I think that the growth of this game will not be built on the backs of the small % of players who invested big but instead on the large majority of people who spend no steem but still want to play. If you want to have a large player base those are the people you need to target and retain. As a free player I can tell you that after a month straight of grinding just to be able to finally get an explorer that if there was a reset I would be gone and definitely not coming back. I think a lot of the current free players would feel the same.