I have a game that has "49 turns to go". Realistically, how long will I be waiting?

Just curious because I thought it would get traded right away. I've been waiting a week now. Just wondering how long it might take. It's Mario Party 8.

 

Thanks. 

It varies for every game, but if you go to the detail page for the game there's a tab on the side that lists the "Trading Info." This will tell you how many people are offering and requesting it, and more important how many are ready to trade right now. In this case, there are 11 people ready to offer the game but 0 requests. On the bright side there are currently 6 trades going on, so it looks like it shouldn't take very long for you to get a match even if you're towards the back of the queue.

Best thing to do in a case like this is look at the active trades, this should give you some idea of how quickly the line moves, but even this isn't concrete. It really is a crapshoot. I was something like 40th in line to ship GTA:Liberty City Stories, and I shipped it out yesterday. 

Apparently, I don't understand the system.

 If there are 4 games available on Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for GC, and 3 people are actively requesting the game, why aren't all three of us being matched up immediately? It says I have 16 turns to go.

Ive been matched to game both sending and receiveing when tha status was "long wait"

s-rezo:

Apparently, I don't understand the system.

 If there are 4 games available on Lord of the Rings: The Third Age for GC, and 3 people are actively requesting the game, why aren't all three of us being matched up immediately? It says I have 16 turns to go.

If I'm reading what you are saying right than people who are "Active" are not people who are "Ready" to recieve a game. Active refers to people who are missing something to complete a trade. Say you have the necessary points to get the game, but have no trade credits, or even have a trade credit and the points, but your slots are full of games you are receiving in the mail, you are then placed in the Active field until you meet all three criteria for receiving a game thus making you "Ready". People Ready are the people who will be able to receive games first. Active refers to people who have the game active in their request lists, but don't necessarily have the required components (points, credits and slots) to receive the game.

Ah. Thanks, Catastrophic!