This conversation present interesting problem.

5 years ago we played a game, steemmonsters. It was interesting relatively cheap funny game. Was it investment? Maybe at some levels? Definitely with time, when gaining value, it changed perspective of people and became investment. This perspective probably influence every next hive nft project to the point that investment and speculation becomes more important than game itself, can even exist without game.

It is much easier to convince someone to play the game than to invest.

This GLS thing is not even game yet but already investment.

We can agree that it is much better when game, being good change to investment eventually, than just investment from the start.

Not sure you can be convinced to invest, cause there is nothing still, maybe you can be tricked into it, by arguments above that Pele played MLS few decades ago and it's splinterlands developing game(not even sure about that, it could be just branding and new people hired), am not convinced by that either, could be tricked but experienced enough to just wait for a game, but I see how it is investment speculation, and how it damages project already.

I would like to play the game, and might try it when released but at this point it is purely investment, speculation, already with increased risk after this event. Little bit afraid already that game will not matter, scared that 90% of the game will be just farming tokens.