The rental market is going to be different. It's not going to be the same cycle as I covered in my posts. Typically, in a season there are two or three brawls and those will be times when spikes in rental prices happen, but they will not be as dramatic as End of Season price spikes.

More cards are also being released into the rental market because we are being disincentivized from playing a splinter that is not in our focus. So those cards are going to fill up the supply of the rental market.

As long as the player base stagnates, the conditions will not be favorable for those looking for stronger returns with rentals. This is going to probably be a rough summer, just wait until the weather cools down and people are back inside again for another crypto pump (Q4).

We are not going back to the days of End of Season inflation where 29-49 CP/DEC was prevalent. I'd expect more stable rental prices throughout a season.

The vilified bot farms were filling up the coffers of those renting out millions of Collection Power.

To those upset that the gravy train probably ended:
Splinterlands right now is marketing to the wrong audience and they are using the wrong methods to do it, we need more people in this ecosystem. Incentivizing "template posts" and artwork is not going to bring in new players. Micro-influencers will likely not deliver either. Encouraging people to spam referral links is not going to result in spellbook purchase growth, it scares people away. Splinterlands is marketing a casual fantasy game, when in reality, it is a financial product and potentially uber-competitive eSports game (which is a far better Unique Selling Proposition).