Splinterlands: The Barrier To Becoming A Player & Prospective Investor
While I haven't completely understood how the splinterlands' Guild works, I must say it can be profitable with the right additions, improvement, the right abilities, and even the right people. Splinterlands in general is a one-man thing.
You alone decide if you want to invest, the amount of money you want to, and the decision to synchronize your funds to suit a winnable strategy and compete at a certain level.
Players' decision to invest is based on their beliefs. "Will the game be profitable, or will it not" for some people, their decision not to play the game is because they heard that they need to spend money to actually compete.
Curiosity have made people seeming lovers of the game
Some people also try the game out of curiosity and they have unknowingly become investors because oh how they've enjoyed the game over time.
However, I think the biggest barrier has been the jitteriness of not knowing what to expect, or the imagination of difficulty that's often attached to the game.
Almost everyone who plays Splinterlands has gone on to become very technical and strategic and most times, seeing them analyze the technicalities of the game make people wonder if they can actually go ahead to become as knowledgeable as these people.
Trying Out different Things In the Space
You hear someone say "oh I'm just a homesteader, how on earth I'm I going to be able to do all these things?" But eventually, if they decide to put their heart to it, they go on to become even masters in their own right.
The need for diversification is one of the reasons why people learn new things. No one is originally born a Crypto enthusiast, gamer, coder, or a web3 lover. Some of these things are born out of holistic and dogged decision-making.
When I started playing splinterlands, I thought I wasn't going to learn. I was struggling with school time, uncertain of what my niche was, unsure whether I had any talents or skills to even do anything other than just be a Creator.
Beginning Small Can Be Intimidating
But fast-forward to today, I've competed with some of the best in the game and beaten them. Now, I didn't let the fact that I didn't have enough resources deter me.
I know that there are people who are heavily vested in splinterlands, up to a huge percentage of their net worth, and sometimes might get to compete with some of these people, but I wanted to compete all the same.
The small resources I have might be intimidating and probably quite difficult for anyone to build any solid strategy with, but in the past 17 months, I've gradually found creative ways to build a minimally competitive deck and still find more ways to stay competitive.
The Guild Decision
A week ago, I decided to start playing in the guilds. This decision was driven by the fact that people can now play their gladius cards in ranked battles and those cards are some of the deadliest in the game. So I decided that no one was going to use these cards to intimidate me.
I decided to join just to build my bulk of Gladius monsters and keep staying competitive. These decisions are not really because splinterlands is the best.
The idea or the central message here is that when it comes to diversification, no one should be left out because you never can tell where you'll cut your teeth. Sometimes we have to understand that there are things we can do, together with the things we've been doing to create even better chances at doing other things.
3K Staked SPS
Some days ago, I hit 3k Staked SPS. While it's really nothing big compared to what others have hit. But it's special to me because I've only hit them by playing the game and getting airdropped from the Chaos legion packs I bought sometime in late 2021.
Now I've added Guild playing as the latest way to earn SPS. In fact, in the last Guild fray, I Competed in, everyone in our guild earned 1.2k MERITS and 12 staked SPS.
So, I'm not only using my cards to compete for the fun. Winning battles gain me SPS, staking this SPS, increases my chances of even earning more SPS, which cumulatively increases the residual income over time.
Building Residually
These figures might be in 0.03$ 0.05$ but, the goal is to have them accumulate over time and hope the game attains some massive success along the way.
There's nothing set in stone, but I've realized that sometimes the barrier to getting things done is mostly money we think we have to spend and the mental difficulty associated with the idea of starting anew.
Splinterlands guilds are great and while I'm still a learner in the business, and have lost over 60% of my first competitive fray, I still earned my dues, for deciding to finally compete.
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When we think of Splinterlands as a profession, we should participate in brawls, and tournaments as well as ranked battles. ıt is more profitable this way.
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This is totally true. I try as much as possible to participate in almost every way I can, I could have taken the challenge to join a guild earlier than now, but I guess, better late than never.
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It all adds up and I agree that guilds are a nice way to build up your account. After they added brawls, the level of the buildings was more important because you only earned a DEC/SPS bonus and cheaper shop back then.
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Yeah, we're working hard to improve the building, I think the level of building matters a lot like you've said. It all adds up eventually, and this what I plan to do.
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That's interesting. I didn't know there was an SPS payout for brawls but you're right - those do add up. How is the time commitment for joining a guild? Does it require you to play every day?
Hello, yes, there's SPS reward for joining a guild. The SPS reward depends on each guild.
The guild battles are called frays and each fray comes up probably 4 times a season. In each of these frays, you're expected to join your fellow team members to battle the enemy.
You don't battle everyday, but probably once in 3 day or once in 4 days. Thr guild battles are flexible and you can decide to play in your convinient time, provide it's within the battle timeframe
Great to see you participating in Guilds. It was hard to start with for me too and not so easy to win. The great thing is that after getting some experience, things improve quickly.
It was my first experience. I've been skeptical all these while. I'm glad I decided to finally join though. I hope to improve after a while of playing.
That's an interesting take on Splinterlands... In the beginning, at least when I started playing (4 years ago?! OMG, it's already that much!), all players were also investors in the game... You paid for your entrance, maybe bought some packs, played, earned some tokens, more cards, etc...
At the moment, I have a feeling that these two categories are going in the opposite direction... Those who invest in cards are those who are players, they have to buy new packs/cards if they want to stay competitive... But, in my opinion, that approach will hardly get your investment back... But, that's OK, as you this is the game and you came to play and have fun...
On the other side, investors are probably more "token-oriented"... You have limited total supply, you know in what you are getting into, and it's easier to predict your APR and ROI...
Not saying that it is good or bad that that happened, but maybe it is the "natural way" of how things should be...
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I didn't know that you've already played for four years. That's a long time and this makes your take on what splinterlands was and currently is a very viable assessment. As for me, I don't know if it'll get my investment back, but I know that I'm in for the long haul, and because I plan to stay competitive it's difficult to sell off your assets. Although there are price we might be tempted to sell, I feel that it the assets gets to this price, I can sell off the whole thing and buy lower when the prices gets lower. I think this is probably one of the ways to make back one's investment.
Yeah, it's neither good nor bad, it's maybe how things are meant to be. Irrespective of the uncertainty, I'm enjoying the process.
Thanks for including my post
I came to HIVE/STEEM through Splinterlands, but I'm playing it with my "gaming account" and not this one...
I have no idea if I have earned my investment back as I have added a lot to the game many times... lol... Lately, I try to carefully pick in which way I go deeper into it (investment-wise)... I suppose that I lean more toward the tokens themselves and less toward the gaming part and actually playing it...
The game is still fun to play, but I had much other stuff on my plate and had to limit my time for Splinterlands... If you want to "profit" from the game, I suppose you have to battle and play it as much as possible, including ranked battles, tournaments, brawls, etc...
Cheers!
Wow, I didn't know this and I guess you came to love the chain despite coming for splinterlands. I also do not keep tabs as I throw in little cash intermittently, so I don't really know as well. However, joining the Guild was because I wanted to earn more, getting those staked SPS for at least a long while was going to go a long way. Especially if SPS sees a huge bump in price.
Exactly, it's not possible to maintain all that consistency for 100% of the time, but I guess, some of the best ways to extract value is to have skin in the game as well as remain competitive.
Well done on your first brawl!
Thank you, it was fiesty though, hahaha.
I used to tell myself I am not a gamer and don't have time for Splinterlands back then, eventually, I couldn't stand the FOMO and jumped in on the game, so far it has been the right FOMO with no regrets.
To be fair your first Brawl performance isn't that bad, I trust you can imp[rove upon it with a 50% win rate or higher.
Congrats on 3k staked SPS.
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The FOMO itself is a big motivator. Yeah I know my first brawl wasn't bad. I've decided to actually improve on it by adjusting a few things.
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I am sure you will soon be kicking butts, one just has to do their respective best for the guild, and with a bit of luck it should be a fairly good outing.
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Congratulations on your sps stake. It doesn’t matter whether what your are earning is small or not we all know how powerful compounding can be. Keep grinding bro