Online Role Playing Game with Bitcoin trading built in

[bbit]

This is a perfect use case for BitMonet isn't it ?

1 day pass, 7 day pass etc.,etc ....

[bitfantasy]

Had a really good response yesterday, the crowdfunding is working, we could afford to upgrade our tree graphics

https://www.bitfantasy.com/img/newtrees.jpg

I think it does have a unique aspect by the way, unless there's another MMORPG that you can trade with bitcoin in, and doesn't get you to pay extra for levels/items/etc(maybe there is?).  Yes other MMO games exist where you can trade items for (fiat) money. But that money sits with those companies, you have to withdraw it and pay fees.  Here there is no withdrawing, you get the money from trades directly to your wallet. Oh and they aren't bitcoin, which is what we are about - no?  

Yes it does have programmer/placeholder graphics, no bones about it - it's being crowdfunded, it's being developed. Sometimes people crowd fund projects that they can't yet see or play, here you can play and watch it develop, and support something clearly committed to bitcoin, but you have to put up with rough edges, it's not everyone's preference and that's totally fine.  

[greyhawk]

If your unique aspect is "you can trade via BTC" this should be a HUGE SIGN that something is going very very wrong with your game. Because this aspect has nothing to do with your game at all, it is an external factor. The game itself needs something to draw in people otherwise it's just "Game X, but with bitcoin".

[ixxi]

I've been playing this game ever since it first opened to the public and still loving it. The graphics are oldschool RPG, which I understand not everyone likes, but it works for me. The game is being updated regularly and new content is being added all the time.
This sure has potential and for what it's worth, anyone who likes old style RPGs (and Bitcoin  ), I'd sure would recommend to give it a try.
I don't see the upfront fee so much as a fee to play the game, but more as crowdfunding a potentially great game.

[bitfantasy]

It's not just a BTC trading game, it's a real RPG and being able to trade in BTC is never in your face and not the only reason to play. People play for hours every day and never use bitcoin because I am trying to make the game fun and not a bitcoin extraction game

Hopefully the fact it's just HTML5 (so you can play easily without installing anything) is also a draw. So while you are sitting watching the exchange rate in one browser you can potter around killing undead, or breeding cows,crafting, or building in another, not to mention you end up hanging out with other bitcoin folk and get to hear about their mining rigs and so on

If the high exchange rate doesn't change I will have to consider discounting the sign up fee, but we have a twitter competition on for a free account now:

https://twitter.com/BitFantasy/status/398057986448310272

We're still planning a free/cheap trial sometime when we can iron out the details.

[MakeBelieve]

It really does suck you need to pay to sign up. Do you offer demo accounts? Otherwise I could be paying for a game which I don't even enjoy playing. At least popular games like WOW offer a trial edition which has limited features.

[beegatewood]

Are you going to make this game F2P?

[bitfantasy]

@MakeBelieve not yet, we will.  

@beegatewood making it F2P is not planned, if it was free the only way to make it viable would be to nickel and dime (bitcoin and.. er satoshi?) players and we don't want to do that, id rather spend time making the game better instead of trying to figure out how to extract more money from players  


Price has been changed now to reflect bitcoin's booming value, it's now 0.04BTC https://www.bitfantasy.com/#signup

[lenny_]

WOOT? 0.02 BTC (17 USD) for sign up to RETRO browser game, with graphics worse than my Pentium II with 128 MB RAM, where I was playing Tibia 15 years ago? Really