Dear Tobik,
I have posted this post in another vote that Tobik initiated, I will post it again here.
I have been with DCL since the very beginning. I am hold both MANA and LAND.
I think we all agree that high quality contents are key to DCL’s success. There is no doubt to that. However, from that goal, DCL has made a series of wrong decisions, which are based on wrong believes.
Including:
High land price is preventing people from entering DCL.
We must lowered the barrier of entry to allow more content creators to create in DCL.
DCL World is a perfect product, you can have a space to build on for 100 MANA, also it generate sales for DCL NAME.
But introducing WORLD will be against the interests of LAND owners. So let’s use “boiling frog” strategy.
The landowners are speculators, they are short sight, they only care about LAND price nothing else.
Let’s see why they are wrong.
High land price is preventing people from entering DCL.
The introduction of rental market is a solution to that problem. Disregard how much the land is trading at, you can always rent a parcel at 1 MANA per day. Please note that 1 MANA per day is the floor set by DCL. If we could lower that floor to 0 MANA, I am sure you will be able to see 0 MANA rental. A lot of LAND owners (including me) are willing to attract high quality content creators to create on our land at 0 cost. Now, please tell me, which is lower barrier to entry, 0 cost, or 100 MANA to purchase NAME, so you have a WORLD?
We must lowered the barrier of entry to allow more content creators to create in DCL.
This is true, however are there any other ways? Without hurting the interest of LAND owner? Apparently there are potential ways to do that. One of the is listed above. There are also discussion about dividing the land, or even expanding the Genesis City. However, without listen to what the LAND owners have to say. DCL Foundation pushed for DCL World.
Another thing we need to consider is that, is really lower barrier of entry can attract high quality content creators? CryptoVoxel has much lower barrier of entry, but it doesn’t have high quality content, why?
DCL World is a perfect product, you can have a space to build on for 100 MANA, also it generate sales for DCL NAME.
But introducing WORLD will be against the interests of LAND owners. So let ’ s use “ boiling frog ” strategy.
If you believe number 1 and number 2. It is not hard to come to conclusion that LAND owners are no longer needed in this system, they have become a burden to DCL. We must break our promises of LAND scarcity stories which attract them to DCL in the first place. But let’s do it slowly, and introduce this WORLD, and we can tell them it is a different thing. But, let’s face it.
DCL WORLD dilute LAND owners interest. No matter how you argue the differences between LAND and WORLD. It is another form of infinite LAND. All of the LAND scarcity story are gone, and all the LAND scarcity promises are broken. This is why the LAND owners are so mad.
By now we should have stats about WORLD, we should examine, are we on the right track? Are the WORLD really attracting high quality content? Please remember this is based on the cost of the benefit of LAND owners. If not, should we continue pushing down that path?
The landowners are speculators, they are short-sighted, they only care about LAND price nothing else.
Let’s face it, DCL is a crypto project. It was funded by Funds, ICO, and early investors/speculators. For close to 2 years, DCL is nothing but just a website. When ICO and first land auction happened. People are putting their money into an unknown project hoping to achieve financial return. Without those people financial support, there wouldn’t be a DCL. Those investors including myself holds MANA/LAND until today, 6 years. And we are being called speculators, short-sighted.
DCL Foundation, DAO, MANA and LAND owners should work with each other. DCL’s success should benefit all stakeholders. Not only certain people are benefit from this, at the cost of others, especially those people who supported the project since the very beginning, who supported the project when there was no product, who supported the project during bear market. I think LAND owners are always wiling to talk, or even sacrifice so DCL can achieve greater success.
. IMO we should stop spending except platform improvements and also for proven community creators.