Trust @goldmatters

Let me first make one thing abundantly clear: This is not a roast of Goldmatters. I have never interacted one-on-one with Goldmatters, but I feel like I know him well. I am also quite certain Goldmatters knows who I am. I am deeply appreciative of what he does for Splinterlands and the community. He is doing real community service. He was leading the Splinterlands campaign alone on Twitter, when it was twitter. He continue to carry the flag of the game high for us, and I am deeply thankful to him as a player and as an investor.

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I also like his AI art skill. I must say it is often spectacular to say the least. Only bravetofu can probably compete with Goldmatters. As an investor he is also deeply invested in the game, with 19M + CP he owns a lot of cards, number 49 within the top card holders, based on Splintercards. So his heart is in the right place and he is also invested in the game.

But, dude, with all due respect, that doesn't mean when we critically comment on an action by the team, we are shitting on the idea.

I strongly believe, when we critically comment on something, we must provide an alternative. I also believe it is easy to shoot down an idea, and it is much more difficult to create one.

Matt is not perfect. He is the first person to say that he is not perfect. Also this idea is not his, it is PJs, and PJ did ran it by a lot of us in the past. So I for one is not surprised. I was uncomfortable before with this idea, and I am unconfortable and skeptical with this idea now. I have no problem with a new game mode. I have problem with how it is implemented.

In fact, Royal, reached out to me, and I have provided direct feedback to him. This is his summary of my feedback:

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• Not a fan of bots
• seasons of rewards to see what things look like wouldn't hurt economy
• Would prefer SB cards are out unbound ok, but no sb
• Hesitantly might be ok if we can sustain:
  A. Price of rentals increases & card utilization
  B. increase in Price of SPS
  C. increase Price of SPS rentals

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Notice: there is skepticism here, but no negativity.

This is what I mentioned directly and publicly to Matt:

For years every single update or change was designed to curtail bot and finally with the introduction of wild pass we ultimately stopped the leak. Why open up a whole league and test the same hypothesis that: “if you let people exploit they will exploit”. We already know this!

So I know the result of this experiment already. No need to listen to me, because I am could be full of negativity. This is what @davemccoy says:

I think there could be a danger of having this experiment depending on the vision motivating it. If its truly just a test to see how things will work, then I don't mind a test at all.

What he means by, if this is just a test, why do we need a reward pool for it?

There are many ways

It doesn't mean only your way is right and positive and the others are wrong. Saying others are wrong on discord and hive may also be considered a negative campaign? What do you say to that? Mind you all the people at hive that you were shitting on are funding the salary for the marketing budget for splinterlands. Just saying.

I am not good at making memes, and I know you are. Please feel free to make a meme about this post and share it on X. I am sure you and the community will feel better.

Again, I appreciate what you do for us, but no one is right all the time :)

Cheers!