To be clear, I'm not super happy about this situation and feel like we had a fundamental breakdown on this one. I personally believe Matt misspoke in the Town Hall because as you've noted, historically we always have had the packs in chests so it was just like "yea seems like normal." That said, this is the first time the company hasn't fully owned a core set. The company didn't put RW packs in chests either as they didn't own those. If you listen to the most recent Town Hall, Dave actually asked him for clarification on this because of all of the drama and people asking why we're even having this vote etc. Essentially it was a response that wasn't thought out properly as the company has entered into a partnership with the DAO for half of the Revenue.
My personal concerns are addressed in the post. Those didn't come from Matt, I went to him with those concerns before making the proposal. He agreed it should be a DAO vote. The issue seems to be that I was operating based on what he said in the previous Town Hall and I'm guessing he thought I was going to create a proposal for whether or not we should put them in the chests. Seems like a misunderstanding, but yea like I said I don't like the optics on this. If the community supports putting them in chests it's as simple as running the numbers and making a proposal to add them. All of my reservations are the same. It's less about "not having packs in chests" and more about addressing the obvious problem that the lion's share of those packs are going straight to bots that dump them on the market and reduce revenue for the company and the DAO.
No, I get it. But again, if the problem is bots, let's deal with the bots, not "punish" the players who are the lifeblood of the game and the only reason (speculation aside) that packs sell. If you read the room in the comments on this proposal, you see that I am not alone in this feeling. I just want to play and have the opportunity to open cool rewards and buy / sell / trade them like we used to be able to. Between this and the SB unlock fiasco, players are paying a very high price for the bot agnostic stance the team used to have. I can appreciate not wanting to dilute the value of packs so that more sell, but alienating the player base who will buy them is hardly the way to rectify things imho. I've put way to much though and attention into this and the SB rewards unlock lately. It's time for me to mentally check out for a while and just see how things unfold at this point and enjoy the release of RB without dealing in the "politics". I felt compelled to say my piece, and now I have. Let the cards fall as they may.
I get it and we've been having ongoing discussions about how to deal with bots. There's a proposal going right now that should if nothing else limit the ability of mass bot farms to extract without ownership. Currently I think that's our biggest leak. People can create large bot farms that own nothing, rent only the cheapest cards and then run so many of them that at scale they are able to profit more than they spend on renting because it's just mostly empty accounts battling other mostly empty accounts.
There is not currently enough consensus to run a community proposal for a full bot ban. If someone wants to run a proposal like that on their own dime, there is one drafted and available in the Discord server. My current sense is that it has some potential to pass but would be incredibly divisive. I agree that at some point it's a problem that has to be addressed and I think most people agree. Currently it's a debate mired in argument about everyone in cryptos favorite question: Wen?
sorry but ,the dao did not receive any decision-making or ownership rights, but only 50 % of the revenue. this was also clearly emphasized in the proposal for the rebellion payment
Not sure where any of that gives them the right to give away packs, either way they are the ones deciding we need a vote to add them to packs so it seems to be going that way. I still clearly think they shouldn't be. I am only one person.