RE: How The 'Play To Earn' Brand Might Be Hurting Splinterlands
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I feel your friend's facebook post. I don't play to much anymore ranked battles. I mostly just play my guild's Brawl's. I think the play 2 earn moniker has hurt as just the term play 2 earn is now lumped into "being a scam". There is a lot of hate out there for anything NFT. And these games are getting lumped into that I feel.
I love the game, but I really don't like playing it much more. Your friend's criticisms are legit IMO. I struggle at Bronze and have been playing for awhile now. With the power creep of the new Chaos Legion set, all of my previous strategies no longer work and having to learn the new cards strengths/weaknesses is frustrating. And don't get me started about bots.
Honestly, I think pitching the game as play 2 earn helped in the beginning. But now it's hurting the game. As it's attracted "players"(I say that loosely) just looking to extract value from the game as opposed to actual skill and competition. More thought is going into rental strategies and ROI on those rentals. I even see that in my guild's discord convos.
The game is good. I just want to play other people. Brag on your wins, talk a little trash, catch it from your friends when you lose , have some fun. When it's becoming a business and in some cases a livelihood, the stakes are raised and it's no longer a game. Maybe that's why I just do brawls.
Yeah, I think play 2 earn is becoming poison. It's over promising and under delivering. I may be wrong, but that's how I feel.
That's a great point...Especially if the game wants to become a focal point of different streaming platforms...The competition must be front and center. Not the extraction of value.
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I don't play as much anymore and I honestly prefer the rental market. I did some comparisons of what I was earning over the past and the rewards we are getting now are worth a lot less. There are just way too many people I see now that complain that they can't get DEC or rewards. So I also feel it's a bit overpromising and under-delivering.