Great one, you are a true ambassador of Hive. see it from a pure professional perspective these days. A community driven by community is great but reaches its limits. The prize downturn is not only related to BTC - it is much stronger and when I see there are platform such as #UHIVE (discovered yesterday)driven by a company (probably centralized) might be able to handle more in terms of marketing and PR.
Splinterlands is a game i love and where i put most of my powered down steem into but the game has major prize issues as well as some of the biggest players leave and dump prizes. At the moment I am very sceptic and a bit frustrated. Where are the new users only? How can we attract new people, what is the added value or reason they join Hive? Censor reason is probably not a driver, but we can only find out if we do broader questionnaire / polls across non Hive users for example.
Cheers. Hive is a rare cryptocurrency in that it has a real use case that is rewarding thousands of people every day. You do not have to buy any of it to be a part of this. Obviously having investors helps the price, but we also need content that will appeal to various audiences. I can find plenty here to enjoy and can reward it quite well as I have built up a lot of HP over the years.
We need the right combination of content, usability and community. Having big names would be cool, but they are busy elsewhere. We can start with niches like gaming or music and build from there.
I think with Splinterlands we need to get more players into the social aspect of Hive. Already a lot of them post their battles and earn from it. There should be a button on the site that takes you to a post creation page. Make it easy.
@hivepeople is building a team to work on marketing Hive. We don't have a company like Steemit to do that for us, so the community has to act.
thanks for the mention....credit really has to also go to @roomservice who got the ball rolling with making hiveonboard.com