As expected Huddle has gone pretty quiet. The quiet before the storm that is the final wild week of the football season, SUPER BOWL WEEK!
All Marathons are now complete but to keep us occupied Topps has dropped a last mini marathon comprised of Legends entries of 7 different Marathon One-Offs for an as yet unrevealed signature award. It remains to be seen where this award will come in as many points players are holding onto every coin they can scrape together for the inevitable Super Bowl GO Boosts. They also dropped another series of Allen and Ginter and the Original series is now into it’s 5th drop. After the first two I dropped out, so expensive and the trading on them, especially the sigs is almost non-existent beyond the first day. Allen and Ginter offered a free pack to all fans that was plagued with problems, many were unable to claim it and those that were found the black variant freebie that was supposed to be 1:4 were actually 1:1 resulting in a pretty flat response overall. I’ve managed to claw my way into #35 in the Postseason contests which is not bad for a first year contest player! The top spot is being VERY hotly contested with only 100k separating 1st and 2nd place. The well known Bishop Eli is currently in second but I’d expect them to be pulling out ALL the stops for the big game in hopes of taking the crown and the best awards. This years Playoff challenge features PHYSICAL prize packages including autographed Helmets and crazy stuff like that so the heat is on! Guys like me will get trinkets (hopefully!) but these top players are going for some pretty valuable stuff! Over in Slam another Pay Per View event approaches and as usual they have rolled out a HUGE set with all the trimmings. Lots of dual sigs etc.. They seem to be trading hotly. Star Wars has been a hot mess as usual. After infuriating fans over the last three weeks with non marathon variants in lieu of actual new card drops they dropped all three of the remaining Evolution marathon cards in one drop at the usual odds for ALL THREE of the missing cards to finish out the set. So if you pulled one you got them all. Kind of stupid to have gotten so far behind but an okay way to resolve it. Topps seems to be trying to finally take on the mountain of unresolved awards but then made a bit of a stumble on a few newer sets. Shadow Portraits, Location Stats, and Artistic Atmospheres - Landscapes all had shelf awards appear prematurely, which caused the corresponding checklists to disappear. Well guess what happened when the award was actually issued a week later? If you guessed the people who already had shelf awards didn’t get their awards you win a cupie doll! It does seem they are moving quickly to issue the wave three and overall marathon awards with Droids and Prime already slated and the awards already showing in all cards. The overall for Prime is pretty cool! Skate has lost it’s damn mind. They issue nice sets like Finest with ten cards to track down, relatively easy odds and guaranteed packs then screw it up by making the cards untradeable till after the award. So stupid. Between that and the omnipresent pay wall fans of this new app are pretty grumbly. What once was the gold standard for Crosstrade value has really fallen off. The free All Star cards make for nice crosstrade fodder as it’s a big set and you can usually get a low level insert on one of the other apps for them. Walking Dead seems to be rebuilding slightly after also taking a big plunge in popularity after the high of the season premiere wore off and the show returned to its usual infuriating slog. With Marathons now ended in SWCT I am cutting WAY back. I’ve decided to challenge myself and not pull anything after this wave of Mystery cards drop. Not buying bundles, not opening any packs not starting any new sets. Just open the app, collect my credits and shut it down for 40 days. Why 40 days? 40 days saved credits is north of 1 million credits saved. It’s actually a little over that due to weekly bonus but I feel like it’s something I have to try. Continuing to spend money in an app that treats it’s users this poorly is rewarding bad behavior. They might not deserve my few sheckles in 40 days either but who knows? If a bunch of people finally said “Enough” it might get their attention. There is no better time to try with the stretch to the next movie waaaaay down the road. I have no illusions that this is going to start some big movement. I’m doing it for me. There is only one person in the world whose mind I can truly change. That person is me!
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