Thanks, these are both valid observations. Apologies for being simplistic in my wording above. The first point was then further complicated by loads of CL packs as rewards and discounted sales.
Your second point is really important though as there was a genuine concern over the survival of Spinterlands for a few months. Many people place the blame of reduced player numbers on the change in game features, and whilst that may have impacted some people, I suspect the bigger driver was fear of the project not surviving. I'm very pleased to see in the last town hall that game finances are back on track and the plan for 2025 is very exciting indeed, as it drives towards, hopefully well timed, effective marketing of the game.
You also have to remember that Chaos Legion was dropped with we had a huge amount of players new to the game so at the time the amount of packs and cards was nowhere near as out of hand as now. Also if they had delivered on land the way it was pitched a lot of Chaos Legion cards would be on land. But land has severely under delivered on thus a low amount of land is being utilized.
They cant really market till they get a few things tightened up and delivered before they can market. And hopefully they do this before the bullrun ends.
I appreciate you great post it was nice chatting with you