RE: Game Economy & Reward Updates
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My exact sentiments! I have been playing MTG since 2000; have joined tourneys, pre-releases, and FNMs.
But WOW, just WOW, how the hell can a new player build power to get to the next league, if we have no way to do it aside from buying overpriced singles? My issues:
Card packs here are non-existent in store, which results in overpriced singles purchases and rentals. (and now the voucher system when CL releases)
No starter decks to purchase.
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Sounds like a little patience solves all your problems since more card packs are coming soon.
But what is the use of launching new packages if we beginner players will get a much lower amount of vouchers compared to older players? The overwhelming majority of assets will remain with them, I myself have no hope of getting a single voucher.
I'm in the same boat as you but no worries, just wait for the public sale.
Many of us are planning to buy vouchers in addition to the ones we get, which means another player is getting paid for sale of packs.
If you don't have SPS for your own "exclusive promo presale bonus" you could consider that buying one is part of the game economy, it makes SPS worth more, and that player might turn around to buy your cards later.
I'm hoping too as well, but as Edward noted, beginner players like us are gated in building the power we need to get to the higher tiers; it is very difficult to earn assets even more now.:( Not even going to mention the vouchers being introduced in CL to get a pack.
I'm not sure why everyone is complaining about buying starter decks when they let you use some cards you don't own from each set.
yeah but you don't get any power from those so it doesn't let you climb leagues.. also any new card packs that new players hope to buy (hope is a key word) will provide less powers.. so pretty much centered towards rewarding old players disproportionally more..
New Boosters will be launched soon enough and everything you decry is basically ensuring that the actual gains you make stay stable and only increase in value over time.
There's no free Breakfast.
I get that there is no free breakfast. Again, coming from years of playing different TCGs, I definitely understand this. But if the game keeps driving out new players, who'd be buying the cards in the market, or even rent?
Good thing though is if that happens and the demand goes down, we'll see the prices will drop in both. At the end of the day, the 'value' would entirely depend on the demand. Let's see how this pans out. :)
My thoughts exactly. The problem with the hole "scarcity" policy that splinterlands seems so fond of now is that no packs are gonna be sold for a while, and when they are sold they are gonna be sold to people who already have assets. The card prize increse for the cards is not something that happened cause of "free market" is something that was made deliveratelly by the splinterlands team to benefit old players.
New players have no way to advance in the game unless they paid extraordinary fees (either buying or renting) to the old players.
the packs are going to get sold.. all the whales who get the vouchers already have ton for free SPS to buy all the packs using that.. zero sum game for new players
There is going to be enough packs for everyone once the presale ends man, relax. Just be pacient.
Cool.. let's hope so.. I am not aware of what happened in previous sales so being a bit pessimistic..