Agree, if they don't ever come back, that SPS will never be in circulation anyway.
Imagine you coming back to the game after 2 years to check your investment and all your airdropped SPS is gone. This is essentially "stealing" assets from inactive players, which IMO is a really bad and shady practice.
This is exactly how I feel. I made investments in crypto during the bull run that are being airdropped, (not splinterlands), and I would be devastated to check how they are going and find they had all been stolen. I can't believe this proposal has 84% of people voting yes! Are they that worried about the price of SPS that they feel the need to steal someones airdrop just to diminish the supply of circulating SPS?
They are, quite a few of recent proposals have literally only that in mind, token price and attempts to pump them.
1 - A huge amount to pursue exchange listing. This, in my opinion, was the most ludicrous one. I just hope at least it is binance and not something even worse. But even then, what will that achieve? A short term pump and then being forgotten forever? Without a bull market an exchange listing means literally nothing long term. It is even bad because to do now because on the next bull market you don't have that opportunity again, you never will. You won't attract a ton of players in a bear market, most people that are still investing in crypto and interested in P2E already know of splinterlands anyway.
2 - Increase on market sale taxes. Two times, and now obviously on the second attempt it'll pass. This will hurt the market forever just to burn tokens and try to reach "flywheel" sooner. 1% overall increase is a 20% increase of tax and I don't even know if most people realize that. Even if I'm very against this one since tax increase is just bad in all aspects, it still is a way better and more acceptable proposal than the other two since using part of the tax for overall economy benefits is good.
3 - Now this one, just drop the assets to the accounts, it's almost the same as if they are gone if those users don't come back and it is the only morally acceptable decision. It is a very shady and unfair practice to just take them away. There are many crypto investors that just invest in a project and barely go back to check it, they are waiting in the sidelines for it to be popular or just forgot about it but will eventually remember when they see "splinterlands" popping up somewhere.
But then again, welcome to decentralized voting, people have no consideration for others and just care for their own bags even if that will inevitably have long term repercussions for them. Not to mention the obvious, you either have a huge bag of staked SPS or your vote means little to nothing, so all proposals are mostly decided by the top x holders.
Yes, I also feel pretty much the same way. If they have to do something with those sps, just burn them.
No, it's not "yours", there is no reason to keep the airdrop forever.
Just claim them to the respective accounts, no need to take them away.
There is a huge difference between two years and forever. If a game is good, then the players can return to it years, decades later. For example a few months ago I still played MS-DOS games released in the 1980s/1990s. I grew up with them in the 1990s, and in the early 2000s. Then I have not played most of them for years. Probably I will play them in the future too. One of my favorite video games is the Heroes of Might and Magic II (1996).
I failed to vote a couple times on WAX and completely lost my (I can't remember what they call it) origin/founder/source (whatever they call it) staking rewards. I had no idea that would happen.