In another Splinterlands Social Media Challenge of the week, we have as a big news the arrival of new player “signups” to this fast-paced NFT card game, called Splinterlands. We will try to understand what caused this new influx of players to the game and analyze if Hive, the blockchain on which Splinterlands is located, may have been one of the reasons.
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New Players are coming in?
Recently, talking to some friends, one of them mentioned the arrival of new players to Splinterlands and this motivated the search for answers. On the Dashboard presented on the Peakmonster website, when analyzing the 14-day period of the New Players graph, we can see that the average number of new registrations in the game was close to 100 new users per day.
However, after the 10th, on the next two days, 11 and 12, the values more than doubled in value, reaching 264 on the first day and 275 on the second. Which in the graph leads us to believe that this was a very unusual movement.
When analyzing the account number graph, we can see that on January 10th, the day before the increase in subscribers to the game, there was a large increase in the number of Active Players in the game. After all, the values were between 6 and 7 thousand users and suddenly this number rises to almost 18,000, more specifically 17,599. This shows us that there was high activity the day before.
PlayToEarn x Splinterlands
Let's start trying to understand what may have led to this increase in the number of players. On December 30th, near the beginning of the new year, the Splinterlands team announced on their Official Twitter that they had come in second place in the category of best card game at last year's Play to Earn Game Awards, 2024. This undoubtedly brought Play to Earn users at least a curiosity about what the game would be and perhaps some of the new users came from the marketing done, since there was also a temporary increase in Glint that may have caused it to spread more…
Source: Play to Earn 2024 Awards
After all, the game ends up gaining more exposure on the PlayToEarn website, appearing in the category of the best card games of 2024, with a small difference of 8 votes from the first place and ahead of Axie Infinity. Furthermore, it ends up appearing on social media as the second place in a very competitive category of NFT games, which is the card games sector. This makes more people see and know about the game.
Hive x Splinterlands
Now the second factor and which in my opinion is a very relevant one and which brought a big spotlight to the network in which Splitnerlands is located, Hive, was the sudden rise of the main Token of network, which is also called $HIVE. This token went from $0.18 to reach a peak of around $0.60, one of the reasons being the futures market listing, which brought a lot of liquidity and investors to keep an eye on the token.
So, consequently, what happened is that some of these people started to find out a little more about the projects being developed within the Hive Blockchain and discovered Splinterlands. It is worth remembering that if anyone knows of any other possible reason that led to this increase in the number of players, please leave a comment. :)
