I actually have some mixed feelings about this announcement. You made an incredible game, and no doubt scarcity is a good thing to build value. But, if you're aiming for mass adoption, and you say the new cards are not a substitute but a complement to the existing ones, that means the vast majority of the future players will never be able to get maxxed alpha/beta cards, because they simply won't exist. And won't this create a big gap between old and new players? Or am I just overreacting? :)
Great point! I second that and would like to stress on the means of how to get mass adoption, like making phone apps for the game and reducing the complexity for people that don’t know about blockchain stuff.
For me that’s mass adoption strategy.
What you have to understand about this game is that it is and always will be weighted in favor of a very few people at the top. Matt and Aggroed designed it this way so that they and a small group of other people would benefit to a disproportionate degree. They have tons of alts, but they designed it so tracing who owns which ones is basically impossible. But those of us who have been around since last year have seen how everything benefits the people at the top more. DEC distrubutions are massively weighted in favor of the people at the very top. The tournament rules and rewards are weighted to people who own golds and alphas. The season rewards are massively top heavy. Last year, they had it so the early adopters were able to farm lots of beta packs through season rewards. If you can think of an incentive in this game, it will be top heavy, because Matt and Aggroed's alts are at the top. They and a half dozen other people probably own more than 50% of the cards in existence, between all their alts. This isn't going to change. In fact, it will only continue to get worse, because the top heavy rewards continue to make the issue more pronounced as time goes on.