We all have moments of regret in crypto. The big opportunity that slipped through our fingers, the sold bag that moons right after we give up on it, the one that got away. For me, currently, the biggest regret is Splinterlands. We all know how things are going for the Hive based NFT game, its boom time. Well, here is my tale of regret...
Grind for ages.
I joined Splinterlands during the Beta era, playing away daily, grinding my way along. Sometimes buying packs on occasions. Just slow and steady building up my deck. When the Untamed Kickstarter came along, I joined in, got some of the physical loot, and leveled up my deck a bit. Put some extra funds in and maxed out a few key cards, including the almighty Yodin Zaku legendary summoner. Probably spent around $220 worth of funds on him, the pride and joy of my deck. Most of the cards that I combined for Yodin were bought at around $20 each from memory. My deck was worth well over $1000 at the time, probably pushing $1200 I think.
But I was bored. The daily play for a while became a grind, and I wasn't having fun. I was able to get up in to Champions League regularly, but was never competitive with the top tier players and just wasn't having fun any more. The Land pre-sale came along, and I built some funds up for that, but it became a lottery and I ended up not participating and moved those funds out for other things.
I started eyeing of the value of the deck, and some juicy DeFi APR's which could be earned with a lot less effort, and eventually made the fateful decision...
I Sold Out.
Sold everything. Every single card in my deck. From Yodin, and his high level Fire Legendary friends, (my fire deck was my strongest) through to the lowly $0.01 reward commons. Over about a month, every card I owned was sold, and the funds moved off to other things. Nothing left, I abandoned this account and the game I had played for years.
NGMI.
We all know what happened next. BOOM.
This happened:
Nothing that I put the funds I raised from selling out has come close to the growth that has kicked in recently for the Splinterlands eco-system. I shudder to thing what the value of my deck would be now, if I had held. 10X, 20X? Who knows. Just Yodin alone, I see now on the market at max level for over $5000. I sold him for a couple hundred dollars I think - less than $300 I'm sure.
So, after having a little cry at my own short sightedness, my lack of foresight, I have accepted the harsh lesson I have been reminded of. I now come crawling back to Splinterlands, tail between my legs, to restart my monster adventure and try to build back up something from virtually nothing. This account does receive a daily SPS airdrop, (thanks to the Champion points) that I have dutifully claimed, staked, and added a small amount to to try salvage something from the wreckage of my bad call.
Back in the game. Having fun playing from scratch with the Summoner Spellbook cards, and building up a position again. Never ever selling a card again. Lesson learnt.
Congratulations to the Splinterlands team for the incredible growth the game has experienced, and congratulations to everyone that had more foresight than I, and stuck with the game to be reaping the rewards.
Can I get a do-over please?
Thanks for reading,
JK.