Hello everyone!
Very excited to do my first blog post about Splinterlands.
In this blog I'm charting my journey to CHAMPION 1 League. 500K Power feels like miles away; this might crash and burn but I will share everything along the way.
I'm doing a giveaway for every post. It will start small and humble and get bigger if I make good progress 🙌
Introduction
This is my first NFT game. One thing that draws me to SL is trying to dissect how they are building the economy and future. They seem to be doing a great job so maybe it will help me with my day job! I work in the gaming industry and I've been a high level player in many different games: several TCG's, some MMOs, and mobile gacha games.
I'm a hardcore min-maxer and study a lot. This usually leads to quick mastery but so far this hasn't worked out for SL. My thinking is there is so much money involved in the big NFT games that it's hard to break in. Also NFT games have a high barrier to entry so I suspect the pool of sellers are mostly all sharp. And waiting for fish like me to come in.
Quick Thoughts about Splinterland New Player Experience
Most gacha games are very generous with currency at the start to hook you. And your power level grows quickly at the start while you're onboarded. NFT games can't do that and it leads to a brutal experience.
I do think this is a real problem for the industry. New players are getting absolutely smashed and earning peanuts. Why would they continue? I've read about other NFT games and they all share the same problems of multi-accounts, bots, and higher level players smurfing at the lower levels. All of this is tied to "play to earn."
I don't have a set budget but I know I will be spending on this game as an investment. "Play to earn" games are pretty snowbally in terms of rewards. The rewards at higher leagues seem super juicy! In most games where you can spend for power it's better to frontload the spending to speed up progression and then collect the residuals.
The Journey Begins
I'm starting my blog as a newbie pretty much. None of my opinions are fixed and I appreciate any advice. I had a few beliefs to start this but they've already been shaken.
- I want to own cards, not rent. I thought that since I believe in SL's future, owning makes more sense. Unfortunately the timing is really bad to buy vs rent because of the new set coming out. I think the new packs will flood the market with good cards and:
- New cards will shift the meta. So almost every card right now will change in price as they get stronger/weaker.
- Flood of supply will just lower the price of all cards
- Play the long game. I'm thinking a lot of the money in NFT games comes from correctly speculating on the right assets. Right now is that Land Plots? Alpha Packs? Very rare cards? I have no idea. But I mostly want to invest in stuff that I think has a future, assuming that the game flourishes.
Referral Program + Giveaway
I've spent about $2K so far, mostly in bad(?) investments. Will follow up on that in my second post 🤑 This blog is getting a bit long so I'll stop here. I just won my first reward cards today. A Heatsmith and a Bandit. I will give these out to two random people who like this post.
Join Splinterlands through my link and let's work together! Happy to share cards and strategies.