CryprIranian officials denounced that "Hamster Kombat" is a distraction tool
The deputy head of the Iranian army claimed that the game was a way to distract Iranians from the country's upcoming presidential elections.
The growing popularity of the play-to-earn blockchain game "Hamster Kombat" has drawn strong criticism from Iranian government officials and conservative sectors, who claimed that the simple play-to-earn tapping game is an instrument of projected soft power by Western nations.
Habibollah Sayyari, the deputy head of the Iranian army, claimed that the game was aimed at distracting the Iranian population from the country's upcoming elections. Sayyari's comments were backed by religious authority Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, who characterized the entire cryptocurrency field as rife with fraud.
Blockchain games: an economic lifeline for developing countries?
These comments from Iranian officials fail to recognize the dire financial situation many Iranians find themselves in, while the country is plagued by Western sanctions and runaway inflation. To put Iran's economic woes into perspective, the current exchange rate is 1 US dollar per 580,000 Iranian rials.
Such difficult economic conditions have been a catalyst for the emergence of blockchain games in developing countries. The NFT game Axie Infinity is a case study of this new phenomenon. At its peak, Axie players reported earning up to $1,300 a month playing the game, a significant source of income in developing countries.
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