Its funny how much low hanging fruit people pick to make apples to oranges comparison. People spend money on crack too. Might as well just compare Splinterlands to that. My favorite is when people compare NFT card games to MTG arena when Magic online exists.
https://magic.wizards.com/en/mtgo
Part of the fee for splinterlands is making a Hive account which I already have. Back when I considered paying the fee, I watched Aggy give a bunch of vouchers for free accounts to someone in Decentraland. That's why I turn my nose up to it. I'm not into getting cucked out of my money and pay into something that is selectively enforced. I didnt mean that you couldn't make your $10 back and then some. I just don't think the base game is worth that fee personally since it doesn't come with any NFTs. People are really struggling in the lower ranks so this problem isn't something I'm just imagining. You'll have to excuse my sardonicism though. This is mostly for bantering and not meant to be a 1 to 1 representation of the value of the game. It's more of an offset to the sycophanticism I see but I like talking to people willing to explore the nuance.
Your comparion of crack to Splinterlands can be applied to anything. All gaming is addictive, MTG included. As for ROI, it was mention due to your claims of the $10 fee not being worth it and your added claims that it cost too much to be competitive. I see selection bias in your responses. I find your own words, "ts funny how much low hanging fruit people pick to make apples to oranges comparison", very fitting for your response.
Keep the sardonicism, it doesn't bother me as I do the same myself.
As for some paying the fee and others not. That is normal in any company. I worked as an affilaite for many different companies and its not uncommon for X people to get A deal while Z people get B deal and the masses get C deal. Its a form of marketing that helps brings eyes to the product when done correctly. For example, if the person who got a free Splinterlands account(s) did affilate work than giving them free accounts to hand out to investors could be positive ROI and/or Positive PR. You are painting things black and white but such things can't be painted as such.
I didnt say crack to make a comparison to how addictive it was. It was about using things that are a waste of money as a baseline instead of something worth investing into. I'm aware of what is normal but I can calculate how much value is added or extracted from these free spell books and what I could do if I promoted the product as well. This is why they had to pull bulldog from his star wars gacha instead of bringing in legit TCG players. I just think they could have wasted less resources by being authentic about their product instead of the masquerade they have going on. Oh well. I know many people in the greater TCG community and what their impression is of this kind of product.
I'm aware, I address ROI directly after mentioning the addiction comment.
Its in the paragraph directly after that one sentance about addiction.
I'm not sure how BullDog got his position, he very well might have applied for his position.
Who knows maybe he will chime in himself (@bulldog1205).
The claims made by @rawbe are completely untrue. Splinterlands did not pay me to come here, and up until I was actually on payroll as community manager, I have never received a single penny from Splinterlands in exchange for promotions. The only thing I ever received was 100 packs that they gave me to use as giveaways because my stream caught their attention and they thought I was making good content. I did not request them, and there were no strings attached or even guidelines on how I was to give them away (I gave most of them away every time I got a chicken kill on stream). When I first started playing Splinterlands I didn't even try to reach out to the devs, and not once have I ever requested payment for any promotions nor have they ever offered any payment for promotions. All of my Splinterlands content has been 100% organic.
As for my CM position, they posted the job opening and tagged everyone on Discord. I applied, and I got it, thanks in large part to my existing relationship and status with the Splinterlands community.
I thought as much but I didn't want to speak for someone else. I figured you would want to clear up the unintentional misinformation so I tagged you. Thanks for stopping by and doing just that and thanks for the work you do for Splinterlands and its community.
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Well all of this has come to light from an independent investigation since SPLINC starting offering deals which are actually included in the SPS white paper. SPS exchanged hands in marketing deals which bulldog was a part of. I can substantiate many of my claims so to say everything I am an eye witness to is untrue as well as things that have been revealed in audit seems to be a bit of a character assassination against me after I tried to make some good faith characterizations about him speaking in defense of struggling low ranked people. If I am making libelous claims, people are welcome to reach out legally to correct the record. I will appreciate the disclosure of such a court proceeding as it will give me access to more information. Many former Splinterlands players have reached out to me so there is information that I am privy to but can't reveal at this time. I have been doing my best to take a more nuanced and neutral stance and to understand both sides' perspective but its difficult when certain parties will just make blanket statements that everything I say is wrong rather than pinpointing exact errors. It's not like Bulldog provided any evidence. He just made a statement which could be true or false based on evidence. And you're just taking him at his word.
You and him provided the same amount of proof, a statement with different claims. I already had a good indication Bulldog applied for his position before he said as much. I was in discord (spent more hours there then I would like to admit) when the file was supplied for anyone who wanted to apply to be a volunteer. He wasn't a team member at the time but became one shortly after said file was shared. Thus its easy for me to believe his claim of applying and not being poached. I just didn't mention so earlier in this conversation as I didn't want to speak for someone else so I tagged him and he cleared up the misinformation.
BullDog very clearly pointed out that he applied for his position and wasn't poached as you suggested. He also very clearly said he wasn't paid for his created content but did get some unexpected assets to give to his viewers (Packs which can be varified in his streams as I watched some of them). From where I'm sititng it looks like things were very clearily pinpointed. You are free to disbelieve and/or disagree with those statements of his but you can't say things weren't pinpointed when they clearly were. I don't feel as anyone has attacked your charactor, you are the one making claims against someone which said person responded to.
SPS reaches the hands of every person who is even remotely part of the Splinterlands game. Holding cards (here is some SPS) Holding DEC (Here is some SPS) Holding SPT (here is some SPS) Holding land (Here is some SPS). Dropping SPS to streamers is no different than the prementioned drops even if the drop is coming out of a different pool of SPS tokens. Feel free to link the portion of the SPS Whitepaper that you speak of and your exact grievance with it. To be clear I'm not saying the things you say hold zero weight. From my understanding there is a streaming group that gets dropped SPS. Who and when certain people joined that group is unknown to me. How much they get dropped is also unknown to me. I haven't paid much attention to it as I'm not a streamer and I have no interest in that share of the dropped SPS.
Originally he got paid to do sponsored content as part of their SPS influencer program. I witnessed all of this unfold and have an outside perspective so not sure why you would try to build an appeal to authority out of someone who has an invested interest in furthering the greater fool theory hot potato. In Bulldog's defense, I have seen him make posts about the interests of those struggling in lower ranks before he got his position so he can't be that bad even if his opinion could be compromised from his current position.
I been with Splinterlands since before it was a game so I witness the events up to now as well. You made the claim Splinterlands pulled Bulldog from his work to work for Splinterlands. I suggested he might of applied for his position. If he was comissioned for prior work or not is only relevant to the potential fact it might of helped get him get hired if indeed he did apply and not been pulled from as you suggested.
Well I'm specifically talking about before he got his position. He was making content for a star wars gacha (i think it's called Galaxy of Heroes but I could be mistaken) and Aggy specifically mentioned during an AMA that they tried to get people from online TCGs with no success. Then he started making sponsored content for splinterlands but failed to disclose the financial interest which is actually illegal/unethical. Now he has a job there. As sketchy as that sounds on paper, we still need to give credit where credit is due as he has spoken out about anticonsumer practices in the game. There's really good documentation on this but it isn't available on Hive currently and I am not really in a position to leak it unless I want to burn a bridge with my think tank. If people start having more honest conversations, it's likely that the information will be disseminated. If someone wanted to do the forensic work, this could be sorted out manually but Hive has bad indexing so it would be very labour intensive.
He made (and I think still does) content for various other companies. That doesn't mean he was poached. It only means he got paid (if he was paid) to complete work (likely freelance work). Freelance work falls under a different legal category than traditional work does. Then we have the fact (if he was paid) his pay was likely in game currency. I'm no expert in such legal aspects but its possible he didn't legally need to declare because legally he might not be viewed as being paid. Anyways we got way off topic so I'll end my part of the convo.
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