Market is for blockchainized cards the cards got for free will be blockchainized when the EDS team will see
it as profitable , now a market for ingame cards is useful only to test , but surely is a lot more less needed that making a good game , moonga insight . Market will produce more profits so the game can trive , many are not remembering how this economy will work , money and will go up nothing more and nothing less.
1. This is a small team on a small budget. Most of what you are talking about is out of their reach. That said, there are things they should do differently.
2. Your point on blockchainification of your card assets is the home run insight that you have. I completely agree, another way to describe this is a instant trading feature with the first version of the game. Show off your cards, and trade. This game becomes instantly relevant with that single feature.
3. Owning assets is the most important part of this game, not the game play or anything else. The graphics have to be killer, and you must be able to trade or otherwise exchange your cards with others. Worry about the game play later because gameplay is hard to get right and will evolve 100 times before it is perfect.
Hallo DieJhonny, IMHO the instant game trading feature is a wise idea and it can be done for non-blockchained cards right now. Add a blockchain wallet (in this case bitcoin/counterparty wallet) to the game is dangerous because there is the possibility that sometimes google or apple could ban SoG from the store. Anyway as you point out the SoG team is not so big so they have to prioritize were to code, the ability to play (a lot) SoG (or buy some gems for fiat money)and have as a reward some blockchain asset is a super strong incentive.
I strongly disagree that owning asset is the most important part of the game, the beauty of the game itself and the game mechanic is the rock solid base to build a trading-card game economy. SoG have to be played and have to be fun without any blockchian card at the start to attract more and more user, the ability to gain something that have a real value and that can be traded is its Turbo.
That's my view.