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In 2018 we see a lot of information about blockchain games around Internet. Some people say it’s a good way to earn, other people say such games are fun and nice to play. However, blockchain games are not that popular as you may think. For 99% you don’t play them, because:

1) Not all crypto owners have Ether;
2) Not all Ether owners have MetaMask;
3) All crypto games are pay-to-play;
4) All existing crypto games are corny;
5) People don’t play them. They earn money;
6) Blockchain games are not interesting to play;
7) Existing blockchain solutions including Ethereum can support only basic game mechanics.

The reason why I made this list is not because I hate blockchain games. I play them, actually. You can really make profit.

I made this post because I want to pay your attention. You have to be careful trying something new. You need to weight the pros and cons.
Don’t fall for these blockchain developers sweet words. Remember that they are not trying to change this world. They want to profit.

Well, you have presented it a very analitycal way. The data is quite helpful. Though, Blockchain games are promising, they also have a undertone that may lead one to have some significant amount of loss.

Can you provide some of the games you've earned the most? What size were the earnings?

I think that you have not visited the popular forums of fraudulent projects. There are fraudulent projects from 2016-2017.

May be playing games is not so boring as bounty campaigns or trading, but I don't think that playing games you can earn a lot, can't you?

you can download "rewardmob" in playstore, then play the game that is opening the tournament and follow from the beginning, if you win 1st place there is a cash prize of up to $ 70. but that a few months ago, didn't know now. I always lose and I'm currently stopping to play games and focus more on bounty and trading.

I managed to invest in Bitdice (CSNO tokens) a while ago. And so far i have managed to go on their homepage exactly 0 times :D

i dont think they earn money by playing blockchain games ithink they only wast time by playing on blockchain games one day i was trying to play kryptokittes  and wasted a lot of eth cuz transaction failed

In order for someone to earn money, another has to invest it or lose it, the harsh reality - money is not taken out of thin air.

Most games I know that involves blockchain do not offer much reward compared to what faucets are offering so yes, you can't earn much..The problem with todays blockchain games is that it haven't catch up yet to what people play these days. If someone could make a good game then surely it will be a different story.

I've never tried playing one. I always figured they were scams. And ofcourse, without being extremely cautious and careful, you will fall for the scams and loss and can't prosper in this market.

Indeed. For these reasons we don't play blockchain games.But I think by playing these games ww can make profit and we should play blockchain games.

Hey.

I've made a list of blockchain games on product hunt https://www.producthunt.com/@house_lama/collections/blockchain-games

I like blockchain games because playing I stress less than trading.

Sorry, I just don’t have time to even play games. Even if the idea were interesting, it takes a lot of time. And time is the most valuable product. Well, when developers can create something interesting for the masses to the people, then it will be popular. Now it is not of any interest.

true! you don't stream checking value of your token

well trading and bounties take a lot of time too, to be honest

The reason I don´t play is because they are mostly boring and money based. They are not engaging and they don´t have any particular advantage in terms of fun, which is what I want from a game.

but it's like an alternative to trading

I am not sure about it. This combination of blockchain and games promises to be very nice for the future because its potential is larger than eahc of them has.

I agree with the first point so much. It is a really big problem that has an effect on the common increasing of thissphere of crypto. But I am sure it won't die.

If you play on gambling websites with provably fair the "blockchain games" works out because that is a way you can actually trust a casino works properly and how you can trust it easily without worrying about if you could or not. However, if you are going to play something that says "play this game and earn bitcoin at the same time" you are probably going into something that will eventually scam you for sure.

There has been too many times when people just played a game and made money enough to withdraw and the system told them "send x amount to withdraw for miner fee" and when you send that money you suddenly get either banned from the game or lose all your money and can't withdraw. Unfortunately for a while during 2016 it was quite common and even today there are some of them exist today.

probably you are right. that is what catches me in blockchain games. it's fun but also you can earn crypto

it is also because these aren't actually considered "games" in this day and age. in fact this type of games belong to at least 10 years ago when people weren't playing all these high definition games with qualities that make your head ring!
these ETH games are more like something you play around with if you are a gambler and have some tokens to throw away for a while and they get boring real quick.

I think they are all scammers. This is a common fraudulent game. To do this, I advise you to go to the forums and read about them.

if I were you I would call anything a scam. you can spoil someone's reputation. there is nothing good in that

People would play blockchain games if they were fun and if they let you earn a significant amount of money. In fact they would probably get an audience if they did only one of those things well. From my limited experience playing blockchain games I have found that they do neither. Maybe someone else has found a game that is fun or lets you earn a decent amount by playing, I would be happy to hear about it, but so far I have yet to find one.

It's a hoax, like when playing in a casino, the casino always wins and you always lose. I don't play and you do not advise if there is anyone out there making money, well I'm very happy for them.

I wanna try some blockchain gaimes, but year ago I lost money on betting,so I am afraid to become gambler again.
That's why i prohibit it to myself, i make restrictment for myself. Don't want to fall in gambling again

gambling and blockchain games are different. gambling is just your luck and they are not actual games. and games just game - you should play and develop your skills

I had played some blockchain games, honestly, it does not only let you spend money, but some also requires a huge amount of time.  Like some blockchain game that requires you to buy some stuff, level it up, and breed them.  Almost all action either requires eth since we need to pay for the gas for the transaction, or wait for a certain amount of time to wait for that action's cool down.  I guess it is just a  waste all in all since we are only getting virtual items which is "recorded" on the blockchain as what the game stated.  It will only become cash if someone is interested to buy it since there is no direct conversion from item to ETH in that game

it depends on the game you play. it seems like crypto kitties is a useless game but some people earned a lot playing it

those game are not interested enough to me. A game must be interesting enough for people to play, else it wont be call a game, no matter how much money they offer.

I am not a gambling person, so I do not play games, but I noticed that now it is very popular. I prefer bounty and trade.

they make pretty interesting games now

I don't play games like that because I think it's a commonplace divorce. You of course can earn, but I believe that this wastes his time and better spend its time more correctly.

like what? trading?  ;D

I have one reason and I don't need any more. I don't play games at all. No matter blockchain, online, RPG... Games are a waste of precious time for me. I will spend this time better on a book, at work or for a walk with my family

You have done a good job by listing this 7 point's out in your opinion and I'm sure you know there are several once opinion about this out there. At first the time is different. Though I don't play blockchain games. Games have more risky because this is where the main Cryptocurrency gambling lies and I do much of trading and bounty projects.

this is very simple. You must know that playing games is not related to the blockchain. The most important thing is the sense of gaming experience. Blockchain is just a carrier or a new way, but it doesn't change the appeal of the game. Perhaps the collision between the game and the blockchain is still in its early stages, and there will be a dark horse in the future. For example, blockchain games like Jedi Survival.

One of the most known blockchain games are cryptokitties, i'm not really onto these kind of games i'm just here for profits actually the developers and the users wants profit that's all they just made the game in order to lessen the technical stuffs we've seen everyday.

Well i may say that blockchain games is not that profitable but if you invest a big amount of money you may either earn from it, actually for what I've known i think the blockchain games helps the blockchain to work faster that's what I know but i don't have idea if it's true

Any video games are not excitement. It is rather entertainment for schoolchildren and teenagers. It happens that adults play video games. But if you are a serious person and work on cryptocurrency, then what kind of games can we talk about?

I like the fact that you mentioned that crypto games were corny. It made me laugh and realized that you are right. It's like those Y8 games for kids. They should develop an make it look like a game worth playing. They have the team and the money to do it but they refused to. Probably because of the cost and they are OK with what they were earning. LOL

I think it's understood a very long time.He played in the crypto seals ,but then I realized that it will not bring me any good, as well as other blockchain games.

that is so disappointing. crypto games industry is so promising but developers should make better games. way better

I do not think that games on the blockchain are popular. Since the giants would have come to this industry. Yes, and there is no desire to even consider such projects. I think it will be interesting only for teenagers.

why so?
I will tell you a secret - teenagers trade too

The blockchain game is very risky and it has caused me to be depressed for some time because of the loss. It's like a betting game.

Well maybe there are many blockchain games that are relatively specified in your list of reasons are true. But, there are other crypto games also that could let you earn also. I think it should not be generalize though a different side of me is agreeing you that the list of reasons in avoiding to play blockchain games were right.

Crypto and Gambling are always exist because they are Mutualism symbiosis and people love it so the demand always exist.
We as new player must more careful and aware the risk of any new gambling type in order to minimize the losses even though gambling always make you loss but as greedy creature , human want to prove that they can earn massive profit from gambling site.

Just Prepare the loss and consider profit as the Bonus !

playing blockchain games is not bad, you can do it if you are bored, they really don't make a lot of money but this is better done than playing women ;D

I participated in several bounty companies that promoted blockchain games. Apparently the popularity of crypto cats hurt many and they decided to repeat, and maybe even exceed the result of this successful crypto game. But personally, I did not see popularity in new games. You ask what could be the reasons. The reason is simple, people want to earn money, and if they see activity in the game, then they will join themselves and then the development goes on increasing and the game develops giving money. Unfortunately in those crypto games where I was, there just games were not completed until the end. Well, you know, no one wants to wait, everyone wants to make money right now. This is one problem, there is no working product, because of this there is no desire to play.

actually more reasons
but there will always be people who will play them, which means that there will be more new games
and with the growth of the market interest in cryptocurrencies will grow, that is, more people will come to this gaming market

OP, thank you for the post. I heard about blockchain games but haven’t try playing. What are the blockchain games you are playing? Recommend some please.

First of all, I do not play blockchain games, but in all other games because it is a waste of time! Yes sometimes the game can be fun, but gave up and frankly sometimes even regret that so much time previously spent for games (all games). Too fast time passes for them-life flies by and in return nothing-it is better to do business, be with family, children and enjoy life!

I think it would be similar to gambling, but with a lot less regulation, since there is no commission in charge of limiting what you can do or not do in these crypto games, partly this is ok, because most of us seek freedom in this ecosystem, but I understand that many are not attracted by the idea of this kind of danger

Why you think blockchain games are not popular? Did you do a research about it? I don't think so, of course if you want to earn anything from an online game, you have to pay a small fee to start, I think it's normal and amount of ETH that everyone need to pay to start playing and earning is really little so I don't think it's a big problem.

I do not think like you, but taking part in the first blockhain is difficult in terms of second-hand use. Very high risk if we do not have knowledge of them, would be a loss of capital if the wrong investor is invested.

For real, are there even few desent blockchain games?
All that I saw was poor grafic and gameplay, Cryptocats is game for money hunters, we need some good games and we all will play

here is my list
https://www.producthunt.com/@house_lama/collections/blockchain-games

Blockchain games are taking a lot of time and at the end it is the same as taking part in bounty campaigns but with having a lot of fun. I do not play blockchain games, because I do not have enough time, but I would definitely try to play some games in the future.

cryptokitties is just one of all different games on the market.
Here is an article explaining different types of blockchain games https://gameunculus.io/blog/136

I think the blockchain game is now just a hype. At present, this market is not fully compatible with the real game user market. This may require a very strong blockchain game to change the game industry.

Blockchain games are not profitable at all. To be honest when i joined crypto world i entered through crypto games and i wasted approx 10 months but nothing won. Most of blockchain games are not legit at all even everything has scripted already even at the backend bots are playing with you. They will not given to chance of earn money. Here some reasons
1.  most of blockchain games are played by bots backend.
2.  They are not probably fair games.
3.   It is game of luck sometimes people can win money but very less chances.
4.   No authority over it. if fraud happen than no one will listen you .

I never consider money as a game!
even it's a real game, I would never play to lose more than what I willing to lose.
so I never interested in this kind of game/

You've listed the obvious and its very well written.
I am not a big fan of blockchain games as well. Just like any other business, the aim of it is to make profit

we have far more advanced and good looking gui available in the market to play the video games.. i don't think so that spending eth on game is a good decision than trading with it..

So, good resons, I had never heared about them before. May be about a few, two or three, but not seven.

so what is your list?

I think some of the issues are the most important factors in blockchain games.
First: Regardless of the technical carrier, the nature of the game is very interesting, otherwise there will be no players.
Second: ordinary people can't use blockchain games, and some people don't even know what the blockchain is.
Third: The sharp depreciation of the cryptocurrency market has led to a large loss of investors and followers, which is detrimental to the marketing of blockchain games.

Its good advice for new games player. We doing in crypto because i think we just want to make profits too. Its true we should make research first before we playing

I do not agree, I will give an example a trading card game - Gods Unchained, this game is made at the highest level and does not have the above disadvantages.

yeah, Gods Unchained is a very good game. I hope there will be more good games

I really want to know more about this blockchain game of a thing. Although, there are some clues I've seen regarding blockchain games, but I would still like to know more practical steps regarding this. perhaps some YouTube videos would help.

What games would you recommend? Why? Cheers :)