There have been news flying around about the recent update coming to splinterlands soon which will eliminate the use of collection power which is one of the important criteria to ranked up and move from one league to another and it will be replace by the total sps token staked. I really don't know if I should called it advancing forward or not, I still remember back in the days when I joined splinterlands, there is no limit to which league we cant enter as long as we keep increasing in rank and we had only one leaderboard back then, even new members as long as they can rent or get card delegation and they know their game really well, can always which champion league which is the highest leagues.
Then all of a sudden, collection powers were integrated into the game which limit lot of things and prevent lot of users from reaching the top league if their collection power it below the league requirements, it wasn't easy at first since we are somehow limited to a certain leagues unless we rent more cards and to make it more worse, the renting price is always high especially on some certain top cards, as an average player I had to stick to the league where my cp can reach because I rarely rent cards and I do give kudos to those that rent daily to play upon all the development that keep coming in all the time just to modify the game. At some point, I had to view the game as a top player/whale game because If you cant spend a lot of capital/investment to build up your cards collection, it will be way hard to play splinterland, even when I ask some hive users why they aren't player the game, their reply is always based on the investment part with the statement "It is a rich man game"
What actually caught my attention now is the recent update yet to be fully announced about the incoming change where the collection power which determine which league you can play at, will be taken away and be replaced by sps staking which means the amount of your staked sps token will determine the league you can play in or reach (max) before the season end, it look cool in a way because that will have a great turn around for the sps token, at least creating another use case for it and even make people buy and stake more since almost everyone want to have a taste of the rewards from higher leagues. In as much as the update look good, the minimum spsp requirement that I saw made me wonder if this will actually drive in or drive out players completely from the game. It this isnt appropriate and make it more hard for users, averagely, we spent tons of $$ securing cards just to play the game but now we need to go extra way to start securing staked sps just to advance in to higher league.
I love playing in Gold league for instance every season and I do make sure I reach diamond 3 at least just to secure those seasonal chest since the higher your league, the more meaningful your rewards will be, If I had to the calculations, securing Gold 3 will require me to have 21,301 sps staked which will cost nothing less than 470$ when sps is at 0.022 while Gold 1 league will cost 1283$, like for really? when there lot of other things to actually focus on. Even though sps delegation/renting market might be on soon, it still won't worth it, who will want to list such amount of sps for rent at a very cheap price, No One since it will be way useful to them in the game. I just hope they can really reconsider this update though, The sps requirement is really way too absurd.
