First of all This applies to Diamond Dynasty, Road to The Show, and Franchise mode, so I posted this here rather than in the Diamond Dynasty subforums.
As everyone knows, lately the market has been going crazy because of hacked stubs. These users have now been banned according to the developers, but they've added a large amount of stubs into circulation that have driven market prices way up.
Many users feel that this has ruined the game and would like a fix, but they don't seem to understand how it would work. I recently posted this http://imgur.com/a/fSN3l on reddit, and a user commented with "Thanks for ruining the game!" To my surprise, the post garnered several upvotes. It seems that the community thinks the source of the problem is people selling things at high prices rather than the people paying the high prices.
This is untrue. In a free market such as The Show, prices are simply governed by supply and demand. In this case, there is currently a high supply of stubs because of the hackers. and a low supply of items because hackers cannot create those. There is a high demand for items/cards because people want to use those goods in game, and a low demand for stubs because people don't really need them. The high supply for stubs and high demand for items causes the prices to go way up because players want to buy items and have plenty of stubs to spend on them.
The way to fix the market is to reduce the supply of stubs out there by removing them from circulation in the market. Thus, I sold my items for a lot of stubs because now I keep the stubs in my account so they aren't circulating around. The result is that that after my transaction, there are 999,999,999 fewer stubs floating around than before. I then keep the stubs and then use them to place more buy orders on items and then sell them again at max price using sell orders, making more stubs for my account and keeping them there so that there are fewer stubs out there, causing the supply of stubs to decrease and the market to return to lower prices.
If any of you want to help fix the market, you should place buy orders one stub above the current "buy now" price and then sell them for one stub below the "sell now" price. Keep on doing this to reduce the amount of stubs out there.
TL;DR:Lets work together as a community to fix the market by selling items for a ton of stubs and keeping them in our account, like this http://imgur.com/a/fSN3l
As everyone knows, lately the market has been going crazy because of hacked stubs. These users have now been banned according to the developers, but they've added a large amount of stubs into circulation that have driven market prices way up.
Many users feel that this has ruined the game and would like a fix, but they don't seem to understand how it would work. I recently posted this http://imgur.com/a/fSN3l on reddit, and a user commented with "Thanks for ruining the game!" To my surprise, the post garnered several upvotes. It seems that the community thinks the source of the problem is people selling things at high prices rather than the people paying the high prices.
This is untrue. In a free market such as The Show, prices are simply governed by supply and demand. In this case, there is currently a high supply of stubs because of the hackers. and a low supply of items because hackers cannot create those. There is a high demand for items/cards because people want to use those goods in game, and a low demand for stubs because people don't really need them. The high supply for stubs and high demand for items causes the prices to go way up because players want to buy items and have plenty of stubs to spend on them.
The way to fix the market is to reduce the supply of stubs out there by removing them from circulation in the market. Thus, I sold my items for a lot of stubs because now I keep the stubs in my account so they aren't circulating around. The result is that that after my transaction, there are 999,999,999 fewer stubs floating around than before. I then keep the stubs and then use them to place more buy orders on items and then sell them again at max price using sell orders, making more stubs for my account and keeping them there so that there are fewer stubs out there, causing the supply of stubs to decrease and the market to return to lower prices.
If any of you want to help fix the market, you should place buy orders one stub above the current "buy now" price and then sell them for one stub below the "sell now" price. Keep on doing this to reduce the amount of stubs out there.
TL;DR:Lets work together as a community to fix the market by selling items for a ton of stubs and keeping them in our account, like this http://imgur.com/a/fSN3l
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