New Focus

• The new focus is on playing, winning, accumulating points and so on, with the chance to win lots of chests on days you just play a lot of matches, which is pretty cool.
• As a gamer I enjoy playing the game, and constantly having to check if I met a criterion is not fun.
• I want to chose my monsters based on their skills and ability, not because I need to play five sneak monster matches... so I am cool with this change.

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New Rewards Rules, back to school, to learn the rules.

• I must admit my first reaction was the lazy gamer attitude: Oh man...I gotta learn new rules and stuff.
• Sorry, but when I game, I like to relax and just play.
• So the thought of having to learn some new game play rules was initially unappealing.
• But when I actually read a few posts, and then watched a few YouTube videos, then I was like okay, this is doable.

The Grind is back :)

• As I started playing and watching my reward chest bar fill up, I was like this is familiar...
• Oh yeah this is what gamers call the grind.
• You play a lot of games or matches to achieve leveled up or powerful characters.
• But here in Splinterlands it's to win rewards, and quite frankly... this is the kind of Grind I like.
• I am literally just playing lots of matches and winnning chests. Its cool.

The mystery of the value of chests at different levels has become a question, as people strategize to maximize rewards

• The sophisticated crowd in Splinterlands wondered if it was possible to extract more value by winning more matches at Bronze, versus winning less matches at Gold
• So in true splinterlands fashion, the new reward system has spawned new videos, with new excel spreadsheeets carefully analyzing the difference in value between Bronze, Silver and Gold reward chests.
• And these excel wizards have calculated the average value of 100 chests at level bronze, Silver and Gold.
• And they determined that a smaller number comparatively speaking of matches needed to win a Gold chests provided more valuable stuff then a larger number of Bronze chests.
• I understand that there are people who make a truckload of money in Splinterlands. So these seemingly esoteric details are actually important to these higher level earners.
• This type of intense love for the game and motivation to profit is a such a classic Splinterlands thing right?
• It's what made some of them Splinter Millionaires, so I just watch and listen.

Final thoughts

• I agree the jury is still out on the new Splinterlands Reward System.
• I still enjoy playing the game, and I know people complain about it being glitchy. But hey it's a video game, and there was a time, when as gamers we lived for finding glitches, and turning them into exploits right?
• Anyway... I like the new certainty of the the more I play, the more chests I get...providing I win LOL!
• This is a definate contrast to just having the chance to win daily chests and waiting two weeks for a big score!
• And some of my friends, play more then me, and they are very happy.
• So I am optimistic that I will love it in the end.
• How about you? How do you feel about the new changes?
• @shortsegments