The SPS leeching that is happening by a handful of accounts is pretty ridiculous. I'm glad they fixed the delegation exploit, but only after people were able to extract so much SPS for so little. Even now, renting is so cheap that there are accounts who are renting instead of delegating and re-delegating, and they're still able to extract a lot of SPS that way. Someone is being extra sneaky about it, too. Buying Hive on Coinex, bringing that in and then buying DEC with it, and using that to rent cards. Never making transfers between accounts, essentially leaving no trail.

The way they keep moving the goal posts is getting exhausting. For a while, Erlendo was the luckiest one for figuring out the best strategy because the moved the goal posts on epic soul requirements. Then they moved it again and introduced Soulboxes, which changed everything again. I feel like the game should've been introduced as more of a formal test, perhaps without any actual rewards and with no cost to play in tournaments... or something. It just seems wrong to change things up so much when people, including myself, have spent so much on the game.

Soulboxes are the weirdest idea. It's a way to explicitly buy progress in the game. Buying tickets to do more attempts or buying more cards is an indirect way to optimize one's strategy, and that's normal. But being able to buy the souls directly just seems like a a weird game mechanic. To me, it would be like if Splinterlands offered a way to buy ranking points with DEC. Or if bowling alleys allowed you to pay more for a way to just knock all ten pins down without even throwing a ball.

Idk, that was a novel-length comment... I should probably leave it there for now. haha.