Splinterlands KPI Review - 11/24/2024

Another week, another edition of the "Splinterlands KPIs" series, where I track several metrics I find important on a weekly basis to see how our beloved game & economy are developing.

For most KPIs, I put a quick visual indicator as follows:
🟢 Good progress
🔴 Bad progress
🟡 Middling

When deltas are shown, they indicate the week-over-week progress.

DISCLAIMER: Please note that I am not affiliated to the Splinterlands company, so these are just my own opinions on KPIs I feel are important and based on data I can find publicly.

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GAME ECONOMY

SPS

DEC & Market Activity

Crypto markets stayed strong this week, but SPS stayed completely flat and DEC dropped a bit. This also caused SPS's CMC rank to drop a little relative to other tokens. SPS burning went back to the slow pace we had before, though it is encouraging to see it continue despite DEC being still ~-20% to peg. Meanwhile, DEC burning resumed in a relatively healthy way, with 5.6M DEC being burned over the week.

Market activity remained close to $10k/day, which is very encouraging.

Sources:

• SPS price & rank: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/splintershards/
• SPS Burn: https://www.splintercards.com/index.html
• DEC price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/dark-energy-crystals/
• DEC supply: https://www.splintercards.com/index.html
• Daily activity: https://peakmonsters.com/dashboard

COMPANY SALES

Rebellion sales still haven't started picking up, and may never do so. The promos, meanwhile, are continuing at a strong pace, with Heloise selling recently for an average of 1.3-1.4M DEC per card. The next set of promos looks very strong and I suspect we'll see >100M in DEC sales for that pair.

Sources:

• Rebellion pack sales: https://www.splintercards.com/index.html (counting circulating + open RB packs)
• Hall of Legends DEC spent: https://next.splinterlands.com/shop/hall-of-legends

GAME ACTIVITY

DAA dropped a little bit, however battles increased significantly, and reached a weekly high since I've started tracking these metrics, which is very encouraging.

On an unrelated note, the team announced the upcoming "Survival Mode", which will likely lead to a big increase in battles played as the "energy" in Survival mode will be the cards themselves.

Sources:

• Daily active accounts & battles: https://peakmonsters.com/dashboard

NEW PLAYERS

While both signups and spellbooks went down a bit week over week, they both remained higher than the average we've had in the preceding months, so I'm maintaining some cautious optimism.

Sources:

• Account signups & Spellbook purchases: https://peakmonsters.com/dashboard

COMMUNITY

Discord members went down another 66, but Twitter followers increased a bit this week. Maybe we're going to start seeing some of the new marketing efforts bear fruit.

Sources:

• Metrics obtained directly from Discord and Twitter

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If there are some key metrics you'd like me to track which aren't here, please let me know in the comments.