Pictured: a MSer doing their daily check for the return of a lucrative avenue

Apologies for the lapse in posts – I am halfway around the world scuba diving and unplugging has been really nice. Now I understand why Matt finds guest posters for his end of year vacation. Enjoy today’s post!

When plays die, there’s a tendency to talk about it more openly and analyze exactly what went wrong. After all, if it’s dead, there’s little harm in being more open about it, right? 

Even if you were unaware of the play during its lifetime, the postmortem is helpful in understanding what to look for in future probing. 

However, while some plays are truly six feet under when they die (a timely example being the sudden implosion of Mesa), others become useless from an MS perspective without disappearing completely.

Whether it’s a change in earn rate, accepted payment method or some other variable, plenty of platforms and channels that were previously a valuable part of a loop continue on with zero utility for MSers (not that I’m not self aware enough to blame the platform for attempting to eliminate gaming).

These situations are somehow even more frustrating than the play being killed off completely, because at least there’s full closure when a loop gets nuked from orbit. There’s no closure in deleting the app or saved login when you’re holding on to a chance that the glory days may return. 

As my eloquent friend smugdog said, depressed MSers who lost a play are “like my old dog that once found a cupcake in a bush on a walk once and then checked that bush every day for the rest of his life”

Finding another cupcake in the bush is pretty damn rare, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. I can think of plenty of “dead plays” that rose like a phoenix from the ashes, and often in forms that blew the previous iteration out of the water. 

There’s generally a short lifespan when these situations present themselves (but not 100% of the time), so when you find one, hit it hard, and hit it fast. 

Since there is potential for a zombie play to be resurrected, it’s a good call to maintain discretion when it’s not fully dead and buried. 

Ironically enough, the actions taken that kill a play the first time are often the same actions that strike down the phoenix version too. What is the fintech equivalent of don’t call the bank? 

While we’re on the subject of friendly advice, there’s something else to add. And believe me when I say this is as much a reminder to myself as it is advice towards you. 

As much fun as getting ahead of yourself with napkin math is when you’re scaling up a free money generator, nothing that good lasts forever in this game. 

Enjoy the ride and profit as much as you can while keeping in mind that the clock begins ticking the day the play is discovered.

It’s quite tempting to start counting the amount of days needed to run a loop before you can buy your dream Rolex, but what happens if it dies somewhere in the middle?

The only person who can depend on that watch is the one earning a cut of your take without the associated risk (and in this case, there was quite a bit of risk unless you really knew your stuff. 

Good luck on the phoenix hunting, friends!