Though we are all enjoying the rewards and the market cap of Splinterlands, there are a few challenges the splinterlands players are facing right now. I know that it is a good time for all the players but not the greatest because of these challenges. I'm going to be talking about some of those challenges in this post.
We are getting some juicy rewards already from Splinterlands, the market cap has increased and the price of most of the cards is on the moon already. I personally see them as a big challenge. Though the time is very good for us, it is definitely a great challenge. But one good thing that is happening is that the early investors are reaping a huge profit already from their investment.
I still remember many people were complaining saying that Splinterlands is a never-ending investment. Though the statement was true, this is the time they have given the opportunity for all the early players to book some profits and take back a part of their investments. Yeah, they are not giving us that from their own pockets but they have created the gameplay in such a way that the early birds now get a lot of prey and will still be getting a lot of profit for the next 365 days as well. In spite of all that, I see two major challenges right now.
Increase in the number of players
We are able to see that there is a considerable increase in the number of players. There are so many new players joining the game who don't even know anything about the Hive ecosystem. There are also some players who are even new to the crypto world. I see this as a big achievement already. But the reason why I'm also seeing this as a big challenge is that it has increased the server load way too much. People who are playing with some weak nodes can no longer play the game.
I also heard that nowadays it is too frequent that Splinterlands goes to maintenance mode. Especially during the start of this month was the peak. 25000 users purchasing spellbook is completely insane and the new gameplay is the major reason for this. It is still a challenge for the team to manage this much crowd and give them opportunities to earn from the game. I see some positive things here that Hive is also getting popular and there is a high possibility for Hive price to shoot up. The splinterlands team is also continuously working on increasing the server capacity so, I hope this challenge is rectified soon.
Every asset associated with Splinterlands is now very costly
It is going to be a tough time for the new players. It will require huge investments from the player in order to purchase some cards or packs and increase their deck value. As the number of players is very high right now, the number of cards people hold is also in high demand thus increasing the price of every card in the market. Below are some of the costliest cards in the market. Once the cheapest card used to be 10 cents but now it looks like we cannot find such cards in the market anymore.
We can no longer buy any summoners cheap right now because of the huge demand. People are even ready to purchase cards from the market for this insane price which is a great thing. In addition to that people are not buying things for playing but also to decorate their collection because of SPS. I personally think that with this huge amount of userbase, I don't think the cards that are available right now in the market are going to be enough. There are even cards that are completely sold out in the market and no longer available for sale. I'm sure people who burnt cards earlier would regret now burning the cards.
I don't think that the demand for the cards would come down anytime soon. I know many people are completing quests daily and minting many cards but in spite of that, the previous edition cards will still be very costly. This is a great thing for the long-term players but not a good thing for the newcomers. But hopefully, things will settle down.
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |