Market Inflation!!!
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I figured prices would bump with an influx of stubs but not like 50% on the gate keepers. I play video games to escape reality, but the market reminds too much of my grocery bills. Did SDS implement tarriffs on packs or something? Has there ever been this huge of bump in the history of MLB the Show? I remember roster updates and past stub sales causing prices to rise but LS Trout never made it into 600k territory. I thinking of abandoing the quest to do LS. I only need 3 more cards, can you guess which ones?
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Just give it a little time, they'll come back down. No need to give up on LS collection over a temporary rise in prices.
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The market in this game is an absolute joke… no card should EVER be over 500k stubs.
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This is people quick selling thousands of cards to buy those last few gatekeepers. They are buying now. Hundreds of orders for Ohtani are fulfilled and what you have left are the people who guessed this would happen and could get a huge payoff. Unless the market settles before there time as more people rip packs and start underselling.
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Judge has already come down 70,000 stubs in the past half hour or so. I think I’m gonna keep waiting and hope the prices keep falling
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Prices are insane. Packs suck. And earning stubs takes forever. The balance this season is inexcusably way off.
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They’re called gate-keepers for a reason.
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100% agree. Add in gameplay being inconsistent as ever and besides looking good this years game is a frustratingly broken mess.
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
They’re called gate-keepers for a reason.
And they even created new ones (Tatis is crazy)
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My biggest take from this for next year: Go after the gate-keepers first. Then „the next wave“ (we knew, Tatis was having a very good first month) … I bought my last gate-keeper as my very last card and luckily got him (Witt) for 190K (and Judge 236K prox 5 days ago)
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@YOSHI24_XBL said in Market Inflation!!!:
My biggest take from this for next year: Go after the gate-keepers first. Then „the next wave“ (we knew, Tatis was having a very good first month) … I bought my last gate-keeper as my very last card and luckily got him (Witt) for 190K (and Judge 236K prox 5 days ago)
Ditto. I nabbed Witt in the 170’s, Judge around 230, and Ramirez a little under 120. I decided to strike during the Diamond Flash Sale to take advantage of the seller wave. Glad I did. Overpaid early for Trout at 160 then bit the bullet on Ohtani at 480 to finish, all NMS.
I about sh!t when I saw the prices yesterday! For once I feel like I did this right!
On the flip side, I’m sick of the [censored] market.
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@Alaric919_PSN I really ask myself. Why are people „mad“ about the market. Do we really need every card in early May?
I give two examples:
- LS Collection and every collection done
- gives you Clemens, Beltran, Hodges and Rolen (to name to most significant ones)
- If you do not have any of these (which lots of people do), you could have
- Cueto, Santander, Egg-PCA, Big Papi and some 3B you like (I have Hodges over there, if I wouldn‘t I would play JRAM … or just Elly over there).
- Santander can play RF
- Clemens gives you 1/5 starts and Beltran can only bat once … Yes, 1 is better, but is not having Clemens/Beltran really THAT bad? I do not think so. Is 1 better? Yes, absolutely .. But nothing to cry about since skill matters more than cards
EDIT: I am hitting .200 with Beltran and .280 with PCA
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@SaveFarris_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
They’re called gate-keepers for a reason.
100%. And for me, that gate has turned into "The Wall" from Game of Thrones. 700 feet tall and 300 miles long.
I'll get them eventually...
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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.
