Easing Into Web3 Gaming With a Hybrid Approach
Working in Web3, we hear a lot of animosity from traditional gaming fans toward Web3 and blockchain-powered games. Simply mentioning that a gaming studio is experimenting with it can cause social media feeds to become flooded with 140-character backlash.
Until today, most Web3 game studios lack actual gaming mechanics and, instead, still serve speculators riding the crypto price and tokenized market cap waves connected to the platforms. The key rule for adding value to gaming with digital assets: the base game needs to be a truly engaging, fun, and collaborative experience where people are included freely, challenged, and can create community.
Hope Isn’t a Strategy
With the exception of early indie open-source games, gaming has never been a “pure” experience free from economics. Let’s take World of Warcraft as an example. This IP was prolific in numerous psychological tactics to entice gamers to get hooked on playing their game. When the gamers wanted t quit they would attempt to sell their accounts for real currency. When the fruit of a gamer’s labor can be correlated to real currency, it adds an element to the gaming experience rather than detracting from it.
With the advent of Web3 and blockchain-powered games, traditional gamers see these as a get-rich-quick scheme predicated by crypto scammers, and as a new way for gaming companies to dress up microtransactions. There is a lot to be wary of, and much of this sentiment is justified. Summed up with a lot of misinformation, complex learning curves, poor-quality games, and others, we have a recipe for strong negative emotional reactions, yet the source of this angst is worth exploring more deeply.
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