RE: Steemmonsters - Burn your (worthless) cards and get HUGE upvote!
I don't blame you, but @aggroed instead, as he is supposedly the sales guy. But Matt, this isn't a good thing at all. Sure its great that @jrvacation is trying to do something and I definitely commend him, but the fact that he has to is a very NEGATIVE statement on steemmonsters overall. The fact that he (and most everyone I talk to) calls these cards "worthless", is a terrible thing to have in the thought process. I don't agree at all and think the cards are brilliant and also very cool overall. The problem is purely due to the production quantities stated being 4x more than the market can handle. (you simply don't have enough players to have that many cards right now). So continuing to overproduce them is a major problem that puts a negative spin on part of the overall game (because it causes investors to lose faith in our understanding of what you will/won't do in the future). There is no reason to continue forward with the early released versions. If you need to add new ones as the old ones are replaced, that would work just fine. But I suggest 1/4 of what you have stated as the proper production.
Also I still love the game and the project and this isn't me simply bitching. I wasn't even going to comment on this post until I saw your comment. I honestly think you don't know, so I'm explaining to you my point of view. I have 34 years in the financial markets and I have a very good understanding of supply demand mechanics. Of course it is your game, I just hate to see and hear comments that any cards are worthless. Its a self-inflicted wound and not necessary.
That sounds good to me lol. But in all seriousness, it will never be the case that all cards will be useful to all players, so especially for more top-level players there will be some cards that they never use and therefore are mostly worthless to them. I had boxes of "worthless" MtG cards, and it's not a negative statement about the game at all.
You're definitely right that the supply is greater than the demand right now. We have already reduced the emission rate of the reward cards significantly (to much complaining from the community I might add), and with the exception of the first 10 cards the supply of the rewards cards is not really that high.
In any case, we are building and planning for the future. I fully expect to grow the game by at least 10X over the next year or two. We hear all of the feedback and fully understand all of the issues that exist currently, but we're not going to rush into changes that aren't well thought through.
We have a really full and exciting roadmap which we feel will help take this product to the next level, and also create more uses for extra/unused cards. It will require some patience though. These things will not happen overnight, but instead over the next few months. Many gamers are extremely impatient and may get rid of all their cards for very low prices, only to come back later when things are taking off and prices are much higher.
Obviously nothing is guaranteed and nothing I say should be taken as any type of financial advice, but as for me personally, I'm buying.
Thanks for the reply and for listening... and sure, we can always just blame @aggroed :D
And don't take my reply as being negative overall, I have not sold and still buy when I get some spare change. I will live with the results either way, but wanted to make the point in case you were not aware! I am excited about the other things you have planned, especially the delegations as that will enable us to get many new players without us risking out decks. Plus the addition of new aspects to the game will be a huge thing too imo. :)
Hi @yabapmatt , on another note:
Once a card is maxed out can you possibly make it into a seperate entity on its own where it possibly changes to Platinum or something!? 🙋 I, as some others have accidently put mine up (as in my level 10 Genie) or some how the system put it up for sale along with the 10 single Genies I was selling at 0.02 a piece and a bot ended up buying it! Luckily I was able to get it back but it would be great if the maxed cards could be kept seperate from the others or at least locked or something .
Thanks for all the great work you and @aggroed are doing, keep up the great work! 👍❤👹