While blockchain gaming is a relatively new topic which is currently facing quite a lot of challenges, it is said to have limitless potential. Check out this post to know more!
But that’s not the whole picture though, Etheremon — as the leading game of the Game 3.0 era is creating the first gaming world that allows players to actually own their virtual assets with no one can be able to steal it without their permission. By combining both Virtual Reality and blockchain technologies, the game is expected to offer players experiences like never before.
With that being said, let’s take a look at our comprehensive list of blockchain games’ advantages and challenges for more information!
This will greatly reduce the needs for the middleman — publishing companies and the developers, making these games truly yours. It’s not like traditional games where all the decisions on whether what happened to your games will be made by the companies.
Player’s accounts, as well as the in-game property, can be freely transferred between owners, enhancing their true values. Moreover, the properties and assets cannot be easily depreciated or inflated due to the companies inappropriate policies.
It is you, the gamers, who can have the complete control of the assets and their values.
Blockchain technology is based on peer-to-peer connections, and thus, there is no need for a central server. All information is stored on each and every computer which is part of the whole community.
With all information being transparent to users, cheating and hacking are almost impossible in a blockchain system. Moreover, the traceability is greatly enhanced, making every transaction as clear as possible.
There is simply no one or no group that can alter the data and manipulate the system.
Games life cycle is short as there are millions of games with the same genres and gameplay released every year. It is a hard decision for players to switch to a new game if they have spent a lot of money on the current one, but what they should do if their friends are leaving for the new title too. It is why we need a complete renew in our gaming industry so it can catch up to the technologies as well as market demands. Which is why game 3.0 is being introduced.
For example, with Etheremon — one of the first blockchain games that are being built on the Ethereum network, players can join a world where all their property is technically and rightfully theirs. Moreover, they can capture and train their Mons to create a team, use them to battle with others, then perform trades to collect in-game money that can be converted to real cash. blockchain will improve liquidity of game assets and game spending like never before.
An amazing possibility seen for the gaming industry which is not available without blockchain technology is how a game character can live in another gaming world. Think of Pokemon fighting Digimon, Naruto fighting Luffy (One Piece) and those characters can still go back and live in their original digital world as usual. Also, think of a scenario where your can challenge gym master in the latest version of Pokemon using your team of Level-60 Pikachu, Bulbasaur, Charizard from the 1st generation. Blockchain allows game developers to easily and quickly open the gates for other game characters.
With no server requirement, the developers can save tons of money on investing in the infrastructure as well as maintenance costs. This also reduces the work for the developers, allowing them to spend more time to polish and improve their games’ content.
Though it may sound tempting, there are many difficulties that a blockchain game must face to attract players.
To start playing your blockchain game, you first need to purchase cryptocurrencies, then send them to your wallet and wait for the verification to complete. On top of that, transactions take a considerable amount of time to complete, making the benefits of blockchain games less and less appealing.
But you shouldn’t worry too much since this is only applied to new gamers who aren’t familiar with the Cryptocurrency world yet. For those who’re experienced, it only takes a couple of steps for you to start playing the games.
Not to mention that blockchain technology is being well developed and proving to be the next-gen technology with its efficiencies. We wouldn’t be surprised that more and more people would consider joining the community in the future.
To make blockchain self-sustain, those who maintain it (miners) need to be paid for verifying and recording transactions. As such all on-chain transactions in blockchain games require users to pay a little fee to be executed.
But don’t worry too much as it’s really a very little fee. There are many mechanisms that can help in protecting you from wasting your money. Firstly, you can set the gas price depending on how quick you want it to be executed, if you want it to be fast, just add more and vice versa. On top of that, there is a gas limit which controls the transaction system from being inflated.
And if you’re setting a low gas price, don’t worry, it will eventually be executed. Just make sure you set it high enough to be noticed.
There have been many solutions being proposed to help scale the blockchain industry. The mighty trio of Casper, Plasma, and Sharding is one of many cutting-edge technologies hoped to bring great contributions to the blockchain community.
We also need more dedicated individuals or teams who are willing to build specific modules and applications that could help prove the concept as well as improve the system.
Although blockchain games come with a variety of benefits for players, the fact that these games are still being limited by the technology is quite unfortunate. But with dedications and determinations, it is clear that they’ve come up with the solution for the scalability problems.
Etheremon developers are going for both short-term and long-term solutions. In the short term, they plan to take the battle off-chain leaving only the transactions. This will greatly reduce the stress on miners making transactions faster and cheaper. In the long term, Zilliqa — a scalable and secured blockchain platform that is specifically designed for hosting decentralized apps is being considered. Its great throughput capability and advanced sharding technology promise a better solution for gamers.
However, you should keep in mind that blockchain games are still in its infancy, which will require a lot of efforts and dedications to improve it. If you’re a blockchain enthusiast and are interested in this whole decentralized gaming idea, you should show your support by joining their communities and providing helpful contributions.
Thanks for reading our article, we’ll be seeing you in our future posts.
Cheers,
Etheremon Team
