[Divine Orb Price Shenanigans in Sanctum League] 1:245

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Bleu42 wrote:

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SunL4D2 wrote:

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TheFazzos wrote:

It is 2 months to the end of the league because the duration of the league was stretched. If you count from the start of the league everything is perfectly normal.
Besides, the least players still playing the less the demand for currency, and the more time into the league the more currency becomes available because there is more going around.
Headhunter has not started going down probably because not many people are updating prices. Anyway as the league approaches to the end currency tends to be cheaper and items tend to be more expensive. I do not have an economic theory to back this up but this is more or less what I have seen in years.

But it was prolonged so market should have adjusted for that. Only reason Exalt was cheaper in the end of the League is because it was adjusting for Standard ratio. It is too early to pack things yet lol. This is not normal.

Prolonged =/= players are automatically going to play for longer. It absolutely makes sense that the price is going down at this time in the league, it's been 2 out of the normal 3 months. AND just to add to that, it was JUST announced it was going to be prolonged, so everyone played anticipating the normal 3 month cycle.

it's end of league, less people are playing / trading / in need of divines. Nothing to see here.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

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Bleu42 wrote:

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SunL4D2 wrote:

But it was prolonged so market should have adjusted for that. Only reason Exalt was cheaper in the end of the League is because it was adjusting for Standard ratio. It is too early to pack things yet lol. This is not normal.

Prolonged =/= players are automatically going to play for longer. It absolutely makes sense that the price is going down at this time in the league, it's been 2 out of the normal 3 months. AND just to add to that, it was JUST announced it was going to be prolonged, so everyone played anticipating the normal 3 month cycle.

it's end of league, less people are playing / trading / in need of divines. Nothing to see here.

League will always have players playing until the end. It's no different to other Leagues in their late stage. We didn't seen events in a while though.

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Bleu42 wrote:

That's.... not the argument. I never said everyone quits lol. I was explaining to you, just like many other people have tried, that we're 2/3rds of the way through a 'normal' timeframe for a league. GGG could extend LoK for a year, doesn't change the fact many players get burned out, or did what they wanted to do and stopped playing and trading. Thus the price of divines has gone down a bit.

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SunL4D2 wrote:

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Bleu42 wrote:

That's.... not the argument. I never said everyone quits lol. I was explaining to you, just like many other people have tried, that we're 2/3rds of the way through a 'normal' timeframe for a league. GGG could extend LoK for a year, doesn't change the fact many players get burned out, or did what they wanted to do and stopped playing and trading. Thus the price of divines has gone down a bit.

Main reason Exalts get cheaper late in the League is because of merge - Exalts from League would enter Standard economy and thus they will be worth as much as they do in Standard. There are 2 more months until this. Situation definetely isn't normal.

Again, Divine rate behaviour isn't normal. It's too early for it to get this cheap.

Market pretending that it's end of the League is not the same as "it happens every League". It is abnormal and contradicts usual timeline.

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Reinhart wrote:

I find it strange that league players care about the price of divine orbs. These enter a remove-only tab in standard where they never play, at least that is what they claim. (I have seen people not willing to part with their items although they claimed they never played standard while shitting on standard)


Also everyone claiming divines would skyrocket to 300-500c were clearly exaggerating.

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Xyel wrote:

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Reinhart wrote:

I find it strange that league players care about the price of divine orbs. These enter a remove-only tab in standard where they never play, at least that is what they claim. (I have seen people not willing to part with their items although they claimed they never played standard while shitting on standard)


Also everyone claiming divines would skyrocket to 300-500c were clearly exaggerating.

I'm pretty sure there are people who play league to amass wealth for standard. I mean, I'm not one of them, but I can see logic behind it, so there's for sure someone doing it.

And yes, the divine price evaded all expectations. My personal read is that the lower supply of divines got counterbalanced by some meta crafts staying on exalts, so the divine sink isn't as deep as the exalt sink was. Also, the harvest nerf may have led to a lower amount of endgame crafting being done, which is another negative demand shock for divines compared to exalts in previous leagues.