Market Inflation!!!
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@MarioMendoza935_XBL I get gatekeepers being expensive. They always are. But thus year the balance between gatekeepers (4 of the now) versus other diamonds are insane. I would have to pull over 200 Younts from a HL pack to one of tbe gatekeepers. I have 5 will Smiths, and I would have to pull 185 more of him for Ohtani. My issue is there is no middle market. You either pull one of the four big diamonds and every diamond that is not those is basically going for QS. There has to be better balance with stubs, especially with nerf QS of uniforms.
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@YOSHI24_XBL I've started focusing more on the other collections. Honestly I like my team as is and probably would not even use Judge or Witt. Ohtani would be a filler for the rotation. But you are correct, you can outfit a pretty nice team with those other collection and the free program cards.
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The keep having flash sales. We need a 90+ live series flash sale. Wishful thinking but it would drive prices way down. We probably won’t see those packs until late into the game cycle when everyone has them anyway. I guess there’s only 3 90+ right now anyway. Maybe an 89+
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@mubby_33_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
@YOSHI24_XBL I've started focusing more on the other collections. Honestly I like my team as is and probably would not even use Judge or Witt. Ohtani would be a filler for the rotation. But you are correct, you can outfit a pretty nice team with those other collection and the free program cards.
Exactly … I wish more ppl knew
, but it is easier to cry around than raise your head and really look into a way better method … Live series will come down, be patient and open-minded to other options -
“Stop crying and open your wallet.” -SDS
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Pretty much. The greed keeps hitting new level. Started with a pretty hard shift in 23, worse in 24, and 25 has continued the trend.
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Been 4 weeks since I pulled a live series diamond.
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@NWOStunna_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
“Stop crying and open your wallet.” -SDS
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No need to ever open your wallet with this game. They make it very easy to have a solid team NMS.
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@TPRwell_XBL said in Market Inflation!!!:
Been 4 weeks since I pulled a live series diamond.
You have to open more than a handful of packs for that being the case (sorry, I had to
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I think the issue isn’t that the gate keepers are expensive, they’re supposed to be. It’s that they keep rising, and not by like 10k, but by like 50-100k. Most of us will never pull shohei and even if we open a lot of packs, however the grind just keeps getting harder. Mentally if you know he’s 450k and you know you have to grind to get that, you do what you have to, the problem is how it’s just keeps inflating, so you get the 450k and now he’s 600k, and this makes grinding feel like you’re doing nothing but chores and not enjoying the game.
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@Jcassaro44_MLBTS The problem was that people are getting less packs at the end of the 2nd inning AND having the attributes update, where lots of players made a lot of stubs. That leads to more stubs in circulation, which leads to higher prices … We will have more rare guys come the weekend-classics and 3rd inning… also wait out the end of the multiplayer program, where many players will get a 50 bundle … Right now the best advice is to stay calm and save your stubs. Right now this is just too many variables at once.
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Yes, that’s a huge part of it. The solution is simply releasing more of the gate keepers in packs to bring the prices back down into a reasonable range.
That doesn’t mean just giving out more free packs in game because all know the current odds are we have almost no chance of pulling them. Unless they release some packs with guaranteed high diamonds.
Otherwise the odds need to be increased drastically to get people engaged again. Bump diamonds to 8%, at least temporarily, like they do late in the game cycle. Put those high diamonds in at least 1 in 50 to 1 in 75 packs minimum and I guarantee it would go a long way.
Feeling like the grind is pointless and hopeless is not the way to go for the long term viability of the game.
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This is crazy. I thought I overpaid for Judge at 230K but his price tag is now ridiculous. Ohtani’s too.
There’s no way I’ll grind DQ to 550K stubs. Something has to be done.
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The prices will come down when better cards get released
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I think a simple solution to atleast stop prices going up is to do a 90+ LS choice pack and make it no sell. This does not allow everyone to get the LS completed but it does reduce the demand for some of those cards. It also stops people from cashing by sell these guys for huge stubs and SDS might make money because of it because it would take stubs out of the market or atleast spread those stubs around.
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@mubby_33_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
I think a simple solution to atleast stop prices going up is to do a 90+ LS choice pack and make it no sell. This does not allow everyone to get the LS completed but it does reduce the demand for some of those cards. It also stops people from cashing by sell these guys for huge stubs and SDS might make money because of it because it would take stubs out of the market or atleast spread those stubs around.
Won't work. What if you only need one 90+ and you get a non-sellable dupe?
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@macdaddy-o_PSN 100%, this is the latest i havent had LS done. I still need the 1 card. i'm closer to Scott Rolan stub wise than i am Beltran. Thats a joke, especially since its 1 card that i need.
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@x-814-x-MAFIA-x_PSN Make it a choice pack. MUT does this all the time. Give you 3 90 LS Diamonds you pick one. Now maybe you dont get the one you need but since others are getting theirs it freezes demand on that one card you need and the prices decrease or atleast stop going up. Hardest part like others have said is grinding to get the stubs to buy a card only to find that the price of that card has increase 25% to 50%.
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@GooseOnEm_PSN Well no LS card should be that high. In the past some of the tougher 99's have been a million plus stubs (99 Trout and Randy a couple of years ago, OR if you fail to get a card when its out and buy him later when its not available then i get it. Last year there were 3 cards i need to get every card in the game, Gallo, Newhouser and Bregman, all-star cards i had to put buy orders of 500k in. Those are rare examples. Bottomline, SDS increased the value of Ohtani, limited diamond pulls in packs and flooded the market with non-diamonds making their value basically quick sell, minus a few, all to force people to buy stubs not earn them. Stay the course. Do not give them money.
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Its supply and demand
Demand is higher because of power creep
Supply is lower not because 'packs suck' (anymore than they did in past years) but that there are much less of themIn theory this is fine, LS should be a mid season goal not an April/May thing..however they kept last years extremely player unfriendly model for spotlight (these cards should be free and its insulting they arent) and having chase packs every week.
