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The devs have KILLED the economy of this game with the ridiculous 20 card inventory max. Exchange for profit is totally dead now because everything is selling near quick sell price, because you can’t hold inventory waiting for price increases; everything is being dumped on the market. Additionally, there’s few buyers because you have to make packs as cards comes in, you can’t make more than 20 buy orders and then do something else; you have to sit there baby sitting everything.

You can’t buy and sell spreads now because the bots still own that market.

Obviously roster update investing is over. 20 cards is not enough investment to bother with. Not even close. I deleted my MLB app that I used for stats analysis in fact. No point trying to predict who will get overall increases.

And they’re even artificially constricting supply of equipment diamonds by capping daily equipment pack purchases. So the diamonds are going to get super rare and expensive now and that methods of playing the market is dead.

Did they hire a new economist from the Soviet Union or something? Why all these artificial controls and restrictions?

What is the genesis of trying to kill the investment side of this game? Are you hoping we investors and collectors will just empty our wallets and buy stubs? Quite the opposite. These restrictions STOPPED me from buying stubs. I was going to get a head start and begin investing and finish live series.

Instead, I’m out. I don’t care about live series or legend collections whatsoever now. You won’t get one dime out of me this year.

This is the 2k method of controlling the trading card economy; restrict supply and restrict transactions. Next stop based on the way the devs are thinking; everything will be unsellable. And it has the opposite of the intended effect. A few whales will spend huge money now, but most players who enjoyed the collecting and investing side will just go play madden or something.

Ohtani at 600k stubs this year is about 600-800 gold cards. Last year at this point, he was about 200 gold cards in cost.

Grinders who reject the investment side of this trading card game don’t seem to realize yet, that pushing investors and collectors out of the game made their grind less rewarding.

Your ‘pay’ for playing DD is packs of cards, which you sell to obtain stubs. And you took about a 67% pay cut, grinders.

When investors can hold large numbers of cards there are fewer on the open market, which holds their value up. When investors buy up cards they didn’t rip in packs, it drives their value up.

With investors given the middle finger, they have no choice but to dump the cards they get. And Nobody is bidding up live series cards that are not used in competitive play this year. As a result, live series might as well be called QuickSell series.

So when you grinders receive packs for completing another repetition of conquest or diamond quest and sell those cards, 99% of the time now it’s at quick sell value.

The investor market makes YOUR pay higher. Now that they’re gone, you have to grind 3 or 4 times as long to get those gatekeeper cards like Ohtani. Because he’s MORE expensive this year, not only in terms of US dollars, but also in terms of time to grind.

So when you attack the investors and collectors who enjoy that aspect of the game and defend SDS’ decision to push them away, and make no mistake; SDS wants them to all quit (many are), you are hurting yourself too.

Let the investors vent and appeal to SDS to restore their joy and reason to play this game. They’re advocating for you, too, whether you know it or not.

I see you need 24 out of 24 vouchers this time to earn the Ted Williams legend card. I was about to burn up my credit card and pick up the remaining cards today, but it’s impossible. I have Rolen and Live series complete so I’m not far away. Took advantage of the stub sale to finish rolen. You could skip 1 collection for Rolen.

But I have failed on the DeVries showdown at least 200 times. Usually the Thomas White stage. Over and over and over. So much that I started hating the game and decided to just skip that collection. I’ve concluded I’m incapable of completing that showdown. No forgiveness and any loss means it’s over, unlike the Negro League showdown which I was able to complete despite a loss here or there. And the pipeline cards they give you to use are awful.

I have a medical problem with my vision and it makes hitting very difficult.

Now trying to decide if I’m done with this game completely. SDS, you’re chasing away whales. I’m perfectly content to drop a few hundred bucks a few times per year to make up for my inability to win every challenge, but this card is literally impossible for me to get.

I guess that’s what you intended, and that’s fine, but I don’t see how it harms game balance if struggling players are able to get cards that they probably won’t even use online anyway, or if they do they’ll be 600 rating tier like me anyway. What harm is there in that?

Oh well.

@eatyum_PSN you get paid in packs. The packs contain 99.9% cheap cards.

When investors drive the price of those cheap cards up you are getting a raise. When they sell those cards and the price sits at quick sell you are getting minimum wage.

You have to rip 3-4 times as many ballin packs to quick sell the golds to get an ohtani this year compared to last year.

You took a 75% pay cut and you think that’s good?

Do you want a job IRL? I’ll hire you.

Nearly every card is sitting at Quick sell value in under 1 week. No demand for anything except shohei and a few others. That it literally what a dead economy means. There was nothing hyperbolic about my post.

And it’s because if you aren’t using the card there’s no reason to buy it now. You can’t hold enough of them to make a reasonable profit when they get upgraded in overall, and it’s too cumbersome to make exchange packs.

Dead. Economy. Live series is already quicksell series in less than a week.

That is not good for investors, obviously, but it’s not good for anyone else either.

@eatyum_PSN

The diamonds are not cheaper. They’re MORE expensive. It’s the common-gold cards that are all sitting at quicksell.

The cards you buy because they’re rare and you can’t rip enough packs to pull them? UP.

The cards you sell because you get them all the time? DOWN.

Thats what they did to this game.

@VioletNine9_XBL

Scared the big zone hitters will beat you? Don’t be. You’re so good at pitching. Let them have the same abilities you have. You don’t need to handicap them to win. Believe in yourself.

@Teak2112_MLBTS thanks Karen. It wasn’t intended for you.

@jisaksen2422_PSN look. You obviously work for SDS and will defend anything they do. Or else you’re just oppositional defiant. We heard your opinion. You think it’s fine that the cards you rip in packs have no value and you want to stop anyone who disagrees with you from speaking by being obnoxious and disrupting the discussion. It won’t work. They’re ruining this game FOR YOU too, you just don’t understand it yet. Just move on. Reddit bans these sorts of discussions, because they hate anything non-conformist like investing in a trading card game. Everyone must play the same way and enjoy the same things. Thats their happy place. Group security. Individualism scares them. Maybe you’d be more comfortable there where you aren’t feeling compelled to disrupt constantly when investors who got bait and switched air their grievances.