Splinterlands Town Hall Summary - January 21st, 2022

Town Hall Summary

Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Yabapmatt (Chief Product Officer)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Chatter (Director of Growth)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Xembre (Executive Admin)
- Lilyfire (KYC Specialist)
- Chiclet (VP of Product Design)
- Soyboyroy (UI/UX Designer)
- Alfred (Graphic Designer)
- WeirdBeard (ESports Manager)
Main Topics:
- New Team Member Introductions ⚡️
- Two More Chaos Legion Airdrops Reveals (Eye Candy) 👀
- AMA Summary 💥
Recording:

Timestamps:
- 01:45 - Intro
- 4:15 - Hardpoint Update (Dev)
- 9:20 - Yabapmatt Update (Dev)
- 14:00 - Chatter Update (Marketing)
- 15:10 - Nateaguila Update (Creative)
- 25:50 - Xembre Introduction
- 30:35 - Lilyfire Introduction
- 37:05 - Chiclet Introduction
- 47:30 - Soyboyroy Introduction
- 53:45 - Alfred Introduction
- 1:00:00 - WeirdBeard Introduction
- 1:11:50 - Q&A
- 1:53:15 - Closing Remarks

Chaos Legion General Sale ultimately went well (See Recent Updates)
- The systems we thought would break, didn't break
- The systems that were overlooked did have a hard time
  - Credit purchases were overloaded and were delayed
  - Perfect room for improvement!
- Three additional airdrops were just released yesterday: Iza, Lira, & Grum
Dev Roadmap:
- SPS Validators
- Modern/Wild Ranked Formats
- Land Expansion
- Quality of Life enhancements

Support team received a large amount of tickets during the Chaos Legion General Sale
- Resolved majority of them during the first 24 hours!
Team has a KYC specialist - Lilyfire!
- Common issues with KYC:
  - Not filling in the same name as shown on the Government ID
  - Quality of selfies - glares or shadows
Xembre has been helping communicate issues between Support and Dev team

Cotinuing to build subdomains for Google, YouTube, Instagram, & Facebook Ads
Received approval from Snapchat to advertise on their platform
- Just waiting for legal documentation to go through
StackAdapt ads are live
- StackAdapt is a native advertising platform
Just hired a new ESports Marketing Manager (WeirdBeard) & Graphic Designer (Alfred)
Zipmex partnership launched
Multiple conferences coming up for Aggroed and Chatter to attend

Working with the Top 6 pre-sale buyers to design the Legendary Summoners
- Will make up six of the eight remaining airdrops
Next two airdrops are designed and waiting for the stats (See Eye Candy)
- Will be a Neutral & Dragon Legendary Monsters
Creative Roadmap:
- Designing Legendary Summoners
- Modern/Wild Format
- Land Expansion
Team is still accepting submissions for SplinterBites
- If yours is chosen, you will have your game name featured with the SplinterBite
- Submit your SplinterBite here!

KYC is absolutely necessary in order to prevent fraudulent purchases with PayPal
- PayPal is a great gateway for beginners to get immensed into "frictionless crypto"
Team should be releasing new options for users to buy DEC & SPS directly with fiat

All airdrops were determined to be Legendaries
- Next two are already designed and can be seen in Eye Candy
- Then there will be the six Legendary designed summoners
- Legendaries are the hardest rarity to get so it is more of a reward for those who buy packs and receive these airdrops

Team has been working on land economics and design decisions, but can't leak any just yet
Totems will be able to mined/harvested from land
- Overall totems will be scarce and limited

Next use-case will be for Riftwatchers
Other use-cases would be for promotions that the team is in the works of spinning up
"We want to see vouchers be integrated into everything we put out there" - Aggroed

Tournaments will probably see a big revamp in the future
- WeirdBeard is going to enhance these in a huge way!
If you want to leave feedback for how Tournaments are created and planned, throw it in the #tournament-planning Discord channel

NFT's are receiving harsh criticism from the general population
Splinterlands is targetting the percent of people who are open-minded and understanding the advtanges of NFT's and NFT gaming
Splinterlands is going to be building upon their brand recognition to help go mainstream

Not a huge priority, but everyone wants to see something happen with skins
Needs to be a balance between fan art, animations, analyzing the battle field, etc..
Want a seamless, stylized artwork throughout the game

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