I think the land game is the core gameplay to improve card utilization. Every time core set or mini set is released, a large number of cards will be issued and affect the battle environment.
We must give the cards a good retirement place, and the DEC stake allows us to return to the peg and increase the value of sps. Then more new players will naturally come in. When you don't have a good economic model, you can't attract players. This is web3, which is different from web2, people tend to pursue profits.
Moreover, the newly added spell cards and equipment cards in the land game, it can improve the current highly random gameplay. Assuming that there are many tofu summoners in the battle environment, then I can make all my physical attacking creatures wear equipment with the Reflection Shield ability, which will greatly Increase game playability.
You should also want new players to come in and drive demand for cards, not relying on your existing userbase to squirrel them away. Wild should be a place users want to go and play. Deciding whether to put a beta card up for rent or sticking it on land for example should be a thoughtful decision.
Exactly, the entire point to split leagues into Wild and Modern was to give new players an affordable entry point which is less complicated and overwhelming. The way it is right now though is that Wild is just a dumping ground to run bots while Modern is crazy expensive with a clear expectation that cards will fully get devalued once they get removed into Wild.
With this model, the "New Player Experience" and "Planned Marketing" will be more money thrown away as nobody in their right mind would ever want to play or invest in a game like this.
I don't agree that Land is the equivalent of an old people's home!
Land should be spun off into a completely separate game to Ranked, and a proper league system introduced to replace the current nightmare of a system.
Steem Monsters needs to focus on cost cutting, not begging for more money from folk that love it. Love may be infinite but money is not.
Exactly, the model now of endless printing of new cards while completely taking away the ability to actually have fun with existing older cards is ridiculous. How can they expect new players to come in buying packs just waiting for the hammer to be dropped for the cards to become useless in the card game once they get dumped into wild.