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These days the Play2Earn scene is feeling a bit like 'Splinterlands VS Everybody'. It's not that Splinterlands is trying to pick any fights with the other games in the scene, this is just one of those Superstar moments where something is so dominant that the entire community warps around it. Splinterlands is both pulling in massive money AND enough people that it's not causing the prices in other game asset markets to drop as we've sometimes seen in other situations like this.
After more than 10 weeks this Scorecard experiment is really showing its use. I can't believe it took me so long to start tracking my metrics like this and, as I've mentioned in the past, while I expected metric tracking like this to be boring it's become the high point of the week when it comes to crypto projects. Maybe if things were quieter it would be less satisfying but things have been all fireworks and hell, thats just exciting!
To keep thing's interesting let's go in our normal reverse order with newer smaller projects mentioned first.
RollerCoin
Welcome to the Scorecard RollerCoin! RollerCoin has been a slow and steady mining simulation in the Play2Earn scene and it's been making major moves as of late. While RollerCoin had been leveraging their fantastic app to pull in new players there have recently been a ton of new announcments each worth signing up on their own. Seasons, quests, a marketplace ... RollerCoin ain't trying to reinvent the wheel, they're sticking to what works, and for that reason I'm going to start tracking my metrics for it here.
The future sure seems bright for RollerCoin if they keep scoring steady wins like this.
Lost Relics
Lost Relics has been heading forward nice and steady since we last talked about it. It's new blockchain item marketplace is up and running and the shadowshard system is seeming like a perfect solution to the problem of ETH gas being so expensive that it makes sending items functionally impossible.
I've still been showing up each day and completing my daily quests, though bountys completions have been fewer. The market has been less kind to me than it has in the past and I've not been making as much as I aim for from trading. Still, any profit is profit. I am however thinking these metrics might be off because they do not take into account the items I'm buying and selling in the Marketplace. I'm not quite sure tbh, I'm going to have to look into this more soon.
I've heard that signing up for this one is complicated these days but that could very well just be the scholars on reddit complaining. I love Lost Relics and consider this to be the very very early days. This game is going to seem like a very different beast by the time we have the co-op missions update and a few of the other massive game-changers Cliff the Game Wizard has in store for us.
Rising Star
My Rising Star plan is moving forward well. My sights remain set on stacking one million Starbits so I can become a Starbits Millionaire are earn the steady daily payment from the massivly profitable mission that unlocks.
I'm still using the Record Staking area to park my Starbits while I save up the milli. Being able to essentially play producer for the talented musicians in Rising Star while still profiting whenever their NFT songs sell is one of the coolest things I've seen in all of Play2Earn gaming.
Progress is steady but slow. Honestly, I could be sold on some better goal or strategy if one became available but, at the moment, I'm aiming to become a starbits millionare or die trying.
Everything Else
Alien Worlds
Neon District
UpLand
FreeBitco.in
CUB DEFI
The sing remains the same with all these other projects. The numbers are going up, which is good, but aside from that there is no major news. Soon my FUN Stake over at FreeBitco.in will be appreciating and, as they had the (crazy high) introductory 45% apy for 2 weeks, I cent wait to see my new larger Fun-Bags.
For anyone looking to park crypto for some very transparent and steady rewards and a very small chance to win ridiculous stuff like rolexes and lambos head on over to FreeBitco.in.
Splinterlands
Splinterlands has become something like a part time job for me these days. I might find that in some way annoying if it wasn't already paying me more reliably then my real 9-to-5. Between the SPS and DEC my account earn from the airdrop, daily quests, and ranked wins I'm pulling in about $75 a day. Not bad. The best part of all of this is that this isn't furiously day-trading and shreading my nerves to try and time some swings to skim profit. This is reliable daily SPS income from the airdrop and DEC income from card rentals. Ranked wins grant another 500-1500 DEC. With DEC currently sitting at $0.007 thats real money!
I was able to stack 10+ of Untamed Packs and Azure Dice before they sold out and they have both moved from $2-3 to ~$25 each real quickly post sell out. This kind of actual-rarity based price swing might seem scary or unpredictable to some but, having watched this my entire life in other TCGs markets, I find these waves extremely easy to surf. When things sell out their price goes up, duh. A easy x10 is a beautiful thing and these packs have plenty of room to run.
What do you think the tens of thousands of people joining Splinterlands each month will come to see as the premium investable items if not the earliest available packs? Mark my words: the talk here about $25 Untamed Packs and Azure Dice will soon seem halariously low when these are selling for $100+ each.
Let's bring that question back though: 'What do you think the tens of thousands of people joining Splinterlands each month will come to see as the premium investable items if not the earliest available packs?'
The answer is Land and Totem. Land and Totem are the current sleeper items in the Splinterlands ecosystem. Soon these items are going to completly reprice as more information trickles out about the Land Update coming to the game soon. Earlier this year the Splinterlands team released one wave of Land and it was ddesigned to be a very limited resource. It sold out very quickly at the time and I was able to pick up 2 plots at a dollar cost average of $16 each. Recently, Land has completly repriced and single plots are more than $400.
So far, all we really know is that each plot of land will be able to host a building and a totem while and each will require a Summoner to 'work' it. If the plot has one or all of these things it will produce ... something? I really cant wait to hear any addditional information here and am constantly watching the official SPLINTERLANDS social media accounts for more information.
When it comes to there are 4 rairity but only the bottom two ever really see much action on the trading market. The Epic and Legendary Totem are so rare (with (supplies pools of only 1000 and 222) you never really see them change hands and these items are still such sleepers their arn't even that many buy orders. I picked up two common totem this week for about $55 each. I aim to get two rare totem next. I'm using SPS and DEC to fund these purchases at the moment as I'm extremely confident it will pay off well as soon as their is any news about the Land Update.
Once the update itself drops?
Whenever that update comes I'll have my 2 plots (no plans to expand here), the most rare totems I can afford for each plot, and some DEC saved to build buildings. I still strongly feel like a lot of people are sleeping on this as they still struggle to understand past updates like the Rentsal boom and the coming meta-shift is going to take them by suprise. I'm hoping to really hit the ground running there and set myself up for the best rewards available.
My collections value just freaks me out at this point. I'm almost glad it's not easier to liquidate so I'm not more tempted to do so. Getting airdrops for the next 11 months andd DEC for wins for the forseeable future is already become a sizable part of my income and it feels great. Especially in a world where COVIDD is flairing back up and pumping the collectibles markets hard.
If you look back and track the numbers the value of my over-all collection doubled from week week 5 to week 8, week 8 to week 9, and week 9 to week 12. If my collection was to double again in the coming 1-3 weeks I'd be looking at something like $60,000 account value. That makes me want to blow chunks in a really good way.
Not so bad for a game thats still in it's infancy. Hummm, I'm gonna go up my security...
Thanks for reading yall, if you have any questions please just let me know and I'll be happy to answer them quickly!
Looking to hang out with other Crypto-Gamers? Join us over at the The Crypto-Gaming Guild discord. We are looking for game captains and folks who can help organize. If you are interested, please step up!
The games we are currently focusing on are:
Rising Star
Splinterlands
RollerCoin
UpLand
Neon District
Alien Worlds
Lost Relics
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