I had doubts about Splinterlands for a long time, yet I remained reserved and not commenting -- glad we're talking about it.

My entire life has been living and breathing videogames. The fact that it's generating one portion of virtual land was staggering, and was wild beyond repair. I support indie developers and indie games. Okay, 20 or 40 hive to get an extra gun skin pack a month or something like that makes sense or betting hive to see who wins or entery fees of hive(this has been going on forever btw and I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.) However, mining virtual land at 3-5k usd is a bit much...

Like I said, I don't mind paying for and help supporting Indie games, but Splinterlands I felt isn't really an Indie game anymore and more of a liability on HIVE.

Just validating your feelings. I will get burned for speaking about this from a gaming perspective, but I felt it wasn't worth the value even as a gamer.