Hi @dalz
I just had a pleasure to read publication posted by @taskmaster4450 and he shared link to your post.
Correct me if I'm wrong - however based on my experience, most games on steem do not allow users to join if they do not have already an account on steem. And all games I've tried do not allow to create new account without going through extreme difficult process.
now everyone can create a tribe and start monetizing it
Indeed, it's possible for everyone to create tribe (it does require huge skills). However monetizing tribes is something that noone managed to achieve (at least not to my knowledge).
ps.
I wish SMTs would be more expensive than SE tokens. It's a huge mistake to create expensive tool, and sell it for so little. It does look like this tool have very little value and on top of that serious projects will be hard to find. It's a terrible strategy. If SMTs will not bring revenue back to STINC, then how would we ever expect that there will be budget to improve and work on those SMTs.
Solid read. upvoted already :) Enjoy upcoming weekend,
Yours, Piotr
Splinterlands is creating account with a simple click of a button process for new players.
It is not free, just as the game itself is not a free to play. The starter pack is 10$ and it comes with account if you dont have one.
SMTs to my knowledge will be even cheaper the SE... creating a community will cost somewhere around 3 STEEM, (unofficial) not sure about the price of creating a token. The Steem design is for mass media and if we want to have millions of communities that is why the cost is low.
Cant say much about STINC revenues. Its their own businesses :).If we want a true decentralization we should aim to depend less and less on them. Running full nodes from communities members and making the development on the blcockhain from the SPS system. At some point SPS should probably take up even larger share from the inflation. Also STINC selling STEEM is good in my view as long as it is done right.