Honestly I think any decent F2P player should be able to comfortably stay above rank 7, provided they stop fooling around and understand they are playing in a competitive ranked ladder. That means they need to optimize their deck to be competitive against what other people are playing. There is no place for memeing around if your goal is to maximize your earnings, again on a competitive setting.
This is the Daily Play & Earn we have now. In the future we may have a new system that offers other routes for less competitive players, but for now that's what we have. Bots and abusers were eating away too much rewards from honest players.
Regarding balances, you can also search for your wallet address in https://immutascan.io/
Thanks appreciate the IMXscan. And sure I get the point, and yes I can remain above 7 if I don't have a sucky stroke. But even then I went from 2.5 to 0,5 Gods for the first 2 wins at Rank 8.
This will not bring in noobs, and the noobs+ like me that play daily will have to really invest and up their decks or sell and get out. The latter part is not the most worrying, but no fresh blood coming in is.
Honestly, the game won't go anywhere without paying players. You can't pay devs if people are not spending money in the game.
In my case I'm actually making more $GODS with the same decks I was playing before, which consist mostly of Meteorite and Shadow cards.
At what rank are you playing on average?
Gold ranks atm