The most famous NFT-related play-to-earn card game Splinterlands has successfully begun the long awaited general release of its new card packs “Chaos Legion”. Yesterday, the general sale phase started officially and a total of more than 6 million packs has already been sold – more than 40% of the 15 million packs are present.
With its rapid growth, the blockchain-based game has become DappRadar most played blockchain game since September 2021. It’s not surprising that Splinterlands is seeing such a spike in pack sales.
Furthermore, the cards can be bought with Credits in the online shop in exchange for DEC or SPS, Splinterlands’ native tokens. Added to this, an airdrop system has been initiated in order to guarantee a fair distribution among users.
Notably, the users who had purchased during the pre-sale stage will get the chance to receive the rare air dropped cards, along the new release. Each pack contains 5 cards with a minimum 1 card being a rare or higher. More so, the cards can also hold the chance of turning into the versions of gol foil in which the collection power, level and value of the card will also rise in comparison to its regular foil.
In addition, the initial pre-sale was gated after a voucher system in which users can trade in 1 VOUCHER as well as 4000 credits ($4 USD value) per pack. Moreover, the VOUCHERs could be obtained via staking SPs in which they are received as part of a daily airdrop, or could be bought in Hive Engine. Notably, the VOUCHERs will be utilized continuously for future sale and have hinted at holding further utility within Splinterlands.
Even more, the VOUCHERs will be continuously utilized for the sale of future and have hinted at holding further utility inside Splinterlands. All-in-all, the airdrop system has been supported to manage the excitement of the user’s and push to purchase packs. Thereby, guaranteeing a fair and homogeneous card distribution over time, and prevents an early sell-out.
After the beginning of the general sale, one new card was revealed and airdropped to pack purchasers for 1M each sold packs. Over 6 million packs are sold, a total of 6 new cards in minimum have been airdropped at the time of writing, this allows users to still take part in the airdrops for the remainder of the rare cards up till the time of sellout.
All-in-all, the Splinterlands increase the number of unique active wallets and increase the website traffic past the previously baselined 10 million of weekly sessions.
CEO & Co-Founder of Splinterlands Jesse “Aggroed” Reich,
”Splinterlands is thrilled by the progress of the game. In a single night we did more revenue than 2018, 2019, and 2020 combined. We’re growing like crazy. We’re adding new players, and new money, which is allowing us to hire more creatives and developers to the business. It’s absolutely living the crypto dream.”
