Pay to play in wild is indeed a realy stupid way to go.

But... to be honest, the decision to go this way was handled via proposal and the majority of the playerbase - or lets get more precise - whales voted yes for this braindead proposal.

It was labeled as "fighting bots", but in reality, small players are pushed out of wild because it is not worth it, and bot farms just combined their accounts and earn now shitload of SPS from wild format. This helped bots and punished players. So exactly the opposite of what the proposal aimed for.

So blaming devs is wrong here. Atleast for the "pay 2 play in wild". You should blame devs for not fighting bots in a real way. Like:

• only KYC approved accounts are able to participate in proposals. And 1 vote = 1 vote and not that SPS based shit where 1 whale can outvote thousands of real players

Its a shame splinterlands will go down. Because down is the only way at the moment. All rats are leaving the sinking ship.

RIP Splinterlands.