How are we all doing today? We are just a couple days away from the end of month Monster Giveaway and I am excited to be able to give away so many prizes. Lets not get ahead of our self as w have a lot to cover today. I will announce yesterdays winners followed by today's giveaway, and after that we will go over some major announcements and my thoughts. Now buckle up and strap on I mean in cause this will be a wild ride.
Yesterday's Winner of 250 DEC
@sbruntz congrats buddy, I believe you are a first time winner, DEC already sent out. Oh and wlcome.
Yesterdays Runner-up Winner
@adamsteele great answer and it is definitely true.
sushi :)
Today's Giveaway
Comment your general thoughts on the updates.(It is what it is)
Major Updates and Announcements
- ΛZMΛRÉ Dice will be the orb replacement. It contains 20 cards considered promo cards. It will contain 6 summoners and there will be a total of three new ability's. One cool thing is these will only be purchable via DEC. Why is that cool? It means we should see a nice spike in DEC price and any time a crypro is given a new use case it means a more stable market. The ETA for the dice to drop is within a month so start playing, earning, and saving that purple rock. The same sort of air drop system will be implemented for ΛZMΛRÉ Dice that is used with untamed booster packs.
- Effective immediately potions will no longer be usable for reward cards. That means daily quest and end of season reward cards. Although I have the option not to use them already I feel like for new players this sucks. I how ever do understand that they want to promote the potion use to people and players who buy packs . This is also a good way to prevent bot farming of these cards. Now accounts with lots of bots will have to buy packs or Dice to use the potions. I really hope they decide to lower the amount of potions in rewards as i have received more than half potions on one season rewards. I have also gone 2 days only receiving potions. My big worry is the reward amount will drastically go down as legendary and gold foil cards will not be in the mix as much. As mentioned above I save my potions for packs already and with my last 200 potions I have received only one legendary and no gold foil card. That makes those 200 potions have a zero value. Giving more incentive for buying packs is good but now when it takes another incentive away. My last 20 packs opened with both potions for every card has had an average value of .18 usd. In DEC that comes to 350 DEC but backs cost 2000 plus another 80 for potions. Keep in mind with is over my last 20 packs not just one or even five unlucky pulls. This is what worries me.
- Tournament Currencies is another thing in the works. Put simply they want to allow players to be able to use many different currencies for entry fees and prizes. This is cool but I would also like to see a o DEC creation fee for tournaments with large prize pools. Not deserving of its own bullet point but good news none the less @splinterlands is now accepting EOS for all game purchases.
That's it for today my friends I hope you learned a thing or two about the future of splinterlands. You can click here to support me via affliate programhttps://steemmonsters.com?ref=threejay , give an upvote or just spread the word.
Great summary of the upcoming changes. Now I have to decide, do I keep saving my DEC for land purchases or use it on dice!?! I would say in general I view these changes favorably.
I love the dice update since it will and has given a big boost for DEC. I dislike the update about removing potions for reward cards but that also encourages buying packs and harms botters.
I mentioned this twice last week that the price would go up so I hope some people listened
Seems too many dice cards, comparing to the previous promo ones. But overall, loved the updates!
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I like some of updates, but not all :)
I feel that players should have been given a notice about the potions update before applying it so suddenly. Other than that, pretty excited about the update.
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Potions should definitely be reduced as they will be kind of useless soon. A already have like 40-50 potions pending. In a month I think I'll have like 100+ of them with nothing to use them for.
I don't buy packs, instead of spend the dec to buy the cards to balance out my deck.
i like the dice, but i'm afraid all the new cards, including new summoners, will continue to weaken the value of older cards. the alpha/beta cards are already a little underpowered compared to the new cards coming out (not all, of course) and while there are dec bonuses for alpha, there are none for beta, and there are no beta only tournaments like there are for untamed - so if your deck is mostly beta cards (like mine) you are getting a little hosed by the addition of all these new cards.
and don't even get me started on the potions, but that was already mentioned below :)
The news about ΛZMΛRÉ Dice is so exciting that we decided to make the translation for the community a separate post:
https://peakd.com/hive-165469/@splinterlands-ru/novosti-splinterlands-anons-zameny-essence-orbs-lzmlre-dice
It is very unexpected that such packs will contain a great number of cards. This is a pleasant surprise.
And it is somewhat sad that they did not appear immediately after the Essence Orbs selling out.
Thanks for the DEC and for the warm welcome.
The only update that I didn't like very much is the modification for the potions. I used them to improve the rewards of the season. Always ending around the silver 1 rank, I have few cases to hope for something good.
ΛZMΛRÉ Dice launch is exciting, because I miss the Orb which had sold out. Potion will no longer be reward, I worry the total value of daily reward will go down, too. The daily reward will be more boring? Will it only get DEC, card, and pack?
Tomorrows end of month give away an orb will be one of the prizes along with a lot of DEC about 10k in total
Not being able to use potions on reward cards will suck. 👎👎👎
I like that things are changing. Change is good.
But it feels like rewards have just been cut again. We should at least have other options to use potions for now.
Endless investments ;)
I can understand everyone's frustration with the potions. I'm fine with it because I buy plenty of packs and orbs (dice). Making the transferable is the best solution.
Always good to see more giveaways, really helps grow the community!