If you invest too much you won't get a decent roi. And you can't upgrade as most ppl did at the beginning because now there are a lot of bot users who will attack you if you don't have enough defense. You can't just wait to get enough res to upgrade everything, you will have to invest in your defense and that will slow down your growth. And the rewards are going down each day if you don't upgrade, for example, I get ~5% less Steem per day.

There will be no real new players because the whole game mechanic is shit, battles are shit and I don't think the devs will/can do anything to make it a good game