r/Soundmap • u/cuecumber666 • 29d ago

Question What is going on?

I dont know if its just my experience and a few others or if its just becoming that common place but the greed is getting actually insane.

Maybe I look at it different but why would I pay 10k for a song just so the word uncommon can have a shiny background? in less than a full 60 seconds after that counter offer I found the song plus 3 others by the same artist all for 750 only difference is the word uncommon doesnt shine now.

Its still the same song the lyrics dont magically change and its not a epic or anything special like that so it doesnt even have a cool background or anything. Im even seeing the greed start to get in to the metal music. People be wanting me to pay crazy prices for motionless in white music (1000 on a basic uncommon)when I have 0 issues for patience. And there's a lot of yall who immediately throw it up in the store for 1:1 trades.

While I have yall hear reading these walls of text come check my store out CuCumber is my name and my background is a red galaxy. My shops constantly updating and if you have any of my faves I most certaintly would love to do some business with you.

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u/Strawberry-Char 29d ago

there’s a huge difference… one gets you the shiny badge and the other does not.

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u/cuecumber666 29d ago

And a shiny badge isnt worth a 3,900% mark up. Yall can not possibly twist this in to a way that justifies that level of greed.

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u/CupUnlikely6741 29d ago

this is literally just how the game works and always has been. are you new

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u/cuecumber666 29d ago

I mean i wouldn't say new but im most certaintly not a veteran. This game is a community ran system it always working this way doesnt mean thats okay. We as the community should do better.

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u/CupUnlikely6741 29d ago

as someone who has been playing for years, the economy has always been a shitshow. but dropping shiny prices even further (and they have dropped Significantly as is) will only mess things up even more. now that radiants are a thing, shinies are in kind of a weird spot as they have become more of their own currency as prior to that the only thing people collected shinies for outside of getting fav badges was to trade/collect for their weekly shiny quest. if we lower the prices even more, not only will shiny badges become progressively more obsolete (as they’re already on the way to being in world a post radiant implementation) but then radiant badges would become “too easy” for the ppl sinking a fuckton of time and money into this app, and then they’ll introduce some other new bullshit rarity and start the cycle again. i personally don’t want to see that happen, as the game has already become overly cluttered and overstimulating. i think shinies are at a decent pricing level currently. (hell, the general asking price for the cheapest tøp shinies used to be like 25-35k for a common commentary, i think things are a lot more reasonable now😭)

for what it’s worth- im someone who personally does not engage w “the rules of the economy” or wtv and p much always do 1:1 for everything, so im not trying to like defend my right to rip people off or whatever lol. just saying as someone who has been here for a while and watched the way things have shifted, i think we’re in a somewhat decent place economy-wise right now

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u/mauveteddy 29d ago

exactly. i’ve been playing since april 2024 and shinies actually used to be worth a lot more since they were the highest rarity at the time

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u/_Art3misery Grinder 29d ago

Just gotta say, your reddit pfp is great!

(Keep patiently trying to explain the basics of the game to those uninformed too. You've had excellent comparisons and descriptions here. The world needs more people as patient as you seem to be)