I don't think the whales are trying to manipulate things for their own benefit. However, it sets a bad precedent. SPS is cheap, although not cheap enough that anyone can aquire enough to make a difference. Even at its cheapest, getting 1M SPS would cost over $4k (that's about 3 months of my net salary), which I feel is the bare minimum to get a decent voice in the game. That's for regular people though. Even at current prices, there's plenty of people who can aquire 10M SPS or more. About 1 BTC gets you that. If someone with bad intentions and a lot of money comes here and decides to do this type of manipulation, there should be ways to stop it. The best way is to have the team not accept proposals for changing printed cards.
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I agree with the principal the team should be the one that makes changes to the cards. There are multiple issues and I acknowledge them, that's why I said there were good reasons for voting in both cases. I don't think anyone was doing anything out of greed, but instead placed higher priorities.
I definitely commend people that don't want the DAO to make changes like this, I fully support that position and wished it never came up for a vote too.
I don't even think the team should be changing cards after being released. I know it happened in the past (before I was here) but I am against it. It would be very unfair for anyone who paid a lot for a card and it turns out to be nerfed later and lose value because of that. Many of the affected players would never spend money on Splinterlands again.
We never nerfed Kitty, which is still the best card in the game. Tofu is legal in Modern while Kitty isn't but Kitty had a long time when there was no split and, after that, more than a year in Modern. To me, if Kitty was untouched, we should only nerf cards that are even stronger. There's even less reasons to nerf Nidhoggr. There are many weak cards in Splinterlands and all TCGs. It happens in high and low rarities. Nidhoggr isn't special.
What we certainly need is better testing before the cards come out and that applies to everything. Core sets, mini sets, reward cards and promo cards.
100% agree