k today not even turning on the game.
Okay well I lost three RS games in a row and made twice that.
I don't want to go over 5 million this weekend .... I need to stash about 1 million into Mike Trout Cards at 250k tonight like George Jung in the movie Blow.
0-0 Ranked record and every WR and BR card x2
those 450k on trout are mine
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When it comes to other things "SDS is dumb and can do nothing right!" But they have an advanced bot system buying and selling cards on the marketplace for some unknown reason. What? To make you pay a couple hundred stubs more for a bat? lol
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@kovz88_psn said in Market manipulation:
If someone can come up with some actual numbers or proof or market manipulation or RNG I will gladly admit I was wrong and apologize to everyone I called crazy.
Well RNG is the foundation of every video game. There has to be RNG for it to work correctly. So no-one questions that.
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@technoblue67_psn said in Market manipulation:
Selling is manipulated by s...d...s prove me wrong...
I have every card and 4 million stubs from flipping, what are you talking about?
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C'mon man! You can't make this claim and then not follow it up with your hypothesis, which will probably be comedy gold! Please enlighten us!
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@lornee56_psn said in Market manipulation:
@technoblue67_psn said in Market manipulation:
Selling is manipulated by s...d...s prove me wrong...
I have every card and 4 million stubs from flipping, what are you talking about?
Wish I had time and patience to do so
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@theblindrhino said in Market manipulation:
@technoblue67_psn said in Market manipulation:
Selling is manipulated by s...d...s prove me wrong...
Use more dots between thoughts to emphasize the importance of education so you don't grow to middle age and think this is a good way to start a debate. To prove you wrong I would have to care about you first. If you are anything like the Canadian who started the "prove me wrong" nonsense you maybe too childish to learn.
You responded, you cared.
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While I was debating buying Bellinger & Betts for the Dodgers collection, I noticed when I went in and out of the buy screen the prices kept changing in a matter of minutes. Maybe that means nothing, but I still wonder how the Market is out of their hands when it's their game.
Are
from planet Uranus swooping in and pressing buttons to make Trouty close to 600K stubs? How does he stay above 500K?
Did Kanamits parachute in and wire the system?
I wish we had Leonard Nimoy from 'In search of' or Geraldo Rivera to open the SDS 'vault,' or Lt. Columbo to train his sons to catch everyone lying like he did, back in the day
