I've tried this game, but Gods Unchained is much better and cheaper for some fun, playing couple of battles, if I am have time, and in the right mood for card games.

So, I don't really follow news about Splinterlands, but I was laughing a good when I read about taxes in the game. In a game, which is owned by a Delaware registered company... 🤣🤣🤣

I think, this crypto gaming can be long term sustainable and successful only if the owners have a little bit of common sense, and low greed level. Unfortunately, it is not the case on Hive, generally, the very few whales, big guys want all the money, and still keep the control - and they don't care, everybody else will only lose money + in long term, they, the whales lose higher, much higher profit.

Games, which can't provide use case of their shitcoins should make buybacks + invest some of their income to btc, usd stablecoins, what can provide stable, relatively secured ongoing income to their companies. (What I believe they do, but only for their own pocket, not company's pocket.)

After reading through your post, it could solve issues years ago, when they got high income, they just wasted or have taken it out to their own pocket.

The NFT hype gone, the gaming hype gone, they won't come back, definetly not in the form how it happened few years ago.

Regarding Splinterlands, and their shitcoins, when the 2021 hype happened, the HIVE price was $1.5-2, that's another 6-8x. That's again the SPL team's fault, they did not introduced HIVE to their playerbase, so they could get in that, too, possibly reducing HIVE price fluctuation, ergo their SPL asset devaluation, as well.

If the HIVE price would be $2 today, their SPL shitcoins would worth 8x more, too.

That's just another very dangerous part of the smaller 2nd layer projects. Even if they do good, if the 1st layer is doing bad, it will effect them, too. Not to mention when both 1st and 2nd are doing terrible...

Generally, not really surprised about your info, I get involved their 'football' game, and they did very bad job in all aspect, as well. Anyway, it stands for the hole HIVE, not only for gaming, or SPL.

The core issue with HIVE, and projects on HIVE: They are those guys, who created it from STEEM, because they wanted to have the control, and majority of the rewards. As they lost it, they moved, created huge amount out of thin air, and they wanna suck it out - not even so slowly -, and keep the control while it's not done. So the real problem is the people, who are in charge, and run things on HIVE. They are extremely greedy, and the 'job' they do is almost not measurable next to their greed...