RE: SPS Governance Proposal - Hire Steem Monsters Corp. to Develop a Bitcoin Halving Promo Event

Kudos to you Matt. You took a very harsh response and stuck with trying to find a way to listen and improve instead of letting things devolve (I'm not being sarcastic here).

The only way this game grows and is sustainable is through growing users. There needs to be a target number of daily active users we need to hit. Looking at the 10m rebellion packs, alone, I would guess that number needs to be closer to 100k. People who are actually playing (have Sps, own cards, or rent) is probably closer to 20k at best at the moment? You’re asking people to invest $500ish right off the bat or rent and they may not even like the game enough to go through the trouble of managing rentals. I’ve done it, it’s a pain and the economics of it rarely works out. Users need to be eased into it.

We may not like the idea of a freemium model but it is proven to work. We need a base to build off of. 20k active users and a measly 3-5% capture rate on new accounts isn’t going to cut it. Or if you’re going off the 3-5% you need much more volume on new accounts. Growth has been extremely stagnant and honestly in decline. The company or Dao may be negative but that’s what growing companies go through. Look at a company like Netflix, they can report millions in loses but as long as subscribers are growing it shows potential and hope for investors to keep buying. This is the approach Splinterlands needs. I would gladly keep investing if we could see consistent reports on user growth. Focus on adding people. Then after you’ve reached a saturation point. Shift the focus ARPU.

I’ve suggested how to attract more players in a blog. It’s far from a perfect suggestion as I would need to understand more about the inner workings and budgeting to find out how sustainable it would be.

https://peakd.com/splinterlands/@dmah/attracting-new-players

If we cant attract more users lmk. I’ll cash out like the special needs person suggested in this thread. The game is good and I like to gamble/invest but more and more I’m not seeing a sustainable business model here and I think it is important for others to know to avoid similar pitfalls.