Last winter I made an important decision; I would not spend more time or money on video games that will never at least pay for themselves at some point. I took a look at all the young game projects built on blockchains that had some interesting tokenomics. I decided to stick to a few of these gaming dapps. Splinterlands didn't make the cut. I played for an hour or two, found the card game to be ok but I thought the 10 bucks initial investment was too much for the small market the game had to offer at the time. Boy, I turned out to be wrong. Then summer came, with it's nice weather, vacations and new places to visit within my part of the world. The warm sunshine and the soft breeze kept me away from video games.
A couple weeks ago, while I was looking at trendy dapps adoptions, I noticed how much Splinterlands grew into a solid project on the hive blockchain and became one of the most popular games of all blockchains. I decided to give a second look at Splinterlands.
Super quick overview of the game.
Splinterlands is a collectible card game. One game lasts for about 3 minutes. It has, however, a nice level of depth and there's a place to strategize, at least, for those more clever than I. While cards are colorful, they are no masterpiece like Shadowverse's illustrations and don't include funny memes like Hearthstone's. However, unlike these two other card games, you get to own your cards, they are NFTs and are buyable, sellable, can be borrowed, given and can even be rented on a very interesting market. It also means that if for some reason Splinterland would close its gaming server, these cards would still hold some value as collectibles and could be used for gaming on any other server that, I have no doubt, would emerge.
Tokenomics.
The currency in the game is the DEC, it is a Binance Smart Chain token and has grown it's value a lot lately. Ways to earn DEC include: earned by winning games, burning, selling, renting cards, won in loot chests or bought on an exchange. It is now possible to receive the (IMO) valuable governance token of Splinterlands, the SPS, which is also a BSC token. SPS is airdropped to those who own assets in the game on a daily basis for one year (321 days left as of today). It can also be staked within the game for more SPS. SPS can be bought on Pancakeswap as well.
Conclusion.
Splinterlands sees a massive growth in its player base for good reason. There are a lot of new things that have recently been added or will be added in the near future, among them, a new expansion of packs. After my research I got back into the game and paid for the $10 Spellbook that is needed to earn from the game and got it's value back in less than a week. I will most likely stick to this game for a while, there is a lot to learn within the game and the tokenomics is fascinating.
If you want to give a chance, or a second one, to Splinterlands, here is my referral link. https://splinterlands.com?ref=spryquasar
