I think I've been too emotional about Splinterlands that I've allowed it to get to me, I've been engrossed in battling aggressively for title and position that I've forgotten about having the real fun and it has taken a toll on my game plays. I find myself getting angry and gritting my teeth when I loose more than 3 battles in a row, lol, forgetting that It is just a game.
So I took a short break. Yup I guess everyone needs a break once in a while, that's what you get for playing a particular game consistently for almost 2 years.
Anyway since I've been playing Splinterlands for almost two years I decided to take a retrospective look at the entire game system, my best rewards, my observations, my best game plays...
My best rewards
I've gotten quite a number of interesting cards during my entire time playing the game, some were very valuable at over 10$ but drastically reduced in price over time. Note that I got some of them from packs I bough, and others from rewards.
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I was lucky to collect a couple of this in the early days of playing, there used to be so much hype around it, and it is somehow still hot, one of the best around, Lord Ariantus has reduced in card value to almost 6$ but it is out of print, I guess it used to be my most expensive at about 12$.
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Then Elemental Phoenix has also reduced in price, it was worth about 8$ before, now its worth about 4.7$, I like this card a lot as it is super useful in giving magic attacks. You should see it at the high levels.
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One of the cards that has retained its value most in my deck is the Spirit of the forest - of the Earth Splinter, this card has to be on top of my list of my best cards, super useful tank healer with ability to fly and pierce at high levels. As you can see here it is on level one, and I still enjoy it at that, especially in high mana battles. It has held value at around 8$.
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My Observations
At the beginning of my gaming journey, I used to obsessed about my Splinterlands account value, checking for every increase and drop every other day. Sometimes I think about what makes up the value of a card, demand and scarcity, then I remember why Splinterlands is unique all over again, all the cards are capped, they get burnt, so their supply is subject to reducing over time, either by people owning them or by being burnt for dec, so if the card is highly demanded for, then it should reflect on the price, just my thoughts, these unique pieces of cryptos maybe subject to more market sentiments than I know.
According to the chart, the market cap has found support at around 3.7$million after reaching a peak of about 4.8$million as at December 2019.
Splinterlands has also given out over $100,000 in tournament prices since tournaments begun less than a year ago, with 712$ still to be given out. Splinterlands has also launched its mobile app in Alpha phase with many improvements in the look and feel of the interface.
Evidently, Splinterlands is still a successful business and game built on blockchain, developments are going on, there are attempts being made to expand like the newly improved affiliate system and also few partnerships with other external communities like WAX blockchain.
Eventually, the most important thing is that I've been having so much fun.
Lastly, curating activities from the blogging aspect of Splinterlands has skyrocketted, its really amazing, huge thanks to the entire curating team.
My Best Gameplays
This is really hard because I have a lot of mouth watering jaw dropping battles and I've been sharing them weekly for almost 6months now, I will leave a list of 3 picks below, feel free to explore and enjoy finesse at its peak.
I've selected the top interesting ones from this year, I also made posts about them so to check the post, click on the number above the battles, or to watch the battles without reading the post, click "watch here". I'd be resuming from my break on Monday amd get back to kicking ass for fun, so watch out for me cuz I don't like getting beat up. Watch out!!!
Don't forget that if you don't have a steem account or haven't bought any cards, you can still play for fun by registering with your Email address. This will allow you access to a lite account. The real deal is when you buy your cards and build your deck, because only then will you have access to tournaments, daily and season quests.
If you're game, I'm always up for a challenge. Hit me up and get your ass whooped.
Battle till you drop!!!! See ya.
