I hear you. Honestly I don't think things have changed. I think it's always been this way. Early on the bots were welcomed because with only a few thousand players the only way to ensure there was a game cued up when you wanted to play was if there were lots of bots.

Then in the ramp up last summer, way more bots came in than people. And what's about to happen next is again about to be way more bots than people and the devs are fine with it.

I've spent all day today trying to work out different scenarios for what's could happen next for Splinterlands and I've tied myself in knots trying to figure it out. There are so many complexities.

What I'm leaning toward right now as the most likely near term trend is a continuation of last summers rally. There are a lot of signs it's already starting. Todays sign ups dropped a bit from yesterday but they were still far higher than normal. The common rewards cards that last week had over 50k copies for sale now have in some cases under 20k on the market. DEC has taken a leg up. The APR for staking SPS over doubled which means tons of SPS is on its way to the validator node presale.

Now I'm just trying to figure out if the rally does happen, what are the possibilities for it to keep running, and what are they for it to crash hard. Bots are high on both lists right now. Their drain is undeniable but they could also quite quickly push this game into millions of active accounts all renting cards, spiking prices, and bringing in the FOMO buyers who could fund the bot drain for several months.

If they can do it long enough for land to come out and soak up a bunch of inventory in the middle of a rally, cards could 10x from here and SPS could see $5.

That's all pretty exciting. At some point though, the bot reckoning is coming.