My compliment and criticism:

First, I love the game and the gameplay... Brilliant. Matt and the team are doing a wonderful job of keeping us hopping with the challenges of keeping up with an ever-increasing game.

a) Second, you are losing your base. You are dead wrong on why people aren't playing and in fact leaving. The reason the prices have gone down is because you have intentionally stated a desire to overproduce them at 4x the rate of the betas (which themselves are only 1/2 sold out).

b) The fact that the Maverick insiders like @rondras and @wonsama are developing massive bots to game the system is very distasteful yes, but they don't control supply, you do. (NOTE: Many think these guys are linked to you as well and doing it with your permission) There is a saying in basic economics that supply should equal demand. You are not only breaking that axiom, but you are massively shattering it in this case. Love the game tons, HATE the overproduction equally in the opposite direction.

c) I would rather see no reward cards than see those assholes get tons of free cards with their bots. On top of that, you are making the rewards on the low end basically a farce, and at the same time rewarding the same assholes that have gamed the system by getting tons of free packs and cards at the high end. So until you can get a patch in place to stop the bots from playing every second of the day, then why not stop the reward cards?

SUGGESTIONS:

1. cut back the reward card supply to the level of beta at most (100k commons total and so forth)

2. stop play til you can figure out how to use a Captcha or other device that make human play necessary.

3. when you restore rewards, restore it back to where you ended season 5... There is no reason to cut back the little guy any further.

In conclusion, I love the technology, the idea, the implementation of the game. I don't like the solutions you have come up with to "solve" the bot problem, and I hate the fact that you are printing supply of roughly 8x more than CURRENT demand.

Trust is the most important aspect of building something like this. If you will overproduce now for whatever reason to solve whatever problem, what will stop you in the future from doing so? That is why this is such an important point and why I have tried repeatedly to let you know how people are feeling.

I trust you are trying and think you are both doing your best to deal with so many complex issues. But sometimes you have to break them down to the simplest issues and solve the solvable first. Overprinting of cards should NEVER be a solution, so take that out of the equation and go from there on your next step.

I recognize this is just my opinion and I have tons of respect for what you have done to this point. The only reason I'm writing this is to help you and I hope it is taken as so.