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OK, the AH really is slowing down now. The gold and up cards are all in short supply compared to just a few days ago. I made a recording of the AH when I was using real money (in case something went wrong) and as one example, the number of SPs has dropped from 84 pages to 50 pages (and that's just in 3 days time). [My only filter was a max price of 80k so the total pages I listed excluded only the very expensive cards.]
So does anyone have any idea what's going on? Are people not buying packs as much or are there a lot of people collecting cards or ...?
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I can't speak for anyone but myself, but I was about to put an 87OVR live card up for auction and I thought "hm, I wonder if this guy will get bumped to 90 tomorrow? If so, I can probably get more for him." So I held off.
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I'm shopping for historicals only at the moment and they're really in short supply. There are only 10 pages of historical batters (all positions) with a max price of 175k and OVR 80-100. I don't recall the PT19 AH slowing down this much this soon so I'm a bit concerned.
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no one wants to buy a 4500 platinum that could drop down to gold and lose half its value no one wants to list a gold for 2000 that could quick sell for 4000 tomorrow live perfects except for mike trout don't move at all due to the huge risk. nowhere to go but down over 10K and since it's so early the criteria for what moves a card up and down is constantly changing so people are even more conservative Last edited by dkgo; 04-14-2019 at 02:41 PM. |
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04-14-2019, 02:43 PM | #25 |
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that said it does make sense that there would be a pretty steep drop off in activity that then levels out. obviously the majority of people who put money into the game are doing so at the beginning
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04-14-2019, 04:47 PM | #26 |
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I'm having a hard time moving cards over 10K PP.
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04-15-2019, 02:29 AM | #27 |
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I would think both the up/down factor for LIVE cards and the hoarding of players for potential tournaments will affect not only the quantity of AH cards but also the price. I hope I'm wrong, but I've always feared what these changes would do to the AH when compared to 19. Last week Bellinger cards were common. But by the weekend, there were none to found when I looked due to speculation of the bump he got to Diamond.
Quite a few people felt the addition of tournaments would help the non-whales, but I was (and am) afraid it would hurt rather than help them. Time will tell... |
04-15-2019, 03:50 AM | #28 |
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I think it's a lot of different factors that have all been touched on except for one big factor: market efficiency. With the avg. sale prices listed and the ability to see all available cards for sale everyone more or less has complete information. This has lead to prices normalizing, and card availability decreasing.
Two weeks ago, when I started, I was flipping cards constantly. Now, it's become harder to find opportunities, because the market isn't full of people selling off cards they want to shed for whatever they can get, but resellers with more calculated prices. I'm guessing by this point at least 80% of the cards on the market are being sold by 20% of the population. For this reason a lot of cards that are for sale are also just not listed. If I had, say, six Mike LaVallieres that I wanted to sell and there were no others currently listed; I would be insane to list all six at once and remove the illusion of scarcity. |
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this year working the market is all about investing in cards that will bump up a tier then quick selling them, which isn't great because that takes the card out of the economy permanently
Id also bet there are a ton of the non-live cards simply being held until we have more information about tournaments/collections |
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With my other 2 teams, I've largely been holding off on selling cards until we find out specifically about collections. I don't want to sell off a bunch of cards just to find out that there's a collection of 3rd basemen named Smith that would have given me 10,000 PP if I just hadn't sold off that one card for 2,000 PP, etc etc.
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I'm with Seth - until I hear more about collections I don't want to dump anything since I expect I'll be sorry - so unless I'm desperate to raise some PP I'm just going to hold onto my cards.
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04-15-2019, 10:46 AM | #32 |
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people don't want to sell historicals because they have no idea what the future value is
people don't want to sell lives within 4 points of moving up a tier or buy lives within 4 points of moving down a tier because these weekly updates are almost completely random based on all the bugs makes for a very slow market |
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stanton for example jumping two points despite being on the IL for two weeks they said was a bug/glitch/kink to work out
maybe most "bugs" are the "baseline corrections" to the algorithm that they said won't be happening anymore |
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I see. It does make it very risky to buy/sell Live cards.
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04-15-2019, 04:13 PM | #36 |
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I also look for historical cards only, and have had trouble finding a variety of them on the Auction House lately. I think it's just the case of the game not being new anymore and losing activity. It's not just OOTP, it happens to every game on Steam -- peak activity will be during launch week.
One solution could be the devs acting as a bit of a market-maker. Listing a bunch of cards for auction to increase market supply and liquidity. |
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The diamond promo is a start in that direction. They need to encourage people to buy packs otherwise the AH dries out, people getting two a week for free isn't enough to replenish. Right now if I have 7K spare points I'm using them to speculate on a potential diamond that might upgrade to perfect instead of buying packs, then I just keep that diamond inactive and off the market
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There's another solution though, unsellable historical card rewards from collection missions and/or tournaments. I'm sure we'll get some really exciting and cool cards as rewards whenever those features are ready |
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