What incentive is there for anybody to buy a pack vs individual cards?
Works well if you need a lot of cards and if you could buy DEC when cheap - still paying only 2000 DEC for a pack, plus you get a chance at the below.
UNTAMED AIRDROPS
There are a total of 14 special Airdrop characters that will be unlocked throughout the Untamed sales event.
Only after a character is unlocked can it be obtained via card packs. For every 100,000 Untamed packs sold, another character is unlocked. When a character is unlocked, all players who have previously purchased a pack receive a random distribution of the new character. Buying more packs will increase your chance of obtaining cards from the Airdrop. There is no guarantee that buying packs will result in receiving bonus cards, however buying more as early as possible will increase the number of opportunities to be rewarded.
What caused Hive to split from Steem?
difference of opinions :)
Interesting...regarding the airdrops, if I were to buy a pack directly from Splinterlands, tokenize it, and then sell it on the HIVE-ENGINE market would I still be eligible for the airdrop, even though I no longer own/never opened the pack? Or would the person who bought it be eligible? Or neither?
yes you would. people buying off of hive engine are not eligible.
edit: same if you send to another player - the one buying from splinterlands gets the airdrop