bring back old transfer market

[rdsouza]

Interesting to try and predict how this could evolve and Im sure Nordeus are / have done their homework as well.

As with most businesses, you need to Farm your Installed Base and Add to it through New Customer acquisitions.
The Nature of the IB is to decline - erosion is a fact of life and companies need to offset this erosion (decline) with one of 3 strategies
1. Acquisition Rate higher than Erosion Rate. 2. Retention: Keep your major customers happy - slow the rate of decline while acquiring reasonably. 3. OverFarm : Increase Revenues from IB while it declines (Reducing acquisition rate and Increasing Erosion)

Looking at this Game, Id suggest there were 4 categories of Managers.
Heavy Token Buyers - yeah - weve all seen them. These are the premium customers and need to be protected. The NTM does not really make much of a difference to them as they usually start at 6* buys and PT to higher levels. If anything, the NTM now treats them better as other managers can not (will not) compete - so we already get 2 classes of Teams - Lets call this one the 6* Club

Then there are the "Casual" Tokeners - who buy every now and then - just to maintain a decent competitive team. This group would also include the T-Farmers (where available). Usually buy the odd scouts but largely young 4* (for PT) or 5* off the market. The NTM impacts this group the most - especially on the selling side and I feel that Nordeus is trading (Read: Risking) off a percentage of this part of their IB in order to keep the 6* Club Happy. ...High Volume-Low Spend VS Low Volume-High Spend.

Then of course there are the Part-Timers. This would be the existing managers who are quite happy to run 3* / 4* teams and let them decline into oblivion. All Noobs would initially start off like this but then come through / evolve as the 6* Club or 5* Club future. Of course with the Casuals having a rough ride, Nordeus apparent strategy would be that of the New Managers joining, they would prefer to retain only those who would move straight to the highest level.

I think in about 6 - 12 seasons from now - there would be 2 distinct classes of teams - the "6*+" and the "3*-4*".... basically an evolution of this game into a sort of "Premium - Pay to Play" & "Regular - Free to Play" division.

Spornybol, rdsouza, exactly. There's a couple of teams in my league buying and selling like there's no tomorrow, they r still on the old market.. Not fair at all, another example of nordeus's mess..
But it does leave us with the hope that what we have (6 old and useless 5stars most of the time, I'm yet to see a player I'd like to buy on new TM) isn't the end and more updates shall come, hopefully they ll have heard enough on this tread and in the poll to make this thing playable again for everyone..

[Raykco]

Spornybol, rdsouza, exactly. There's a couple of teams in my league buying and selling like there's no tomorrow, they r still on the old market.. Not fair at all, another example of nordeus's mess..
But it does leave us with the hope that what we have (6 old and useless 5stars most of the time, I'm yet to see a player I'd like to buy on new TM) isn't the end and more updates shall come, hopefully they ll have heard enough on this tread and in the poll to make this thing playable again for everyone..

I'm a bit confused by what you say here. You say that there are a couple of teams in your league that must be on the old market. But surely, if they are in your league, then they are on the same server as you, and therefore you should ALL have the same market.

[spornybol]

I'm a bit confused by what you say here. You say that there are a couple of teams in your league that must be on the old market. But surely, if they are in your league, then they are on the same server as you, and therefore you should ALL have the same market.

obviously not on same market as a team in my league has 18/19 18yr olds and i`v not seen any on the new market the only way you can get these young player was from old market, so how is that fair for a level playing field he/they can improve team where i can`t do booger all

[Ismail Eden]

obviously not on same market as a team in my league has 18/19 18yr olds and i`v not seen any on the new market the only way you can get these young player was from old market, so how is that fair for a level playing field he/they can improve team where i can`t do booger all

Most of them are bought this season and with a 1-2 token ratio. Yes i too have the new transfer market cuz i'm seeing constantly a handfull of players(10 to 15) but most of them 5* 18 year old with 10 min to 1 hr time limit. I gues i'm just lucky when it comes to buying or selling cuz i haddnt had any problems selling either. This is getting weird because i almost had no competition when bidding for players from the first day this season. AM i the only one that lucky? I remember last season ive spent 27 tokens on one player and now with only 15 tokens i changed almost my whole team with youngsters.

[Ismail Eden]

obviously not on same market as a team in my league has 18/19 18yr olds and i`v not seen any on the new market the only way you can get these young player was from old market, so how is that fair for a level playing field he/they can improve team where i can`t do booger all

Attachment 20271 almost all of my player are bought this season and most of them with 1 token each. And yes i have the new transfer market but seems that im lucky when i get to buy or sell players.

[Raykco]

There is another thread just above (now below), that tells you how to find what server you're on. In that, it tells which market (either old or new), applies to that particular server. So surely, players in the same league (and therefore, same server), would all be on either old or new market. It shouldn't be different.

And just to say, for the first two weeks of this current season, I couldn't find any decent quality players under the age of 26 in my market. But just today, I've found 3 x 18 yo players, 2 at 4* and 1 at 5, and my market hasn't changed.

[spornybol]

well it`s 6 days and counting for market to come back or a MAJOR improvement and if nothing happens i`m off and i`m also guessing this so called 12 million player`s here will also drop dramatically because you as a company are going backwards


edit; i don`t think any country restricts transfer`s of player`s the way you are doing talk about about going backwards to the Bosman DAYS

[rdsouza]

*LOL* - The 12mil players really gets me chuckling. Even if 1% of these 12 mil supposedly active users visited the forum - and thats really lowballing it.... that would be well above the current stat of Most Users EVER Online in the forum - which sits at a grand total of less than 9000. - EVER!

well it`s 6 days and counting for market to come back or a MAJOR improvement and if nothing happens i`m off and i`m also guessing this so called 12 million player`s here will also drop dramatically because you as a company are going backwards


edit; i don`t think any country restricts transfer`s of player`s the way you are doing talk about about going backwards to the Bosman DAYS

[spornybol]

*LOL* - The 12mil players really gets me chuckling. Even if 1% of these 12 mil supposedly active users visited the forum - and thats really lowballing it.... that would be well above the current stat of Most Users EVER Online in the forum - which sits at a grand total of less than 9000. - EVER!

yep made me laugh odds on their around 500,000 user`s as player`s reg then see how bad it is and abandon there teams and this is just newbie`s if they carry on with this market then it won`t just be just newbies leaving and they have had plenty of warning

[Med78]

Oh hey look at that, been complaining about the lack of 18 yo on the new market, looks like nordeus is listening.. Well, pls not all MC then... I was also able to sell a low 4* player yterday, if u ppl are changing stuff let us know, we might say thank you (you never know lol)..