How is the Community Market feeling (9)
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I’m curious to see how they deal with this in the next game. Every single time the marketplace improves, bots figure out how to get back in within 48 hours. May not be in the volume we saw at the beginning of this year, but even now just one bot can pretty much hold a monopoly on old cards that have slow transaction turnover. I would hate to move to console only transactions since the app is so convenient, but I’m not sure if improvements from this year can carry over to next year once player numbers go way up and the bots take over again because of the real world money involved. I really wish certain content creators would just get away from this game with permanent bans being placed on their accounts and any alternates they try, because they played a large part in even creating a place for bots because of their advertising and greed.
Add to that the questionable decisions that continue to surround other aspects of the game like PCI shrinkage, card caps limiting live series investments, the lack of updates to many other player concerns (outside of Manu and Joe of course here in the forums), abandonment of Live Twitch Streams, and what has felt like underwhelming postseason releases compared to years past, although we did finally get J-Ram.
I could nitpick other small things, but I’ve already got a bit off topic. I know there are still devs and people who care about the game, but I’ll end with one final thought. I think SDS needs to do a Developer Insights type of VLOG post or live streams to address how concerns will be answered for 27. The community at large needs to be involved throughout this process and it would be great to start soon. Send out more frequent surveys accessible through the app, website and in game. Surveys could be short and very specific, such as “In the show 26, we made changes to limit card caps because of (be honest and state the real reason), how did you like it and how did it fall short.” I think if the surveys are targeting the major concern points instead of just the current surveys which we get covering every aspect of the game, the responses will form their own patterns on where the community really wants the game to head. Continue to do follow up surveys as the team narrows down solutions and stay ahead of feedback and communication. We need more involvement than just a few streamers flying out in February to make a few videos to hype up the game in March, just to learn that their feedback wasn’t early enough and to be told “hopefully next year.”
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@Manu__SDS_MLBTS please move to the next tightening phase or however you want to put it. We need a little breathing room from market bots. Thanks.
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There some serious crazy botting activity on the Ken Griffey Jr. Finest.
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Howdy,
I executed a few sweeps and bans - the market seems a little better now!
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Definitely feel like my live series duplicates are being sold at a quicker rate, which might just be people finishing up any missing collections before weekend classic. Some of the featured headliners, such as the 95 Ivan Rodriguez, was running into what felt like a bot, since they’d undercut me by 1 stub and always list 3. Did find a sweet spot they wouldn’t go lower than, but I also understand those have lower transactions anyways unless it’s closer to a legend collection.
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@manu__sds_mlbts, just wanted to inform you that the market is insanely slow. It is taking around 30 seconds just for me to make in transaction or even view a card.
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The app is basically unusable, painfully slow
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I have not been able to use the app on my phone since last night. What is going on? I have opened many tickets and nobody will answer me. Did you guys finally give up?
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Yeah now I can't sign on too either of my phones after uninstalling and reinstalling. I have cleared cookies, cache, I have signed out MLB show itself and my PSN accounts. Signed back into both and still cant sign onto the app on two different phones... Been issues all year with the app..
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@manu__sds_mlbts I started getting “your account is restricted” when opening packs and listing cards. It resets after a minute or so but I am getting that after opening 2-3 packs on the phone and listing the cards.
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@Bridge-Piece_XBL Also getting this on my phone. Seems like if you put in 10-11 orders very quickly, you’re put on a short time out. I’m seeing it for both placing and cancelling orders.
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Bots are also extremely aggressive on headliners cards before the spooky update gives the free pick one away. Just something to be aware of if you had planned on selling the higher ones later today, that window might have already closed.
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@Manu__SDS_MLBTS The bots are absolutely brutal right now. Can’t hold the top buy or sell order for more than a few moments without getting undercut by 1 stub. The Chase Pack sale has basically turned the marketplace into Black Friday, except the bots are the only ones getting the deals.
Anything that has managed to retain value is practically unsellable by humans. The market looks like a full-blown panic sell, and I’m sure plenty of legitimate players are watching whatever they’ve managed to build up through flipping disappear. Nothing like a market crash where the bots get to capitalize on everyone’s desperation. -
Trying to sell of duplicates and getting account restricted after 5 or 6 postings
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The app is unusable.......again. It is taking two minutes to lead a page and just says fetching data.
