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The future of Web3 games is in Web2. This may sound strange. Especially a comment from someone who spent the last year building his game on blockchain. But listen.
The use of blockchain in Play-to-Earn (P2E) games is overrated. Today, we have blockchain-based solutions for everything. Blockchain-based payment. Blockchain-based user accounts, blockchain-based onboarding, and more. But when looking at the end-user experience of one of these solutions, are blockchain-based platforms better than non-blockchain-based platforms?
The lack of quality user experience is amplified in the P2E world. In the P2E world, Web3 games are at least a decade behind their Web2 competitors in terms of graphics, mechanics, and playability. Web3 games are notoriously not very fun to play. This is a fact that Web2 gamers have a big problem with.
The poor user experience provided by P2E games is often viewed as a trade-off between secure ownership and interoperability enabled by a blockchain-based in-game economy. But are these tradeoffs worth it? Again, I think the answer is no for most users.
First of all, regarding interoperabilitythe reality of what is currently possible is quite different from the vision of in-game items and currency that can be ported across worlds.
as for secure ownership When it comes to in-game items and currency, most gamers ultimately don’t care where their assets are stored as long as they have trusted access. Blockchain also allows people to “bank” their assets themselves, although some users may prefer to have their assets tracked by a centralized institution. .
This is not to say that blockchain should disappear from the P2E world forever. I don’t think you need to toss a Web3 baby with her P2E bath water. But if you want to take the blockchain gaming ecosystem to the next level, you need to build games that people enjoy. I really want to play This will be possible one day with blockchain, but it will take at least a few years.
Therefore, the best and most direct solution to creating safe and fun to play P2E games is to use as much Web2 technology as possible and use blockchain only when it really is the best solution. That’s it. If blockchain-based ownership and interoperability improves the gaming experience, so be it. And in the future, when the blockchain is ready to support a rich game ecosystem that rivals the likes of World of Warcraft and Minecraft, those games will be able to fully migrate to Web3.
But until then, building the best possible P2E game means using the best possible resources at hand, and Web2 games are flooded with those resources.
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Corey Wilton is the co-founder of Pegaxy, a futuristic mythology-style play-and-earn racing game
