📢The house is on fire🏃‍♀, yet we talk of side shows.
Wait, did you say fire💥? Yes, it's been slowly kindling for a couple years now. We talked about this problem. Remember? Multiple town halls? Well anyway, the burn rate has accelerated. It is raging now, as evidenced by the daily decline of players and asset values, despite the Bull.

The house is on fire🏃‍♀, yet we continue to chatter over proposals and haphazardly hose resources towards less important tasks, more cards, more rule sets, economy manipulations, more game changes, burnings, promos, side show events and even wagons.

📢THE HOUSE IS still ON FIRE.

IMO, and many others, the primary problem and the number one priority is to reduce the barriers to entry and retention. Allocate your time, attention and resources to diagnosing those barriers and transform them into welcoming and clear onboarding oracles. P E R I O D

There are innumerous barriers to entry and retention generated from unclear and confusing processes. Every click someone has to make to simply give you their money to play the game makes it exponentially more likely that they will click out. Show them super clearly where to deposit and play. Confusion is not rewarding.

Stop the game changes and economy manipulations (all good intentioned but end up creating more problems and frustrating players and creating MORE confusion). Build trust. Focus on this one very important thing. Teaching this world to another. The player experience. Provide clarity and ease of getting into the game and understanding how to play, use crypto wallet key chain, swap assets etc. Not additional game changes, but instructions for the current game so the user knows what they are doing, where and how to do it. NO OTHER PRIORITY. NONE.

Thanks for reading my opinions on the state of SL. One final note, Matt or someone should be an active member within the most powerful and largest crypto gamer group, Neo Tokyo. Hopefully you already are, but if not, get on it. If you don't like them for some reason, get over it. Remember, the house is on FIRE.

UPDATED after reading through 500 comments:
And finally, I am changing my vote from no to yes:

1. FOCUS: opinion above remains: keep a vigilant - side show free focus on new player experience and clear onboarding instruction as stated above.
2. FUNDS TO FOCUS: AND, the company needs revenue to focus and function. There is no reason to withhold the money. Like another commenter stated, if we are not going to give said money, what would we be saving this for if it is not for SL. A community airdrop? silliness :-) of course not.
3. THEORY VS. LEARN: Remember this whole DAO thing we are doing is new to all of us, and we are forging out of theory into learning and struggling with Web3 values in real-life. SL is one of the most advanced in this area--Of actually trying out this DAO thing and trying to run a real company as well with real f'ing money. It is no longer just a lofty theory. We have to live it out. We have the privilege of seeing all the mess and growth going on within it, but that does not mean we abandon ship, a decentralized transparent group holds accountability and tension of opposing wisdoms to make something greater, the purpose can't be to condemn, judge and cast stones (boulders). The entity of SL that we all love needs support and feedback (given the pathos in the comments, its obvious there is a lot of love here. Hate and vitriol are not the opposite of love, indifference is the opposite of love) Provide the funds plus hold accountable.
4. COACHING: Funds plus Business Coaching or Advisors. As another commenter suggested to Matt, get some advisors or experienced business coaching to assist.
5. CARE: One or two commenters questioned sincerity and accused Matt of not caring. To me this is abjectly false. The strongest evidence for sincerity and care is his adherence to the his stated values - web3 ethos (listen to Peoples Guild Podcast for reference) In fact, the reason we are even having this discussion is evidence of this. He submitted a proposal to the decentralized organization that he created with millions of his company money, that you now sit within deciding whether or not to break off 200K to support his proposed project. Do I trust this guy or think he is honest and ethical? Um, yes. Some people talk big in theory but to actually hand over millions. No Fing way. We only here because of his adherence to those values. And we get the privilege of learning and living out this little decentralized experience for real. So you can trust him in his heart and intentions, however he does need business management support/coaching. Like the other commenter stated, you cannot code, comment on community posts, and do C level tasks well. IMO we give the funds with all of our opinions and kindly offered guidance which includes earmarking maybe some of those funds or providing additional funds for expert gaming/crypto or business coaches to support him to do what he does best and less of the management bs he dislikes.

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