How is Splinterlands doing these days?
The SPS price has been hitting new lows and the moral seems overall low. People who have been around for a long time might say this is the time to buy. But it can go even lower! The struggle continues.
Let’s take a look at the numbers!
The following topics will be covered:
- Number of transactions
- Number of games played
- Number of active daily players
- New accounts created by Splinterlands
- SPS price
The data has been queried from the Splinterlands API in combination with the data from the Hive blockchain.
Number of Transactions
Transactions represent the overall activity in the game. Here is the chart.
Prior to July 2021, the overall data for Splinterlands was low. Then an explosion in the summer of 2021, the number of transactions went up to 5M a day, from the previous 100k daily.
The transactions stayed in the range of 3M to 5M during 2022 as well, but then in 2023 kept dropping to around 800k daily. Its stayed around that level for a long time but in the last month they dropped once again.
It should be noted that transactions were intentionally scaled back with the introduction of anti bot measures in multiple steps.
When we zoom in the last year, we get this:
Back in May 2023 there were around 1.5M transactions while we are now in the range of 200k to 400k transactions daily. As mentioned there was some stabilization in the period between July 2023 up to March 2024, but in the last few months the transactions dropped once again from 800k to 300k.
Number of Battles Played
Here is the chart of the daily numbers of games played for the period.
The time period for the chart is one year. We can see that the number of battles has been constantly going down in the period as well. Although in much steadier manner. Back in May 2023 there was around 800k battles daily while now we are at 400k. There has been as small spike in the last week from 300k to 400k battles per day.
Number of Renting Operations
The number of renting operations has been growing in the last year and at one point there was more renting operations then any other operation on Splinterlands.
Here is the chart.
At first the numbers for rentals kept growing and reached 1.2M operations per day, then a fee was introduced of 1 DEC for each of these operations and they have dropped to around 600k per day in March 2023. This number kept going down in 2023 and reached 100k in July, then an increase to 300k and a drop again.
In 2024 we have seen a continuous drop, starting from 300k and now we are bellow 100k renting operations for a first time in a while.
Number of Active Players
This is one of the most important metrics for every dApp, how many active users have there are. Here is a data for daily active users [DAU].
Here again we can see a drop in the tx from 80k in 2023 to around 25k in the last period. Another low reached here as well with the drop of DAUs bellow 50k for a first time in a while. There are some occasional spikes to 100k in the last period.
New Accounts Created by Splinterlands
Here are the new Hive accounts created by Splinterlands on a monthly basis.
Here we can notice the number of new accounts in the last year dropping from 300 to around 100 in the last months. Not a lot of new players joining the ecosystem.
SPS Price
At the end the price for the main token SPS.
The market has been brutal towards SPS. The token was launched in August 2021 and was trading more than 0.5$ for a short period of time. It has dropped massively in 2022 from 0.2 all the way to 0.02 where it finished the year.
In 2023 the tokens have been in the range of 0.015 to 0.022.
In 2024 we had an increase at the beginning of the year up to 0.035 but in the last months a drop and now SPS is trading bellow one cent for a first time ever.
Overall all the indicators are down for Splinterlands. This might be a massive opportunity for those who wants to enter the ecosystem or a danger zone for the overall project. Everyone should decide by him self where they stand!
All the best
@dalz
All the graphs are going downhill.
But as a bullish person for Splinterlands, I see it only as an opportunity to gain and buy more for my time/money
I am with you tsnaks! This happens, it is crypto, it is not meant to be a short- term game. My favorite quote of the year by steamdan "It's not a bank, it's a game."
It's not looking good at the moment for splinterlands, and the recent decisions have even placed moreFUD on the game. I get that Matt and Co are trying to salvage SPS with these decisions but it doesn't still look good.
These are the times when a project and the people are put on a test :)
Well you're right. We hope they can also do better too
Phew, doesn't look particularly rosy... I can only hope that Splinterlands will recover one day, because I still really enjoy it. But I don't really see it as an investment, I see it as a game. Maybe more people should do that...
Most of the crypto games strugle at some point becouse users are seing it first as an investment, and second as a game ... need some time to change perspective.
Hi,
Do you think, people are leaving SPL and selling tokens is a significant pressure on HIVE price too?
Is there any other way to cash out from SPL? or only through HIVE?
Can be the reason why HIVE has fallen back from the $0.45-0.50 to current price?
thx!
Cant tell for sure, but it most likely it have some impact... just cant mesure it
I can only hope that Splinterlands will still continue in the coming years inspite of those data. Hopefully, this game recovers since I believe this is the top game in the Hive blockchain. Failure will be bad for Hive as well.
I'm like 90% sure it will still be around in some form :)
I felt the recent changes didn't do much good to the Splinterlands ecosystem, and the graphs show that clearly. That's sad - it still is a flagship of this chain, all other games have failed to attract crowds :/
It is an amazing product!
The number of daily transactions has really gone down. So we say that so many people have stopped playing Splinterlands or what?
Well, this will be a good time to buy SPS though
Thank you for this report
I am convinced that a solution will be found to solve the current problems in the game.
Dollar cost average purchase of SPS is my way to go.
If the captcha system to validate team selection and then assure that battle is submitted by human after a limit of battle complete in 24h, it is a possible solution to the bot situation
Peace
This data isn't too favorable for Splinterlands. But we hope that it will recover soon
Looking at all the charts, only downtrend and there is no good sign for the game :(
Hmm
Things seem not to be going too well for Splinterlands at the moment but I believe a rise in the in SPS price may make things seem or look better
The number of daily active players was in August 2021. Those are the periods when the price is the highest. There has been an increase in the number of active players in the last two to three months, but this is not permanent. There was a decline again. The number of active players can be made permanent with new promotions and rewards.
The game Splinterlands is going through a difficult period due to major downturns in connectivity, combat, active players, and SPS prices. However, this slowdown may also discourage potential investors from making a purchase. Examine it closely
Wow, that is very depressing to look at. SPL numbers are going down across the board. They are going to release some changes soon, so I hope that can do something to change how things are going. Thanks for sharing these data.
I don't know how to take this.
Is this something related to the price of the token? Or with the recent changes that seem to work against small players?
Can this game be shutdown? It seems that somebody intends to kill the game.
The data does not lie.
I think the decline that seems to happen in the chart is due to the price of the crypto market
!ALIVE