Flipping
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I know flipping is basically a necessary evil to get the expensive cards in this game unless you are an elite player that can dominate ranked, BR, and events and sell off the rare rewards for huge profits. However, it is beyond tedious, especially this year, where so many duplicate high end cards are being released and so few of them are in circulation due to a good sized chunk of the player base bailing for other games a couple of months ago. Just curious if others are feeling flipping burnout this year more than the past couple of years? I think for me it boils down to the fact by this point the past 3 years I had basically every card and a good sized stub bank to boot. This year as soon as I get close a massive amount of cards are dropped and I never catch up. I know many people will say forget collecting every card but it’s something I enjoy doing and it keeps me motivated to keep playing when things get stale.
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The question is: how bad do you want it?
If you enjoy "catching 'em all", you flip, flip, and flip some more. If not, then don't.
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I feel flipping is a waste of time since X card is as good as Y card. If you look at the cards costing 500+, they are no better then some cards costing 60k or not sellable.
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What’s crazy is I added up how many stubs I could get by selling off lesser versions of cards or duplicate 99s of the same player on the same team and it’s almost 5 million stubs. I was shocked as it shows just how many stubs are being wasted on multiple cards of the same player. All in all I get it’s a me thing and fellow completionists can relate but still makes me wish there was more player variety for those stubs being spent.
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I too would love to have 80 million legends, but that's just not realistic.
And the "more player variety" is a little bit of a cheat since the "variety" was had previously was that players would have an 84, an 89, a 93 and then finally a end-game 99.
Now, we're getting 97s and 99s, only they "expire".
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@TripleH-4481_PSN said in Flipping:
What’s crazy is I added up how many stubs I could get by selling off lesser versions of cards or duplicate 99s of the same player on the same team and it’s almost 5 million stubs. I was shocked as it shows just how many stubs are being wasted on multiple cards of the same player. All in all I get it’s a me thing and fellow completionists can relate but still makes me wish there was more player variety for those stubs being spent.
You don’t collect the cards to get Mookie, Foxx and Kluber?
For sets to work and keep people happy you need multiple cards of players or for example they’d have to use their Wild Card for Bob Gibson or never have him again after Season One.
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Oh yeah, I have completed all set collections thus far. The 5 million total was only including the lesser versions that were still actually sellable, as in not collected. If I didn’t do any of the collections that total would be closer to 10 million stubs. It illustrates more just how many diamond duplicates there are this year. Lesser versions like years past is one thing. Multiple expensive 99s is another.
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Would be great if there was a way to trade in a season 1 or 2 99 for the equivalent 99 in season 3, 4, or 5 so we didn’t have to buy them twice but that would heavily impact stub sales so that is never gonna happen. Ultimately my biggest problem with the sets and seasons multiple 99s is the main goal was to sell stubs, not increase lineup diversity. I love baseball and enjoy playing MLBTS but grinding or buying updated cards of players we already worked or paid for previously can get a little discouraging. Not ranting just saying.
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@Jacky-Chan1
Flipping this year in general was nerfed into oblivion by comparison to other years. Locking so many what would have been high value cards behind the "no sell" reward thing certainly didnt help either.
It's still possible to flip successfully as many people have proven, but it's just alot harder and requires a bit more effort than I've got time for. I usually bet on a couple horses at release for the first update, and that'll fund me through the season, mostly
I wish they had a diamond exchange program where you exchange some of the now useless set one and two cards in for something.
