Thank you for taking the time to read and comment! You point out an important thing here - the players holding the most Splinterlands assets are also exposed to the largest amount of risk from asset prices changing. In many cases those players also took substantial risks by investing in an unproven game in the first place. I can see plenty of parallels with early investment in a company (and Splinterlands IS run by a company) - the people who get in early and take that risk are entitled to more of the profits.

I would like to emphasize that am not trying to say that any of the players on either side of the card distribution are at fault, or criticizing the game developers for any design decisions. The point I was trying to make is that the game designers set up a system, a situation resulted that would be less than ideal in the real world, and then the designers and community together made adjustments that allowed it to work out well anyway. I am very much enjoying my time playing this game, and also hope people will buy up more!