I haven't been the most active Splinterlands player for the last couple of years, but in general I enjoy putting in a game here and there.
Those games are not consistent at all, and also since the change of the dynamics of not receiving any reward chests but Glint to buy stuff, and also only receiving Soulbound cards versus tradeble cards for me the fun in playing without any rewards feels a bit liek a waste of time.
Don't get me wrong, it is not about the rewards at all. But getting no rewards means I can also play a game of chess on the computer here. Now why wouldn't I do that? Well, at first there was always a good deal in playing Splinterlands, so i would always choose that, but what happened now?
So it was the weekend and I wanted to just play a random game of Splinterlands here and there to see what kind of cards I would run int. i saw peopel with super cool cards and those I had no idea what the features were. That means getting back in there so see how you loose from them in my case.
But what did I find when I tried to open up the Wild league?
All of a sudden I am not able to access the wild league without paying DEC for it? What the hell just happened over here?
I know the team is working on trying to get DEC to the pegprice again, but doing by making people pay for it (to burn later on I suppose) and that every season again and again?
That is just super annoying for a player like me. I am just a small player with only old cards with most of Alpha and Beta cards who plays occasionally a game here and there.
And that player must harvested 2000 DEC every two weeks to play? That is 9 Hive for a lap of playing as I am not a player at all who will battle on the daily throughout the whole season.
I like the idea of that you can battle yourself up through the trenches of playing. I also realize for the team it was difficult to make a sustainable system over the years. But what is happening now is just all too expensive for the smaller players.
Maybe the big ones make a crapload amount of DEC on the day, but I guess this is only the deal when you have invested big.
I have invested in a license node and also a plot of land and even with those things there is no way that I am able to get 2000 DEC a month for just a random play in the wild league because that is the only place I can play with my own cards
Now I also understand what killed the rental market for Alpha and Beta cards. There is no place where people can play the cards, so there is no reason for leasing them.
Yeah...I am annoyed at the moment.