Splinterlands Doesn't Need Many New Players To Be Sustainable

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In this video, I cover the concept of the '1000 True Fans' introduced by Kevin Kelly and how that can apply to the Splinterlands business model.

The basic premise is that the project can be supported by having a core group of supporters willing to spend money a set amount of money every year. For example, knowing that the team has a run rate of roughly $250k/month means the team needs $3M per year. With 1000 players, that would mean each player would need to spend $3000 on average over the course of the year.

Obviously that is quite high per person, but it shows that we don't need to scale up exponentially to start seeing something sustainable. Even hitting 10k committed players would reduce us to $300 per person which is reasonable when considering how much people spend on web2 games or other hobbies where they don't earn or retain any value.

Understanding this to be the case, it shows we don't need tens of thousands of players flooding into the game to make it sustainable. And with a crypto bull run seemingly around the corner, that could be the catalyst needed to bring in more players who understand the long term fundamentals behind Splinterlands and want to join the ride.

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I have said this for ages, 1000 real players who will stay is more than enough. We will see an impact with 500, perhaps even 100

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I agree - if we only would get rid of alt accounts some people play with scholars or bots :-)

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Write a proposal and get it passed :)

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What is the benefit of getting rid of alt accounts and scholars?

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To get a realistic number of human players 😉 - scholars are fine if they really are scholars.

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Let explain you some basic math, if you chase away 100 people from 500, you will not get fast to 600. If you want some math lessons, I could gladly help you, and even with you, we can go to basic level.

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Do you understand Alex, you are talking about math to a person who has two masters degrees in Geology and computational Economics AND A PhD in geology. A person who taught students for 15 years in three international universities in three continents. Do teach me math Alex, oh do send me your CV :)

Trolling and spamming at hive blockchain is discouraged. We don't have centralized governance but I will do public shaming on you if I need to. Especially if you continue this path. Please consider this an ultimatum especially if you continue to troll on other people's accounts at my expense.

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Do you understand, that you interact with people that might have a similar or higher academical achievement than yours? I know for sure that some of them have, higher than you, and I'm not speaking about me. Read a little more about the Dunning–Kruger effect, and stay a little humbler. As you can see, my answers are polite, without any cursing and aggressive tone, as I know that in here, we have a lot of people that are smarter and better humans, than both of us together.

Just for you, to have a glimpse, I have over 10k citations and if you are active in the academical environment you understand the meaning. I don't like to brag with my scientific academic path, as I took it for different reasons, than bragging and showing it off to other people.
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Regarding your ultimatum, what can you do? Nothing. You are powerless regarding this. As a fact, you are powerless regarding my person.

From my view, there is only one solution, you stop interacting with me, and I stop with you, and by this, I mean any interaction. The ball is in your court now.

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So, you see, your ultimatum does not affect a thing. I keep it civilised, you manifest how you want. Where I still doubt that you can have a proper debate, based on facts, without signalling that you have some bankroll, or some academic degree. That does not impress if you can't bind two fact based sentences.

And yes, regarding math, I could teach you one or two things if you desire.

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Love that everything remains on the chain, especially your edited comments and posts like:

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or calling people national socialist, without a base.

You need to read some more books, and be more humble. Same as I do, of course, as reading is never a bad thing.

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Yes we have had this conversation before about money coming into the space and I agree. All I am highlighting here is how few players we would need to be sustainable year after year if the player base grows over the next few months. Exciting times!

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I am positive about this. I strongly believe a single few player with $1000 has much more impact than existing long standing players. Not that we ditch the existing players but do need to ditch the dead weight and exploitation! I am glad we have a firm grip on the DAO and since DAO pay for a lot of the team we have a firm positive influence on the team.

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As long as we have a core 1000 players that can keep the company running we can keep working on attracting new players to the game. And IF we get another rush of players or even bots like in 2021 we will see an explosion in all Splinterlands assets, millions can be made if that happens again...

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Keep them coming! I enjoy your video's while driving, and I do that a lot 😆

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