I think you should stress that Splinterlands is not a free to play game more often. It does help put things into perspective. I'm glad you put it that way. I'm not sure I totally agree with some of the changes that have occurred still, but at least I understand why you are trying to do some things more now.

Panicking over people making like $0.50 a day in bronze league feels a bit like an overreaction though. Maybe rewards in higher leagues should be increased, not lower leagues decreased. The market can work itself out from there. It is hardly an incentive to buy/rent thousands of dollars of cards to get a few dollars more a day. From an investor standpoint, just holding DEC and SPS is the smarter move right now. As a player I want to buy cards and move up, but spending my DEC on cards at the prices they currently are, feels like burning money.