Great post! People have been saying a lot these things for a while now but they always seem to fall on deaf ears. I'm glad to see more people starting to speak up about things like this.

The game will drive the game economy

I think this is one of the biggest points that people don't seem to understand. It's always BTC this or bull run that. If the game itself was engaging/fun and didn't have so many quality of life issues, the economy would would be in a much better place. All of this, "waiting on the next bull run" ideology is a terrible strategy. When was the last time you checked the price of BTC before buying packs or cards? My guess is never.

Too many times have I heard people saying, "I want to buy cards, but I just don't know anymore." I get their point and I've even said it myself. Why keep spending on something that's doing little to improve the actual game and instead focuses primarily on new sales and ways to artificially inflate token prices?

I really only stick around because tournaments are still somewhat profitable for me, but there's a lot of problems on that side of things too. We've heard about the battle pass idea but, it's already been said that until current resources are redirected at tournaments (unlikely) or there's another bull run (most likely), we're not going to get those much needed changes.

I do still think there's a lot of potential in the game, so hopefully things turn around soon. Unfortunately, the echo chamber is strong and I think there's too much of this:

The team and many the members in the Mavericks chat are hyper focused on the token value discussion.

and not enough of this:

We need to focus on making a game people (new ones especially) want to play instead of focusing on how to exploit the existing user base, internal economy, and waiting for BTC to pump.

!BEER