Splinterlands Rentals Holding Up Nicely...

I've been pleasantly surprised over the last 24 hours to see the rental prices for Splinterlands cards holding up better than I'd expected.

I'd anticipated a 50% drop from the madness at the end of the last seasons, but the decrease has been more like 40%.

This is probably because of a combination of mainly two factors:

There must be more players seeking to play and climb the rankings. This would make sense, given the intense growth over the last two weeks in sign ups and spell book purchase. People are generally NOT selling cards, and if they are they certainly aren't selling them for cheap, leaving rentals as the only option.
I wasn't 'on it' at the end of the last seasons to the extent I had been in the previous end of season - by 'on it' I mean monitoring cards and taking them off the rental market in the last couple of days to chase a better price, so my rental rewards have got less far to drop!

The ROI is also looking better than i'd thought because the prices of cards are cooling off, which is unsurprising given the run they've had!

I'm pretty happy with nearly 12K DEC a day at the beginning of the season, it certainly beats playing, which is just stressful TBH!

Now I just need for Peak Monsters to go out of Maintenance Mode so I can get back to maintaining my rentals!