Blockchain gaming needs less blockchain and more creativity

If your game includes “crypto”, “blockchain” or “P2E”, as a selling point, no one wants to play it. Be more creative.

I have a lot of hope for games with blockchains involved, but we need web 3 gaming to have the blockchain abstracted away from the gaming experience. NFT’s and a creative way of doing an in-game currency, is highly necessary in the blockchain gaming space.

I don’t want to buy an NFT in a marketplace, to participate. I want to grind the game and earn real world value through NFT’s that I earn from my time spent/skill level. Not by buying an NFT to even play the game, and then saying I’m playing to earn by earning an inflated away currency.

The game should be free to play, and only include transactions, when I claim my reward for a task, quest or something of that sort. Simply put, current blockchain games don’t abstract the blockchain out enough. We need games that include minimal blockchain, in my opinion.

What’s in it for the game Dev’s? Royalties on NFT trades, just like all other NFT devs are incentivized with. They could release special release NFTs, that people can pay for if they’d like. They could monetize their own portion of the map, where you need something special, to play in “their area”, which is essentially pay to play in their area. I mentioned a token in the post, they could absolutely create a token, or some other form of value added that can be derived to them, but the point is, the entire game should not only derive value to them. They should find innovative ways to take some value in micro transactions or other ways that add some value, but don’t take away from the usability.

NFT’s should be the earnable item, not a token or at least not solely a token. People like to earn usable items in a game, as opposed to “money”. The monitart value can be a nice additive, but make the earned items fun and have utility, if it has those properties, the value can come later.

Lastly, a token or multiple can exist, but they should serve a purpose, and not be a catch all token of money to be inflated away as well as the security token and governance token. The currency of blockchain games are the worst part of a game usually, because it’s never well thought out or is a catch all token, doomed to never actually serve a purpose, and therefore ends up losing a lot of value. I hope we can make these games more creative, and really add the blockchain element, in a more creative way that truly adds to the experience.

Do you have anything in particular you’d like to see in gaming, that blockchain actually helps or would add value too?

Online trading card games could definitely benefit, as could winnable skins for characters. I’m curious to hear what others think blockchain could add to the gaming industry.