RE: [ANALYSIS] State of Rental Market - Feb19
You are viewing a single comment's thread:
I think it's because of the reward system changes. EV of rewards dropped so players started optimizing rentals more, be more selective or just gave up playing an account with rented cards. I know at least 2 champion accounts that stopped renting because it started to generate a loss.
In the beginning, for me the rule of thumb for most of the cards was "rental fee below 4-5% ROI is ok", right now it's more like "rental fee below 2-3% ROI is ok".
During the last month, every time my contract ends, instead of extending the same one, I can choose another one, which is usually 20-40% cheaper.
PS Does anyone need cheap Harpy? Here you go. Basically you can have maxed card for 180 days in the price of 1BCX:
Appreciate your feedback on this.
I think either @nealmcspadden or @tcpolymath mentioned that showing what renters are capable of getting needs to be known and maybe publicized.
Jacek's comment also shows something I've been thinking about for a while:
This is kind of nonsensical. The owner's ROI has nothing whatsoever to do with the renter's profitability, and I continually see people treating it as if it does, making rental judgments on the listed ROI rather than anything meaningful. It would be nice to have a number here that actually meant something to the potential renter.
Hard to do since each player's deck EV is going to be different. Jacek knows he's going to finish in one of the top places and will get bonus packs on top of everything else.
I'd love to see some kind of strength-of-deck metric. Jacek occasionally posts the card usage stats by league, which I think could be shaped into a strength score.
If it's a max level card, then show a score that it was used in x% of battles and won y% of those in champion matches
Same if it's a silver league, gold league, etc.