Your outlook makes me want to sell my sell my second deck asap. One maxed deck is by far enough. I was already considering before your post but you added salt to the wound. I am way to overinvested into Splinterlands - but I still love this game (although not so much for the actual game but for the ecosystem, the community and the NFTs).
What makes you think that the SPT in-game shop will open around Q2? I didn't see that on the roadmap. They only mentioned that there will be a new way to manage skins but that sounds more like a foundation for a future in-game shop but the actual thing. I doubt they will implement it in 2021.
The land extension will shift dynamics of cards and prices around a lot. I will probably stop lending my main deck away and concentrate 100% on resource farming by sending all my cards into the mines. The question remains where the money for that will come from. If it is only whales serving whales, the longevity is questionable. I remain optimistic that they will adjust what is necessary to improve what they can. But some things seem broken at the core.
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I'm in the same boat with my 2nd account (it's only Level 3 which I barerly play aside from completing the daily quests these days) and I also still love the game more for the entire ecosystem. They have really made something new and interesting and everything is so close to being an actual game both real and casual gamers would enjoy playing. Currently, the target audience is limited to crypto people who are looking to make some money (by investing or grinding, running a bot) and that's about it. It is too much pay2win for real gamers as skill has become a non-factor. It also doesn't offer the initial fun experience for casual mobile gamers to get to the point where they become addicted since both investment requirements and the learning curve are too big at the start.
On the SPT, I guess it's also wishful thinking. They mentioned a couple times in the past during the AMA's that they were planning to integrate SPT as a payment option for cosmetic items possibly using nftshowroom. So when reading the roadmap which stated "In-Game Inventory Management for Avatars & Skins - Q2 2021" I guess it can be assumed that SPT could play a part in that. I don't think they will wait beyond 2021 to start giving SPT more of a function in the entire ecosystem.
I also remain quite optimistic that they will find ways to make it all work so they continue to earn good money while players stay happy as the bubble continues to grow. We are still early on and what they already have is a lot more compared to any other crypto game. The big question remains when to sell and to get out, in the end, there are not that many games from 5+ years ago that still hold up strong today.
Regardless of what happens, I'm looking forward to seeing it all unfold.