At the same time the economic hurdles are exciting because they totally eliminate bots for at least a couple years and make the XP tokens way more valuable. This is what people need to realize about the HBD sinks... you are trading the HBD to XP, probably at a very healthy profit especially early game.
Are you really going to complain if you play 10 games and that costs you 10 HBD, but the XP you earned was worth 20 HBD? Just sell off half your XP to pay the cost of playing and you still made money.
In that case of course no complain, but lets see if it will be like that! Someone has to pay, right? That value from XP has to come from someone. Also good marketing will be needed to attract outsiders. We are not that known as ETH, nor do we have a marketing budget like others.