Will JUMP Trade Bring the Real Cricket Experience in the Metaverse?
As the world is advancing towards creating new products and services, new professions automatically get created. No one knew that blockchain technology could fetch developers hefty salary packages a decade back, and now, it has become a fact. In fact, blockchains and associated applications have amounted to billions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency in the last year (2021). However, the news has not spread well enough to make it a publicly known fact. One such application is blockchain-based play-to-earn (P2E) gaming or GameFi, as it is fondly called among the gaming community. In P2E games, players earn money in real-time while playing, unlike existing fantasy games where players have to wait until the real-world match finishes. Axie Infinity is a fine example of such a P2E game that has been one of the top-grossers in the crypto world for its unique ecosystem.
Just like Axie Infinity, there has been another virtual ecosystem-based game aiming at a metaverse experience coming up soon. The NFT game focuses on the sport of cricket, and its marketplace portal has been launched now. If you are not aware, the marketplace is Jump.trade for the NFT-based cricket game Meta Cricket League. The marketplace has announced its first drop in mid-April, which would reveal more about the game that follows. In this blog, we will analyze in detail whether the new NFT cricket game could bring real-world cricketing experience.
Jump.trade — An Introduction
Jump.trade is an NFT marketplace dedicated to the upcoming NFT cricket game Meta Cricket League. Both the game and the marketplace platforms have been developed by GuardianLink, a Singapore-based NFT applications development company with a global presence. The marketplace’s first-ever drop, called Super Loot, is scheduled to occur somewhere during mid-April, one of the busiest times in the cricketing world.
How are the Excitement Levels around the Super Loot?
As soon as the official press release came out, hilarious social media posts came across all the platforms in support of the drop that got massive engagement. The hashtag #jumptrade has been garnering increasing attention as days pass by, and there is no reason a cricket fan would not be excited about a cricket game that brings earning opportunities. Alongside cricket fans, gamers and NFT collectors across the world have been eagerly waiting for the drop. This is since it is expected to be one of the NFT games that would have a large-scale in-game economy that might be profitable enough.
Coming to the Question in the Title
As per the official announcement, the Super Loot drop, the Jump.trade NFT marketplace and the game are the stepping stones aimed at building the world’s first metaverse for cricket. If rumors are to be believed, the metaverse experience could be of another level, even earning the same level of popularity as some of the famous P2E blockchain games. This looks plausible since a flourishing in-game economy would be established by the time the metaverse platform is launched, according to the official roadmap.
Even though the level of fun guaranteed by playing cricket in the real world is unmatchable by any other thing, taking up cricket as a profession can take a hard toll on an individual since one has to invest a lot of time and resources to become a player at the top level. The concept of Sunday cricket leagues in some parts of the world also does not earn a lot for its players, who mostly play the sport for the pleasure derived from the process. Also, the current trend of esports is not welcoming to cricket gamers due to the inherent features of the current generation cricket games.
A solution for all these and for millennials in cricket-savvy regions looking to make money out of the sport in some sense would be a metaverse cricket game. Now, the seeds have been sown for such a game through the Jump.trade NFT marketplace, with its maiden drop landing soon. One must think based on such long-term thoughts and from the lessons that the global pandemic has taught on how P2E gaming has enabled people’s livelihoods in some developing nations. On that line of thinking, it is affirmative that a metaverse cricket game could provide a player with real-world benefits, with almost real-world experience, as the benefits can be utilized in the real world from playing the game at home.
Some Final Thoughts
As far as statistics are concerned, blockchain gaming has not taken off very much in the regions where cricket is an emotion. But, this might change soon with the Super Loot NFT drop from the Jump.trade NFT marketplace as its developers strives to bring out the first-ever NFT cricket game in the world. Also, the prospect of play-to-earn has been welcomed by professional gamers across the globe, who could easily adapt to new games, which has further popularized the game among popular gaming communities. Also, since the developers announced that the Super Loot NFTs could have a collector value, it has been on the radars of NFT enthusiasts around the world. All these categories of individuals add to the social media buzz, making one remember the iconic line from Spiderman: Far From Home “Everywhere I go, I see his face.”
