They'd call it the worst Pay2Win they've ever seen, leave a negative review and move on.
+1 and honestly they would be right about it. I have never seen any game go about the pay2win aspect in such an extreme way where it says 'you have to spend more' before you can get in the next league. No problem when it's done in a way where it almost can't be done because of the difference in power level. Reward restrictions should be separate from league restrictions.
100% Agree, my account is worth approx. $650 and I need to spend at least 80k dec burn value more to unlock champion 3! I honestly don't see why anyone would spend $750 to get into the 3rd top league, I mean what do we have to spend to get into champion 1? $1000 or more? What do we win for spending our $1000 about $1 per day if you're lucky... Not a fan at all, long time splinterlands player and have provided simple solutions to stop bots just like I do every day in my workplace lol... Long term this hurts splinterlands imo
Once you get to 500k you can play any of the champion leagues. I only have 200k and am not looking to spend a lot on the game. I'll keep playing for fun.
500k dec at these prices is 250 usd. So you could start playing in the champions League. But that's not the point, the point is that you should not be playing there in the first place and enjoy the game, which is really fun if you play to similar valued decks. The whole economy of the game is visible and that's a good thing, at least nothing is hidden, and yes you need to invest more if you want to play in a higher league, but I always compare it to formula racing, where you can't compete in f1 with the right car. Just enjoy and play at whatever level you feel comfortable with investing in. Besides that, you can rent cards or even play a delegated deck without having to invest one usd. So many options, just pick the right one for you.
1000 dec should be 1 usd, 500.000 dec should be 500 usd. Atm the dec rate is way lower, almost half, so if you buy 500.000 dec off the market and buy cards with them, you would officially be able to play in the champions league, not something I would recommend, but hey it is possible, a lot of goldfoil sell near dec value.
Sorry dude but 500k doesn't = anywhere close to 500k power, for example my max level summoner dec value is 4850 dec burn rate, the value of the card is $32 lol... Absolutely wrong and I am 100% correct saying you need to invest approx $800 to $1000 to get into champions league... Also renting decks isn't free and is pointless as it will cost you more in 6 months than the cost of buying the cards. I've played for years, pretty clued up on it and yeah I'm done, can't see where the new players will come from, which will lead to lower card values and eventually people unable to sell cards because there's no new players... They've killed the game unless they change things from this method, for example peakmonsters.com collection value should be used instead...
That is so obvious, not worth to comment on his statement.