Splinterlands delulu period passed a long time ago and daydreaming to hit it reach next day is just something from the past. In my opinion now the smart players stack SPS in order to obtain steady earnings and position themselves better as the game evolves. There are still opportunities here and there, promo and rewards cards are strengthening anyone's formation and also can be sold sometimes for good prices on the market, but the NFTs in the game have now more utility than ever. With so many gameplay modes there aren't simply enough cards that anyone can hold. Not only that you need cards to actively play the game, but you need also cards for staking and farm on land. The use cases grow and I believe that also the hunger for NFTs will increase in time as the entire ecosystem expands. But while those are great signs of growth, I still believe for SPS to be the most treasured asset from them all. Gaining SPS and staking them for passive rewards is simple a great addition to having a high multiplier when actively earning from ranked battles. I might be delulu for believing that, but my only plan is to grab as many SPS that I can and stake, stake, stake!
The end of the daydream era
As I once was one of them, I’ve seen many players over the years coming in with bright eyes and wild dreams, thinking Splinterlands would turn into a “get rich quick” scheme overnight. But to be real I thing that the euphoric era is gone. We’ve been through the delulu days, the hype spikes, the moon shouts in the previous bull run (2021) and the inevitable market slapped us afterwards. But with that, it terraformed the Splinterlands in to a grinding and strategic realm. And maybe that's for the better as it reveals that smart players and investors aren’t waiting anymore for miracles, but rather optimizing earnings and perks through stacking SPS and letting it work quietly in the background. And... don't tell anyone else... I believe this really works well. 🙂🙃
SPS staking is the new gamer’s Savings account
For me, SPS is like another savings account similar to the HBD Savings from the Hive blockchain and it really works. Instead of just sitting there like dust in the wallet and hoping for the price to improve or do risky moves on the market, I appreciate that staking SPS gives passive yield on top of ranked battle earnings through a mathematical multiplier. It’s like showing up to the same battle as everyone else, but I hold a jolly joker in my pocket which simply gives me more for my winnings. Cards are still the backbone of the game as we need them to battle, stake on land and farm, but for me SPS is the oil that keeps the whole machine moving. Every time I stake more SPS, I feel like my earnings improve one step at a time and position myself better for when this entire ecosystem will blossom once again.
Building for the long game
I still believe in Splinterlands with all the challenges that it faced. It is a show of strength the fact the it still runs on all cylinders after all the bear markets that it went through. The game became for me a way of building a fortress one SPS brick at a time (I have a keep land and I am quite proud of that, thus my analogy to it). The long-term strategy is simple: accumulate SPS from anywhere that I can - ranked battles, guild brawls and land farming - stake it and watch steady earnings roll in my wallet while everything else evolves around it. Splinterlands is for a long time not just a “play-to-earn” game, but it’s become a play-to-build ecosystem. And I think that the ones stacking SPS now are setting themselves up to be the kings and queens of the castles when the next wave of growth hits. More features will come to this game and the SPS will be the one to power them all and glue them together. My precious, oh, my precious SPS!...
So, delulu or not, I’m all in on SPS staking. I’ll take boring, steady, reliable staking and increasing multipliers over chasing shiny moon dreams any day. In Splinterlands, smart players can really building empires through staking SPS and benefiting all the perks from that. It will not happen today, it will not happen tomorrow but some day this entire evolving ecosystem will find again its glory. The history was written and if you don't see it so far, the future is being written today, one SPS staked at a time. This is the way!