The current price of vouchers being sold on the Hive Engine market is just too overpriced. At the time of writing, the vouchers are selling for more than $20. And that doesn't make sense.
Let's think about it for a moment. The Chaos Legion card packs just cost $4 dollars but the vouchers required to buy the actual card packs cost more than five times that of a card pack itself.
Yes, I know that there something called supply and demand and the people selling the card packs are are in control of the supply. But do they really need to be so greedy that they would sell the vouchers for such an absurd price?
It's not like they're buying the vouchers themselves. Like everyone playing Splinterlands they're getting the vouchers for free.
And before you call me out by saying that the vouchers aren't free because they had staked tons of SPS to get it; let me say that that's just technicality. These whales already owned a large amount of SPS and are getting more through airdrops and staking so it's not like they're buying more SPS.
If I were to be honest I would say that requiring vouchers to buy card packs is a mistake. It might have been implemented to stop the card packs from selling too fast but from what I'm seeing most of them would end up in the hands of the whales anyway since they hold majority of the vouchers.
In my opinion the previous pre-sales are better because not only are they cheaper and required no vouchers; new players could still get some card packs as long as they're fast enough.
If the devs really want to protect the value of the older cards they should just limit the amount of card packs each players could buy.
Sure this method has tons of holes in it but it still a lot better than the current method where players with less SPS staked couldn't even buy a single card pack unless they're willing to buy the overpriced vouchers and card packs in the market.
Anyways, that's just my two cents. Thanks for reading 💕
