I grew up on TCGs like Pokemon and YuGiOh transitioning to MTG as I got older. Now that I have a family and work obligations those are games that I do not have time to play.

The beauty of splinterlands is that you can play 2 minutes here and 2 minutes there. I can play it on the train, while I am making coffee or even when I am on the john. Even when I am slammed at work finding 2 minutes to do a battle is stress relief more than an additional obligation.

I think that using time restrictions as an excuse to use a bot are just that, an excuse. People use bots because they think they can do better than they can themselves. It seems most of the top content creators now talking about bowing out of ranked and only utilising their bot to do it for them. I heard on the peoples guild podcast that whenever they turn off their bot they just lose over and over so just keep the bot on for ranked and just play tournaments.

I personally love then game and will continue to grind through ranked for that pure love of the game.

I will not however invest anymore money into the game which is so so hard as I so want to FOMO hard into these prices.

The influencers just make it seem like if you don't have a bot you don't have a chance so the message is why bother at all. At least that's how I perceive it