Market Inflation!!!
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a NOTE TO FUTURE ME:
Opening night: Take the bonus stubs from buying early, drop a few bucks on some stubs. Buy Ohtani opening night. Dont buy a STUPID BUNDLE AND WASTE YOUR MONEY. (i've done this for the past 3 opening nights, being excited) Buy Ohtani/Judge opening night and move on with life, it will make LS collection at least 35% easier.
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My buggest problem with not finishing the live series collection is I’d like to use some of the team collection cards like Witt Merrifield,Darren Oday,etc. By the time I finish them they’ll probably be irrelevant. Most of the new cards that are coming out now are already rated higher than them. I thought I would be able to finish the National League collection last Friday but Ohtani jumped up 200k. With my pack luck and difficulty to flip for stubs this year it’s looking like it’s going to be a long grind. Not sure how many times I can play Diamond Quest and Mini Season before I’m completely burned out.
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@MRAD2010_XBL said in Market Inflation!!!:
My biggest problem with the market prices and difficulty to flip to make stubs is it’s going to take a while to finish live series. If I don’t finish live series for a while means I won’t get Rolen for a while either because I’m focused on live series first. I’m not trying to come off as complaining and I guess it isn’t that big of a deal but the real issue is by the time most of finish the live series collection the cards will be irrelevant. I’d like to use some of 90s like Witt Merrifield,Darren Oday,etc. The player rating slow rise is right about what these players are rated and I haven’t gotten them yet. By the time I do will these even be good?
O'Day will be good all year, the live series will probably have 25'ASG versions come out that will render them collection fodder.
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@PAinPA_PSN Yeah I do think O’day will be solid all year. He has a funky delivery. I gotta say as an Orioles fan I’m all for it.
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@MRAD2010_XBL they'll put out a 99 O'Day later in the year. They usually do with all the LS Collection cards. When Randy was introduced a couple of years ago, he got a No Hitter or Perfect game (i can't remember) card later in the year.
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I just assume that not much about this game is meant to be fun anymore. The not so subtle changes to get people to spend $$$ will drive me off soon. Real soon.
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@mubby_33_PSN groceries going up because of tariffs? Lol.
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@ANF_GOLD99_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
a NOTE TO FUTURE ME:
Opening night: Take the bonus stubs from buying early, drop a few bucks on some stubs. Buy Ohtani opening night. Dont buy a STUPID BUNDLE AND WASTE YOUR MONEY. (i've done this for the past 3 opening nights, being excited) Buy Ohtani/Judge opening night and move on with life, it will make LS collection at least 35% easier.
100% … I missed opening week due to bad vacation planning … That cost me prox 150K. I still finished LS without flipping (buying Witt last fridays morning as my last piece), without being flawless … just by playing the game (going for TA while doing conquest and mini seasons), cleaning my binder and not making stupid stuff like buying cards when they are expensive
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@XxDeathReyxX_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
I just assume that not much about this game is meant to be fun anymore. The not so subtle changes to get people to spend $$$ will drive me off soon. Real soon.
Honesstly: If not being able to have the big collection reward makes you not having fun anymore, there is more wrong than the actual market prices. You can field an awesome team with no collections done to compete. Gimme your current team, a realistic stub number and I build you a good team. The team makes you not win more, it is your thumbs on the sticks
On the other side: If having everything anytime (that is not against you, but if you read this forum you get the impression) is the only way people are not complaining (they still will), then something else is completely wrong.
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Don’t blame people who wisely follow real life baseball and put their stubs into under-rated cards to make stubs off the updates. It takes very little time to read box scores and baseball reference twice a week and spot trends. Yes, I do this and have made 1.4 million off the first update. I have the LS collection finished and have for some time. I’ve spent a little bit of real money, but made 95% of my collection and stubs by being aware of the real life game and the inefficiencies in the early ratings.
I also think that you miss the flip side of this inflation after the updates, that of the sellers who get more stubs from what they have in their binders. Just be smart and be patient, the market will settle back in a week or so. In the meantime sell every duplicate you own on the market. EVERYTHING, even bronze and commons. Build a stub stack while the market is up.
Btw, I’ll already have 800k invested in the next update. Not hard work when you use the companion app.
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@GoozeFn_PSN It was meant as a joke. It was either tariffs or blaming chickens for the price of eggs.
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To each their own but I just want to play baseball. I don’t enjoy stock market simulator at all. I don’t mind flipping when it makes sense but so far this year the margins make flipping a waste of time.
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I’m not missing out on playing baseball. I putt around with the investments all day on the app whenever I have a few minutes. I’m not flipping cards constantly. But that’s what is great about the Show. You can play it your way.
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@TripleH-4481_PSN your mindset is the problem, not the game. You have to accept that you won’t be able to get everything if you don’t either play on avg 3 hours a day or spend a boatload of money.
Play the modes you want or aim for the cards you want and enjoy THAT. The biggest problem of MLBTS to me is that it’s a summer sport and summer content schedule. By early June I have a hard time justifying taking half my afternoon inside when there’s a pool to tend to, lawn mowing, entertaining friends and family, etc. So I binge early and start missing stuff once the weather warms up. If it were October-April I could easily do it without getting side-eyed by the wife.
DD is a FOMO game mode. For lots of people, the content is too bare, for me rn it’s the perfect balance but I will soon fall behind.
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SDS not releasing dozens of 99 overall cards during the first month is the primary cause of this. The lack of those "high end" cards have placed a new dependency on mediocre LS cards. Never in the history of MLBTS has there been 3 LS cards selling for 200K plus at the same time. Not to mention the other 5 or 6 LS cards running anywhere from 130-200K or the several 86 overall cards that were running at 40K plus for quite some time.
Ohtani and Judge will stay elevated for a good part of the cycle because, like Trout, they are true gatekeepers for collections. An 86 overall Skenes card should have never been 60K, let alone considered a "gatekeeper" for the Central collection.
Once SDS starts releasing more of the upper echelon cards, most of the LS prices will tank just like always. The only difference is SDS has figured a way to increase their earnings by not flooding the game with those 99s of cycles past. -
Also something to consider, the young stars have actually developed, so some easy collections are now harder. The royals for example used to be a quick sell value collection, even when Salvy would go diamond it would be well into the year. The central in both leagues used to be easy. The pirates before Skenes used to be another one. It used to be Angels, Yankees, Dodgers Phillies, Braves would be hard and now mostly every team has an expensive or had an expensive card this year.
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@yankblan_PSN said in Market Inflation!!!:
By early June I have a hard time justifying taking half my afternoon inside when there’s a pool to tend to, lawn mowing, entertaining friends and family, etc.
Felt this one. I get it...responsibilities get in the way no matter how badly you want to play. Not exactly a bad thing though...sometimes stepping away even for a week helps to reset
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@Teak2112_MLBTS The problem with this is that some people get lucky and pull one (or more) of those “gate keepers”, and now they have an advantage over someone that has had no pack luck. I’m sorry, but I shouldn’t be feeling like I’m wasting my time while other players are somehow pulling the best cards.
