RE: Were My Chaos Packs a Good Investment?
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I'll reply here to both you and @enginewitty, since my comment wasn't clear and left both y'all with the wrong impression.
One of my biggest complaints about the crypto space is that any time someone says "sell" they're accused on lacking faith or FUD. When in reality selling can just be shorthand for making better investments in the same system. So I wasn't advocating cashing out of SL, but that you could have invested your same resources in a slightly different way and come out ahead.
So instead of using your vouchers and buying presale packs, you could have sold those vouchers and waited to re-invest that money in cards. Then you could have bought exactly the cards you opened and still had $1,000 of value from selling vouchers. You could then use that extra value to e.g. go buy 100 more packs, buy 3000 SPS for more vouchers in the second phase, etc.
Because you thought of your vouchers as free, and not as a commodity with value, you made a decision that led to less value. And yes, opening packs is fun, and if you value that at $1000 then good on you. But to come here and say you had a positive ROI is misleading. People like @arrliinn saw this and think you made money, when you did not.
PS: On a personal note, I'm sorry about the HUGE downvote you received. I was initially smug when I saw that, thinking someone else was calling out your misinformation. But it looks like it's some petty vindictive bullshit, which I don't like. Downvotes should be for weeding out low effort content or misinformation, not to carry out grudges. It's a small gesture, but I've removed my 0.002 hive downvote in solidarity.
Thanks @badrag for explaining your position better. Another way to look at this (and that's the beauty of everyone having their own opinion) is that I wanted to buy in presale and get the 10% discount for SPS and also be eligible for the airdrop of the Dr. Blight card. You had to have the vouchers in presale. And I was awarded 6 of the Dr Blight cards for my airdrop rewards, which have a current value of $840. So it's really not that different of an outcome. 😀😀
And thank you for the solidarity!
Oh cool! I didn't see you hadn't counted the Dr. Blights! That is such a huge part of the benefit of the pre-sale, so I'm glad to see that after you factor that in, it's pretty close to even! In doing my own numbers, it seemed that the only way to make money on the pre-sale was to get 1,000 packs. The guaranteed GF Dr. Blight + the title pushed it over the edge.
And I should also say, I'm not all about the ROI myself. There are probably better investments in crypto than SL if all I care about is $$$. I've posted a few times about how renting up in league at the end of season is objectively a pretty bad decision with a negative ROI. But I do it anyways, because it's fun and I enjoy opening extra chests for the chance of cool rewards.
So yeah, at the end of the day, if you're happy with your decision, it was a good decision, ROI be damned.