For example, I would have removed DEC rewards from ranked battles, when DEC was below the 'peg'.
I don't know about others, but DEC rewards from ranked battles for me are a lot, a lot lower than before... just a couple of DEC per win... On the other side, DEC tokens rewarded inside the focus (and season) chest can be in thousands, so I suppose that high inflation numbers lay there... We will see how it will go in the future, but moving rewards from DEC to SPS could "patch" the problem in a short term, but the same thing could happen with the SPS price... If that happens, we will get a new token? I hope I'm wrong about this...
Technically no, Dec is not finite so that's why we see crazy printing occurring. with Sps being introduced, its a set rate per month of Sps being used for said things. 7.5million sps per month is allocated towards ranked battle rewards. where it gets fuzzy is this whole time we been told that with modern and wild coming, the team is INCREASING rewards with a secondary DEC pool. Now what we will have is modern and wild splitting the 7.5m of sps for ranked battles which in effect will half the reward pool and then on top of that add chests into the mix. I get that people are excited that sps is more valuable but im getting the feeling that rewards are going to be drastically reduced from a monetary aspect. I guess time will tell.
That's exactly how I think it will happen... Again, I hope that we are wrong about this...
I agree. That puts a lot of pressure on SPS. I haven't listened to their town hall yet, but I hope they have some reassuring answers, because otherwise, as you said, the problem is just moved from one pocket to another.