This evening I did something I swore I’d never do - I signed up for a Dotts subscription.
For the longest time I’ve believed that I’m one of the biggest Dotts haters in the league. I thought the project was mostly empty - you get cool looking cards but its not like people don’t post pictures of them in servers and such already. You couldn’t trade them and they had no long term value besides some intrinsic value thats different for each person. At the start the packs were mind-bogglingly expensive at $500,000 a pop. Last and definitely the most, I couldn’t use Google Chrome.
All of those factors compounded together to completely turn me off to the system. I wasn’t going to go download a new browser to spend a literal boatload of my hard-earned league money on packs of cards that seemed to have no value.
I’m willing to eat all my words as a Dotts naysayer today, however. @mithrandir, @caltroit_red_flames, @KoltClassic and the entire Dotts team have put in incredible effort to fixing all of the complaints with Dotts. With the new website offering Google Chrome functionality I went and signed up. The new website isn’t flawless, there are definitely some minor bugs and issues that I’m sure they’ll iron out. It has a clean interface, however, and makes everything really simple. The pack opening system with the optional animations adds a nice touch even if I know I’m going to find myself skipping it because I’m impatient. The packs now only cost $100,000 - meaning its about a $5,000,000 investment over the course of a season to invest in some cards. This is a massive drop from the original price and makes it easy enough to invest. Its still a luxury so unless you’re literally printing money you’re going to have to write some media, work a job, use twitter, and watch your account carefully to afford the subscription. Its minimal enough of a cost to encourage investing but not so much that its literally crippling to enjoy, which personally I think is the ideal model.
I hope that there is a system to put the cards to use coming in the future. I’d love to see a world in which they have application in some form of fantasy system or even in a trading/purchase marketplace type environment. This criticism comes with the obvious disclaimer that I’m Head Office and always still tentative from the first few years of the casino to dive into anything too risky and allow users to find a way to enrich themselves with too little effort or transfer money to their teammates in a peer-to-peer type environment. Its something worthwhile to consider, however.
My underlying point is that if you’ve been avoiding trying Dotts I think its worth a shot now. The website is so much more user friendly than it used to be, the cards are clean and even with little practical application are cool to look at and support a system where tons of great graphics people work really hard to make a killer product. With just a little over 50 people having a Dotts subscription right now and over 300 people filling out last week’s activity check there is a huge chunk on the league missing out on this. You don’t have to subscribe forever but if you previously were and unsubscribed due to some qualm or never have been I think right now is a great time to give it another chance and support the guys in the league who have poured a lot of energy into responding to user criticisms and really made it an incredible part of the league.
Also hell yes I wrote this piece in part to get enough money to afford a week's worth of packs. It feels like its going to definitely be worth it. This article is literally a smidge about 600 words which is more than enough to earn a week's worth of packs. Thats literally how easy it is to enjoy and support this part of the league every week with its new pricing structure.
For the longest time I’ve believed that I’m one of the biggest Dotts haters in the league. I thought the project was mostly empty - you get cool looking cards but its not like people don’t post pictures of them in servers and such already. You couldn’t trade them and they had no long term value besides some intrinsic value thats different for each person. At the start the packs were mind-bogglingly expensive at $500,000 a pop. Last and definitely the most, I couldn’t use Google Chrome.
All of those factors compounded together to completely turn me off to the system. I wasn’t going to go download a new browser to spend a literal boatload of my hard-earned league money on packs of cards that seemed to have no value.
I’m willing to eat all my words as a Dotts naysayer today, however. @mithrandir, @caltroit_red_flames, @KoltClassic and the entire Dotts team have put in incredible effort to fixing all of the complaints with Dotts. With the new website offering Google Chrome functionality I went and signed up. The new website isn’t flawless, there are definitely some minor bugs and issues that I’m sure they’ll iron out. It has a clean interface, however, and makes everything really simple. The pack opening system with the optional animations adds a nice touch even if I know I’m going to find myself skipping it because I’m impatient. The packs now only cost $100,000 - meaning its about a $5,000,000 investment over the course of a season to invest in some cards. This is a massive drop from the original price and makes it easy enough to invest. Its still a luxury so unless you’re literally printing money you’re going to have to write some media, work a job, use twitter, and watch your account carefully to afford the subscription. Its minimal enough of a cost to encourage investing but not so much that its literally crippling to enjoy, which personally I think is the ideal model.
I hope that there is a system to put the cards to use coming in the future. I’d love to see a world in which they have application in some form of fantasy system or even in a trading/purchase marketplace type environment. This criticism comes with the obvious disclaimer that I’m Head Office and always still tentative from the first few years of the casino to dive into anything too risky and allow users to find a way to enrich themselves with too little effort or transfer money to their teammates in a peer-to-peer type environment. Its something worthwhile to consider, however.
My underlying point is that if you’ve been avoiding trying Dotts I think its worth a shot now. The website is so much more user friendly than it used to be, the cards are clean and even with little practical application are cool to look at and support a system where tons of great graphics people work really hard to make a killer product. With just a little over 50 people having a Dotts subscription right now and over 300 people filling out last week’s activity check there is a huge chunk on the league missing out on this. You don’t have to subscribe forever but if you previously were and unsubscribed due to some qualm or never have been I think right now is a great time to give it another chance and support the guys in the league who have poured a lot of energy into responding to user criticisms and really made it an incredible part of the league.
Also hell yes I wrote this piece in part to get enough money to afford a week's worth of packs. It feels like its going to definitely be worth it. This article is literally a smidge about 600 words which is more than enough to earn a week's worth of packs. Thats literally how easy it is to enjoy and support this part of the league every week with its new pricing structure.
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