No, I get it. But again, if the problem is bots, let's deal with the bots, not "punish" the players who are the lifeblood of the game and the only reason (speculation aside) that packs sell. If you read the room in the comments on this proposal, you see that I am not alone in this feeling. I just want to play and have the opportunity to open cool rewards and buy / sell / trade them like we used to be able to. Between this and the SB unlock fiasco, players are paying a very high price for the bot agnostic stance the team used to have. I can appreciate not wanting to dilute the value of packs so that more sell, but alienating the player base who will buy them is hardly the way to rectify things imho. I've put way to much though and attention into this and the SB rewards unlock lately. It's time for me to mentally check out for a while and just see how things unfold at this point and enjoy the release of RB without dealing in the "politics". I felt compelled to say my piece, and now I have. Let the cards fall as they may.
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I get it and we've been having ongoing discussions about how to deal with bots. There's a proposal going right now that should if nothing else limit the ability of mass bot farms to extract without ownership. Currently I think that's our biggest leak. People can create large bot farms that own nothing, rent only the cheapest cards and then run so many of them that at scale they are able to profit more than they spend on renting because it's just mostly empty accounts battling other mostly empty accounts.
There is not currently enough consensus to run a community proposal for a full bot ban. If someone wants to run a proposal like that on their own dime, there is one drafted and available in the Discord server. My current sense is that it has some potential to pass but would be incredibly divisive. I agree that at some point it's a problem that has to be addressed and I think most people agree. Currently it's a debate mired in argument about everyone in cryptos favorite question: Wen?