So apparently, it seems that Pucatrade switched their stance on foils from two months ago.
Well there's the writing on the wall. It's time to step up my face to face binder game and start minimizing my Puca exposure. This had been one of those rare crowdfunding success stories, but once a dev starts outright breaking promises they all go belly up. RIP in peace Pucatrade.
Looks ok on my screen, and package shipping option for the win. I can ship 60k points tonight if I can find the cards.
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Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste.
It's very poor form i'l agree. This is especially damning because I basically have confirmation from the pucatrade team that a feature was going to be moved to free users two months ago but they renegaded on it and didn't even state that publicly. And you know what, if they placed a disclaimer saying that nothing was finalized, that would've been acceptable by my standard but they more or less stated with absolute certainty that this feature was in.
Reputation means everything in business and pucatrade not committing to what they say or failing to communicate uncertainty is something i'm not okay with. I will probably still use their service but the odds of me ever upgrading are now slim to none.
Is there a reason that the tokens on my want list which were previously valued at ~800 pp are now requiring ~2000 pp? Kinda a bummer.
Not many for sale I guess. I'm wondering if they are going to retract some of these point values which would leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
For instance I have a few rare old foils that goldfish puts at about $20 each, but I can get 6k pp for them. If I sent one to you and cleaned you out I don't know how happy you would be knowing you had to cough up the equivalent of a playset of fetches for it.
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Out of the blackness and stench of the engulfing swamp emerged a shimmering figure. Only the splattered armor and ichor-stained sword hinted at the unfathomable evil the knight had just laid waste.
Ah, yes that makes sense. I didn't realize they were working on the point values any, but it's a good thing to watch out for. Thanks, and happy trading!
The new site seems to suffer from the current idea that there needs to be lots of color and pictures and shiny, when it ends up being a lot of distraction and harder see what you are actually looking for and to navigate. Just my first thought after seeing it for the first time but the same thing that I have seen a lot of sites do when updating or "upgrading" and I have never been impressed with it. I prefer less clutter and easier to read and navigate. I'm not there for pretty pictures or beautiful buttons and drop-downs, I am there to get stuff done.
I prefer less clutter and easier to read and navigate. I'm not there for pretty pictures or beautiful buttons and drop-downs, I am there to get stuff done.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I really liked the old interface that was super utilitarian (and pretty discreet if I was checking cards at work).
I prefer less clutter and easier to read and navigate. I'm not there for pretty pictures or beautiful buttons and drop-downs, I am there to get stuff done.
I wholeheartedly agree with this. I really liked the old interface that was super utilitarian (and pretty discreet if I was checking cards at work).
it takes an eternity to look at somebody's want list if the have more than 10-15 items. It keeps loading like 7 at a time. (Doesn't matter if you use list or photo view)
its also unclear if you can cancel only part of the cards in a package.
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pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
Just hot garbage all around. I just spent an hour fixing my want list from things it messed up on the move, and that was a chore. Ignoring the terrible interface, I had to wrestle with it the whole time. I would add cards back in I deleted, just lock up randomly, change versions of cards I added, etc.
The new site seems to suffer from the current idea that there needs to be lots of color and pictures and shiny, when it ends up being a lot of distraction and harder see what you are actually looking for and to navigate.
Part of my job is helping companies assess the impact of site updates.
They never learn that these types of changes are more detrimental than helpful.
Never.
I hate the new site. I completely and totally loathe every facet of its existence. Everything is bigger (except the impossible to read font), clunkier, more difficult to navigate, more difficult to read and just generally frustrating and obnoxious. Instead of being able to see 50 cards in a list on one screen, I can now see 4 (for example, in the cards sent and cards received sections). And that's not hyperbole. Being able to only view a list of 4 on a 27" monitor is ****ing stupid.
The giant low res pictures behind EVERYTHING making it more difficult to read are obnoxious too. It also now seems impossible to pull up a card, see people from EVERY country that want the card, but then also be able to just sort that list by country (but not filter them all out). I don't get it.
Some of the new features are nice, but ffs, why couldn't we just have new features on old site? I don't understand. I fully admit that I'm the type of person who is reluctant to unnecessary change, but this is truly terrible in every sense of the word.
Whatever though I guess. Until Puca fixes its economy, it's all a moot point. I'm sitting on 100,000+ points and no one has sent me anything worth while in 2 months now.
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Any Puca trades you can send me would be greatly appreciated! Big want list and lots of points available.
I just noticed that cards I'm adding to my wants list are showing up as "0" in the puca points column. Is this error occurring for other folks? Did I miss some kind of step during the profile re-set? Puca values are showing up when I put stuff into my watch list.
EDIT: - close to an hour later, I checked again, and the price showed up (decimator of the provinces =339), but then flipped to 0 literally as I was watching it. I cannot tell what's going on; if this is just a bug while looking at your own wants screen, or if that 0 pucapoints is reflected to prospective traders as well?!
I'm staring at it right now.
When you pull up an individual card, you can click on the set logo and it will show you all cards from that set.
Alternately, "Show Advanced Search" (whenever you see it) will turn up the original Puca's Mischief card face with all the searchable boxes as per usual.
Have to agree with most that the new UI and layout is terrible. Having said that though the package option is great. I don't bother with the send list anymore. Whoever was the biggest package gets the cards.
It's really impressive how they've made it harder to send stuff. It's one thing to make a product visually unappealing to some, as taste is relative, and bugs, while avoidable to a degree, are going to happen in such a large code change. But to make it significantly more difficult to do the main thing your site is set up to do? It's like if Amazon made a huge site change and introduced 11 click shopping.
Well I, a second-class citizen free member, was finally able to log in to the new site today. I don't hate it, but it just feels like everything is slower. I tried to scroll through some people's wants and literally all I saw was page after page of Nahiri, the Harbinger that loaded 4 at a time. It's just obnoxious how everything is positioned and how much room everything takes up.
I do agree that the package finder thing is a very good addition. I don't think it's enough to get me to keep using Pucatrade, though. I've turned vacation mode on and I'm taking an extending break from the site for now.
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"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
Well there's the writing on the wall. It's time to step up my face to face binder game and start minimizing my Puca exposure. This had been one of those rare crowdfunding success stories, but once a dev starts outright breaking promises they all go belly up. RIP in peace Pucatrade.
Reputation means everything in business and pucatrade not committing to what they say or failing to communicate uncertainty is something i'm not okay with. I will probably still use their service but the odds of me ever upgrading are now slim to none.
Not many for sale I guess. I'm wondering if they are going to retract some of these point values which would leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.
For instance I have a few rare old foils that goldfish puts at about $20 each, but I can get 6k pp for them. If I sent one to you and cleaned you out I don't know how happy you would be knowing you had to cough up the equivalent of a playset of fetches for it.
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UG Thrasios & Kydele: Knowledge is Power
RG Borborygmos Enraged: The Breaking of the World
BG The Gitrog Monster: All Glory to the Hypnotoad
WUR Zedruu the Greathearted: Endless Possibilities, One Outcome
WBG Karador, Ghost Chieftain: What's Dead May Never Die
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I wholeheartedly agree with this. I really liked the old interface that was super utilitarian (and pretty discreet if I was checking cards at work).
"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
it takes an eternity to look at somebody's want list if the have more than 10-15 items. It keeps loading like 7 at a time. (Doesn't matter if you use list or photo view)
its also unclear if you can cancel only part of the cards in a package.
pucatrade
big receipts
alpha mox emerald
beta time walk
4 goyfs received
3 liliana of the veil
4 karn liberated
3 force of will
4 grove of the burnwillows
snapcaster mage
3 horizon canopy
2 full art damnation
GReki, the History of Kamigawa Legendfall
UGEdric, Spymaster of Trest Drawmaster of Trest | GBGlissa the Traitor A Touch of Death | WBTeysa, Orzhov Scion Spinning in Graves
UWIsperia, Supreme Judge A Riddles of Sphinxes | RG Mena and Denn, Wildborn Beware Falling Rocks | GWSigarda, Host of Hurons The Enchantress
WRGRith the Awakener Superfriendly Tokens
Part of my job is helping companies assess the impact of site updates.
They never learn that these types of changes are more detrimental than helpful.
Never.
The giant low res pictures behind EVERYTHING making it more difficult to read are obnoxious too. It also now seems impossible to pull up a card, see people from EVERY country that want the card, but then also be able to just sort that list by country (but not filter them all out). I don't get it.
Some of the new features are nice, but ffs, why couldn't we just have new features on old site? I don't understand. I fully admit that I'm the type of person who is reluctant to unnecessary change, but this is truly terrible in every sense of the word.
Whatever though I guess. Until Puca fixes its economy, it's all a moot point. I'm sitting on 100,000+ points and no one has sent me anything worth while in 2 months now.
https://pucatrade.com/profiles/show/23875
EDIT: - close to an hour later, I checked again, and the price showed up (decimator of the provinces =339), but then flipped to 0 literally as I was watching it. I cannot tell what's going on; if this is just a bug while looking at your own wants screen, or if that 0 pucapoints is reflected to prospective traders as well?!
"Personally I love high-riak, low-reqars gambles. Life's best with a decent amount of riak. And f*** reqars."
I'm staring at it right now.
When you pull up an individual card, you can click on the set logo and it will show you all cards from that set.
Alternately, "Show Advanced Search" (whenever you see it) will turn up the original Puca's Mischief card face with all the searchable boxes as per usual.
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GReki, the History of Kamigawa Legendfall
UGEdric, Spymaster of Trest Drawmaster of Trest | GBGlissa the Traitor A Touch of Death | WBTeysa, Orzhov Scion Spinning in Graves
UWIsperia, Supreme Judge A Riddles of Sphinxes | RG Mena and Denn, Wildborn Beware Falling Rocks | GWSigarda, Host of Hurons The Enchantress
WRGRith the Awakener Superfriendly Tokens
Tectonic Edge expedition at $68 when TCG market is $33? No thanks.
Definitely like package sending.
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BWGUSeance Insanity
URUR Bloo
second-class citizenfree member, was finally able to log in to the new site today. I don't hate it, but it just feels like everything is slower. I tried to scroll through some people's wants and literally all I saw was page after page of Nahiri, the Harbinger that loaded 4 at a time. It's just obnoxious how everything is positioned and how much room everything takes up.I do agree that the package finder thing is a very good addition. I don't think it's enough to get me to keep using Pucatrade, though. I've turned vacation mode on and I'm taking an extending break from the site for now.