RE: Road to CHAMPION END: What is going on with Splinterlands Assets and Why

[jaelove]

Hey kauff. Again I want to thank you for having a constructive discussion.

1. Getting in right now is bad because the cards will tank even further in the General Sale. Plus the value of DEC is much higher than the peg and the founders clearly want to lower it.

2. Hard disagree here with the SPS sale. The truth is neither of us know but I know how equity deals work and nobody ever limits themselves. I agree the product quality is high (this is why I invested!) but they're hurting themselves.

3. There are many avenues to reducing the viability of bots. They've explored very few of them historically. I come from an industry with a huge botting problem.

4. Bots generate infinite money in this economy still. The calculations have been run. So if you don't stop them, the best operations will scale to thousands.

5. No I'm not in the business of trying to time bottoms. I'm in the business of not buying assets that are guaranteed to depreciate as part of a coordinated money grab from the developers.

Do you want to bet with me if cards will lower during the first X months of the general sale or increase?

Comments

[hackinhukk]

1. You do realize that if you have dec though, buying cards with DEC isn't a bad decision? Thats what i've been doing because I expect the dec price to go down with card prices, but i'm way less certain on the dec/bcx ratio. So I spend my Dec on cards and rent them out and by the time general sale happens, i'll have made most of my dec investment back.

[kauffdiggity]

1. That is only true for Chaos legion, which is one of several sets. Ive been encouraging my guildmates to buy untamed and other sets that will be used in modern format. Prices of those will likely shoot up alot when that battle mode releases and running up to it.

2.They did limit themselves. They designed the tokenomics and proportions of SPS that would be used for various purposes before the private sale. These numbers were released before the private sale, so they had to hold themselves to the amount of SPS they publicly stated would be sold to private investors, and they did just that.

3.As with any game, there must be a fine balance with combatting bots without compromising the gameplay for regular players. What they have done in the past 6 months has drastically reduced the bot profitability and incentive to bot.

1. bots can never be permanently stopped on decentralized applications. its hard enough to stop them on centralized games where you can force people to prove theyre a unique individual. Bots can be disincentivized, and they have been more than ever the past 6 months. go read the discord, many people asking questions about bots, the consensus is that its no longer worth it.

2. Youre acting like Chaos Legion cards are the only Splinterlands assets that exist. You use the umbrella term "Cards" but you seem to only be referring to the latest set, as the older sets are all sold out. "Coordinated Money Grab" is quite the mischaracterization. Is McDonalds selling me a McChicken for $1 also a "coordinated money grab"? I guess anything a business ever does to make money is a "coordinated money grab". No one is forcing you to buy chaos legion cards. Theres plenty of other cards from older sets. This was alll known before you bought the cards too. They didnt release the packs then say "by the way theres gonna be 15 million packs". Youre literally complaining about a business selling a product that you bought before looking into how many packs would be minted. All that information was publicly available.

Everyone knows chaos legion cards will drop in price in the general sale. No one forced you to buy these and it was all predictable based on the information that was publicly given before the packs were sold. Once again there 80% of the assets in this game dont even fall under the umbrella of things your complaining about because all the packs were already sold.