Maybe it's more of a messaging issue. The current Mage Wagons were for Rebellion conflicts, which are now ending, so the life of those assets is done. So we are not adding any fees or anything to existing assets. People purchased assets to participate in those Conflicts, they received very valuable cards, and now that is done. With Conclave Arcana something new is being released, and players can choose to purchase new assets to participate in that. We proposed to offer a benefit to players who had bought the previous Mage Wagons that they could be upgraded to the new wagons at a reduced cost.
In any case, the community can ultimately propose and approve whatever they want regarding Conflicts and Mage Wagons, but as far as I am concerned I really don't like and don't appreciate hearing that I am "losing trust" with the community. For one - I don't believe I ever said or implied that Mage Wagons would be for anything but Rebellion conflicts, and I believe that I have been extremely clear with the community that the ONLY promise and the ONLY commitment I will make is that I am going to push for whatever I believe best creates a sustainable ecosystem that creates value over the long term for its participants. I am not going to leave something in place that I think hurts the ecosystem just because it has been that way in the past or because people didn't expect it to change. Please refer to my post from 1.5 years ago on this exact topic: @yabapmatt.sps/new-account-for-splinterlands-posts-and-my-goals-thought-process
The Legendary and Alchemist packs offer roughly double the amount of Legendary and Gold Foil cards per dollar spent respectively as compared to Booster packs. The tradeoff for that is you receive fewer total cards. I believe the tradeoff is well balanced as-is. If we add more cards to the packs we will need to increase the pricing of the packs, which I think would make it a worse deal overall for the people buying the packs because they want to focus on those types of cards. Again, this is ultimately up to the community to decide, but I have spent a lot of time on the packs and the pricing and believe what has been proposed is the best option.
I don't see any reason for doing a 2.5k DEC pack. It's not a big enough price difference from the 4k DEC booster packs in my opinion.
Like always, we'll do the best we can with the resources we have available. We try to make all cards interesting and valuable regardless of their rarity, and we definitely want to do more to make the stat increases higher especially at max level to really encourage people to get there considering how many more cards it takes (again at all rarities). I also don't think it's such a bad thing if there are some Common or Rare cards that are very valuable and highly desired and I don't think the Starter packs will cause overprinting - it's all just a market function.
RE: SPS Governance Proposal - Hire Splinterlands to Develop the Next Major Card Set - Conclave Arcana