First and foremost, the removal of the collection power requirements for ranked battles means that there will no longer be anything preventing players from moving up to higher leagues and tiers if they are able to obtain a high enough rating. If a player is able to win matches and earn a high enough rating to get into a particular league or tier then they will be able to move up even if they have no cards in their collection at all, and no SPS staked.
Sooo... no more leaderboards then? Or is advancing to a higher league still optional?
Also not sure why this is being implemented in the middle of season.
Implementing this in the middle of the season seems like a sign of desperation. I would wait until the end of this season. I thought SPS Staking as a requirement would only be implemented in August!
I haven't looked it up yet, but I'm curious to see how many players in Champ actually have enough SPS staked to keep their rewards consistent with what they're already getting. I think something along these lines was necessary but the way it's set up is definitely geared towards benefiting the smallest fraction of top tier players. Business as usual though. Gotta feed the whales.
the basic framework of this implementation alone seems to be more than dubious. it is based on exclusion (not enough sps for everyone) and pushing assets from the bottom up. and again increases the barrier for new players.
are these signs that they are no longer trying to recruit new players but have started to suck out the existing ones?
i mean when the flywheel is running even sps are burned so even less players can participate. but we need new players if we want new money in the system from which we all benefit.
although i am actually one who is happy to be able to buy in the bear market, splinterlands has managed to reduce my deposits and will now probably stop completely.
there were just too many decisions made that point to scam......
It seems like most of the updates/anti-bot solutions have been geared towards pushing assets from the bottom up. I can't imagine being a new player. If I weren't already heavily invested, there's no way I'd be signing up right now.
Sadly I think the same.