A joint campaign by GSC Game World and the ATB network dedicated to STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has provoked an abnormal excitement on the secondary market. In the first week alone, the number of ads for the sale of limited edition cards and almanacs on the OLX platform increased 50 times, and prices for individual lots have already reached tens of thousands of hryvnias.
A joint campaign by GSC Game World and the ATB network dedicated to STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has provoked an abnormal excitement on the secondary market. In the first week alone, the number of ads for the sale of limited edition cards and almanacs on the OLX platform increased 50 times, and prices for individual lots have already reached tens of thousands of hryvnias.
This is reported by Gamedev DOU with reference to the analytics of the OLX platform.
According to the service, the event instantly affected the activity of resellers. While on the first day of the collaboration, only 10 offers were recorded in the "Hobby" category, within five days their number exceeded 600. Peak demand was recorded on April 16–18: the system registered over 4,100 responses to the ad within one day.
In the subcategory "Games and Consoles", the dynamics are more restrained, but stable. The number of visits to the merchandise pages exceeds 2,200 per day.
"The price range is one of the widest on the platform: from UAH 1 for a single card to UAH 60,000 for a complete set," OLX analysts note.
Currently, the median price for an almanac is about UAH 495, although individual offers range from UAH 350 to UAH 999. The cost of cards depends on their rarity: common copies sell for UAH 1–30, while rare ones are asked for from UAH 100. The highest price tags — from UAH 9,500 and above — are set for already assembled collections of the almanac and 48 cards.
Let us recall that Ukrainian developer Vladislav Tsvetkov added a function for generating personalized cards using artificial intelligence to his STALKER 2 trading card tracking service .
