Recently, the unfamiliar player Tong Shen, streamer Master Guo Dong, stated decisively during a conversation with fans: "Games linked to blockchain will undoubtedly fail." He expressed a different perspective from the industry, stating from a player's experience that games and cheats cannot be separated. If games are related to tokens, then cheats will make the coin's value worthless, falling into a negative cycle.
The streamer decisively stated: "Games linked to blockchain will undoubtedly fail."
At 3:35 in the video, an audience member asked: "Will Maple Story N's Metaverse consider playing?" At this point, Guo Dong showed a disdainful sneer, questioning the move of bringing Maple Story to the Metaverse as completely unnecessary, as the content of Metaverse Maple Story and New Maple Story is basically not much different. Moreover, the virtual currency Maple Coins and items in New Maple Story can already be exchanged for cash, so there seems to be little incentive for a token economy.
Subsequently, an audience member raised a question: "Is the lottery probability in the Metaverse relatively transparent?" The author added: Previously, well-known game streamer Ding Te spent over 4 million yuan trying to create a rare item "Purple Cloth" in the game Paradise M, 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-chain could be solved through open-source and transparent smart contracts.
Unexpectedly, Guo Dong decisively stated: "Games linked to blockchain will undoubtedly fail." He explained that all blockchain projects emphasize limited supply, but now games and cheats are inseparable. If you can use cheats to participate in games, the coins earned will lose their value. In fact, in the previous EP.205 podcast, it was mentioned that the supply limitation emphasized by blockchain projects is actually a constraint for games, because if revenue needs to be increased, 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 on gameplay first, Guo Dong points out from a player's perspective that games and cheats cannot be separated. If the token economy is combined with games, then cheats are also a major problem.
Questioning the token economy inadvertently promotes cheats.
Guo Dong believes that blockchain games essentially have two types of gameplay. One is for game companies to develop blockchain, where the project side issues coins regularly and never arbitrarily increases the token supply, allowing these tokens to circulate among players and be used to purchase items, which still has hope. However, if it relies on monster hunting to earn cryptocurrencies, the cheat problem is inevitable. He mentioned from the perspective of an experienced gamer that the cheats that are caught are all public scripts; if there's a profit to be made, players will privately use cheats, making it even harder to filter them out.
Guo Dong: Blockchain may have a future, but it's not that idealistic.
Then the chat room asked Guo Dong: "Aside from games, do you think blockchain has a future?" He expressed that he doesn't understand it very well, but he feels that blockchain still has a future, although it may not be as idealistic as originally intended, because regardless of anything, the goal of humans earning money is for survival, so achieving so-called decentralization is fundamentally impossible. Ultimately, it relies on whether the real world accepts it; currently, cryptocurrencies are merely cutting off from traditional finance and establishing their own systems.
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