I’ve been playing this game on the EOS and WAX blockchains since the game launched in May 2018. Back then it was potentially ground breaking and I was reasonably excited about it for the first couple of years, but it’s starting to look a bit dated. First there was the Wild West world, followed by Yukon, followed by the short lived Tombstone and Eagle City worlds….and now they’ve launched the Grand Land. If I’m being brutally honest there hasn’t been a significant game feature enhancement for years now. The new worlds have really just been tweaks of existing formulas and mechanics. So where do I see it going?
I’m not totally giving up on this game, but it is starting to look a bit tired and I’m getting a bit tired of it too. Other blockchain based games seem to have leapfrogged it in a number of ways and it probably hasn’t been helped by the poor performance of the EOS blockchain technology since….well, long before Dan Larimer left. The new Grand Land world offered a bit of hope, but after playing for a couple of months I am finding it pretty uninspiring so I’ve sold up the last of my land and am now playing as a nomad wood cutter. I imagine that in the next month or so some of the Grand Land gold mines will start producing and that locked up gold (PGL) will start finding it’s way back into the market. In other words, the price of PGL may well have peaked for now as the new world hype wears off and more PGL supply hits the exchanges.
It’s had a solid run and I still have plots on the original 2 worlds that seem to be slowly bleeding out. I’d sell them if I could get a decent price, but I can’t so I’ll just keep working them into the ground until they finally become unprofitable, unenjoyable and/or not worth the effort. I think there is a lesson here for game developers about whether in-game actions should be executed and recorded on-chain or whether it’s just better to have in-game assets on-chain. I’m definitely swaying toward the latter for now, but if blockchain technologies improve their performance then maybe a game like Prospectors can do well.