Come discover everything you need to know about the upcoming event in Splinterlands, AMORENDEL! To celebrate Valentine's Day, Amorendel is coming, completely changing the game's UI, adding a new background to the battle arena and a new modifier called Hey Jealousy where units will attack units with the most HP (likely tanks). In addition, the famous Sweetheart skins and Amorendel cosmetics for avatars are coming to the game. Check it out!
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The New Sweetheart Skins are Coming!
When a big event, like Valentine's Day, arrives in Splinterlands, it's become quite common for the game's design team to create some kind of collection related to the theme; we've seen this happen with Halloween and Christmas events, for example. This time, to celebrate Valentine's Day, we have the Amorendel "Sweetheart" skin collection, with a total of 10 cards receiving these new versions.
The cards selected this time differ from previous events in their collection. While past events featured a wide variety of card collections, this time only Conclave cards will be included in these card versions. I believe this isn't the best strategy for the team, as it completely limits access to Modern players, since Conclave cards are mostly used by Modern players. This means they lose potential customers who have cards from other collections or who aren't familiar with Conclave cards, which are the most recent additions to the game.
Analyzing the old data, the cards that had the highest sales volume were cards from past collections or basic cards that were widely used by players. One detail is that in addition to the Sweetheart versions, there will also be cards in the Obsessive versions. A total of 100 skins in this version will be available to obtain in ultimate chests starting February 1st.
Regarding these limited skins, I think the number could be a little higher; only 100 units is very little for a player base of about 5000 players. Also, looking at the announcement post, the team failed to present the design of these "rare" skins. I, at least, didn't find any information about the artwork in the post, and I believe this could cause potential players to stop searching for these cards because they don't have information about what the skin will look like.
New Amorendel Skins for Avatars
In addition to card skins, with the arrival of Avatars to Splinterlands, it seems we can now expect clothing skins for avatars. This Amorendel update will add 3 new outfits; the first is the heart-shaped shades, which will cost 5000 glint or 500 dec. Next, we have the two outfits: Elegant Top and Broken-Heart Top. The latter is twice the price of the former, intended for players seeking more exclusivity.
I personally liked the Broken-Heart Top skin; among the available options, I found it to be the most "top" skin. If it were more affordable, I would consider it. Just like they did with the card skins, I believe a wider variety with cheaper options around 2k glint would be a good way for low-ranked players with little glint to get some skins for their avatars.
This focus on skins seems to me one of the biggest successes the Splinterlands team has made in recent years, because they end up taking advantage of the existing demand from players to create new ways to burn Glint tokens and now DEC as well. This addition of avatar skins will be another way to help the game's economy and please the community at the same time. I hope they'll later provide an overview of how the avatar skin sales went.
