Metaverse has become a hot trend recently, and many traditional companies have also invested in development, many of which are GameFi (Metaverse Game Project). However, a recent analysis pointed out that most of the current mainstream metaverse games are difficult to retain players for a long time.
The current metaverse games on the market face the problem of losing a large number of players. According to Dapp Radar data, Sky Mavis’s “Axie Infinity”, which combines the concept of NFT and focuses on breeding and combat, has a daily average user drop of 30% to 107,240 compared with the previous issue; the daily average user of “The Sandbox” has dropped. 29% to 1,180; Decentraland’s average daily users fell 15% to 978.
Web 3 analyst DeFi Vader pointed out in August about “Axie Infinity” that metaverse games are different from traditional games such as “Fortnite”, “GTA” and “Candy Crush”, etc., metaverse games are difficult to retain players, they have no motivation. Pay to keep playing. Metaverse games lack the “organic engagement” that retains players.
There may also be a gray area in the player statistics of metaverse games. Taking “Axie Infinity” as an example, it is difficult to distinguish which are ordinary players and which are employees hired by investors to profit from the game.
The traditional game industry is also skeptical of GameFi. While gaming giant Ubisoft has attempted to promote NFTs in the traditional gaming world, a recent industry survey revealed that most game studios are not interested in using cryptocurrencies and NFTs.
Having said that, there are some people in the game industry who have a positive attitude towards GameFi, saying that good gameplay and models can enable GameFi to catch up with the development of the metaverse. See Wan Toong, chief engineer of game studio Red Door Digital, also said in an earlier interview with Coin Desk that using cryptocurrency financing can free games from relying on mainstream studio funding.
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