I've been playing splinterlands for 2 months and one of the things I have noticed was the decreasing amount of dec reward per rank battle. The main reason was the abrupt increase in the number of players which I am happy but resulted to a decrease in the reward pool. In addition, other players are using bot to exploit rank rewards at bronze league with no intention on increasing their power and advancing to the higher leagues which is not beneficial to the game and its community.
As we all expected the developers of the game were quick to act and on point!! They decided to change the rewards system from basing it to your current rating to your current league. By doing this, players will be motivated to advance to a higher league in order to increase their rewards. This move will not only lessen the advantage of bots but will also contribute to the long term game economy.
Of course there are some players who are not happy about the update but please remember that splinterlands is a play to earn game and can only expect to earn an amount proportional to our investment.
Lastly I believe that splinterlands will be the number one NFT game in the future not only because of the increasing number of players but also because of the hardworking and brilliant developers.