If Splinterland start to sell cards in fiat - Will we see a massadoption?

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Today it is possible to buy starterpack and boosterpack with creditcard or Paypal. So it is very easy to start playing. But what happen next - when you whant a special card? You need crypto. I think that is a problem and there is also a solution.

The problem
Some weeks ago my friend started to play Splinterland. He had got an account in steam and started to play. He liked the game and ask me how to buy a special card. I told him this.

  1. Start an account at Coinbase
  2. Send your ID so they can verify you
  3. Put in money and buy ETH
  4. Send ETH to your steemitaccount with Blocktrades

What is steemit account? - He response to me.

So this is not the easiest way. You need to know about crypto if you want to play Splinterland, buy cards and join the game good,
You can only pay whith Steem or Dec in the market.

Solution - Start a fiatmarket
So what about this?
The team of Splinterland (OR someone else) buy cards for 500 USD for steem/DEC. Then put them in small boxes for 1 USD each. Maybe only white melee cards or similar. And they raise the price with 10%,
It is easy to sell that for fiat in a similar way they sell boosterpack or starterpack.
Now it is easy for people to play this game without going for Coinbase and crypto.

Make it easy. Thats my solution if we want more players. Look at other similar cardgames. They have millions of players all over the world. Why can not splinterland go there?

For my friend I was the solution. I send him some crypto and he could start bying small cards. But if I could not do it - He would not have been playing.

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I agree there’s too many barriers and third parties to get through you need to jump through so many hoops

I think if @swapsteem we’re up and running with a Their market it would be fine and we could place fiat orders and meet other sellers who want fiat for steem and make it a lot easier to get in

Exchanges are okay but it’s only because we have so little peer to peer options.

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@aggroed and @yabbapmatt likely have looked into this... with DEC you can now play and buy cards but that is a slow process... perhaps being able to buy DEC with PayPal to simplify things would be an easy solution. All other games sell in game currency for fiat.

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Thanks for sharing. I do not Think the solution is to buy DEC with fiat Will be possible. It is pretty complicated to sell crypto and get paid in fiat. Law and regulations...
But It is no problem to sell cards.
Thats why I Think My solution is easier

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Very good suggestion! There is too many barriers. accepting Fiat would help Steemit in the long term..

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