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Originally Posted by TecatePete
Has anyone tracked the numbers to see what the average re-sale value of a pack is? I know it's basically a given that it's a loss to buy packs, but I'm curious just how much. My gut would say somewhere around 500-600 pp in value, but I could be way off. I'd be curious about the Gold Packs too if anyone has done all this
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Hi,
I've opened 3355 packs (F2P, so from missions, tournaments and 'excess PP') and kept record of the contents. Because I'm crazy.
I used the following estimated average values for each card type: Brz. 50, Silver 300, Gold 1500, Diamond 6000, Perfect 25000.
Based on these values, my 'ROI' was 2.336.500 PP for 3.355.000 PP worth of packs, which is 69.64%.
Of course, there are individual cards which can have such a huge impact on whether or not buying packs ends up being 'worth it' that you can't realistically put an average value on a pack.
For example, I should have packed 16.775 Perfect cards ((3350*5)/1000) by now, but only packed 13. That wouldn't be too bad, were it not that 12 out of these 13 were live cards (despite a supposed 70/30 live/non-live split being in effect.)
A player with even average results in this area will have a vastly different outlook on the average value of packs than I do.
Lastly, I can confirm that the stated drop rates more or less check out. For me, bronzes have dropped at 98% of the expected rate, silvers at 100%, golds at 125%, diamonds at 118% and perfects at 77%.