We say it to help avoid being classified as a security by the US SEC. If we sell DEC or promote them as an investment that may provide capital gains we risk being classified as a security. People may ascribe value to them on third party markets, but we need to be clear that we never do. 

There's nothing shady about this, and it's funny that you tell us to "stop with the money grabs" when we are literally not selling anything with relation to the DECs. In fact, instead of selling anything we are giving that value to the players. Many thousands of dollars have been spent purchasing DECs on the market and buying cards on the market as a result of the DEC feature, and all of that money went to the players and not to us. More money is returned to players in this way than we make ourselves from pack sales on a daily basis.

There are certainly things you can potentially criticize us for, but calling a feature where we are not selling anything and returning value to the player base a "money grab" is just plain ignorant.