Recently, during a conversation with fans, game streamer Master Guodong firmly stated: "Games linked to blockchain are bound to fail." He expressed a perspective different from the industry, using players' experiences to indicate that games and cheats cannot be separated. If games are related to tokens, then cheats will devalue the coins, creating a negative cycle.
The streamer firmly stated: "Games linked to blockchain are bound to fail."
In the video at 3:35, a viewer asked: "Will Maple Story N consider playing in the metaverse?" At this moment, Guodong showed a disdainful smile, questioning the necessity of bringing Maple Story into the metaverse, as the content of metaverse Maple Story is basically not much different from new Maple Story. The virtual currency and items in new Maple Story can already be exchanged for cash, so the token economy seems to have little incentive.
Subsequently, a viewer raised a question: "Is the lottery probability in the metaverse relatively transparent?" The author added: Previously, the well-known game streamer Ding Te had spent over 4 million on the game Paradise M trying to create a rare item "Purple Cloth", succeeding only 11 times out of 475 attempts. Ding Te questioned the lottery probability claimed by the game company "Game Orange" as inconsistent with the actual situation and angrily filed a lawsuit. Perhaps this type of interaction on the blockchain can be resolved through open-source and transparent smart contracts.
Unexpectedly, Guodong directly stated: "Games linked to blockchain are bound to fail." He explained that all blockchain projects emphasize a limited supply, while games and cheats are already inseparable. If cheats can be used to participate in the game, then the earned coins will lose their value. In fact, it was mentioned in the previous EP.205 podcast that the supply limitation touted by blockchain projects is actually a shackle for games, because to increase revenue, what should be done is to increase the circulation quantity.
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The author believes that, contrary to the industry's view that GameFi needs to focus first on gameplay, Guodong points out from a player's perspective that games and cheats are inseparable. If the token economy is combined with games, then cheats are a significant problem.
Questioning whether the token economy inadvertently encourages cheats.
Guodong believes that blockchain games basically have two types of gameplay. One is for game companies to develop blockchain, where the project side issues coins regularly and does not casually increase the token supply, allowing these tokens to circulate among players and be used to purchase items, which still has hope. But if players earn cryptocurrency by defeating monsters, then cheating problems are inevitable. From the perspective of a seasoned player, he stated that cheats that get caught are usually public scripts; if there's profit, players will privately use cheats, making it harder to filter them out.
Guodong: Blockchain may have a future, but it's not as idealistic.
Then a viewer asked Guodong in the chat: "Setting aside the games, do you think blockchain has a future?" He stated that he doesn't understand it well, but he believes blockchain still has a future, though it may not be as idealistic as originally intended. Because, regardless of anything, humanity's goal of earning currency is for survival, so it is fundamentally impossible to achieve so-called decentralization. Ultimately, it still relies on whether the real world accepts it; current cryptocurrencies only cut off from traditional finance and establish their own system.
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