I recently entered last month here, Splinterlands and HIVE indeed, after watching SPS and DEC charts, I decided to put a little bit of usd into play, but honestly this looks dangerous, hitting ATL and keep going down is scary, watching the charts from months ago and seeing droping 80 - 90 looking like a rug pull is not a good sign.

For the good part as you mention earlier it's cool to keep playing the game, I mean haven't we spend money in games that were not even close to give us a reward? at least Splinterlands pays the user even if its like 1 usd every month haha.