Hi mate @davemccoy , 

I think (my personal view) we obviously need to wait for the results on the new staking change towards SPS.

I was shocked to see the numbers as with main account i could in theory simply maintain current status (where my champ results due to RNG are shit anyway, usually better in Diamond). 

But then as result my alt accounts in diamond can simply not compete anymore (re financial rewards), so either i stop playing ranked there or sell all my max cards and get onto silver / gold decks as SPS staking not enough. Or i just use them for Brawls - all of them can easily get to champ 3, i kept them in Diamond, now it makes sense to let them play silver. 

This is the one selfish side of things. 

**My main concern though - how to attract new players?**
Especially from web2 space real gamers never will join at the potential costs, first game play is not really cool, so they will for sure not for that, max chance people with a crypto background but even for them the hurdle is too high now. 

To start you need to buy cards to be competitive, even prizes are lower as in bull times it costs a lot to be competitive. NOW, with new changes even cards do not get anything near "low rewards" as they now also heavily need to buy SPS (even prize might seem low for people here, this is a major hurdle). Hence my main concern, we never attract new players now, even worse as before - many current players need to consider to stop their alts or main accounts and sell as it makes no sense to maintain apart if they really love the game play as such :-). BUT as said, we might need to wait on how it really ends up after implementation.