The long-awaited and delayed Pixels Chapter 2 was officially launched this morning. As the chain game with the largest number of daily active users in the Ron ecosystem, when the news of the launch of Chapter 2 came out, communities at home and abroad immediately became lively, discussing the latest gold-making strategies and winning at the starting line. But as users continue to experience it, the community atmosphere is full of resentment:
"The design is a bit non-human. The task board is at home, but when I buy something, I have to run out to the store to buy it. How about sneaking around for fun?"
"Originally, the higher the level of materials, the more space they occupy in the backpack. However, each cell has been changed to hold up to 99 items. The backpack is full without doing anything. How do you play? Do you want to keep running around?"
"Except for cotton, the materials collected directly are almost zero. The party who collects goods is at a huge loss."
"I spent a lot of gold coins to clear the task board, but I was rewarded several times with 0.2 and 0.25 coins. Why are the rewards getting smaller and smaller? Doesn't it mean that a lot of machine numbers have been cleared?"
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Although the team has repeatedly emphasized in AMAs that a lot of effort has been spent on Chapter 2, judging from the current community feedback, most real players are very dissatisfied. The game has undergone major changes and has received little profit. Below, Odaily Planet Daily analyzes the second chapter of Pixels based on practical experience, community feedback, etc.
Introduction
Image source: Pixels X
Pixels Game is a metaverse farming game launching in 2021 that recreates the atmosphere of classic 16-bit role-playing adventures, allowing players to navigate a pixel art world, interact with each other, farm land, play mini-games and earn token rewards. It also allows holders of curated NFT Profile Picture (PFP) collectibles to use their own avatars in the game.
In terms of financing, Pixels has currently completed secondary financing, which are:
On February 11, 2022, it was announced that it had completed a US$2.4 million seed round of financing, led by Animoca Brands and PKO Investments, with participation from OpenSea, Untapped Capital and Leonis Capital;
On February 8, 2024, it was announced that it had completed a strategic round of financing of US$4.8 million.
Moreover, Pixels has been listed on Binance for mining at 08:00 on February 9, 2024 (UTC+ 8), which will last for 10 days, and will be listed for trading at 18:00 on February 19, 2024 (UTC+ 8).
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Chapter 2 Summary of Changes
Big change 1: New skills merged with original skills
Stoneshaping and Metalworking have been added to the skills, the upgrade curve has been adjusted, and the experience value between levels has been changed. Moreover, multiple skills in Chapter 1 are combined, namely: Farming, Forestry, Cooking, Mining, Woodwork, Animal Care, Business ( Business), Exploration.
Image source: Pixels XPixels Chapter 2 Skills Overview
The materials that each skill can produce, current market prices, income, etc. can be viewed in "Resources" and "Crafting" in pixels.tips.
Image source: pixels.tips
Big change 2: The task board is changed to the player's own Speck
After entering "My Speck", enter the main room as shown below, click "Infinifunnel" to view the task board
Image source: Pixels X
Image source: Pixels X
According to community feedback, the token rewards in the task board are significantly less than in Chapter 1, and Pixels token rewards with decimal points such as 0.2, 0.25, 0.5, etc. appear many times.
Source: Pixels X latest task board
Big change three: Both Speck and the main room can be upgraded (initially upgrades cost gold coins, and later $PIXEL tokens)
Speck upgrade: After clicking Home in Speck, click "Upgrade" to upgrade;
Image source: Pixels X
Main room upgrade: After entering the room, click "House Manager" and then click "Upgrade" to upgrade.
Image source: Pixels X
Image source: Pixels X
Big change four: The time for planting crops is greatly reduced and only one person can plant each piece of land at the same time.
Trees can be grown on Speck by purchasing them from the store and the planting time is greatly reduced.
For one thing, as shown, each plot of land can only be cultivated by one person at a time. And, it is worth noting that you need to meet the skill level to plant the corresponding plants (see the table below for the corresponding relationship).
Image source: Pixels X
Image source: Pixels X
On the other hand, as shown below, trees are no longer rare, trees can be farmed on Speck via store purchase and their farming time is drastically reduced.
Image source: Pixels X
In addition, the backpack has been increased to 12 grids, the upper limit of a single grid has been reduced to 99, and the main room can restore energy by sleeping, etc.
For more game strategy content, Odaily Planet Daily will share it with you as soon as the actual combat strategy is effective.
Team feedback
This time, the version of Chapter 2 was upgraded. Domestic and foreign communities posted various complaints on social media. Luke, the founder of Pixels, posted on the Therefore, the team is willing to try to update the version tomorrow to change the token rewards, and continue to adjust it in the next few weeks to ensure the benefits of real users.
Image source: XPixels founder Luke’s response to community feedback
summary
Overall, the second chapter that users have been eagerly awaiting not only does not bring refreshing gameplay innovations, but the benefits are not even as good as the first chapter. It can also be seen from the server congestion level that the current users who continue to experience Chapter 2 are not enthusiastic enough (there are only 8 crowded channels).
Image source: Pixel X server congestion level
Founder Luke promised to ensure real user revenue in multiple AMAs, but despite banning many bots, real user revenue has not increased but decreased. At the same time, the guild fragments that the team has been emphasizing have failed to bring more benefits to players, which has indeed disappointed loyal players. The only good thing is that the team responded quickly and positively to the negative feedback from the community and expressed its willingness to make immediate improvements and continuous optimization. So, are you looking forward to the team’s subsequent updates on Chapter 2?
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Original author: Asher, Odaily Planet Daily
