Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I made my point about some of the flaws here and unlike you I have been much less generous about open sourcing bots as a valuable solution. To be clear: you made your point, but if you value the community factor as much as I think you do, then open source bots isn't a solution.
I instead agree with you on over-printing which is based on the false perception of player abundance (and I believe there is no malice), while in lower leagues you end up playing most of your battles against Liang-xxx, Stl-armxx, Stl-rusxx and so on. It's not even fun beating them. Overprinting also forced the raise the limit for granted drops on any new one; why? simply to force hoarders to buy more packs and give again the perception that they are selling fast. And also to grab quite a lot of money in the process, sure.
I see messages on discord about worry on releasing summoners in airdrop due to a lot of packs not being opened yet. Really? Weren't you thinking about that when you put out 15 millions packs? And if you didn't, your ready solution is to make people pay more?
Do you know why this is going to be a problem? Because bots will get them. If it was players they would sort it out with tactics, like they do against the various Yodin and Llama.
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Hello there. Thanks for responding, I'm jazzed my post got you to speak out here and comment. Rock on! I agree with bot removal if they aren't at least monitored, 100 percent. The reason I have adapted my position from other more no-bot solutions in previous articles here and here is quite simple. The reason my position has changed is that I think the developers will NEVER ban bots or have the follow through to say something larger investors might be afraid of despite it meaning greater value for everyone, pardon my pessimism. This solution at LEAST no longer has inflated bot numbers looking like "players" and allows the opportunity for regulation. Botters still bot, but don't bleed the value of the currency they are mining and endlessly inflate it in a very short term mentality. I would love for there to be not bots at all as an alternative. In the post above I suggest BANNING BOTS ENTIRELY also, I attempted to have a small variety of solutions without retreading old water from my previous articles (including captcha solutions and deck rentals).
Nice writeup, I would've upvoted it if it was more recent. For your in depth comment without pulling punches which splinter would you like your RARE card delegation sent to for 15 days?