RE: Splinterlands Strategies: A TWO year wait..., where is Land?

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The problem with Splinterlands is that its just inflation. Everything is inflation. If you hold cards, you got SPS. If you have SPS you got vouchers. If you have SPS and Vouchers you can buy more cards, more cards give you more SPS which give you more vouchers and more ways to get more more SPS. But with no new money coming into the game to absorb the inflation, it's just the team encouraging big investors to reinvest their inflation and celebrating it as a sell out. That why no matter how many new assets their are in the game, the value of the total assets never really increases. Buying nodes and cards with your inflation is just maintaining you percentage of ownership in the economy but the overall value just keeps drifting lower as people give up and sell out faster than new money comes in.

The expansion needs to stop for a while. We already have enough assets for 5 million players. They also need to make it ok to not go to champion. In the champion ghost league tournament they threw out the incredible stat that these players had $12 million in cards at their disposal. While some of that is just craziness with cards being priced well above where anyone would actually buy them, it still goes to show the mountain of cash a new player would need to bring in if they wanted to play champion and were starting from scratch. Maxing out a modern deck would cost about $55k USD. It's one thing when you're just spending your inflation but its another when its cash.

They need to even out the SPS rewards better so the pools at the bottom have as much as the pools at the top. Let the fact that the top pools are split between a fraction of the players be enough of an extra reward in terms of cards and SPS. Then work with third parties to bring in outside rewards for the highest leagues and tournaments so its not all just SPS and card inflation constantly.

Sorry, for the rant. I've been too busy to write a post of my own for the past month so it poured out. !LOL



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No mate, this rant is good and hit the nail well. I don't envy Splinterlands trying to juggle the balls, it's tough to run a crypto game, look at the history of failures.

They have done an admirable job so far, but for one.. Chaos Legion was over-printed. I hear murmurings in Mavs about burning some of them. Good idea, or not?

Until at least on of these expansions is OOP, there will be no raise in value. I noticed recently that Untamed singles can now be bought at a fraction of the cost. I don't know where to go with all this, keep increasing my stake or pulling out some.

To be fair, SPS is relatively stable at 7c or so. A far cry from the 60c is used to be. Do we just wait out the bear? So many questions..

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Yeah, SPS is finally stable and that's great but will it be in a few days when they start pumping out millions into the pockets of land holders and tower defense holders? The big holders are also large node holders who are already drowning in SPS. So I'm imagining many will sell a bunch of the SPS just like they did in the airdrop and that will likely destabilize the price again. Because everything is treated like its separate but it's not.

I've seen so many people talk about how getting SPS into the hands of landholders is finally rewarding them but what will probably happen is the value of SPS will drop faster than they can collect more and the value of their account will end up dropping. That's not rewarding and I don't know why no one sees that.

The post I've been trying to write in my spare time is how new asssets in Splinterlands is basically the same as a stock split. It's a non event that we keep getting excited about until we see again that nothing came of it.

I'd love to see some burning of CL cards but its crazy to think that it should fall on the players. There are still over half the packs sitting unopened or unsold. We haven't even seen half the inventory from CL yet and its already flooded. I can't imagine how many cards would need to be burned to make a dent.

Still though, I keep holding and even buying more. I still believe in the team and game but man is it hard sometimes. They continue to think that more more more is the way to growth and its the reason the game isn't really growing. But as you said, to sell out in a bear market makes little sense.We've seen how much the team has built. There aren't many better bets out there for when the bull market restarts. However, I will be looking seriously at the exit if we get another pump like last year.

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I'd love to see some burning of CL cards but its crazy to think that it should fall on the players. There are still over half the packs sitting unopened or unsold.

Did you see this...

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They do listen.. sometimes.

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haha I'm guessing he got a few earfuls are splitnerfest and couldn't just punt the question like at an AMA. 🤣

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I very much agree with your points here. The ever inflation creates an ilusion that you are "gaining value" when in fact, the value is just being redistributed between the different assets in the game. We obviously do not have a big enough growth to accomodate all this supply. I am still surprised on the size of the last editions.

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