Steem Monsters Beta Index and A Card Giveaway 2-17-2019
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So why are prices (for beta cards) going down. The simple answer is a lack of demand but why is demand weak.
#1 Top tier players are already maxed
#2 Mid tier players don't want to spend to money needed to become top tier
#3 Lack of new players joining and staying long enough to want to level up
#4 Cards were overpriced
Can Steem Monsters survive? Will it go the way of Hecatomb?
Yes, it can survive and most likely will for several years to come. The key is how many new players find the game and stay.
A major problem with keeping knew players is the cost of summoners. Summoners are the only beta cards that have keep trending up in value. This makes it difficult for new players to get into the game cheaply. If you'd buy cards of the market your very much likely going to spend about $50.00+ just for the summoners. The cost can quickly get into the several hundred dollars just to get the remaining beta cards so your cards are maxed level for a level 5 summoner (assuming you do all splinters). While a few hundred is nothing to a lot of people there are still plenty that will not be able to put this amount into the game the first couple weeks.
Part two of this discussion in my next post.
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Let's have a giveaway!
This giveaway is to help the new player and is for a beta Kobold Miner. If your a new player just comment as to why you like Stem Monsters. If you have been playing awhile and would like to help a new player have a chance to win just comment and give the steem account of the person your entering for. I'll be giving the card to the person that has the best reply. No upvote or resteem required but always welcome.
More giveaways to come so stay tuned.
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Each rarity level has their own index score and is calculated by taking the current value of all cards in the rarity level and dividing it by the total value of the rarity level on Jan 17th, 2019. The result is the percentage change of the rarity level from the index inception point.
Beta commons index 69.52 DOWN
Beta rare index 108.31 Up slightly
Beta epic index 74.82 Down slightly
Beta legendary index 84.98 DOWN
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Beta Booster packs remaining 487,176
Prediction of packs available
Feb 20th 487,338 We hit it!!!! and a couple days earlier than I thought
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My Steem Monsters stats
Number of cards: 427 - Alpha: 0 - Beta: 127 - Promo: 0
Common: 278, Rare: 107, Epic: 38, Legendary: 4
Gold cards: 37 ## BCX: 1546 ## Value: $ 214.31
My reward cards so far this season (2 accounts) is as follows.
1 gold common, 1 epic, 4 rare and 16 common.
data as of 12:26 am Feb. 18th, 2019 (info from Discord Steem Monsters channel)
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Stats are taken from the steemmonsters.com website
This blog is not investment advice nor a call to action on buying and selling. I'm just a guy that likes Steem Monsters.
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