RE: Now a word from your sponsor: RAID SPLINTERLANDS

Your comment about bots being encouraged by the developer and the rewards system contradict one another. The reason the quest potion was reverted to dec only is because they were being purchased in large amounts by new bot accounts that were sitting at the lowest ranks possible, cheesing new players with cheap rentals for 6 reward cards a day. The rewards from these chests were coming directly out of the daily reward pool for ranked play that everyone shares. This change to quest potions is exactly what you ask for later in your article when you ask the developers to take action against bots.

Another thing with daily login rewards is they cheapen the experience for everyone who actually plays while at the same time the daily login rewards enhance it for people who just make multiple accounts and trade the one time offers and daily rewards over to their main accounts. In raid shadowlegends you can't trade so there's no advantage to running multiple accounts in Splinterlands all those types of rewards can be given away or sold. If they did soulbound to your account skin giveaway or something sure but personally i'd rather them spend time working on their roadmap.

Finally the rewards. If you go and rent the most popular and expensive cards and win doing the same thing as everyone else, or paying wayyy to much for the lama kron cheese then yes your paying a premium to do it the “easy way” and your rewards will most likely be lower than a innovative player who has learned to use some less popular cards that he can get much cheaper and use to climb just as high.

In the past month I have purchased the spellbook for 5 friends and created a free to play account myself. All of those friends have blown past the value of the spellbook mostly by casually doing the daily and only one of them has spent any money on the game other than the spellbook. Just yesterday we purchased our second guild and yes it was expensive but completely in the realm of possibilities for a 6 people making 100-1000 dec a day each.

It's awesome to see that you're hyped about the game but try to give it a chance before we try to turn it into the gotcha game that is raid shadowlegends for short term returns over long term sustainability.