RE: Splinterlands Strategies: A TWO year wait..., where is Land?

A few thoughts:

1. There is a focus on share of customer over expanding the player base. This means that marketing efforts have largely stalled or fallen flat, this is not good.
2. Steem Monsters, the corporation, the software development company rather than Splinterlands is the priority and that explains why the Splinterlands early adopters are being given the head start/push with the new projects. We choose the projects we want to throw our resources into. Splinterlands could have possibly plateaued, but the project that has the greatest upside is GLS as far as attracting the masses.
3. "Wen Land?" is the meme, but my theory is that they got caught in the middle of development by a sense of paralysis. They did not initially approach Land as a concept that could have a 1.0 or 2.0 (Alpha, Beta) editions, we got our first sense that this will have multiple editions at SplinterFest, which seems to be the right compromise to get things rolling. Waterfall processes can create stalling and at times too much of an emphasis of a "completed" project or a slower process that can get derailed by any new changes, features, unforeseen issues or bugs. There's a pressure to get it right, but the slower process combined with the realization it could be much more as hinted by Matt in a previous Town Hall gives us an idea that they realized that whatever they do release will be inferior to the next edition. They feel the immense pressure of fulfilling their promise of delivering on Land, but they also are not putting out something that they are 100% proud of in terms of what it can be. Hence, Land 2.0 (Beta) talk at SplinterFest. They need to just create an environment with some guardrails and we the community need to actually build it ourselves (we're the ones coding it and even working out deals) and aid in the extensibility and customization. They realized they can create a Splinterverse, but they need to fulfill obligations. Land will be a test of how truly decentralized of an environment they want to create.