Splinterlands Town Hall Summary — December 31st, 2021–10AM Eastern!

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6 min readDec 31, 2021

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Town Hall Summary

Speakers:
Aggroed (Co-Founder)
Hardpoint (Chief Technology Officer)
Nateaguila (Creative Director)
Chatter (Director Of Growth)
Main Topics:
2021 Company Achievements 🎄
Team’s Year End Review ❄️
AMA Summary ☃️
Recording:

Timestamps:
01:18 — Team Introductions
4:40 — Team End of Year Reflections
20:20–2021 Company Achievements
1:08:00 — Q&A
2:00:40 — Closing Remarks

🎄 2021 Company Achievements 🎄

January

February

March

Splinterlands completes DEC bridge to Binance Smart Chain

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

500k DAU surpassed for the first time
Chaos Legion Presale goes live
Tome of Chaos is launched
Security Updates — Update 1 & Update 2

November

750,000 spellbooks sold + averaging 400k+ DAU
Bunch of smaller updates — check out Release Notes

December

❄️ Team’s Year End Review ❄️

Hardpoint:

“This is a dream job transformed into a calling”

One of the biggest achievements was handling the explosive growth of the game and playerbase this year

“People are the value. It’s not just people are the value that we are going to extract, it is people are the value and that is why it matters that we take care of them”

Very excited to continue building the platform and make it seamless with blockchain and gaming
Hardpoint terms it as “Frictionless crypto”
Want to make this easy and frictionless for people to get involved in this new financial world and prosper from it

“Anytime I talk to Aggy, he ends the conversation by saying “Hire more Devs”

Really want to get the mobile app more functional and easier to use

Nateaguila:

“Biggest challenge is dealing with Aggroed”
“He is very ambitious, he wants to do everything, and he wants to do it right now” 😂
“Land is going to be so much more than we originally conceived”

Splinterlands will be more than just a card game
When you login, you will have so many different opportunities for gameplay

“We are creating a game that we want to play”

Chatter:

With all the growth and all the scaling, we are still able to stay boots on the ground and stay on the ground floor with the entire community

Biggest challenge in 2021 was building a foundation to start launching marketing strategies
Different platforms looked at Splinterlands as an alien project
That has changed as more and more platforms start understanding the value in Splinterlands
We are slowing bridging the path to mainstream adoption
Covered by The Sun (UK)

“Excited for bringing Splinterlands out of the digital landscape and really into the mainstream world”

Aggroed:

Excited to see how much the team has grown
Hired Hardpoint, Chatter, support team, creative team, etc…
Went from

“I’m both ambitious and impatient”
“I’m seeing Splinterlands as a gaming platform, media company, DeFi as a core premise, and maybe even a physical place”

Companies can’t be doing just one thing, have to integrate at different levels
Wants Splinterlands to be doing more

“The unsung hero is the support team”

Support team grew 25 times (was only 1 person in the middle of the year)
Currently development of Knowledge Base and upcoming Live Agent
35,606 tickets created in the year
1,114 unsolved tickets
34,492 solved tickets

“I don’t want good employees that punch the clock, I want exceptional employees that call this a calling, that see this as their life’s work, their masterpiece, their Magnum Opus”

☃️ AMA Summary ☃️

Learn To Play Stream With Hardpoint & Chatter:

Goal is to stream Friday evenings
Hardpoint & Chatter will create brand new accounts, and try to climb up to higher leagues
First scheduled link from Discord — January 7th, 5PM EST

Land:

Items and spells will most likely be burned when used ==> one-time use
Nate’s vision:
Regions will be little cities within Praetoria
In between those cities are going to be wild land
Wild land will introduce a bunch of new gameplay into the game for everyone to participate

Semi-accurate representation of Praetoria

Daily Active Users:

After reward changes, bots created plummeted to about 1–5%
Most new players coming into the game now are real players

Play-To-Earn:

Splinterlands is not a free-to-play game
To earn, you need to invest your time and energy
Splinterlands rewards those who are committed to earning and building their assets
Next biggest earnings will be from staking

Airdrops:

Team is prepared to release the Chaos Legion airdrops in an organized fashion
Will be based on how long the general sale lasts, but they are preparing for it

Tournaments:

Next round of tournaments are going to try to incorporate more Chaos Legion rules
Bigger tournaments should be coming back soon
Team may hold-off a bit longer until after CL general sale

Riftwatchers:

Aggroed is leaning towards requiring vouchers for Riftwatchers
May only require a certain percentage of sales
Official details will be released later

Season End Rewards:

Season end rewards doesn’t complete the snapshot instantly
It takes a few minutes to fully complete due to the strain and growth
Team highly recommends renting past the season end timer
Best would be an hour past the timer
That way if there are any hiccups with the snapshot, your rewards aren’t at risk