The failure of a washed up rapper's promo NFT card selling on an external platform came as a surprise to many at Splinterland's HQ last week as the fall out began over why their gold foil Waka Spiritblade didn't sell for a measly $7,000 dollars.
There were multiple fainting in Splinterlands offices after it emerged there was no uptake for the popular Waka Spiritblade card on the AtomicHub platform.
The Hive community were only too eager to hand over 5000SPS and 500 vouchers to get their hands on the gimmicky promo summoner and it sold out in minutes.
"It just goes to show that we are trapped in a bubble on Hive and maybe Groupthink is setting in." claimed one Splinterlands source.
"Too many yes men / women around the place."
"Nobody telling them that the guy they based their card on is a relatively unknown bum."
"Any fool could have seen that this was going to be a disaster outside of the platform."
"But Hive will be Hive." "If they put up a cows anus and smacked an ability on it, it would still sell to the loyal Splinterlands Community for probably 1000 quid."
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"If it was a Kanye card then maybe I'd spend the money," claimed rich kid Pimperick Humberdatch.
"The people that bought Waka clearly have too many SPS or vouchers to care about which brings into question the mechanics of the game."
"But outside of Hive people seem to be living in the real world can think of a million other ways to spend $1500 or $7000 for the gold foil no less."
"The spin is that the card is rare but what's stopping them from bringing out another 1000 more promo cards that are rare?? "Then rare stops being rare."
"My son is an albino, he's rare but he's as blind as a bat and if we leave him in the sun for 5 minutes he is burnt to a crisp." claimed one Hive Community Father.
"You know when the crypto sphere is heating up and ready for a fall when there are NFT cards selling for 7 grand."
"It's time we started selling up."
"Thankfully this is not the case yet as nobody purchased the card other than the Splinterlands whales."
"It's like the missus buying the new eyeshadow on the market" said one whale.
"She has fucking loads of them already but she wants a different tint of purple."
"It's an addiction and I wanted a summoner with dreadlocks."
The gang at Splinterlands are no fools however after they decided rather than burning the cards that remained unsold, they would transfer them into the games in market exchange where they knew some pure sucker would split with their hard earned dec to buy the card.
Prices dropped as a result leaving some players a bit disgruntled with life after paying over the top for the rare Spiritblade during the first phase. Now the fucker was readily available on the open market and the price had plummeted.
Mad bastards who purchased the card are now trying to use Waka in their battles claiming they actually did pay the full whack for the summoners utility and nothing else.
"Everyone knows they are lying." claimed a Splinterlands expert.
"One player in the champions league has now lost 40 battles in a row but is persevering out of sheer stubbornness."
Meanwhile the really Waka has been in a Strip Club throwing money around for the last couple of months and is still smiling.
"This is free Lucci."
He is also rumoured to be taking out and waving around his little Spiritblade whenever he has a few drinks in him.
"It would have been easier to just bring out a promo card with just a normal Jamaican guy with dreadlocks."
"It would have been the same result. He would still look cool. Call him Rasta Spiritblade. Job done."
"Nobody knows who the Waka guy is anyway."
"Rap and Reality TV is not the kind of thing us nerds are into."
To make up for their mischief Splinterlands HQ are thinking of issuing a very special promo card
"We won't make the same mistake again" claimed one Splinterlands dev.
People are gonna love this one.
The new promo card is based upon the Tron founder and all round great guy Mr Justin Sun. Wooooooooooo. GOOOOO JUSTIN.
"It's what the Hive Community are waiting for." claims the Dev.