Steemmonsters: Dark Energy Crystals Introduced as New Resource - Blessing or Curse?

At Steemmonsters there is a new resource the Dark Energy Crystals.

Is this a blessing or a curse and what does it mean for players of different levels?

For now, everything looks great, because there are dark energy crystals, which can be used in many different ways.

One possibility is f.e. to convert 2500 Dark Energy Crystals into an Orb that will give you 5 cards of the "WINDS OF CHANGE collection".

There are also bonus offers, so if you buy 20 orbs at once you get one orb as a gift, so instead of 100 cards you get 105 cards or if you buy 100 orbs at once 10 orbs are given away, so instead of 500 cards 550 cards.

It all sounds great, I'm just wondering how these new cards change the value of the old cards, and I find it a bit odd that the SEED / Germinator crowd funding was done with big announcement and four new cards were issued as a promotion, but they can not be used until today, because obviously still the access from the Tron Blockchain must be programmed, but before to make this cards playable to throw new cards in the market and does not first ensure that the cards The last promotion will finally be playable.

Another option is to buy the Potion shop "Legendary" and "Alchemy", which gives you the chance to win a legendary or a gold card by up to 100% each.

Whether this will not drag down the value of the legendary and the gold cards in the long run?

There are also extra cards for the Daily Quest, which can be purchased for 500 - 2500 DEC, which of course can work best when combined with the above "Legendary" and "Alchemy".

Last but not least there is also the possibility to buy "Mystery".

How do you get these Dark Energy Crystals?

Now, on the one hand, you can get them through fighting.

Here the dark energy crystals will be awarded by rating, who has a bigger rating gets more, who has a lower rating less.

It is also not linear, but exponential, so especially the championsleague players will benefit.

A simple example: with a rating of 2000 you get four times as much Dark Energy Crystals as with a rating of 1000 and with a rating of 4000 that's sixteen times as much.

There are also extra bonuses, on the one hand for the Winstrike, this is probably 5% each in series (previously) won battles, on the other hand for the use of Alpha, Gold & Promotion cards.

A second option is to turn Steemmonsters cards into Dark Energy Crystals.

It has been used extensively as Steemmonsters proudly proclaimed in his blog, so right at the start were 61,000 cards with a BCX of 114,000, actually 114,000 level-1-cards converted into Dark Energy Crystals.

This is a blessing and a curse at the same time, so the prices for the cheapest Common Rewards cards within a very short time increased from $ 0.005 to $ 0.018, which corresponds to a price jump of 250% (now the prices for these cards came back slightly to $ 0.016).

Of course, a player in the Silver League can now sell his cards at a higher price than before, but if a player in Silver III receives 12 cards at the end of the season, while a player in Champion I receives 150 cards at the end of the season, it is clear who will benefit the most.

On the other hand, it has become much more expensive to level up the rewards cards.

So far, if a Max Level Common Rewards monster has cost $ 2.50 (if you've been cheap and long-winded), it's been more than $ 9 overnight and even with the small price drop still over $ 8.

We're going to see how things are going to move on - anyway, I'm of the opinion that with the now-rolled out Dark Energy Crystals, the four new promotion cards from SEED crowdfunding have already lost value before they were even spent - whether among those Circumstances many buyers find that in a second crowdfunding - that is planned - are there for once.

What is your opinion on the Dark Energy Crystals?