I have played Splinterlands on a daily basis during 2020 which brought me some enjoyment and certainly nice earnings, but also a lot of frustration with the direction things have gone as they completely broke the actual gameplay making it right now feel like nothing more than a scheme. This is what playing Splinterlands feels like right now...
I have been complaining about how Splinterlands turned full pay2win mode (See Post) in the most extreme way since they introduced the Collection Power Score and the League Leaderboards. I was told things were going to balance themselves out and matching would eventually become more even. Now, many months later, nothing has changed and the worst part is that these issues don't even seem to be on the radar of the devs to be fixed as it has all been about the land sale and the rewards.
Basically right now when you play the game, you need to choose between 2 options.
These 6 matches were not selected to make a point, they are just played in chronological order getting the wins handed out to me and it continues for many more matches. ( 7 | 8 | 9 |10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |15 | ... )
When you look at the top of the Leaderboards you see these insane win rates which are 95% pay2win and maybe 5% skill.
It is such a shame to see a game that used to be fun turn into nothing more than a money milking scheme for both the devs and the players. There is so much potential to it and despite everything, I still kind of enjoy the collecting part while following the developments that are made seeing where it all goes despite the current direction. For as far as the game itself goes, right now it's only a question if the rewards are worth the time at the moment and I guess they still are with the naive hope these ridiculous pay2win balance issues will be fixed on day by the team (
I do plan to make a post with possible solutions somewhere in January.
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