Challenge #4
Hi NFT-game designers,
I’m a gamer. NFTs are not my thing. But hey, they’re getting more popular. So I decided to give it a shot and try myself at NFT gaming. But my little experiment raised many questions.
So I decided to write about my journey, hoping you could find in it useful info to help you onboard other traditional gamers like me.
I broke down my NFT gaming journey into 5 challenges. May they inspire you.
Challenge #4: “Ok, I’ve started to play but… isn’t that NFT community turning into a cult/scam/lair of traders ?”
During the last bull market, many NFT gaming projects boomed — on the back of greed alone. Don’t get me wrong — this is also the case in traditional gaming — investors push unfinished projects to the market, costly add-ons… and so on. But in the NFT space, we often witness games in their building phase — and it can be disturbing.
For a non-NFT gamer, entering the Discord server of an NFT gaming community can be an unnerving experience.
I’ve encountered three types of communities and kinds of behavior that can confront:
- The Cult: You must participate, respond to all content, share the Gospel of the project, 24h a day, to receive the blessings from the team and get rewarded roles in, or benefits from the community. Sounds scary.
- The Scam: They encourage greed, and leverage greed to sell you stuff. All their NFTS are oriented towards money-making : “Buy this, you’ll be rich.” Yeah, right!
- The Lair (of Traders): It occurs not when it’s the founders promoting greed, but the community itself. Prices go up like mad, everyone is only talking about ROI. I’m here to PLAY, for Mother Earth’s sake.
So..
Let’s face it: there’s no way, apart from dissimulation, to change a raison d’être. If you want to build a cash machine, that’s what you’ll build. If you promote your values, they will be shared with and through your community.
Metaverse for Humanity WEOM, for example, reflects the values of the project in the way they manage the community’s development by building its community around positive experiences like mindful games, health and wellness, spirituality and personal development.
As a game developer, you should also be aware of your role in community building. This part of the project is an opportunity to share the values that drive you and to implement vision-based decisions.
In the previous bull market, many were blinded by the economic opportunity of NFTs. One question that might be useful for projects to ask themselves is: “Do the NFTs of my project serve my game, or is it the other way round?”
Something to consider…as you read our final part in the series: “Wait but… It’s not even a good game?”
Web3 has a lot of value to offer the individual gamer.
As an NFT game creator, you have the chance not just to influence a gamer’s in-game journey, but his/her IRL journey too — in learning about Web3, NFTs and the blockchain, and reflecting on ownership and asset management.
As a passionate gamer, I hope you’ll seize this opportunity.
And if you do…
I can’t wait to experience your game.
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