There’s a saying going around the blockchain gaming scene these days: Make it fun first, then talk about putting it on-chain.
Sounds pretty clear-headed, but really, it’s just a new coat of paint on the same old pitch deck.
We all know how blockchain games have died over the past few years. The assets are yours, but when the game shuts down, who does that sword belong to? Player-driven economies, but the only ones making steady money are the studios that farm tokens early and bail. The people who actually play seriously are the ones left holding the bag. This year, a slew of projects shut down because they ran out of money, had no revenue, or had no players. It wasn’t because the blockchain tech wasn’t invisible enough—it was because the token itself was the product, and the game was just a way to give the token an exit.
Now they’re saying they’ll hide the blockchain, use AI to create content, and learn from certain Solana card games by focusing on fun. Fine, but here’s the question: if you really hide it, why issue a token at all? If you’re still relying on token sales to raise funds and tokens to attract users, then players are still the exit liquidity—just wrapped in nicer packaging.
A truly fun game doesn’t need to tell me what chain it’s on. When a game keeps insisting, “This time, fun comes first,” I usually check its token unlock schedule first.
#GameFi #BlockchainGaming
Sounds pretty clear-headed, but really, it’s just a new coat of paint on the same old pitch deck.
We all know how blockchain games have died over the past few years. The assets are yours, but when the game shuts down, who does that sword belong to? Player-driven economies, but the only ones making steady money are the studios that farm tokens early and bail. The people who actually play seriously are the ones left holding the bag. This year, a slew of projects shut down because they ran out of money, had no revenue, or had no players. It wasn’t because the blockchain tech wasn’t invisible enough—it was because the token itself was the product, and the game was just a way to give the token an exit.
Now they’re saying they’ll hide the blockchain, use AI to create content, and learn from certain Solana card games by focusing on fun. Fine, but here’s the question: if you really hide it, why issue a token at all? If you’re still relying on token sales to raise funds and tokens to attract users, then players are still the exit liquidity—just wrapped in nicer packaging.
A truly fun game doesn’t need to tell me what chain it’s on. When a game keeps insisting, “This time, fun comes first,” I usually check its token unlock schedule first.
#GameFi #BlockchainGaming