Sorare.com | Why I Exit Sorare In 2025-2026
The Sorare Downfall...
It's pretty much the story of every single Play2Earn game. They start off with low supply and high demand and a premium entry cost, which is used to pay out high rewards. However, as a lot of the money that comes in goes to Dev Salaries, Deals from licences and so on, there is way less available for rewards compared to what players put in. Since things start off way too optimistically, the funds to pay rewards quickly dry up and need to be lowered. This mostly comes along with more asset printing, so assets are devalued and rewards go down. Changes in gameplay also are made to push the bar further often sacrificing Fun & Gameplay in an attempt to save the economy.
All of this makes fewer new players come in, while older players who got screwed on their investment start to opt out or go in full value extraction mode without any reason to invest more and everything goes to the shitter...
Reasons I'm Getting Out...
The Fun Got Sucked Out Of Sorare: I wrote a post on this a couple months ago with a possible solution on How To Save Sorare. Basically, the fun part in sorare is that you needed to fill a couple lineups and were competing against a score that you needed to reach. This got totally scrapped and now you only play against other players while there are millions of cards so even if you score really well, your rank and reward will still be very low. Basically, now you have to spend a long time entering lineups and each of them is a small lottery ticket in case you get really lucky. It no longer provides any excitement during the matches as you don't have a fixed goal to reach.
Trading is Dead!: One of the fun aspects of Sorare was that you could speculate on certain players anticipating that they would do well and rise in both utility and value. Right now buying cards is a 99% sure way that the value will go down over time.
Falling Asset Prices: Sorare now gives 50% discounts on purchases from sorare as rewards along with card prizes for Classic. This makes it so that people buy with 50% discount and go try and sell them at a 45% discount while those who earn cards from rewards go and udercut that price which foces sorare to lower their price more in an inevitable race to the bottom. So you basically need to buy cards, hope you earn back what you paid for them during the season (which few probably are able to do) only to see them become worthless in Classic once the season is over.
The Bar keeps Moving: They introduced a Vault system to give old cards some utility which one again raised the bar. In Classic you now also need to enter 7 players in a lineup instead of 5. Basically the bar always gets moved further and further away.
The Site & Rules keep changing: Things are just changing at a rapid pace and each time you are used to the new site layout you need to adjust all over again as they 'improve' things. I just want to play a fun game where the rules are clear and where assets somewhat hold their value and rewards are fair. I don't want to spend hours each week keeping up with everything that is changing especially as it all becomes more and more complicated. This is also the case with the new crafting system.
3rd Party Sites are Closing Down: Along with the downfall of Sorare itself, 3rd party sites also were no longer viable and started closing down. There is soraredata.com & sobase.football which I used that also threw the towel and gave up.
The Risk Of Bankruptcy: I would not be the first time that a crypto company goes bankrupt so I don't want to have any real funds tied up in Sorare to lower the risk. I already did a 0.1 ETH Withdrawal successfully and will keep getting funds out as I'm selling some of the cards I own that are still worth something.
My Plans Going Forward...
While in the past years, I always made a weekly post about my Sorare journey sharing lineups, winnings, and overall collection value. I won't be doing that anymore this year as I dimply don't care enough anymore about the game. I might make occasional posts on how things are going. Aside from this, I will continue to play in Classic and insta-sell any in-season card that I'm earning. This while I will also start selling some of my collection. I still own 166 Limited and 98 Rare Cards. I'm not really planning to play the Vault game to increase my rewards with a tiny bit.
Conclusion: The fun got totally sucked out of Sorare these past years, and that trend only seems to continue, which made me throw the towel on this game even though I will continue to play Classic with the cards that I own while slowly selling them off. I had a ton of fun with it in previous years and luckily limited the funds that I invested so the overall loss is acceptable. It's sad to see that things have taken this direction though and for me it's Bye Bye Sorare during the 2025-2026 Season.
Sad to hear that Sorare looks like its closing shop. I think the concept is really nice
I don't think they closing as they going big for their 25-26 season, but as always they have a similar problem that splinterlands is experiencing - they are not seeing new money coming in and buying the new season cards...So as splinterlands, sorare has a huge NFT supply inflation problem and they continue to print new season cards every year.
Ah missunderstood then, they just have financial issues atm. Totally see why @costanza dont wanna risk having assets locked in there.
I also would not say they have financial issues, it's just that the core model that they use is fundamentally flawed and it feels like only a matter of time before they get in a position where too few people are willing to put more money in the game. So it's not worth the risk for me as it wouldn't be the first NFT game that closes shop
I thought Sorare attracted one of the highest amounts of money into their game...
Sorare attracted huge investment (Softbank invested $680m in the NFT boom into sorare (https://www.reuters.com/technology/softbank-leads-680-million-funding-round-nft-fantasy-soccer-game-sorare-2021-09-21/)) and have/had a large whale following, but the continous printing hasn't helped plus all the changes over the years have left alot of players fed up and selling up.
As an avid sorare player over the years, it is sad to see the direction the platform has gone. Well I still my classic cards, I haven't invested into the platform in the last 2 seasons and won't be in the future.
Same here, I stopped putting money in before the start of last season just with the intention to let 'earnings' compound. This now turned to actually starting to get money out. It's such a shame that they similar to Splinterlands try to 'save the economy' so people keep spending In-Season at the cost of fun and gameplay. All the game needs is a game mode like there used to be where players need to hit a certain score which would be fun regardless the actual earnings you get from them.
I do wonder what they will come up with next as the bar will keep moving as more and more cards are printed each year. The funny thing is that they are calles sorare while the fact that there is a massive worthless oversupply is the main problem.