Town Hall Summary
- Speakers:
- Aggroed (Co-Founder)
- Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
- Nateaguila (Creative Director)
- Chatter (Director Of Growth)
- Main Topics:
- 2021 Company Achievements 🎄
- Team's Year End Review ❄️
- AMA Summary ☃️
- Recording:
Timestamps:
- 01:18 - Team Introductions
- 4:40 - Team End of Year Reflections
- 20:20 - 2021 Company Achievements
- 1:08:00 - Q&A
- 2:00:40 - Closing Remarks
🎄 2021 Company Achievements 🎄
January
- Splinterlands has awarded $200,000 in tournament prizes
- New rulesets and new Reward cards are announced
February
- Splinterlands completes asset bridge to WAX blockchain
- Diesel liquidity pools for DEC are launched through Hive-Engine
March
April
May
- Card locking feature is introduced for enhanced asset security
- Upcoming governance token Splintershards (SPS) is announced
June
- June 9 - Last of 150,000 plots of Praetorian land are sold
- June 11 - Last of 1.5 million Untamed Booster Packs are sold
- Teamed up with Yield Guild Games
July
- ZenSports partnership
- On-site card rental system implementation
- Completion of SPS private token sale. $3.6 million raised
- SPS Token Launch/Daily SPS airdrops begins
August
- Massive scaling infrastructure and tweaks
- Splinterlands sells 60,000+ Spellbooks
- 50k Daily Active Users
- 300,000 Active Card Rentals on Splinterlands Rental Market
- 100,000 Spellbooks Purchased
September
- New Reward Cards are released
- Splinterlands becomes most active blockchain game
- Season End Reward Updates
- Chaos Legion Presale announced
- Game Economy & Reward Updates
October
- 500k DAU surpassed for the first time
- Chaos Legion Presale goes live
- Tome of Chaos is launched
- Security Updates - Update 1 & Update 2
November
- 750,000 spellbooks sold + averaging 400k+ DAU
- Bunch of smaller updates - check out Release Notes
December
- Chaos Legion Pre-Sale sells out of 1 Million packs
- Splinterlands nominated as blockchain game developer of the year
- SPS token listed on SushiSwap, Babyswap & AlpacaFinance
- Phase 2 Chaos Legion sale (2 Million packs available)
❄️ Team's Year End Review ❄️
Hardpoint:
"This is a dream job transformed into a calling"
- One of the biggest achievements was handling the explosive growth of the game and playerbase this year
"People are the value. It's not just people are the value that we are going to extract, it is people are the value and that is why it matters that we take care of them"
- Very excited to continue building the platform and make it seamless with blockchain and gaming
- Hardpoint terms it as "Frictionless crypto"
- Want to make this easy and frictionless for people to get involved in this new financial world and prosper from it
"Anytime I talk to Aggy, he ends the conversation by saying "Hire more Devs"
- Really want to get the mobile app more functional and easier to use
Nateaguila:
"Biggest challenge is dealing with Aggroed"
"He is very ambitious, he wants to do everything, and he wants to do it right now" 😂
"Land is going to be so much more than we originally conceived"
- Splinterlands will be more than just a card game
- When you login, you will have so many different opportunities for gameplay
"We are creating a game that we want to play"
Chatter:
With all the growth and all the scaling, we are still able to stay boots on the ground and stay on the ground floor with the entire community
- Biggest challenge in 2021 was building a foundation to start launching marketing strategies
- Different platforms looked at Splinterlands as an alien project
- That has changed as more and more platforms start understanding the value in Splinterlands
- We are slowing bridging the path to mainstream adoption
"Excited for bringing Splinterlands out of the digital landscape and really into the mainstream world"
Aggroed:
- Excited to see how much the team has grown
- Hired Hardpoint, Chatter, support team, creative team, etc...
- Went from
"I'm both ambitious and impatient"
"I'm seeing Splinterlands as a gaming platform, media company, DeFi as a core premise, and maybe even a physical place"
- Companies can't be doing just one thing, have to integrate at different levels
- Wants Splinterlands to be doing more
"The unsung hero is the support team"
- Support team grew 25 times (was only 1 person in the middle of the year)
- Currently development of Knowledge Base and upcoming Live Agent
- 35,606 tickets created in the year
- 1,114 unsolved tickets
- 34,492 solved tickets
"I don't want good employees that punch the clock, I want exceptional employees that call this a calling, that see this as their life's work, their masterpiece, their Magnum Opus"
☃️ AMA Summary ☃️
Learn To Play Stream With Hardpoint & Chatter:
- Goal is to stream Friday evenings
- Hardpoint & Chatter will create brand new accounts, and try to climb up to higher leagues
- First scheduled link from Discord - January 7th, 5PM EST
Land:
- Items and spells will have a burn mechanism
- Nate's vision:
- Regions will be little cities within Praetoria
- In between those cities are going to be wild land
- Wild land will introduce a bunch of new gameplay into the game for everyone to participate
Daily Active Users:
- After reward changes, bots created plummeted to about 1-5%
- Most new players coming into the game now are real players
Play-To-Earn:
- Splinterlands is not a free-to-play game
- To earn, you need to invest your time and energy
- Splinterlands rewards those who are committed to earning and building their assets
- Next biggest earnings will be from staking
Airdrops:
- Team is prepared to release the Chaos Legion airdrops in an organized fashion
- Will be based on how long the general sale lasts, but they are preparing for it
Tournaments:
- Next round of tournaments are going to try to incorporate more Chaos Legion rules
- Bigger tournaments should be coming back soon
- Team may hold-off a bit longer until after CL general sale
Riftwatchers:
- Aggroed is leaning towards requiring vouchers for Riftwatchers
- May only require a certain percentage of sales
- Official details will be released later
Season End Rewards:
- Season end rewards doesn't complete the snapshot instantly
- It takes a few minutes to fully complete due to the strain and growth
- Team highly recommends renting past the season end timer
- Best would be an hour past the timer
- That way if there are any hiccups with the snapshot, your rewards aren't at risk
Recent Updates
SPS 2022 Roadmap
- SPS Validator Nodes
- Foundation Treasury
- Riftwatchers
- Land Expansion
- Private Sale & Airdrop End Dates
- Reward Pools & SPS Delegation
Past AMA Summaries
- Friday, December 24th, 2021
- General Team Updates 🎄
- Marketing + Creative Updates ☃️
- Land Eye Candy ❄️
- Friday, December 17th, 2021
- Marketing Updates 💥
- Eye Candy 👀
- Q&A ⚡️
- Friday, December 10th, 2021
- Dev Updates 👀
- Creative Updates 💥
- Q&A ⚡️