Dropping Confidence
Even though I'm still accumulating more cards leveling them to Max Level, my confidence in the team behind Splinterlands and Matt as a leader continues to go down each week. I really dislike all the proposals where they are begging for money in various ways and the general tone behind it that 'they might have to leave Hive' if they don't get the grant and how The DAO needs to pay for the SPS chain development within a year or else...
Also the way Soulbound unlocks will happen makes no sense whatsoever having players pay 10x the DEC cost just to be able to sell them while the moment they get dumped into Wild the values are bound to collapse. They still fail to see that Card Collection values are of vital importance of players to have confidence in the game. Yet they need to fix Vouchers, to then drive demand for DEC, to then drive demand for SPS, to afterward drive demand for cards. The unlock is a perfect opportunity to pump old card prices requiring an equal card to be burned instead of the 10x DEC burn value.
So yeah, it's frustrating to see how they are still making big obvious mistakes which isn't giving the game which has been the same for 5+ years an improvement. So I'm slowly but surely coming to an end of being willing to accumulate more and have just a couple key cards left. I will never ever buy packs knowing the values will plummet and only buy cards directly on the market at heavily lower prices compared to what was paid for them one in the hope they at least hold up from here on out.
Weclome To The Family New Max Level Cards
It's been 3 weeks since the last update and I managed to get some key cards added to my collection:
Summoners
I did manage to upgrade my Level 6 Conqueror Jacek to Max Level Paying 9$ for that and destroying 1 BCX with that. If I would have waited I could have now bought it cheaper which tends to be the ongoing trend. I also maxed out the Franz Ruffmane Soulbound Summoner with just 1 more of those to go. I still need 2 copies of the Helios Matriarch to have all souldbound summoners maxed.
This right now I have enough tools to make a proper choice with 16 Maxed level summoners and have my eye on just a couple more of the Chaos Legion Legendary Summoners in case they would drop more.
Premium Cards!
Other Cards
I had a Level 3 and a Level 2 of the Bila The Radiant and it wasn't so expensive to upgrade so I went ahead buying the extra needed copies maxing it out. I also maxed out the Acid Shooter which gives it the poison ability which actually is really useful in many situations. However, these are by no means the cards that I play very often.
Soulbound Reward Cards
I also managed to max out 3 more Soulbound reward cards. The Noa The Just is quite fun to play in a deck with Possibilus while at the same time it has competition in 2nd spot from the Kelp Initiate or the Baakjira. The Kra'ar Xoc is one off those cards where it's possible to make a nice combo deck with Death using Weaken and multiple redemption cards. However, the ranked game more is terrible at allowing to create fun creative decks which is a really weak point in Splinterlands. The Benari Marlsrat in play all the time as they had to go ahead and introduce a new overpowered ability with the Martyr
SPS Accumulation
I'm close to reaching 260k SPS and all the stake I had on my alt account has been moved to my main account. It's hard to see SPS make big moves though as there are still zero new players coming into the game and I highly doubt that the 'new user experience' will make much difference as players aren't stupid and see that cards don't hold value so why would anyone buy packs let alone a big stake in SPS.
Conclusion!
I'm quite negative right now on Splinterlands as I don't agree with the general vision and the way things have gone lately. That said, I still enjoy playing the game even though with more game modes it could be even more fun. For now I continue accumualing some more Key cards and I will see where it all goes going forward.
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